CMN 529

Summer 2021 Part of Term S2

Part of Term S2
(8 week) Jun 14-Aug 5

Seminar Communication Theory

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Credit: 4 hours.

Special topics in communication theory and research.

May be repeated to a maximum of 16 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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CMN 529 class schedule data for summer 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	34812	Online	1	2:00PM -4:50PM	TR	n.a.	Cisneros, J	Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/14/21-08/05/21 Section Title: Comm: Foundations & Futures Section Info: Most people focus their graduate studies within one or two core areas. Specialization is both desirable and necessary for advanced study. Yet a broader perspective of one’s discipline is also useful. This class seeks to provide students with a greater appreciation and understanding of the history, diversity, and futures of the communication discipline, broadly defined. The first unit of the course will examine the history (or histories) of communication as a discipline, including the research, individuals, events, and institutions that were instrumental in the development of the field. The first unit also will examine why such seemingly disparate areas came together as a field of study, what makes various subareas distinct, and if/how they fit together. The second part of the class will examine the recent history of the communication discipline, focusing in particular on several recent debates and controversies in the field around its embrace of diversity, or lack thereof. We will examine whether and how the field has been structured by implicit (and sometimes explicit) forms of whiteness, heteropatriarchy, and US- and Euro-centrism, as well as the efforts of minoritized scholars and scholarship to challenge and expand the bounds of the field. Finally, by examining several much-discussed academic “crises” as they affect the field--including the purpose of scholarship and its relationship to outside communities (e.g., activist, engaged, or “pure” scholarship) and the political economy of the academy (e.g., the neoliberal university, adjunctification)--the third part of the class will consider the scholarly and institutional future(s) of the communication discipline. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.