UNIT ASSIGNMENT DUE

Which of the Unit Assignments did you select to complete for this unit? 

(You made your selections in the Unit Assignments Selection Survey)

To refresh your memory, the options were: 

• Unit Assign: Advocacy/Protest Event Attendance Autoethnography
• Unit Assign: Democratic Process Autoethnography
• Unit Assign: Informational Interview with SM Org Member
• Unit Assign: Op-Ed Column
• Unit Assign: Design Your Own Option (Needs Instructor Approval)

 

 Objectives

These assignments address the learning objectives:

• • Examine and explain how theories and concepts of communication apply to contemporary social movements, including, for example, how persuasive/rhetorical forces affect public ideas and discourse and how social movements function through a persuasive/rhetorical lens.
  • Explore, express, debate, and evaluate ideas and issues which matter to you personally, professionally, publicly, and ethically, for a variety of audiences.
  • Demonstrate ethical awareness, empathy, and being an informed consumer of messages,  such as through the ability to draw conclusions that reflect an understanding of multiple (and possibly conflicting) perceptions of a situation or sources of information