Faculty

• Professor Ray Dearin (rhetorical theory, public address, political communication).
• Associate Professor Amy Slagell (scholarship of teaching & learning public speaking, women's oratory, presidential rhetoric); on leave SY 04-05.
• Assistant Professor Jean Goodwin (rhetorical theory, argumentation, scholarship of teaching & learning argumentation, oratory).
• Assistant Professor Margaret LaWare (visual and material culture and public culture, rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist theory and criticism, rhetoric of war).
• Connie Ringlee, Lecturer (listening, speech education, speaking across the curriculum).
• Paul Kaufmann (ret.)
• Jane Vallier (ret.)

Major

• Required courses:
  • Cm St 101. Introduction to Communication Studies
  • Sp Cm 212. Fundamentals of Public Speaking.
  • Sp Cm 305. Semantics.
  • Sp Cm 327. Persuasion.
  • Sp Cm 412. Rhetorical Criticism.
  • Sp Cm 497. Capstone Seminar.
• Elective courses (offered by the program):
  • Sp Cm 110. Listening.
  • Sp Cm 312. Business and Professional Speaking.
  • Sp Cm 313. Communication for the Classroom Teacher.
  • Sp Cm 322. Argumentation, Debate, and Critical Thinking.
  • Sp Cm 323. Gender and Communication.
  • Sp Cm 324. Legal Communication.
  • Sp Cm 416. American Public Address.
  • Sp Cm 417. Campaign Rhetoric.
• Elective courses (cross-listed into the program):
  • Sp Cm 205. Popular Culture Analysis.
  • Sp Cm 325. Nonverbal Communication.
  • Sp Cm 350. Rhetoric and the History of Ideas.
  • Sp Cm 410. Persuasion in the Athenian Democracy.

Students in major

Students graduated with minor

Students in classes, 04-05 School Year (not including Sp Cm 212)

Speech Communication 212, Fundamentals of Public Speaking

• Summer, 2005: 12 sections, 7 teaching assistants, ca. 250 students enrolled.
• Spring, 2005: 28 sections, 10 teaching assistants, ca. 615 students enrolled.
• Fall, 2004: 33 sections, 10 teaching assistants, ca. 715 students enrolled.