Course Description<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nNo matter what your course of study or future career, you will have to communicate, and the better you can do it, the more successful you will be. But the workplace is only a small part of your life, and communication plays a role in all other relationships, whether that be with family, friends, or romantic partners. This course will help you understand the theories, processes, and history of human communication. You\u00a0will explore issues such as interpersonal communication, small group communication, organizational communication, nonverbal communication, media and communication as well as gender and communication. Not only will this course help you\u00a0gain a working knowledge of a broad array of communication theories, it will allow you to learn more deeply about a communicated related issue. You\u00a0will be given multiple research opportunities to explore this issue including: the organization communication paper, the digital story project, and the creation of an issue website.<\/p>\n
Goals\/Objectives<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Learn about the\u00a0foundational theories that structure your\u00a0communication processes<\/li>\n
- Reflect on your own communication experiences<\/li>\n
- Further develop and build on your own communication skills<\/li>\n
- Practice your writing and research skills<\/li>\n
- Practice your public speaking and professional presentation skills<\/li>\n
- Learn how language affects the way you experience the world<\/li>\n
- Become comfortable communicating in different modes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Textbook<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nRosengren, K. E. (1999). Communication: an introduction<\/i>. Sage.<\/p>\n
Assignments\/Projects<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Weekly Daybook Reflections<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Throughout this class, every student will keep a daybook, which is a sort of writing journal or thought catalogue that will allow you take notes while in-class and while reading outside of class. This is your space to actively and critically engage with the course material. While I will not look at most of your daybook writing, 4 times throughout the semester I will collect your daybooks for a participation grade. This participation grade will only take into account your required weekly 2-3 page reflective entry. <\/b>In these entries, I want you to reflect on your thoughts about the readings and class discussions, and also discuss how they do or do not connect with your life.<\/p>\n\n- Reading Responses<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In this class we will be reading a lot of different materials, to prepare yourself to discuss the readings in class, you will either write a minimum of 300 words or record yourself speaking for 2-3 mins about what stuck out to you in the readings. These short, informal reading responses should be posted to the course blog before every meeting.<\/p>\n
\n- Organization Communication Paper<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
After graduation, most of you will find yourselves working in a specific position that is a part of a larger organization. This 4-6 paper will give you the chance to explore the organizational and professional communication practices that exist within an organization in your intended professional field. To complete this paper, you will need to select a community organization and observe the communication practices that go on there. For example, if you wanted to become a nurse you would want to contact a doctor\u2019s office or hospital and ask if they would allow you to shadow a particular person for a day. Your job during this observation would be to observe and take notes in your daybook about the particular type of communication you see going on there. I will provide more detailed information about this project later in the semester.<\/p>\n
\n- Digital Story<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In our new media section of the course, we will be watching and analyzing digital stories focused on particular issues. After analyzing these stories, you will have the chance to use your knowledge of digital stories to make your own story in iMovie. This story will hopefully relate to either the issue you explored in your group project or to something you can relate to personally. This story should be 5-8 minutes in length. I will provide more detailed information about this project later in the semester.<\/p>\n
\n- Issue website<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Throughout this course, you have been given multiple opportunities to explore a particular communication topic, but the audience for these discussion have mainly been your classmates. Therefore, for this project you will build your own WordPress website that will present this issue and the work you have done researching this (digital story, book review project, etc) to an audience who may have never heard of this issue. I will provide more detailed information about this project later in the semester.<\/p>\n
\n- Reflective Essay<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
During your final exam period, you will turn in a reflective essay that articulates how different pieces of work you have produced throughout the entire course, whether that be reading responses or daybook entries or major projects, proves that you have met the course goals and outcomes. I will provide more detailed information about this essay later in the semester.<\/p>\n
Attendance & Participation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nDuring the course of the semester, you will be allowed 3 unexcused absences. For every absence after this one, you will use lose 5 points off your final grade. Not only do I expect you to be present, but I also expect you to actively participate, answer questions, and engage in class discussions.<\/p>\n
Grading Scale<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nDaybook reflections: 10%<\/p>\n
Reading responses: 10%<\/p>\n
Organization Communication Paper: 20%<\/p>\n
Digital Story: 20%<\/p>\n
Issue website: 15%<\/p>\n
Reflective essay: 15%<\/p>\n
Attendance & Participation: 10%<\/p>\n
Schedule<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWeek 1: <\/strong>Reading<\/span>–Chapter 1 (Rosengren)<\/p>\nWeek 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Reading<\/span>–Chapter 2 (Rosengren)\/Due: RR1<\/p>\nWeek 3:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>–Chapter 3 (Rosengren)\/Due: RR2<\/p>\nWeek 4:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>–Chapter 4 (Rosengren)\/Due:RR3<\/p>\nWeek 5:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>–Chapter 5 (Rosengren)\/Due:RR4 & Organizational Comm Paper<\/p>\nWeek 6:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>–Chapter 6 (Rosengren)\/Due: RR5<\/p>\nWeek 7:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>–Chapter 7 (Rosengren)\/Due:RR6<\/p>\nWeek 8<\/strong>: Reading<\/span>–Chapter 8 (Rosengren)\/Due:RR7<\/p>\nWeek 9:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>\/Due<\/p>\nVicente Rafael 2003, \u201cThe Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines\u201d Public Culture<\/i> 15:3.
\n<\/b>Sean McBride & Colleen Roach 1989 \u201cThe New International Information Order\u201d International Encyclopedia of Communications<\/i> Erik Barnouw (ed) Oxford University Press
\n<\/span><\/p>\nWeek 10:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>\/Due: RR9 &\u00a0& Digital Story<\/p>\nElla Shohat & Robert Stam, 1994. \u201cStereotype, Realism, and the Struggle over Representation\u201dUnthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media<\/i> London: Routledge.<\/p>\n
Alexandra Juhasz, 1992, \u201c\u2018They said we were trying to show reality \u2013 all I want to show is my video\u2019: The politics of the realist feminist documentary.\u201d Screen <\/i>35 (2).<\/p>\n
Week 11:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>\/Due: RR10<\/p>\nJulie D\u2019Acci \u201cTelevision, Representation and Gender\u201d in Robert C. Allen & Annette Hill (eds.)The Television Studies Reader<\/em><\/p>\nWeek 12:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>\/Due: RR11 & Issue Website<\/p>\nbell hooks 1992 \u201cThe \u201cOppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators\u201d Black Looks: Race and Representation<\/em> South End Press.<\/p>\nWeek 13:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>\/Due: RR12<\/p>\nDwight McBride 2005 \u201cWhy I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch\u201d Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch<\/em>New York: New York University Press.<\/p>\nWeek 14:<\/strong> Reading<\/span>\/Due: RR13<\/p>\nVickie Rutledge Shields 2005 \u201cThe Less Space We Take the More Powerful We\u2019ll Be.\u201d A Companion to Media Studies,<\/i> Angharad Valdivia (ed) John Wiley & Sons.<\/p>\n
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