Curriculum
Looking for a speech or writing course to take this spring or during May Term?
The Rhetoric Department's spring and May term courses give you opportunities to use your writing and speaking skills in many venues (in England, in a local non-profit organization, with international students) and in many ways (analyzing the media, writing about personal experiences, creating websites, speaking to fifth graders...).
These descriptions have been written by the faculty members who will teach the courses. Feel free to contact the instructors for more information about the class.
Suggested four-year plan (pdf)
Collateral Major in Communication Studies
1. Fulfill requirements for any of the majors listed on p. 13 of the catalog.
2. RHE-125 Fundamentals of Public Speaking
3. RHE-157 Media and Mass Communication
4. RHE-305 Teamwork and Leadership in Small Group Communication
5. RHE-317 Persuasion and Propaganda
6. RHE-405,-407 Topics in Communication Studies
7 RHE-535 Rhetorical Theory and Practice
8. A minimum of three courses from the following list of options (two of the three courses must be from the Rhetoric Department:
RHE 205 Interviewing
RHE 237 Interpersonal Communication
RHE 246 Intercultural Communication
RHE 265 Professional Writing
RHE 277 Cultural Studies
RHE 405, 407 Topics in Communication Studies
RHE 225 Journalism and Media Writing Workshop
RHE 335 Advanced Media Writing Workshop
RHE 805 Independent Studies in Rhetoric
RHE 895 Internship in Public Relations/Journalism/Communication.
SG 207 Dress, Gender, Identity
SOC 207 Sociology of Family
SOC 235 Methods of Social Research
THE 150 Acting I
Communication Studies Minor
1. RHE-125 Fundamentals of Public Speaking
2. RHE-305 Teamwork and Leadership in Small Group Communication
3. RHE-535 Rhetorical Theory and Practice
4. Three of the following:
RHE 157 Media and Mass Communication
RHE 205 Interviewing
RHE 237 Interpersonal Communication
RHE 246 Intercultural Communication
RHE 225 Journalism and Media Writing Workshop
RHE 335 Advanced Media Writing Workshop
RHE 317 Persuasion and Propaganda
RHE 405/407 Topics in Communication Studies
Elementary Education: Emphasis in Speech
1. THE-150 Acting I
2. Five of the following:
RHE-125 Fundamentals of Public Speaking
RHE-237 Interpersonal Communication
RHE-246 Intercultural Communication
RHE-305 Teamwork and Leadership in Small Group Communication
RHE-317 Persuasion and Propaganda
RHE-405,-407 Topics in Speech Communication
RHE-535 Rhetorical Theory and Practice
Collateral Major in Writing
The collateral writing major focuses on the development of students’ composing skills in a variety of genres. The writing major is designed to help students become skilled, reflective writers capable of responding effectively to many different rhetorical situations. Students choosing a Writing major or minor may not add either the collateral major or the minor in Creative Writing offered by the English Department.
1. Fulfill requirements for any of the majors listed on p. 13.
2. Completion of five course credits from the following:
RHE-215 Introduction to Journalism
RHE-225 Journalism and Media Writing Workshop
RHE-255 The Essay
RHE-265 Professional Writing
RHE-277 Cultural Studies
RHE-285 Technical Writing
RHE-325 Advanced Media Writing Workshop
RHE-335 Writers Colony
RHE-345 Nature Writing
RHE-357 Environmental Rhetoric
3. Completion of an additional two course credits from the previous list of Rhetoric courses under #2 or any of the following:
CRW-105 Topics in Creative Writing
CRW-200 Beginning Playwriting
CRW-280 Poetry Workshop
CRW-285 Advanced Poetry Workshop
CRW-290 Fiction Workshop
CRW-295 Advanced Fiction Workshop
CRW-300 Advanced Playwriting
RHE-210 Journalism Practicum (5 terms)
RHE-312 Topics in Composition (4 terms)
RHE-317 Persuasion and Propaganda
RHE-375 Advanced Writers Studio (2 terms)
RHE-415 Advanced Writing Workshop (if not used for completion of requirement #5)
RHE-805 Independent Studies in Rhetoric (when project content is appropriate)
RHE-845 Directed Studies in Writing (if not used for completion of requirement #5)
RHE-895 Publications Practicum or Internship in Public Relations/Journalism/Communication
4. RHE-535 Rhetorical Theory and Practice
5. One of the following:
Advanced Writing Workshop -OR
RHE-845 Directed Studies in Writing -OR-
Honors Thesis
Writing Minor
1. Completion of three course credits from the following:
RHE-215 Introduction to Journalism
RHE-225 Journalism and Media Writing Workshop
RHE-255 The Essay
RHE-265 Professional Writing
