1. Display invention,
disposition, style, and delivery skills in the presentation of
informative, persuasive, and invitational messages. Students are to
master a full Students range of substantive, structural, and
delivery strategies to effectively impact a given audience.
2. Use evidence,
reasoning, and ethics to construct arguments worthy of audience
approval in the public sphere.
3. Strategically analyze
and adapt to the rhetorical situation (consisting of an exigence,
audience, and constraints) in a wide variety of settings (including
debate, interpersonal, legal, organizational, public speaking, and
small group).
4. Describe, analyze,
evaluate, and improve the communication rules and rhetorical
strategies used by the people around them.
5. Understand
communication from a variety of theoretical perspectives including
rules, symbolic interactionism (dramatism), narrative, and feminism.
6. Have the research and
analytical skills needed to learn about communication on their own
as life-long learners and/or pursue graduate studies in speech
communication. These skills include (A) scholarship—the ability to
discover scholarly resources and related material appropriate to
answer research problems or questions—(B) thoughtful criticism—the
ability to use induction, deduction, and intuition in the analysis
of concepts, and (C) knowledge of research methodologies appropriate
to the study of speech communication.
7. Make ethical choices
and contributions in a variety of settings (including debate,
interpersonal, legal, organizational, public speaking, and small
group).
8. Know and appreciate
the communication norms of different cultures.
