Fwd: [CIOS/ethno] Masters Degree in "Social Interaction & Culture" at Syracuse

[David Boromisza-Habashi]

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From:  <rbuttny at syr.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Subject: [CIOS/ethno] Masters Degree in "Social Interaction & Culture"
at Syracuse
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Announcing a new area for Masters Degree study:
Social Interaction and Culture
Syracuse University’s Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies
announces a new area of focus within our Master’s program: Social
Interaction and Culture.  This area is comprised of a group of faculty
who share a common interest in taking a constitutive view of
communication and culture.  We examine how social interaction creates,
maintains, or changes meanings, relationships, identities, and
institutions.
Social Interaction and Culture focuses primarily on qualitative
methods and methodologies, such as: discourse analysis, discursive
constructionism, conversation analysis, ethnography of communication,
narrative analysis, and critical discourse analysis.  We are
interested in the practical usefulness of research for addressing
societal issues and problems.
Areas of interest include: intercultural communication, interpersonal
communication, family communication, gender and communication, health
communication, political communication, environmental communication,
argumentation, legal communication, and practical theory.
Students in our program will develop competence in perspectives and
methodologies such as social constructionism, discourse analysis, the
coordinated management of meaning, ethnography of communication, and
related approaches.  Past students have worked with faculty on
research projects and have jointly-authored journal articles, book
chapters, and conference papers.
Courses
The following courses have been offered in recent years:
Intercultural Communication (CRS 630)
Interpersonal Communication (CRS 531)
Family Communication (CRS 532)
Communication and Community (CRS 535)
Communication, Power, and Gender (CRS 614)
Language and Meaning (CRS 514)
Legal Communication (CRS 546)
Advanced Argumentation (CRS 545)
Environmental Communication (CRS 660)
Proseminar in Social Communication (CRS 601)
Qualitative Communication Research Methods (CRS 604)

Faculty with Expertise in Social Interaction and Culture

Richard Buttny (Ph........................................................................................................................D.,
Communication, Massachusetts) – discursive constructionism,
intercultural, environmental communication
Craig Dudczak (Ph.D., Communication, Kansas) – argumentation, legal
communication, political communication, persuasion
Cynthia Gordon (Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown) – discourse analysis,
family communication, health communication, intercultural
communication
Kenneth Johnson (Ph.D., Communication, Massachusetts) – interpersonal
communication, family and cultural communication

The Master’s degree in Communication and Rhetorical Studies includes
areas of emphasis in Critical/Cosmopolitan Studies, Rhetorical Theory
and Criticism as well as in Social Interaction and Culture.  Students
in our program gain a broad overview of each of these three areas
before selecting courses tailored to their own unique area of study.
Students can take courses in related programs, such as: Anthropology,
Sociology, Environmental Communication, Education, Conflict
Resolution, and Public Communications.
A rolling deadline for applying but we begin accepting applications on
February 15.  Apply through the Syracuse University website

Graduate assistantships are available

Questions contact: Richard Buttny, rbuttny at syr.edu, or Cynthia Gordon,
cygordon at syr.edu





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David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Colorado
270 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA

office location: Hellems 78
work phone: +1 (303) 735 5076
work fax: +1 (303) 492 8411

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