This course will give students a comprehensive grounding in communication processes. The class focuses on the way in which interpretive areguments in the processes of communication and social and personal development. In the class, students will deveop these skills by reading and understanding the important issues and arguments regarding those issues advanced by a variety of texts, both fiction and non-fiction. They will then be asked to respond to these positions by developing positions of their own, in their writing and in their speaking. The course thus serves as an introduction to the discourse and arguments of the academic community, as well as serving as an introduction to some of the broader issues that the academic community address.
