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• HCS 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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• HCS 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:    HCS 270 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF C OR SPE 160 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF C
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• HCS 325: Voices of Black Anti-Racism and Protest

  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-American men and women. Students will examine artifacts from slave narratives, the antebellum period, Civil Rights, Black Power Struggle, Black Lives Matter, and Anti-racist literature. Emphasis is placed on public addresses, social movement rhetoric, music/hip hop, ideologies, and imagery of African Americans from the 18th to 21st century.
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• HCS 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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• HCS 333: Communicating Identity

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This writing-intensive seminar course examines identity from the standpoint of human communication, which maintains that identity is (in)formed and (re)produced through communication. The course includes an examination of theories of identity in communication studies, and places emphasis on how features of identity (including sex/gender, race/ethnicity, age, ability, sexual orientation, etc) are communicated interpersonally, in groups, and through the mass media.
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• HCS 335: Popular Culture and Gender Construction

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This performance based course examines the influence of different forms of popular culture, such as film, music, fashion, and sport on the construction of gender ideals in a particular culture. As part of the course, students explore theories that explain how popular culture is formed generally, and focus on the ways females and males are portrayed in specific images and roles specifically. In this process, the changes in images and roles with regard to gender, including androgyny, are also considered.
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• HCS 340: Gender and Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  A performance based course that explores messages about sex, gender, and communication. This course investigates the similarities and differences in the ways women and men communicate by distinguishing between 'sex' and 'gender' and considering the socializing agents that may influence the manner in which we communicate. In addition, students in this course explore how gender is both created through communication and communicated in interactions. Students may select communication theories or levels of interaction to explore how gender is communicated, and consequently constructed and performed, including (but not limited to) personal relationships and groups, the workplace, education, and mass media.
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• HCS 342: Health Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  A course designed to investigate the nature of health communication through theory, research, and skills associated with communicating in various health-related contexts. More specifically, students analyze communication messages among and between patients, providers, family caregivers, healthcare organizations, and communities. This class examines the sociohistorical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, intercultural, and generational communication with all aspects of health so that students may become more mindful, educated, and effective health communicators.
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• HCS 343: Communication and Humor

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  A theory-based course focused on examining humor as communication. The course overviews classical and modern theories of humor, communicative functions of humor, and current research. The course offers general knowledge about the nature and communicative effects of humorous messages. Prerequisite:    HCS 200 FOR LEVEL U WITH MIN. GRADE OF D
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• HCS 344: Family Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  A course focused on issues related to family interaction, functioning, relationships, and communication. Research and theories from communication, sociological, and psychological perspectives will be examined. Readings and discussions will include coverage of marital, parent-child, sibling, and intergenerational interactions in the family. Research on topics such as marital satisfaction, divorce, courtship, and the impact of the family on its children (and vice versa) will be examined. The nature of family interaction will also be focused on as it is associated with family dysfunctions such as family violence, mental health problems, and marital distress.
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