RHE-277 Cultural Studies
RHE-285 Technical Writing
RHE-325 Advanced Media Writing Workshop
RHE-335 Writers Colony
RHE-345 Nature Writing
RHE-357 Environmental Rhetoric
2. Completion of an additional course credit from either the previous list of
Rhetoric courses under #1 or any of the following:
CRW-105 Topics in Creative Writing
CRW-200 Beginning Playwriting
CRW-280 Poetry Workshop
CRW-290 Fiction Workshop
HON-205 Honors Composition
RHE-210 Journalism Practicum (5 terms)
RHE-312 Topics in Composition (4 terms)
RHE-317 Persuasion and Propaganda
RHE-375 Advanced Writers Studio (2 terms)
RHE-415 Advanced Writing Workshop (if not used for completion of requirement #4)
RHE-805 Independent Studies in Rhetoric (when project content is appropriate; maximum of 1.0 course credit)
RHE-845 Directed Studies in Writing (if not used for completion of requirement #4)
RHE-895 Publications Practicum or Internship in Public Relations/Journalism/Communication (maximum of 1.0 course credit)
3. RHE-535 Rhetorical Theory and Practice
4. One of the following:
RHE-415 Advanced Writing Workshop -OR
RHE-845 Directed Studies in Writing -OR-
Honors Thesis
Course Offerings
Please note, with the exception of RHE 210, ALL rhetoric courses are writing emphasis and most include development of various oral communication skills from group discussion to everyday conversation to presentation.
RHE-105:01Reading/Writing Workshop (Spring) Mary Taylor
Students admitted by recommendation.Provides practical instruction in expository writing; assignments stress the use of writing to improve skills in critical reading and thinking. (Note: First-term students who show evidence of underdeveloped reading and writing skills may be placed in this course.)
RHE-125:01 Fundamentals of Public Speaking (Fall & Spring) Karen Sindelar
Do your knees wobble when you address a group?Are you shaky in your speechwriting?Will your future job require good communication skills?Now is the time to become a better speaker, listener, writer and critical thinker!Explore the basic process of speech making, audience analysis and adaptation, idea and organizational development and effective evidence and reasoning through informative, persuasive, special occasion and impromptu presentations. We will do a service learning project teaching elementary school children public speaking skills. We'll learn power point technology by creating game shows.Group discussions, joke telling and group presentations are other ways we'll develop our public speaking abilities.
RHE-125:02 Fundamentals of Public Speaking (Fall) Karla Steffens-Moran
Do you find yourself tongue-tied when trying to speak up in front of others? Do you wonder how professional speakers manage to appear so at ease? Do you long to get past your own fear of public speaking?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Fundamentals of Public Speaking is the perfect class for you.
Focus will be on developing and presenting organized, informative and substantive presentations, learning techniques for relaxing and tools for inspiring your audience, analyzing professional presentations to better understand what makes for a strong and confident speech versus one that is weak and lackluster. Everyone can benefit from learning how to speak up and share ideas.Don't miss out on your opportunity to discover just how much fun it can be.
RHE-135:Bicycle Writing(May) Kerrie Miller
At first glance, it may not appear that bicycling is a perfect vehicle for writing, but turns out it is. Just ask any one of the many authors who has put together a bicycling travelogue or written dispatches from the road. From John Karras' and Donald Kaul's first reports for the Des Moines Register in 1973 to Thomas Stevens Around the World on a Bicycle,an 1130-page travelogue written in 1884-1887, cyclistshave known for centuries that there is something about a bicycle that makes a person want to write.
Students enrolled in this course come to know the full range of this working and thinking experience, and in the process create an online bicycle travelogue of their own. The month of May is spent both on campus and off. On campus, students write in response to other published bicycle travelogues, learn the basics of web site construction and design, and prepare for upcoming rides. Off campus, students ride some of Iowa's best nature trails for bicycling.In addition to reading, writing travelogue, and creating a web site, students present their completed work in a multimedia presentation.
