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Media Rhetoric and Communication - Integrative Pathway

In this pathway, students will learn to think critically about media, rhetoric, communication, information, and visual culture and how these are used to protect and challenge institutions of power. Students will use language, voice, film, theatre, rhetoric, narrative, and metaphor to become more effective communicators and critical listeners in the academy and beyond. Questions posed by the pathway include the following: How does one recognize the uses of information to advance interests? For example, how does ownership of information media affect the interpretation and framing of controversy? How do particular media technologies impact access to and dissemination of information? What influence do media technologies have on our perception of reality, and what are the consequences of altered and multiple realities? How have advertising, marketing, and branding affected our perceptions and choices? More personally, how does one intervene in public conversations to achieve desired policy goals?

Media, Rhetoric, and Communication Courses

Thematic Inquiry

Required Course

MRC 201THEMATIC INQUIRY

4

Curricular Itinerary Courses

Students will take three further courses from the list below, in which they will explore the theme of the Pathway in light of their animating questions. These courses must be from three different departments as defined by their course designations and are intended to represent a range of disciplinary approaches to the theme. Students may count courses toward the Curricular Itinerary that were taken prior to the Thematic Inquiry. All Itinerary courses should be completed no later than the fall semester of the senior year. Students may also petition to have other, unlisted courses count if the courses have a demonstrable connection to their interests in media, rhetoric, and communication.

Course List

AFR 209/AMS 209/CRE 209/FLM 209/GWS 213INTERSECT IDENT IN U.S. FILM

4
AFR 321/CRE 321/GWS 321/HMD 321CHILD/FAMIL MULTI-CUL SOC

4
AMS 199/GWS 199/THE 199CC:THEATR OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC

4
AMS 215/CRE 215/HIS 215POLIT/CULT IN U.S. SINCE 1945

4
AMS 252/ANT 252/CRE 250/GIS 252ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES

4
AMS 266/MUS 266/THE 266/DAN 263CC: PERFORM DIFF AMER MUSICAL

4
AMS 399/THE 399THEATER OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC

4
ANT 226/LIN 226/SLA 226LANGUAGE IN CULTURE

4
ART 103DESIGN: VISUAL LANGUAGE

4
ART 200BDIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

4
ART 207DESIGN: TYPE AND IMAGE

4
ART 209/AT 209DESIGNING VISUAL INFORMATION

4
ART 310DESIGN: PUBLIC PRACTICE

4
AT 217/COM 217ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE DESIGN

4
BIO 118CC: UNDERSTANDING EVOLUTION

4
CHM 100CC: CHEMISTRY IN CONTEXT

4
ENG 181/AT 181CC:LIT ACTIVISM & SOCIAL MEDIA

4
ENG 329RACE, NATION, EMPIRE 18TH CENT

4
ENG 368/ES 368LIT IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

4
ES 100EINTRO ES: SOCIAL SCIENCE

4
ES 214/GEO 214VECTOR-BASED GEOG INFO SYST

4
FLM 210FUND MOTION PICTURE PRODUCT

4
FLM 220DOCUMENTARY THRY & PRODUCTN

4
FLM 310IDEOLOGCL REP IN MOT PICT PROD

6
GER 260CC: GLOBAL CREATIVITIES

4
GER 420DEUTSCHLAND DIGITAL

4
GOV 221POLIT PARTIES,CAMPAIGNS,ELECT

4
GOV 222CC: TORTURE & TERROR POST 9/11

4
GOV 223/AFR 224HUMAN RIGHTS, MEDIA & ACTIVISM

4
GOV 251/ES 251ENVIRON ACTIVISM/POL IMPACT

4
GOV 276/AMS 276CC: THE U.S. PRESIDENCY

4
GOV 337COMPARATIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

4
GOV 493CU.S. POLITICAL SPEECH

4
GOV 493U/ES 493UENVIRON JUST IN GLOBL PERSP

4
GOV 493WREBELS,ROGUES, & REVOLUTIONRS

4
GOV 493Z/GIS 400THE IRAQ WAR

4
GWS 180/SOC 180CC: MAKING SEX

4
GWS 202CC: SEX/WORK

4
GWS 224/CRE 224TRANSNATNL WOMEN'S MOVEMNTS

4
HIS 117CC: EMPIRES

4
HIS 210CONTESTING INDIA'S PAST

4
HIS 219/CRE 219REVOLUTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA

4
HMD 103/AFR 104/GWS 102CHILD RIGHTS/PUBLIC POLICY

4
HMD 314/AFR 315MEDIA, SELF, AND SOCIETY

4
HMD 416/GWS 416/AFR 426/CRE 416GLOBAL CULTURES AND HUMAN DEV

4
LIN 110/ENG 110/GER 110CC: INTRO TO LANGUAGE AND MIND

4
LIN 201PHONOLOGY

4
LIN 202SYNTAX

4
MAT 110CC: NETWORKS & THEIR APPLCTNS

4
PHI 103LOGIC

4
PHI 219/GWS 225FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY

4
PHI 221THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

4
PHI 223PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

4
PHI 232TOLERANCE, INTOLER, INTOLERBL

4
PHI 234PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

4
PHI 245LIBERALISM(S)

4
PHI 261THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

4
PHI 276/AFR 276/CRE 276PHILOSOPHY OF RACE AND RACISM

4
PHI 444DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS

4
SOC 103INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

4
SOC 208/AFR 208/CRE 208/GWS 209RACE/GENDER AND THE MASS MEDIA

4
SOC 212/GWS 211SEX, GENDER AND SOCIETY

4
SOC 239/CRE 239DISABILITY AND SOCIETY

4
SOC 400/AFR 400/AMS 400/GWS 400/GIS 401THE SOCIOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION

4
STA 107INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

4

Global/Local Engagement

Required Course

MRC 301GLOBAL/LOCAL ENGAGEMENT

0

Senior Reflection

Required Course

MRC 401SENIOR REFLECTION

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