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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 be able to identify and write summary and other leads. Students will demonstrate news judgment. Students will understand AP style.
Argumentation and Debate	SPCH 20	Students will be more argumentative. Students will feel more confident. Students will perform in front of a live audience. Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research. Students will become less verbally aggressive. Students will critique an argument.
Argumentation and Debate - Honors	SPCH 20H	Students will critique an argument. Students will feel more confident. Students will perform in front of a live audience. Students will use multiple electronic resources to conduct research. Students will become less verbally aggressive. Students will be more argumentative.
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	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.
Forensics: Debate Team	SPCH 17	Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament Students will feel more confident. Students will become more argumentative. Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research. Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication
Forensics: Fundamentals of Contest Speech and Debate	SPCH 15	Students will feel more confident Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament. Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication
Forensics: Individual Event Team	SPCH 16	Students will compete in an intercollegiate forensics tournament Students will apply techniques from multiple genres of speech communication. Students will feel more confident. 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.
Forensics: Reader's Theater Team	SPCH 18	Students will perform for a live audience. Students will feel more confident. 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 facilitate a group decision-making process. Students will solve a problem as a group. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will feel more confident.
Intercultural Communication	SPCH 7	Students will examine the relationship between communication and culture. Students will demonstrate cultural sensitivity in conflict management Students will evaluate their own intercultural competencies Students will define culture. Students will feel more confident. Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior. 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 demonstrate meaningful self-evaluation related to increasing their lifelong personal well being. Students will feel more confident. 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. Students will evaluate their self concept.
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 assess various areas of the communication field and choose one specific area for further study. Students will analyze the relationship between social, political, and/or economic institutions and human behavior. Students will conduct research using a communication database. Students will evaluate theoretical components of communication theories. Students will construct a literature review on one aspect of communication studies. Students will synthesize theoretical communication studies and draw conclusions. Students will illustrate competence in research in the communication field.
Introduction to Mass Communications	JOUR 100	Students will understand the respective functions of the fields that comprise the mass media, advertising, and public relations. Students will be familiar with basic mass media law and ethics.
Performance of Literature	SPCH 4	Students will express subtext of written literature. Students will critique videotaped performances of their literature performances using an appropriate theoretical framework. 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 Students will be able to classify literature into the poetry, drama or prose genre Students will construct a program of literature that advances an argument. Students will be able to edit a text for performance. Students will be able to compose an original introduction for a literary selection. Students will identify the central theme of a literature selection. Students will evaluate performances of literature using an appropriate critical framework. Students will feel more confident. Students will perform in front of a live audience. Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will be able to use electronic resources to conduct research.
Professional and Organization Speaking	SPCH 8	Students will feel more confident. 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	SPCH 8H	Students will feel more confident. Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others
Public Speaking	SPCH 1A	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. 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 engage in audience adaptation. 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.
Survey of Communication Studies	SPCH 2	Students will solve a problem as a group. Students will feel more confident. Students will evaluate their self concept Students will examine the relationship between culture and communication. Students will perform three speeches Students will understand the need to adapt communication style to acknowledge the differences in others
Voice and Diction	SPCH 3	Students will feel more confident. Students will demonstrate vocal expressiveness. 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 produce language with appropriate breathing skills. Students will be able to use phonemes.

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