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Discipline: Degree: AA-T - Communication Studies - A0325

Course Name	Course Number	Objectives
Beginning Writing and Reporting for the Mass Media	JOUR 101	Students will demonstrate news judgment. Students will understand AP style. Students will be able to identify and write summary and other leads.
Argumentation and Debate	SPCH 20	Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research. Students will become less verbally aggressive. Students will critique an argument. Students will perform in front of a live audience. Students will feel more confident. Students will be more argumentative.
Argumentation and Debate - Honors	SPCH 20H	Students will become less verbally aggressive. Students will critique an argument. Students will be more argumentative. Students will feel more confident. Students will use multiple electronic resources to conduct research. Students will perform in front of a live audience.
Critical Thinking and Writing	ENGL 1C	In conversation with multiple texts, whether assigned by the instructor or chosen by the student, students will write a formal argument. Students will evaluate the soundness of arguments.
Critical Thinking and Writing - Honors	ENGL 1CH	Students will evaluate the soundness of arguments. In conversation with multiple texts, whether assigned by the instructor or chosen by the student, students will write a formal argument.
Forensics: Debate Team	SPCH 17	Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication Students will feel more confident. Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research. Students will become more argumentative. Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament
Forensics: Fundamentals of Contest Speech and Debate	SPCH 15	Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament. Students will feel more confident
Forensics: Individual Event Team	SPCH 16	Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication. Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament Students will record their performances on video and review their own and others' performances to enhance their understanding of performance events and evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses as speakers. Students will feel more confident.
Forensics: Reader's Theater Team	SPCH 18	Students will feel more confident. Students will perform for a live audience. Students will collaborate to stage and perform multiple selections of literature as a group.
Group Communication	SPCH 6	Students will perform a group presentation in front of a live audience. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will feel more confident. Students will facilitate a group decision-making process. Students will solve a problem as a group.
Intercultural Communication	SPCH 7	Students will define culture. Students will demonstrate cultural sensitivity in conflict management Students will evaluate their own intercultural competencies Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior. Students will examine the relationship between communication and culture. Students will feel more confident. Students will examine cultural factors that influence perceptions.
Intercultural Communication - Honors	SPCH 7H	Students will evaluate their own intercultural competencies Students will demonstrate cultural sensitivity in conflict management Students will examine cultural factors that influence perceptions. Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior. Students will feel more confident. Students will define culture. Students will examine the relationship between communication and culture.
Interpersonal Communication	SPCH 26	Students will improve their interpersonal listening skills. Students will evaluate their self concept. Students will demonstrate meaningful self-evaluation related to increasing their lifelong personal well being. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will be able to formulate suitable conflict management strategies for interpersonal conflict. Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior. Students will feel more confident.
Interpersonal Communication - Honors	SPCH 26H	Students will feel more confident. Students will evaluate their self concept. Students will demonstrate meaningful self-evaluation related to increasing their lifelong personal well being. Students will improve their interpersonal listening skills. Students will be able to formulate suitable conflict management strategies for interpersonal conflict. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
Introduction to Communication Theory	SPCH 30	Students will conduct research using a communication database. Students will construct a literature review on one aspect of communication studies. Students will assess various areas of the communication field and choose one specific area for further study. Students will evaluate theoretical components of communication theories. Students will synthesize theoretical communication studies and draw conclusions. Students will illustrate competence in research in the communication field. Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior.
Introduction to Mass Communications	JOUR 100	Students will be familiar with basic mass media law and ethics. Students will understand the respective functions of the fields that comprise the mass media, advertising, and public relations.
Performance of Literature	SPCH 4	Students will critique videotaped performances of their literature performances using an appropriate theoretical framework. Students will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will perform in front of a live audience. Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research. Students will be able to classify literature into the poetry, drama or prose genre Students will evaluate performances of literature using an appropriate critical framework. Students will identify the central theme of a literature selection. Students will be able to compose an original introduction for a literary selection. Students will be able to edit a text for performance. Students will construct a program of literature that advances an argument. Students will feel more confident. Demonstrate effective use of voice, body, facial expressions, focal points, emphasis, and integration of manuscript during performance Students will express subtext of written literature.
Professional and Organization Speaking	SPCH 8	Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others Students will conduct an employment interview. Students will feel more confident.
Professional and Organizational Speaking - Honors	SPCH 8H	Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others Students will feel more confident.
Public Speaking	SPCH 1A	Students will incorporate strategies to reduce speech anxiety. Students will perform basic speaking skills using a variety of delivery methods. Students will critically evaluate public speeches, including perspectives, evidence, and arguments with reasoning and support. Students will engage in audience adaptation. Students will construct a keyword and full sentence outline using a speech organizational pattern, with credible research and attribution.
Public Speaking - Honors	SPCH 1AH	Students will critically evaluate public speeches, including perspectives, evidence, and arguments with reasoning and support. Students will perform basic speaking skills using a variety of delivery methods. Students will incorporate strategies to reduce speech anxiety. Students will engage in audience adaptation. Students will construct a keyword and full sentence outline using a speech organizational pattern, with credible research and attribution.
Survey of Communication Studies	SPCH 2	Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others Students will solve a problem as a group. Students will evaluate their self concept Students will perform three speeches Students will feel more confident. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
Voice and Diction	SPCH 3	Students will be able to produce language with appropriate breathing skills. Students will be able to use phonemes. Students will demonstrate vocal expressiveness. Students will feel more confident. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will perform in front of a live audience. Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.

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