Speech 20: Public Speaking

This course covers the theory and practice of public speaking.

 

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Speech 25: Persuasive Public Speaking

This course explores persuasive public speaking and helps students learn to craft messages of influence.

 

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Speech 26: New Media Communication

This course investigates social media, virtual worlds, transmedia, digital art and NFTs, and other new media technologies.

 

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Speech 27: Intercultural Communication

The goal of this class is for students to explore how diverse underlying cultural orientations and patterns influence communication behaviors within and between cultures.

 

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Speech 30: Speechwriting

This course explores speechwriting as a process. Students will work independently and in peer groups to write speeches for themselves and for others.

 

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Speech 31: Rhetoric of Social Justice

This course focuses on theorizing the relationship between rhetoric and social movements from a historical and contemporary perspective.

 

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Speech 33: Political Humor Rhetoric

In this class, we will survey extant research findings to evaluate late night political humor's content and effects, using social scientific and rhetorical theories to better understand how, and in what ways, late night television political comedy matters.

 

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Speech 34: Image Rhetoric

Image is an important and complicated part of communication. Rhetoric can build image, and rhetoric can tear down image.

 

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Speech 35: Rhetorics of Stuttering

This course is about voice. We will explore how voice can be inextricably entwined with identity, self-image, and speaker ethos.

 

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Speech 36: Organizational Communication and Sustainability

This course examines the theories, discourses, and practices of organizational communication and sustainability.

 

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Speech 37: Health Communication

This course is designed to provide a broad introduction to human communication in a health-care context.

 

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Speech 40: Resistance to Influence

This course revisits a classic theory of resistance to influence: inoculation.

 

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