Critical Analysis of Public Discourse

Catalog description

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture/discussion. Prerequisites: COMS 130 (with a grade of “C” or better) and COMS 330 (with a grade of “C” or better), or permission of instructor. This course focuses on the creation, consumption, and evaluation of public discourse. As such, its main concerns are the sources of messages, the audiences for messages, the contexts in which the messages are produced, the messages themselves, and the confluence of all four to create a rhetorical reality. REAL Area E Note(s): Humanistic or Artistic Expression designated course.