Organizational & Political Communication Faculty

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This course interrogates the roles communications media (from etchings on cave walls to full immersion virtual realities) play in the formation of personal identity, self-consciousness, and consciousness of each other as social actors. In the process we will consider the cognitive skills and habits necessary for gaining fluency or literacy in each of the respective media addressed, including print, radio, television, computers, the internet, cell phones and other personal and mass communication technologies. More broadly, the course is an investigation into how conceptions of self, society, aesthetics, morality, and culture are established and maintained vis-à-vis a number of different modes of communication. After successful completion of this course students should possess a critical understanding of the many ways in which communication technologies have altered and continue to change all of the conceptions mentioned above.

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This course will consider ethical theories and theories of justice, expecially those related to questions of economic, criminal, political, and social justice. Fulfills the Ethics and Values Perspective of the General Education requirement.

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Studies in political philosophy, especially debate between liberalism and communitarianism. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.