Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Introduction to basic concepts in the criminal justice system. Principles of argumentation, persuasion, and legal communication as a part of mock trial preparation.

Overview of everyday interaction and extent to which content and forms of communication shape social realities. Broad introduction to field of communication.

History of rhetorical studies from classical antiquity to contemporary times. Explores conceptualizations and understandings which serve as a method of recognizing, analyzing, and evaluating persuasive impulses.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Principles, practice, and criticism of informative, persuasive, and ceremonial speeches. Enhances student capacity to respond appropriately to a variety of speaking situations.

Guided intergroup communication skills. Cycle of socialization; social identities, and social structures that create and maintain inequality; power of dynamic of racism, sexism, and other systems of oppression. Students explore conflict and enact collaboration to deepen understanding.

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Introduction to the various issues, arguments, positions, and concerns that frame the research methods and techniques that guide the study of communications.

In-depth exploration of a problem or problems.  Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Through comparative study in six countries and their urban centers, students will explore some of the most rapidly changing regions in Europe with attention paid to issues of identity, memory and history of Central Europe. Offered only through Syracuse Abroad.

Nonverbal message systems in interpersonal communication. Factors affecting the nature and quality of interaction: spatial, temporal, gestural, artifactual, tactile, and cultural.

Performance as a political project that privileges the body as a site of knowledge. The politics, implications, and possibilities of personal narratives.

This course explores developing areas of human and non-human communication in academic and applied contexts, especially in relation to digital culture. Focus on the how and why of communication transformation, and its socio-cultural and political implications. Additional work for graduate students.

Introduction to critical approaches that illuminate how modes of visual culture function as rhetoric, commerce, art, and ideological expression. Examines how institutional frameworks shape global image circulation.

Understanding innovation as a communication and rhetorical phenomenon, and to identify how innovation emerges from different communication and rhetorical practices.

All human cultures engage in body adornment. This course departs from this anthropological fact to build a multi-faceted picture of the many discourses and meanings that together address the full complexity of the term ¿fashion.¿

This course explores the institutions and practices that characterize London¿s creative industries and the lives of people who work within and participate in them.

Exploration of assumptions underlying different approaches to gender and communication. Gender and power implications of understanding communication as socially constructing identity and societal structures.

Conceptual and practical dimensions of formal presentations in organizational settings. Analysis, adaptation, strategic arrangement and development of ideas, verbal and nonverbal presentational skills.

Principles and practices of writing ceremonial and persuasive speeches for clients. Additional work required of graduate students.

Introduction to the notion of dialogue as a way of embodying the world. It highlights the various concerns, issues, and ideas that surround the evolution of dialogue.

Application of communication theory to a wide variety of social situations. Assessing communication competence, problem solving, and relationship management.

Group communication as a decision making process. Problem solving. Critical and creative thinking, presentational skills. Designed to improve decision quality through discussion skills and the strategic application of group decision theories and techniques.

Theoretical grounding for an argument-field approach. Includes critical understanding and use of evidence and reasoning in argument. Brief writing, cross-examination, argument construction and organization, issues analysis, and refutation and rebuttal.

Leader-follower relations as they are constituted communicatively in partnerships. Communication competencies emphasized include empowerment, innovation, ethics, conflict, and influence.

Diversity issues in organizations. Self reflection on assumptions about difference. Organizations and differences as communicatively constituted.

This course explores the social, cultural, and political intersections of race, ethnicity and communication through interdisciplinary theory, critical analysis, and applied practices.

Principles and practices of organizational communication, including methods of assessing communication practices. Various communication perspectives are applied to case studies and organizational activities.

Examination of spaces and designs as rhetorical and communication phenomena. How we organize space and, in turn, how the organization of our spaces shapes how we interact, organize, and relate to others and the world.

Observe and analyze how to cope and adjust in a new culture with the goal of developing a set of competencies to use in future working environments characterized by multicultural teams. Offered regularly through Syracuse Abroad.

Examines the influence of debates in political contexts. May examine presidential, legislative, judicial or public forum debates and influence of debating in political communication.

Develop communication skills including awareness of self-talk, anxiety/stress, listening and speaking habits, and sense of self that create and affect communication patterns. Responding rather than reacting in communication episodes.

Investigates the relationship between communication and politics. Highlights communication-related issues involved in political processes and focuses on the extent to which communication is an essential aspect of political systems.

Development of theories of communication and rhetoric that enhance the understanding of their impact on human behavior.

This course considers the role of rhetoric in the creation, definition, development, function, and study of social movements.

Investigates the rhetoric of public memory, or the ways that communities create and communicate knowledge of the past from one generation to the next.