RHE-147:01 Seminar in Writing:US Pluralism Karla Steffens-MoranInfluences of Western Culture on Individual Choice
Do you influence the culture or does the culture influence you? How much of you as individual is determined by the music you listen to, the magazines that you read, the videos that you watch, the food that you eat, the films you watch, the internet you surf?
We'll use a wide variety of sources: books, films, documentaries, music, drama, and field research to explore the question: "how is the construction of identity informed by western culture's consumer culture?" From fast food to reality television, from politicians' spin to the preachers' rhetoric, from contemporary art and music videos, to fashion and retail trends, we will examine what the culture encourages and discourages and the costs to us as individuals.Significant amounts of reading, writing, discussion and at least one formal presentation required.
RHE-146:01 Seminar in Writing: Non-Western Culture Mary Taylor
This seminar explores fascinating customs in cultures from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Students will help choose which cultures to study from a variety of genre: fiction, biographies, poetry, travel literature, and films. This course satisfies both a writing emphasis and a diversity (non-western) course requirement
RHE-147:02 Seminar in Writing:US Pluralism Kate Aspengren
We're all familiar with the journey from childhood to maturity.Adolescence can be a time of bliss, misery, turmoil, joy, exploration, pain, surprise, confusion, apprehension, and exhilaration.Sometimes it involves all of those in the same day.The familiarity of this time of "coming of age" makes it a popular subject among both writers and readers.
This class will focus on coming-of-age stories from around the country.We'll use fiction, movies, and music to look at this important time in the lives of individuals negotiating the transition from childhood to adulthood.The course will involve writing, discussions of assigned reading and viewing, and a final research paper/presentation on some aspect of coming of age.
RHE-157: 01 Media and Mass Communication (Spring) Deb Wooldridge
Improve your media literacy... take a critical look at the mass media and popular culture that bombard us daily.We'll cast suspicious and appreciative eyes on advertising, television, film, magazines, newspapers, and radio.We analyze the intertwining of culture and media... how media influences culture and how culture impacts media.Of special concern are images of gender, race, and class in the media.Class projects include group presentations on media effects and individual analyses of self-selected mediated products.The course will help persons considering careers in public relations, communication, and journalism as well as those who prefer to have more control over the media's influence on their lives.Counts for US Pluralism.
RHE-157:02 Media and Mass Communication(Spring) Karla Steffens-Moran
Explores the relationship between contemporary culture and media, including how coverage in:newspapers, magazines, television, film and the world wide web influences our perception of self and others, as well as how it shapes our world view.The class will use a wide variety of sources (including:articles, films, documentaries, books and internet/print media) to examine the influence of advertising in marketing everything from politicians and fashion trends, to world news and food choices.Additionally, the class will follow a number of contemporary events and issues to understand the arc of news coverage over a period of time.Counts for US Pluralism.
RHE-175: Writers Studio (Fall) Mary Taylor
A small-group workshop to help students develop basic writing, revising, and editing skills. May be taken for credit a maximum of two times. Note: No more than 1.0 credit may be earned by enrolling in RHE-175 and RHE-375. (0.5 course credit)
RHE-205: Interviewing (Alternate Fall) Deborah Wooldridge
Not just about getting a job, although we will cover selection interviews, this course introduces students to research interviewing.Students will conduct both survey and in-depth interviews to answer research questions.As a class we'll choose other forms of interviewing to review ranging from broadcasting to legal to appraisal.The course ends with videotaped selection interviews where students play both employer and potential employee.Limited to sophomores and above.
RHE-210: Journalism Practicum (Fall) Susanne Gubanc
This partial-credit course is designed for Cosmos staff members.This is an introduction to college newspaper production providing practical experience, leadership training and professional skills development in all areas of writing, reporting, and presentation of news.May be repeated each term a student serves on the Cosmos staff.
RHE-215: Introduction to Journalism (Fall) Susanne Gubanc
Develops journalistic writing skills in several styles (hard news, features, in-depth reporting) and across media (print, audio, video, online). Topics include information gathering, objectivity, audience, news convergence, news values, civic responsibility, and journalism ethics. Students investigate the state of news and the roles and responsibilities of journalists in contemporary American society.
