COMM 108
Communication and Identity
Description: Lecture, three hours. Study of relationships among communication, culture, and identity, and examination of ways in which texts (broadly construed) constitute experience, difference, and subjectivity. Focus on function of language, representation and meaning in construction of self, social collectives, and world views. Consideration of how communication is performative endeavor for humans seeking to construct identity. Students are prepared to describe and explain theories that detail performance as communicative form, analyze ways language and discourse function as texts that work to produce significant personal and social identities, and describe specific principles, motivations, and theoretical categories within interdisciplinary study of culture that produce identity. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2020 - Please keep in mind I took this course during the covid-19 pandemic and everything was online. Dr. Kicenski is such a sweet and understanding professor! Concepts are honestly really confusing and quite philosophical, but Professor does her best to explain them. The course reader was useful and needed for exams, but exam questions were mostly drawn from her lectures. Exams are worded a bit confusing and are tricky, but if you watch all the lectures and do the reading you will be fine. Lectures were all recorded and posted along with the powerpoint slides on CCLE. There were 2 individual papers that were only two pages, 3 exams, and one final paper with a partner along with a "presentation" (informal sharing in a break-out room) and two 2-paged peer reviews on another pair's paper. As always, choose your partner wisely. I highly recommend this course and I would be down to take it again. Dr. Kicenski rocks!
Fall 2020 - Please keep in mind I took this course during the covid-19 pandemic and everything was online. Dr. Kicenski is such a sweet and understanding professor! Concepts are honestly really confusing and quite philosophical, but Professor does her best to explain them. The course reader was useful and needed for exams, but exam questions were mostly drawn from her lectures. Exams are worded a bit confusing and are tricky, but if you watch all the lectures and do the reading you will be fine. Lectures were all recorded and posted along with the powerpoint slides on CCLE. There were 2 individual papers that were only two pages, 3 exams, and one final paper with a partner along with a "presentation" (informal sharing in a break-out room) and two 2-paged peer reviews on another pair's paper. As always, choose your partner wisely. I highly recommend this course and I would be down to take it again. Dr. Kicenski rocks!
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