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  • COST 241: Practicum in Experiential Learning

    1.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    The practicum in experiential learning (HCS) is designed to engage students in activities aligned with their future career goals. Students will participate in co-created activities that demonstrate the application of human communication theories, concepts, and critical thinking relevant to the student?s area of interest. Students will collaborate with faculty to select activities that further develop communication skills while developing professional experiences designed to enhance career opportunities. Prerequisite:    COST 200
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  • COST 250: Interpersonal Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A performance based course focused on communication theories, processes, and outcomes in dyadic interaction. This course develops critical thinking and interpersonal communication skills through discussion and application of significant theories relevant to relational formation, development, change, maintenance, and termination in a variety of contexts. This course incorporates presentations, case studies, and experiential learning to support theory-based skill acquisition. Prerequisite:    COST 200
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  • COST 260: Computer-Mediated Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A twofold approach to computer-mediated communication technology and its impact on human communication with the following objectives: (1) familiarization with and discussion of different forms of computer-mediated communication and their impact on various communicational and societal contexts (interpersonal communication, group communication, intercultural communication, organizational communication, social networking, education, commerce and miscellaneous other areas); (2) application and/or creation of popular computer-mediated communication tools such as basic HTML, webpage design, the web form, basic audio and video editing tools, social media, and certain prominent instructional and presentational technologies. Prerequisite:    COST 125
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  • COST 265: Interviewing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Practical approach to the information exchange process. Students participate in information-gathering and information-giving interviews. Skill development in this performance-based course emphasizes interviews in employment, and as a form of data collection, persuasion, and feedback. Students explore a variety of interview contexts and appropriate written instrumentation for each category. Prerequisite:    COST 200
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  • COST 270: Intergroup/Intercultural Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This performance-based course investigates the processes through which the elements of communication and culture are mutually reinforcing. Students will identify the manner in which cultural values and norms permeate discourse, and analyze the role of communication in (re)creating culture. Special emphasis is place on nonverbal and verbal communicative interaction between members of disparate cultural traditions in order to develop cultural awareness (of the self and other), knowledge, appreciation, and skills essential to intercultural communication.
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  • COST 275: Special Topics in Communication Skill

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A performance based course that emphasizes the development of selected skills. Selected Topics in Communication Skills will allow students to apply theories and concepts to the practice and evaluation of communication in an area of recent development, new faculty interest, or emerging student concern. Selected Topics in Communication Skills will require individual, dyadic, and group presentations, and additional modes of performance. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Listening, Diction, Performance, etc.
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  • COST 310: African-American Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A performance-based exploration of body of oral discourses, styles, and traditions of African-Americans. Students will discover a foundation for understanding the nature and power of the spoken word, develop appreciation for communication theory through the rhetoric of resistance to the human communication of oppression, and explore Afrocentric communication theory and African-American rhetoric.
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  • COST 315: Asian-American Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A performance-based course examining the cultural heritage of Asian American ethnic groups and the communication patterns that emerge based on this cultural heritage. Students will explore the similarities and differences of Asian American communicative experiences inside the United States in order to get a better understanding of the relationships among ethnicity, ethnic identity, generation, and communication. Prerequisite:    COST 270 (Grade of C or Higher)
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  • COST 325: Voices of Black Anti-Racism and Resistance

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A research, writing-intensive, and discursive course that emphasizes bibliographical, historical, and the contemporary critical analyses of significant speeches, lyrics, movements, and other artifacts by African Americans. Students will examine, the narratives of enslaved people, artifacts from the Antebellum period, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter, and Anti-Racist movement. Emphasis is placed on public address, social movement rhetoric, music, Hip Hop culture, intersectional perspectives, and images of African Americans historically to the present.
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  • COST 330: Special Topics in Cultural Perspectives

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A performance-based course that investigates selected contexts in which cultural perspectives of communication are of interest. Selected Topics will allow students to apply theories and concepts specific to culture in communication to the analysis and practice of communication in an area of recent development, new faculty interests, or emerging student concern. Selected Topics courses will require case studies, dyadic presentations, and additional modes of performance. Topics may include, but are not limited to co-culture communication patterns, culture and nonverbal communication, LGBTQA communication, (dis)ability, and aging.
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