RHE-225: Journalism and Media Writing Workshop (Spring) Jane Nesmith
Introduces and analyzes several forms of writing for media in a digital age. In addition to print format, students create and analyze interactive and web-based texts while acquiring a system approach to compositions in a variety of media.
RHE-235: Interpersonal Communication (Alternate Fall) Deborah Wooldridge
Friends ... and employers.... look for people who can build positive relationships with others.In this course you'll learn to recognize effects of self-concept, perception, emotions, culture, gender, verbal and nonverbal communication, and listening have on the development of interpersonal relationships.You may improve your own relational communication by doing observations and analyses of your own communicative behaviors.You'll practice alternate methods of verbal and nonverbal expression, listening, positive climate building, self-disclosure, and conflict resolution to expand your ‘toolbox' of interpersonal skills while learning major theories of interpersonal communication.This course is highly suggested for all fields where you interact regularly with others: business, nursing, research, public relations, psychology, sociology, and teaching.
RHE-246: Intercultural Communication (Spring) Deborah Wooldridge
This course takes an experiential approach where simulations and interactions with members of other cultures will help you develop mindful attitudes, critical thinking, and cross-cultural communication skills.Other activities to improve your ability to change cultures include interviews with someone of another nationality, field trips to museums, Postville and/or worship centers, reading, and films.You'll choose films to analyze so you may pursue your own cultural interests.Three examinations, discussion, and short papers complete the learning activities.Counts foron-western culture.
RHE-255: The Essay (Spring) Robert Marrs
An investigation of essayists chosen to represent a range of prose styles and subjects, focusing on texts by Montaigne, R. W. Emerson, Gretel Ehrlich, James Baldwin, and Joan Didion.Students compose a series of their own essays with extensive revision of two essays intended for publication.No prerequisite. Course counts toward Writing or Creative Writing Major or Minor.
RHE-265: Professional Writing (Fall) Jane Nesmith
What are you going to do when you graduate?Work in sales, public relations, retail management?Work for an admissions office, a law office, a non-profit organization?No matter what you do, you'll need to write w ell for a variety of situations.This course is designed to help prepare you for the types of writing you'll encounter in managerial, public relations, or other professional positions.Although we will spend time on routine writing projects, such as correspondence, our main focus will be on special writing projects that require research, decision-making, design, stylistic choices, and revision.
We don't just learn from a textbook in this course.Every year, this class also does some professional writing for a local non-profit organization-which might include writing brochures, newsletters, grant materials, web site material, or operations manuals.
RHE-277: Cultural Studies (Fall) Robert Marrs
This course focuses on "walking" as a means for exploring a local culture.We go on frequent walks around the campus and in the local community, and we write about our observations of these landscapes. Reading assignments focus on authors who have used walking as a primary technique for becoming familiar with an environment and the people living in that environment.Authors include classic essayists-such as Henry David Thoreau and Virginia Woolf-and a variety of contemporary writers, including Bill Bryson, Rebecca Solnit, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Course counts toward American Studies, Writing or Creative Writing Majors or Minors.
RHE-285: Technical Writing (Fall) Kerri Miller
In a world that increasingly relies on complicated technology, those who can write about and explain technical subjects will always be in demand.In RHE-285, Technical Writing, students will learn how best to write manuals, reports, and process descriptions, among other things.We will cover such topics as how to analyze audiences, test our documents, and design for print and for the web.An e-portfolio that might be used when applying for jobs will be a final project for each student.
RHE-305: Teamwork & Leadership in Groups (Fall) Deborah Wooldridge
Topping employers' lists of desirable traits are excellent communication skills and the ability to solve problems, work in teams, and demonstrate leadership. This course provides you with both the theoretical knowledge to acquire these traits and projects to apply the knowledge.Working in groups, you'll identify problems on campus, research solutions, and present to decision makers who have the power to affect these problems. You'll learn how to plan long-term projects, hold effective meetings and group discussions, and resolve conflicts.Finally, we'll take a close look at current views of leadership including charismatic and transformational leadership, leadership as organizing, and gender/cultural influences on leadership.Required for communication majors, suggested for all fields involving collaboration and team work:broadcasting, business, research science, public relations, teaching, theatre, etc.
RHE-312: 01, 02 Topics in Composition (Fall & Spring) Robert Marrs
For Writing Center staff only.
RHE-312: 03 Topics in Composition (Speech) (Fall & Spring) Karen Sindelar
For Speaking Center staff only.
