This course focuses on articulatory phonetics and phonology. It includes practice in the perception, production, and transcription of speech sounds. Communication Studies 2113 Introduction to Acting Acting is a skill that needs to be learned and the goal of this course is to teach the fundamentals of the acting process. This course will include written assignments, in-class projects and a final, written examination. This course examines the social organization of the mass media in contemporary Canadian society, the creation and nature of media content, and audience impact.
Special emphasis is placed on advertising content as a mechanism of persuasion.
This course examines the sequence of language development spanning the entire life span. Emphasis will be placed on major theoretical approaches to language development and on related areas such as cognition and literacy. This course will analyze the different forms of human communication and the theoretical considerations of rhetorical theory from the classical communicators such as Aristotle and Cicero to the present. This course will emphasize the use of social scientific theories and their relatedness to interpersonal and group communications. This course will examine the style of written communication used to report the news.