The study, practice and utilization of a personal style of creative composition, examples of contemporary literature and submittal of publications are included in this course. Students are assigned to simulated consensus-driven groups. Evaluation is based upon the quality of the groups' decision making, exams, class participation, and presentation of the groups' findings in a public setting. Instructors may choose to apply methods in a variety of contexts, such as inhouse publications, internal communication, speeches, and interview communication. An examination of human communication in a variety of cultural settings.
Topics vary from semester to semester.
Communication behavior is viewed expansively to include verbal discourse, symbolic imagery, nonverbal communication, literature, music, and other art forms. Focus is on understanding communication behavior as symbolic action, as constructive of social reality, and as a means for entry into cultural and subcultural group experience. Junior standing or permission of professor. Avoiding the niceties of linguistic distinctions, the course will introduce the student to useable concepts and terms that are also echoed in contemporary style checkers. This course provides a practical investigation into how people use language functions as a system of meaning.