RHE-317: Persuasion and Propaganda (Spring) Mary Taylor
Investigates the techniques of persuasion and propaganda used by and on Americans of different classes, races, ethnicities, and genders. Students practice inquiry and communication techniques that enhance their effectiveness as writers and speakers in a variety of social contexts.
This course is appropriate and interesting for all students; it also satisfies a U.S. Pluralism requirement and counts toward Writing, Speech, and Public Relations majors.
RHE-325: Advanced Media Writing Workshop (Fall) Susanne Gubanc
Students practice adapting written language to oral and/or visual formats while learning to communicate news messages in a variety of broadcast formats, ranging from audio to news-in-the-field to video productions. Continuing focus on professional standards emphasizing accuracy, conciseness, style, and the conventions of Standard English. Prerequisite: Introduction to Journalism (RHE 215) or Journalism and Media Writing Workshop (RHE 225).
RHE-335: Writers Colony: Walking The Lake District (May) Robert Marrs
The 2009 Writers Colony is scheduled to return to Great Britain.After four days in London, students travel to the Lake District in the northwest corner of England and live for three weeks in a self-catering cottage.Class sessions involve daily tramps through the English countryside, focusing on the landscape and local culture.Reading assignments include an in-depth study of William Wordsworth and of travel literature associated with the Lake District.Students keep a daily notebook/journal and compose two major essays reflecting on their experiences.Class limited to 8 students.No prerequisite.Course counts toward Writing or Creative Writing Major or Minor.
RHE-345: Nature Writing (Summer) Bob Marrs
Students compose texts based upon their personal experience at Coe's Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota.In addition to the study of classic American nature writers, the class involves daily investigations of wilderness areas (typically traveling by canoe) and an eight-day canoe trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.No prerequisite.Course counts toward Writing or Creative Writing Major or Minor; fulfills Coe Plan Practicum Requirement.
RHE-357: Environmental Rhetoric (Spring) Robert Marrs
Explores various cultural perceptions of the environment, particularly focusing on the rhetorical strategies of classic American environmental writers such as H. D. Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold and how their writings compare with works from a feminist tradition exemplified in texts by Susan Fenimore Cooper, Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, Carolyn Merchant, etc. Examines how authors and organizations have attempted to define and influence the political, economic, social, and ethical debates on key environmental issues. Assignments include the composing of personal essays and a major research project.
RHE-375: Advanced Writer's Studio (Fall) Mary Taylor
This half-credit course offers a small-group workshop for experienced writers.During fall of 2008, our focus will be what else-the Presidential Elections.Interesting campaign articles form the New York Times will highlight topics for discussion and writing.This 0.5 credit course may be taken for credit a maximum of two times. Note: No more than 1.0 credit may be earned by enrolling in RHE-175 and RHE-375.Enrollment limited.
RHE-405: Topics in Communication Studies: PR (Public Relations) (Fall) Karen Sindelar
We will study PR theory and cases and will apply our learning by running a meeting, handling a press conference, and pitching campaign ideas to a board. Via service learning, we will plan, implement and analyze a PR campaign for a local nonprofit. This course will explore new communication technologies, integrated marketing, crisis communication, and cross -cultural communication, providing students with a cutting edge look at public relations practices. Students will compile a portfolio for part of their final project.
This course would be appropriate for students who are majoring in public relations, communication, business as well as any person wanting to learn about the exciting field of PR.
RHE-407: Topics in Communication Studies: Gender, Race and Sex in Media (Spring) Susanne Gubanc
This course explores the crucial roles media play in creating, reinforcing and disseminating cultural values about gender, race and sexual behavior and attitudes. We will examine representations of race, gender, and sexual identity in the media, investigate what influences these representations, and consider their repercussions.We will be using many film, video and audio examples.This will be done using a majority of minority perspectives. Counts for US Pluralism.
RHE-407: Topics in Communication Studies: Finding Women's History (May) Susanne Gubanc
Take a trip now to discover your past.There are many ways to examine the history of the United States-we will put women at the center of the story.This course explores the varied roles women played in shaping American history and how those women and historical events were communicated to various publics then and now.The course is augmented with a two-week-long road trip to visit some of the most important people and places of women's past. We will be traveling to Charles City, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; and upstate New York to "look" for the women in America's past at museums, colleges, political arenas and more.No prerequisites. The enrollment will be limited to 8 students.
