Communication Minor

HFA PEAK

15 credits

 

Minor Requirements

Rhetorical Core

SPE-101	Basic Public Speaking	3 credits
SPE-201	Foundations of Oral Communication	3 credits

Methods

Complete one course from the following:

SPE-240	Rhetorical Criticism	3 credits
SPE-245	Critical Cultural Methodology	3 credits

Course not taken to satisfy Methods requirement (SPE-240 or SPE-245) may count toward the minor's Topics requirement.

Topics

Complete 6 credits from the following. At least 3 credits must be outside the SPE designation. 

ART-111	Ways of Seeing	3 credits
JOURN-200	Principles and Practices of Journalism: Print	3 credits
JOURN-201	Principles & Practices of Journalism: Visual	3 credits
PHI-150	Critical Reasoning	3 credits
PHI-214	Introduction to Logic	3 credits
PHI-309	Feminist Philosophy	3 credits
SPE-199	Debate I	1 credit
SPE-240	Rhetorical Criticism	3 credits
SPE-245	Critical Cultural Methodology	3 credits
SPE-305	Paradigms in Intercultural Communication	3 credits
SPE-306	Communicating Gender and Sexuality	3 credits
SPE-310	Topics in the Philosophy of Communication	3 credits
SPE-399	Debate II	1 credit
THE-200	Introduction to Film Studies	3 credits
THE-215	Acting Fundamentals	3 credits
THE-216	Voice and Diction	3 credits
THE-300	Gender and Sexuality in Film	3 credits

If not taken to satisfy the Methods requirement SPE-240 or SPE-245 may be count toward the Topics requirement.

SPE-199: Up to 3 credits may count toward this requirement.

SPE-399: Up to 3 credits may count toward this requirement.

 

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of any HFA program, students will:

• Demonstrate engagement with humanistic inquiry through the application of theory and methodology (appropriate to discipline) to cultures, texts, or artifacts.
• Provide evidence of their own artistic work and active engagement with the creative process.
• Demonstrate engagement with non-dominant cultures and cultural products
  

   

Upon successful completion of a Communication Minor, students will be able to:

• Describe the communication discipline and its central questions.
  • Explain the origins of the Communication discipline.
  • Examine contemporary debates within the field.
• Engage in Communication inquiry.
  • Interpret Communication scholarship.
  • Evaluate Communication scholarship.
  • Apply Communication scholarship.
  • Formulate questions appropriate for Communication scholarship.
• Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context
  • Locate and use information relevant to the goals, audiences, purposes, and contexts.
  • Select creative and appropriate modalities and technologies to accomplish communicative goals.
  • Adapt messages to the diverse needs of individuals, groups, and contexts.
  • Critically reflect on one's own messages after the communication event.
• Critically analyze messages.
  • Identify meanings embedded in messages.
  • Recognize the influence of messages.
  • Engage in active listening.
• Apply ethical communication principles and practices.
  • Identify ethical perspectives.
  • Articulate ethical dimensions of communicative situations.
  • Choose to communicate with ethical intention.
  • Evaluate the ethical elements of communicative situations.
• Utilize communication to embrace difference.
  • Articulate the connection between communication and culture.
  • Recognize individual and cultural similarities and differences.
  • Appreciate individual and cultural similarities and differences.
  • Respect diverse perspectives and the ways they influence communication.
• Influence public discourse.
  • Explain the importance of communication in civic life.
  • Identify challenges facing communities and the role of communication in resolving those challenges.
  • Utilize communication to respond to issues at the local, national, and/or global level.