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“Critical teaching begins with developing students’ powers of critical thinking so that they can critique the interlocking systems of oppression embedded in contemporary society.”
Stephen Brookfield
Course Description
This course is to help you become a stronger communicator in all that you do in life, whether it is in your school work, prospective jobs, or as a citizen in your community. It is meant to broaden your abilities and perspectives on communication as a whole. You will learn to stregthen your critical thinking skills beyond everyday life. We will analyze the purpose, context, and audience of various communication media and situations to help you think about the most effective ways to communicate in your own lives, no matter the situation.
Course Goals
• Learn a rhetorical process for analyzing and producing texts using written, visual, and oral communication.
• Acquire extensive practice in revising written, visual, and oral communication.
• Analyze and produce a range of (mixed) written, visual, and oral
genres and understand how a writer's purpose and sense of audience shape these genres.
• Understand how the audience and purpose in any communication situation shape effective communication.
• Enhance/complement your writing with visual and oral forms of communication.
• Experience both the personal and social/collaborative dimensions of learning and communicating.
• Acquire practice in rhetorical analysis and critical reasoning.
• Learn how processes of reflection and invention are useful in developing communication.
• Work both alone and collaboratively with others in learning and communicating.
• Learn how to conduct, communicate, and document research for a substantive piece of argumentative communication. - - - - - - -
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