College of Communication - Communication Studies
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Spring 2010 Senior Seminars
This Spring we are offering 3 sections of Seminar in Communication Studies:
Tuesday 6:30pm-9:00pm Dr. Schowalter
Although “rhetoric” is a concept that scholars have been writing and thinking about for thousands of years, only recently have they begun to think about it within the context of images. Today, many scholars believe that we’re in the midst of a “visual turn” in rhetorical studies and the image is receiving an unprecedented level of critical attention. Much of the “visual-rhetorical” literature critiques the relationships between and among the constructs of images, history, identity, and memory. This seminar will focus on these relationships and we will explore the role images play for us in our attempts to make sense out of our identities, our politics, our subject positions as citizens in a democratic-republic, our histories, and our cultural contradictions and tensions.
Wednesday 4:45pm-7:15pm Dr. Popa
Dr. Clara L. Popa’s section will consider Communication and Change. The class will focus on how we communicate in transition times and how communication brings about change.
Friday 10:50am-1:30pm Dr. Albone
Dr. Albone’s Senior Seminar section will focus on our own cultural background. You will be introduced to research about concepts and ideas regarding one’s own cultural heritage and how it affects who one is, how one communicates, and how people form, maintain, and end relationships. This is NOT a course on intercultural communication, but may best described as intracultural communication. There will be a text, Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture. 3rd Edition, by Carl E James; and several journal articles as a beginning point for the students’ own research. The focus of each student’s research should be on what should be done to be aware of our own cultural heritage and how can such awareness be applied within communication contexts.
