Description
African American communication explores the ways messages, verbal and non-verbal, produce, maintain, transform and repair reality for Black community members over the media and in interpersonal contexts. As such, the course explores the significance of discursive in over-the-media and in human interaction. The course aims to develop intercultural communication competency in this subject area. This is accomplished as students examine the ways in which Black/African American identities have been discursively and socially constructed, sustained, problematized, celebrated, and enacted in media, institutional, and societal settings. The dynamic process of acquiring, managing and executing the rhetorical qualities, patterns of thinking, value, assumptions, and concepts which constitutes subjective culture are explored.