SP 410/510 Communicating Feminism
Multiple-listed in Women's Studies
Summer Term 2004 - Fully Online Course

If you are registered for this course, you need to check in on the first day of the term, June 21.
Gisele Tierney
Office: NH 35
tierneyg@pdx.edu

Course Description:

The primary objective of this course is to examine the nature of feminist and anti-feminist messages. We will do this by analyzing the complexities of messages about feminism and develop oral and written articulation skills in order to simplify, re-name or identify differently, feminist ideas, issues, labels, myths, etc. The framework we will use is a standard rhetorical analysis of the social-cultural context in which messages exist. We will describe, interpret and evaluate feminism and feminist messages as existing in hostile and open environments. We will analyze cooperative and adversarial interaction between feminist communicators, and between feminist and anti-feminist communicators. We will separate reactions from ideas about feminism by practicing the skills involved in comprehensive listening and topic development and by the reduction of biased listening.

Required Text:

Engaging Communication in Conflict: Systemic Practice
Stephen W. Littlejohn and Kathy Domenici
ISBN: 0-7619-2186-9
Sage Publications

We are purchasing this text through:
In Other Words Women's Books and Resources

In Other Words Women's Books and Resources
3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
Tel: 503-232-6003
Email: othrwrds@teleport.com