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Discipline: Degree: AA-T - Communication Studies - A0325
Course Name Course Number
Introduction to Public Speaking COMM C1000
  • Students will construct a keyword and full sentence outline using a speech organizational pattern, with credible research and attribution.
  • Students will incorporate strategies to reduce speech anxiety.
  • 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 engage in audience adaptation.
Beginning Writing and Reporting for the Mass Media JOUR 101
  • Students will understand AP style.
  • Students will be able to identify and write summary and other leads.
  • Students will demonstrate news judgment.
Argumentation and Debate COMM 20
  • Students will perform in front of a live audience.
Critical Thinking and Writing ENGL C1001
  • Students will synthesize and integrate research according to an academic documentation style.
  • Students will develop critical thinking skills for evaluating and composing arguments.
  • Students will critically read diverse texts that provide a variety of perspectives and experiences.
Critical Thinking and Writing - Honors ENGL C1001H
  • Students will critically read diverse texts that provide a variety of perspectives and experiences.
  • Students will synthesize and integrate research according to an academic documentation style.
  • Students will develop critical thinking skills for evaluating and composing arguments.
Forensics: Debate Team COMM 17
  • Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication
Forensics: Fundamentals of Contest Speech and Debate COMM 15
  • Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament.
Forensics: Reader's Theater Team COMM 18
  • Students will perform for a live audience.
  • Students will collaborate to stage and perform multiple selections of literature as a group.
Group Communication COMM 6
  • Students will perform a group presentation in front of a live audience.
Intercultural Communication COMM 7
  • Students will feel more confident.
  • Students will define culture.
Interpersonal Communication COMM 26
  • Students will evaluate their self concept.
Introduction to Communication Theory COMM 30
  • Students will assess various areas of the communication field and choose one specific area for further study.
  • Students will construct a literature review on one aspect of communication studies.
  • Students will evaluate theoretical components of communication theories.
  • Students will conduct research using a communication database.
  • 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.
Introduction to Public Speaking - Honors COMM C1000H
  • Students will critically evaluate public speeches, including perspectives, evidence, and arguments with reasoning and support.
  • Students will engage in audience adaptation.
  • Students will perform basic speaking skills using a variety of delivery methods.
  • Students will incorporate strategies to reduce speech anxiety.
  • Students will construct a keyword and full sentence outline using a speech organizational pattern, with credible research and attribution.
Performance of Literature COMM 4
  • Students will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
  • Demonstrate effective use of voice, body, facial expressions, focal points, emphasis, and integration of manuscript during performance
Professional and Organization Speaking COMM 8
  • Students will conduct an employment interview.
  • Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others
Professional and Organizational Speaking - Honors COMM 8H
  • Students will feel more confident.
Survey of Communication Studies COMM 2
  • Students will solve a problem as a group.
  • Students will evaluate their self concept
  • Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
  • Students will perform three speeches
Voice and Diction COMM 3
  • Students will be able to use phonemes.
  • Students will demonstrate vocal expressiveness.
  • Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication.
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