week 1

• 8/25 Intro to course, goals, getting to know each other
• 8/27 UNIT 1 Begins: What is Communication? Models of COMM, & 7 traditions, “So what’s theory?
• read Chapter 1 & additional information from lecture (comm models, 7 traditions, #commsowhite)

week 2

• 9/1 Two Approaches to Theory: Social Scientific & Interpretive
• 9/2 Third Approach: Critical Approach & Review Metatheoretical Assumptions
• read Chapters 2,3, and 4

week 3

• 9/8 Exam 1 available via Blackboard 9:40A on 9/8
• 9/10 Exam 1 closes via Blackboard at 9A on 9/10
• read Chapters 1-4, videos, lectures, readings

week 4

• 9/15 Watch Crash
• 9/17 Discuss Crash & connections to metatheoretical, approaches; UNIT 2 Begins: Interpersonal Communication, Expectancy Violations Theory (short explanation), Social Penetration Theory Shrek clip, Dialectics, Relationships
• Watch film link in BB and Read Chapter 5

week 5

• 9/22 Interpersonal Communication continued & Discuss Paper 1
• 9/24 Organizational Communication: What is it? Socialization, Identity and Culture (Google), Dissent
• read Chapter 5 and Chapter 6

week 6

• 9/29 Small Group: Structuration, Functional, Groupthink
• 10/1 Watch 12 Angry Men
• read Chapter 8 and film link in BB

week 7

• 10/6 Discuss 12 Angry Men and discuss connections to small group theories; Intercultural Communication: Hall, Hofstede, Berger (short explanation), Face Negotiation, Cultural Adaptation
• 10/8 Intercultural Communication continued & Discuss Paper 2

week 8

• 10/13 Exam 2 available via Blackboard 9:40AM
• 10/15 Exam 2 closes via Blackboard at 9AM

week 9

• 10/20 Watch Bordertown Laredo clips & Semiotics (and A. Gonzalez Bordertown book chapter on Blackboard)
• 10/22 Health Communication
• Watch Bordertown Laredo clips (links on Blackboard) Semiotics lecture & You must read Gonzalez (2014) and Chapter 9

week 10

• 10/27 Mass Communication
• 10/29 Autoethnography—another approach to theory
• read Chapter 10 and do Autoethnography lecture & You must read (Doshi, 2014; Clemens, 2018)

week 11

• 11/3 Persuasion (Cog, Dissonance, ELM); Rhetoric (short explanations)
• 11/5 Critical Cultural Theory: Critical, Critical, Standpoint Theory. Race, Gender
• read Chapter 11&12 & Metaphor: Video: Obama & Trump. Chapter 13 & Must read Anzaldua reading on Blackboard

week 12

• 11/10 Exam 3 available via Blackboard 9:40AM
• 11/12 Exam 3 closes via Blackboard at 9AM
• do UNIT 3: Chapters 9-13, videos, lectures, readings

week 13

• 11/17 NCA
• 11/19 Watch The Help
• watch Film link on BB Content Page

week 14

• 11/24 Paper #2 due through turn it in Discuss issues with The Help
• Must read counter on The Help on Blackboard

week 15

• 12/03 Final Exam via Blackboard
• comprehensive exam