文档介绍：COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
SPE SPC 3710 001 Ref No 80827
SPC AFA 3710 002 Ref No 92344
The University of South Florida
Fall Semester 2012
MWF 2:00 – 2:50
CPR 103
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Instructor: Office Hours:
Dr. Navita Cummings James MW 3:00p to 4:00p and by appointment
Department munication, College of Arts & Sciences
CIS 3039
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Teaching Assistant: Office Hours:
Kristen Blinne, Doctoral Candidate MWF 1:00p to 2:00p and by appointment
Department munication, College of Arts & Sciences
CIS 3066
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Course Description
This three hour course examines the role of culture(s) in munication process. Culture is defined broadly and includes the “big three” of contemporary diversity studies: gender, race (cf. ethnicity/nationality), and class. Other areas of diversity studies addressed in this class include sexual orientation, age and generational cohorts, religion, and physical ability. These “cultures” are assumed to have an impact on not only how municate, but also on how we construct our identities, relationships, social institutions, and cultural artifacts. While the focus of this course is primarily on “domestic diversity”(., the study of cultural diversity within the United States), this course will address se