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Course Descriptions/Communication 383637. Organizational Communication Seminar. (3-0). Credit 3. Investigation of a subject important tothe understanding of organizational communication, such as communication and organizational decision-making,group communication within organizations, communication and organizational culture,and organizational rhetoric and issue management. May be repeated for credit with different content upto a total of three times. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.640. Rhetorical Theory. (3-0). Credit 3. Close reading of classical and contemporary systems of rhetoric;survey of principal applications to communication theory and research. Prerequisite: Graduate classificationor approval of instructor.645. Rhetorical and Textual Methods in Communication Research. (3-0). Credit 3. Comparativestudy of traditional and contemporary perspectives on the description, interpretation, and evaluation ofpublic discourse, including textual analysis, neo-classical analysis, Burkean criticism, quantitative andqualitative approaches to content analysis, fantasy theme analysis, and semiotic analysis. Prerequisite:Graduate classification or approval of instructor.649. American Public Discourse to 1865. (3-0). Credit 3. Public discourse and political rhetoric in Americain colonial and pre-Civil War years; historical, conceptual, and practical examination of political campaignrhetoric, legislative rhetoric, judicial rhetoric, and advocacy group rhetoric. Prerequisite: Graduateclassification.650. American Public Discourse Since 1865. (3-0). Credit 3. Public discourse and political rhetoric inAmerica in post-Civil War years; historical, conceptual, and practical examination of political campaignrhetoric, legislative rhetoric, judicial rhetoric, and advocacy group rhetoric. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.651. Presidential Rhetoric. (3-0). Credit 3. Rhetorical discourse of American presidents, including principalgenres of presidential communication, speechwriting and media strategies; case studies of presidentialcommunication ranging from campaign oratory, to crisis rhetoric, and ceremonial addresses.Prerequisite: Graduate classification.654. History and Theory of Rhetoric to 1800. (3-0). Credit 3. Emphasis on interactions between rhetoricaltheory and practices; includes Sophists, Stoic logic and rhetoric, poetics and stylistics from Platothrough Cicero, semiotics and hermeneutics in medieval rhetoric, Enlightenment rhetoric and moralphilosophy, literary. Cross-listed with ENGL 654.655. History and Theory of Rhetoric since 1800. (3-0). Credit 3. Major figures and movements in rhetoricaltheory; revisionist effect of psychology, linguistics, and romanticism upon classical rhetorics; associationistpsychology; belles lettres movement, twentieth-century linguistic turn; current-traditionalrhetoric and its successors; rhetorical critical theory. Cross-listed with ENGL 655.658. Seminar in Communication and Culture. (3-0). Credit 3. Investigation of the ways that culture, religion,identity, gender, popular culture, community, history, and related ideas are shaped through communicationin order to understand the development of social norms, political values, and the humanexperience. May be repeated for credit with different content up to a total of three times. Prerequisite:Graduate classification.659. Communication and Citizenship in the Public Sphere. (3-0). Credit 3. Theoretical examinationof communication within democratic, republican, and liberal conceptions of citizenship: considerationof the ideal of the public sphere, and communication in global civil society; specific attention to thepractices of American citizenship within the global civil society. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.662. Survey of Telecommunication and Media Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Survey of research and theory inmedia studies and telecommunication, review of literature on mass communication, media, culture, andsociety, media audiences, texts, industries, and technologies; provides an overview of the literature andtheoretical orientation. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.663. Seminar in Telecommunication and Media Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Intensive work on selectedtopics of research in telecommunication and media studies; may address work in the areas of audiencestudies, media effects, industries, policy, international issues, media and culture, media history, or theory;may be repeated for credit with different content up to a total of three times. Prerequisite: Graduateclassification.665. Communication and Technology. (3-0). Credit 3. Examines the relationships between human communicationand technology, investigating the social effects of communication technologies, the qualityof messages, communicative practices, and rhetorical norms that typify effective communication intechnological society. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.