How does communication mediate the relationship between people and nature? What are the different environmental discourses and rhetorics which affect how we conceive our place in nature? Are these sustainable?

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the SU academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Introduction to rhetorical approaches to popular culture. Examines objects and practices of everyday life with particular attention to their symbolic and cultural messages.

This course examines how discourse and social interaction works to constitute our social realities. Topics covered: meaning, context, sequence, narrative, politeness/face, talk-in-interaction, identity, power, dialects, and various language controversies.

Prioritizing matters related to race, this course explores the social, cultural, and political discourses of hip-hop culture through interdisciplinary theory and rhetorical analysis. Topics include racism, gender, authenticity, cultural appropriation, protest, and music industry.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Storytelling and similar oral history methods are inherently dialogic and communicative crafts, bridging generations, social class distinctions, languages, differentiation of nationhood/statehood, and geography. In this course, students examine, create, and practice relevant forms of storytelling.

Remix theory and praxis. Study of sociocultural, political, ethical, and legal implications of remix culture. How remix relates to debates about digital culture, ownership, citizenship, authorship, and authority. Application of communicative and rhetorical remix techniques.

Advanced exploration of rhetorics of gender and sexuality in contemporary contexts, emphasizing intersectionality of identities. Considers representations of feminism and queerness in popular and political discourses.

Students create and deliver manuscript speeches on subjects of social, political, and philosophical interest. Emphasizes rhetorical style and concepts of eloquence.

Contemporary behaviorist, cognitive, and language-based theories of persuasion. Modes of inquiry used to investigate persuasion. The behavioral compared and contrasted with the rhetorical perspective.

Principles and applications. Approaches and issues pertinent to effective communication across cultures and in multicultural societies. Verbal and nonverbal patterns. Culture shock.

An examination of politics and communication as a mediated process

Dyadic communication principles. Adaptation of interpersonal communication to interviewing situations: in-depth informational, resume-based employment, and problem solving. Analysis of student-designed survey questionnaires. Normal and stressful interpersonal relationships.

Feminist rhetoric from both a historical and global context, utilizing both primary and secondary readings in order to gain a sense of breadth and depth in the field of feminist rhetoric. Additional work required of graduate students.

Considers how white race privilege is socially constructed through communication (including through visual, social, and literary texts), while exploring its material effects in the day-to- day lives of those of all racial backgrounds.

A culminating research project on a communication and rhetorical concept, object, or phenomenon.

There is an inherent paradox to the assertion that we all enjoy an equal right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that we also all have the right to freely speak our minds. This course explores the story of our constitutional journey to speak freely and the necessary limitations on that right told through the landmark cases decided by the Supreme Court over the last two hundred plus years.

This course considers social constructionist communication theory and its relationship to mindfulness. Mindfulness practices encourage reflection on communication patterns, contexts, coordination, coherence, mystery, and the self.

Offered only in Florence. Contemporary visual culture; its representation of gender, religion, and politics and the origins of that representation in a pictorial language first codified in Italy and Europe between circa 1450 and 1650.

Different perspectives of rhetorical criticism. Explicating the assumptions underlying different approaches to rhetorical criticism. Students learn and apply contemporary critical methods in the study of discursive practices.

Examination of ethical constraints, dilemmas, and boundaries in various communication processes.

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.

HIV/AIDS epidemic in rhetorical perspective. Study of intersectional cultural and political contexts of HIV/AIDS and governmental, medical, media, and activist rhetorics that shaped epidemic meanings and responses. 

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Examination of how popular films and documentaries function rhetorically to reflect and construct social and political change.

In-depth exploration of a problem or problems.  Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.

Completion of an Honors Capstone Project under the supervision of a faculty member.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Introduction to contemporary theories and research in the field of interpersonal communications; array of theoretical models and research exemplars.

Examination of communication processes which constitute and reflect family functioning. Power and conflict, predictable and unpredictable stress, paradoxes and double binds, family life cycle, and communication competence. Permission of Instructor.

Examines current concepts of interpersonal communication and their historical development. Demonstrates how interpersonal communication influences and is influenced by community contexts.

Students learn to apply skills from artistic disciplines to fields such as education, law, or public policy, by studying selected theoretical topics and experiencing hands-on practices of community-based performance.

Emerging perspectives of the field theory of argument, constructivist approaches, cognitive approaches, against traditional models of argumentation. Permission of Instructor.

Overview of a variety of theories, from ancient to contemporary, and the factors that affect concepts of rhetoric in the culture of Western thought. Permission of instructor

Public address as an influence in the political, social, legal, and religious history of America. Permission of instructor

Examines the quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric and the way it has affected the development of Western thought. Permission of instructor

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.