RHE-407: Topics in Communication Studies: The Lakota Culture (May) Deborah Wooldridge
We leave Monday after graduation, for Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota. We spend May5 to23 volunteering in the classrooms at Sitting Bull DaySchool (K-8). Evenings we discuss readings and films, visit tribal elders, participate in Sweat Lodge, play with children, learn to make fry bread, etc. Weekends include casino gambling (if over 21), a tour of the Standing Rock Reservation by the tribal historian, hiking Elk Horn Butte, laundry, visiting local monuments and museums, and attending local powwows.
After Sitting Bull classes end, we'll visit tribal headquarters, interview community members, and write final reflections. Then it's off to Rapid City for a half week touring the Black Hills.We camp in the Badlands the last night... bison wander through camp and stars are brilliant.
We will meet one hour a week during spring termto learn pertinent history and begin developing an understanding of Lakota values and communicative practices. Evaluation is based on a test over this material before we leave as well as individual journals, discussion and participation, and reflection papers. The course is capped at 8 students. Sophomore or above. Preference to communication, history, and sociology majors.
RHE-415: Advanced Writing Workshop (Spring) Jane Nesmith
This is a multi-genre course for the serious writer, exploring the demands and possibilities in various forms of writing, especially non-fiction forms: professional writing, creative non-fiction, and writing for the internet. The focus will be on enlarging the writer's repertoire of strategies and skills.Considerable individual autonomy will be given students:students will choose which kinds of projects they'd like to work on for a final portfolio and be responsible for setting up timetables for research, drafting, revision, and editing.Students will also collaborate with each other as they conduct mini-seminars on different forms of writing and get feedback on drafts from peers during regular writers' workshops.
As the main work of the course, students will prepare a portfolio of their work for course credit; they will be able to draw on this portfolio when submitting their written work to potential employers. This course is required for Writing Majors and Public Relations Majors.It is of interest to any advanced-level student who would like to put together a portfolio of professional and non-fiction writing.
RHE-535: Rhetorical Theory and Practice (Fall) Jane Nesmith
What is Rhetoric?Is it inherently untrustworthy?Is it a politician's "hot air?"Aristotle has a less negative definition.He says rhetoric is "finding the available means of persuasion." That is something we all need to know how to do when we use written or spoken language.
In this class we will use readings from Classical Rhetorical Theory-Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintillion-to help us understand the scope of rhetoric, and how it can be used.We will practice the theories we read about, discuss audience, education, invention, arrangement, and style in rhetoric.As we do this, you will be able to sort through, assemble, and synthesize a comprehensive approach to rhetoric that will help you any time you need to use language to communicate with others.Two major written projects, a reader's log, and several short projects are required.
RHE-805: Independent Studies in Rhetoric (Arranged)
Students and advisor develop independent research projects in rhetoric studies, composition, and communication studies.May be taken for 0.5 or 1.0 credit and repeated for a maximum of 2.0 credits.Maximum of one credit applicable to writing or communication major, depending upon subject of sturdy.
RHE-845: Directed Studies in Writing (Arranged)
Completion of major writing projects under the direction of faculty member.May be repeated for credit with the consent of the department.Prerequisite:completion of three composition courses in either the Rhetoric or English Departments.
RHE-895: Publications Practicum (Arranged)
A student may receive practicum credit while holding the position and performing the duties of the main editor: The Cosmos, The Acorn, Colere, The Pearl, or a comparable publication sponsored by the Rhetoric Department. Students must arrange with a supervising faculty member the amount of credit (either 0.5 or 1.0 course credit per term) and a practicum agreement specifying skill development goals and the projects to be undertaken for the development of those skills.No more than 2.0 course credits may be applied to graduation requirements. One course credit may be applied to the Writing Major or Minor. Graded S/U only.
RHE-895: Internship in Public Relations/Journalism/Communication (Arranged)
An internship with a focus on public relations, journalism or communication. A minimum of 140 hours on-site experience is required. Supervision by the administrative coordinator of the Public Relations major or by Rhetoric Department faculty. One credit ma be applied to the Public Relations major only with the consent of the administrative coordinator; one creit may applied to the Communication Studies or Writing majors and minors only with the consent of the Rhetoric Department Chair.
