Speech Courses
The courses offered by the Speech Program reflect Speech at its best. We've created a forum for dynamic conversations to push our thinking about Speech and other forms of communication. You'll find this spirit of curiosity and enthusiasm reflected in how we talk about, think about, write about, and do Speech. You'll also see our commitment to Speech through our thoughtfully designed courses that help students to become more confident, more effective, more informed communicators.
Speech 20: Public Speaking
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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