Effective communication requires awareness of how gender influences communication and our capacity to build lasting and meaningful relationships. Learn about theories and concepts to understand how gender influences our interpersonal, professional, and social lives. Topics …
Humanities
COM ARTS 669
Survey of significant trends within both classical and contemporary film theory. Designed for serious students interested in reading, analyzing, and evaluating the central concepts and intellectual history of writings about film, particularly with respect to …
COM ARTS 667
Public discourse of selected movements and periods in American history.
COM ARTS 655
Important filmmakers from 1910 to the present; their relation to German cultural and social history of the period.
COM ARTS 574
Students explore U.S. immigration and naturalization rhetoric across various spheres: federal, state, and grassroots. Patterns of immigration and naturalization rhetoric, the tactics different actors use, and the transformations that have taken place since the founding …
COM ARTS 573
Students are introduced to basic concepts in global and transnational rhetorical studies and provided with the analytic tools to examine discourses about globalization and transnationalism produced by key global actors including transnational corporations, states, global …
COM ARTS 571
Study of contemporary theories of rhetoric and significant conceptual issues in contemporary rhetorical inquiry. Attention to theorists within field of rhetoric as well as others who have influenced rhetorical theory.
COM ARTS 570
Study of major theories of rhetoric from their origins in ancient Greece to Bacon, including theories of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Longinus, St. Augustine, and others.
COM ARTS 562
Examination of theories of deliberation and controversy. Application of theories to public controversies.
COM ARTS 560
Introduction and survey of contributions of behavioral science and philosophy to a unified theory of communication.