The nature of communication processes occurring in a small group setting.
Students analyze and perform selected literature.
Most performances take place in class but a public performance requirement is occasionally added. Small group dynamics and interview techniques are studied in the professional business setting. Course relates communication to values, leadership and uses of power in such organizational contexts as business, professional, social, educational and political groups. The practical application of rhetorical theory and evaluation of its effects on current persuasive topics of political campaigns, legislative debates and public decision-making. An opportunity for the advanced serious speech student to do directed research in an area of special interest to the student.