Rhetoric, Media Studies, Black Studies, Native Studies, Critical Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, Trans and Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Cultural Studies
COMM 2320 - The Craft of Argument
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
Focuses on the practice of argumentation in public life with attention to how the process of critical thinking leads to the invention of arguments. Students use argumentation theory to craft ethical and well-reasoned appeals and to critically evaluate the arguments of others. Formerly COMM 3310. Students who took this course previously as COMM 3310 cannot re-take it for credit.
COMM 3000 - Issues in Communication
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Spring 2023
Explores select issues in communication. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different issues. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1210 and COMM 1600.
COMM 4300 - Senior Seminar: Rhetoric
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Fall 2022 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Reviews current theory and research on rhetoric and culture on topics such as environmental rhetoric, rhetoric of racism, and rhetoric of storytelling.
COMM 4950 - Senior Thesis: Honors
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Spring 2025
For exceptional communication majors who wish to graduate with department honors and receive credit for writing an honors thesis. For students accepted into COMN Honors program and currently completing COMN Honors Thesis project.
COMM 5310 - Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism
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Fall 2024
Advanced critical analysis of rhetorical texts in terms of how they shape issues and appeals for judgment, create identities for speakers and their audiences, and construct perceptions of time, space, and the human condition.
COMM 6200 - Seminar: Selected Topics
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Fall 2023
Facilitates understanding of current and past theory and research on a selected topic in communication and the ability to develop new theory and research on that topic. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics.
