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Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
Public Speaking
Note: Theatre 203 is taught by English department faculty.
Fall 2012
THEA 203
Communication/Public Speaking
Two sections (TBA)
A practical course designed to develop awareness of the skills involved in effective oral communication and to improve techniques of organization and presentation. There is no prerequisite for this course.
Spring 2013
THEA 203
Communication/Public Speaking
Two sections (TBA)
A practical course designed to develop awareness of the skills involved in effective oral communication and to improve techniques of organization and presentation. There is no prerequisite for this course.
Film
Spring 2013
Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
Professor Keith Harrison
A general introduction to the study of film as a self-aware art form and as a medium of cultural communication. Through an awareness of script, mise-en-scene, acting, camera shots, editing, and use of sound, we will explore some varied concerns and forms of cinematic story-telling from classical Hollywood narratives to alternative, more experimental modes.
Projected Filmography:
Sunset Blvd., Vertigo, Breathless, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, Fanny and Alexander ,The Piano, The Sweet Hereafter , Run Lola Run, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner , Water, Blue Valentine.
Linguistics
Fall 2012
LING 111: In tro to Descriptive Linguistics
Professor Maureen Okun
A study of the theoretical basis of language study, including the contrast between communication and true language, animal "language", theories of language origins, neurolinguistics, and phonetics/phonology. No prerequisite.
Spring 2013
LING 490: Topics in Linguistics—An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Professor Matthew Beedham
Discourse analysis provides methods for examining, taking apart, and making sense of language. Linguist Barbara Johnstone notes that “Discourse analysis is practiced in one way or another by at least some people in most of the academic disciplines in which human life is the focus: anthropologists…, communications scholars, rhetoricians, literary and cultural critics, sociologists, psychologists, geographers, and medical, legal, and educational researchers, among others.” Learning how to analyze discourse, then, is important not just for linguists, but also for many other people who depend on language in their everyday lives.
This course provides an introduction to discourse analysis and the different approaches used in the analysis of discourse. We will start with a general overview of the phenomena included in the study of discourse, and then proceed on to how those problems have been approached. We will examine spoken and written examples. There will be a number of in-class and take-home assignments and students will be encouraged to collect and analyze their own data. After being introduced to methods of analysis, students will learn how these methods can be adapted and refined to analyze written and verbal data for a research project, and will have a chance to carry out an original discourse analysis in a specific area of interest.
Reading List:
Barbara Johnstone, Discourse Analysis, 2nd Ed.Blackwell, 2007.
The main textbook will be supplemented with additional book chapters and articles.
Evaluation:
Class Participation 5%
Short Assignments 15%
Midterm test 15%
Final Paper/Project 30%
Presentation of Final Paper/Project 5%
Final Exam 30%
Requirements:
The 2012-13 version of LING 490 fulfills three hours of upper-level English credit and satifies the coverage requirement for "Critical Theory/Practical Criticism."
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