Fall 2025

RHCS 100-01: Public Speaking(T/R) 9:00-10:15 am
RHCS 100-02: Public Speaking(T/R) 10:30- 11:45 am
RHCS 100-03: Public Speaking(T/R) 9:00-10:15 am
RHCS 100-04: Public Speaking (T/R) 1:30-2:45 pm
RHCS 101-01: Key Terms in Communication(T/R) 9:00- 10:15 pm
RHCS 101-02: Key Terms in Communication (T/R) 1:30-2:45 pm
RHCS 246-01: Data and Society (M/W) 9:00-10:15 am
RHCS 246-02: Data and Society (M/W) 10:30-11:45 am
RHCS 246-03 Data and Society (T/R) 9:00-10:15 am
RHCS 246-04 Data and Society (T/R) 10:30-11:45 am
RHCS 271-01: Digital Humanities (M/W) 1:30-2:4 pm
RHCS 273-01:ST: Performance Studies (T/R) 10:30-11:45 am
RHCS 273-02: ST: Performance Studies (T/R) 12:00-1:15 pm
RHCS 279-01: Video Art & Alternative Media (M) 3:00-5:00 pm
RHCS 353-01: Rhetoric and Law (W) 12:00-2:50 pm
RHCS 412-01: Artificial Intelligence Past and Present (M/W) 3:00-4:15 pm
RHCS 412-02: Critical Internet Studies (T/R) 10:30-11:45 am

 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

RHCS 273-01/02: Performance Studies…Prof. Cavenaugh
Techniques for using embodied performance as a research method. Development and analysis of live classroom performances designed to explore how performance can be used to shed light on literary texts and everyday speech, deconstruct harmful and oppressive ideologies, study one’s cultural background, and explore relationships between aesthetic texts. This course can be used to fulfill one of the “Research Methods” requirements for the RHCS major.

RHCS 279-01: Video Art and Alternative Media …Prof. Drummond
This course provides a constructive and critical framework for the development of independently conceived projects in Video Art and Alternative Media. Course readings and screenings provide insight into the radical nature of this field, which embraces marginalized voices and perspectives, interdisciplinary methods and research, alternative production and distribution, and experimental and activist media. Students expand their visual literacy through creative work that considers one’s subjectivity and agency within a dominant cultural ideology that promotes consumption, familiarity, and stasis over diversity, creativity, and innovation.
 
RHCS 412-01: Artificial Intelligence Past and Present... Dr. Sun
This course invites students to explore the complex evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), from its historical roots to its contemporary significance. By examining AI through its technical development, philosophical foundations, and societal implications, students will gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship between humans and machines. This course encourages critical engagement with the ways technology is conceptualized in the humanities, fostering discussions on the cultural, ethical, and theoretical dimensions of AI.
 
RHCS 412-02: Critical Internet Studies…Dr. Pettis
This course explores the Internet as a sociotechnical phenomenon by examining the historical development of the network and its infrastructures along with some of the many social, political, economic, and industrial implications the Internet opens when used as a technology for communication. We’ll spend time thinking about the Internet’s technical origins, learn key theories for analyzing cultural life online, and reflect on contemporary issues facing the Internet and its users. Students will develop their Internet-based research skills by producing an original research project that examines a contemporary online issue of their choosing.