COMM 3640HM - Protest and Social Activism I

3 hours

Prerequisites: COMM 1050 with a grade of “C-” or better.
What would make our communities better? How might the marginalized develop voices of their own? This course will address these questions in a variety of ways: we will engage theoretical perspectives concerning the rhetorical strategies of social protest historically and today; we will examine protest rhetoric as a vital and distinct area of public discourse, whose constraints are considerably different from those of traditional oratory, and, therefore, demand a unique theoretical toolset; we will explore both primary texts and theoretical critiques as we consider protest rhetoric as a distinct area of public discourse. The course content pertains to both the human and media communication concentration in the major.