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  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None

    Principles and techniques in persuasive communication: credibility, audience analysis, assessment of effects, media selection, resistance to persuasion, and attitude change.

    Learning Objectives

    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    • Identify the foundations of persuasive communicative behavior.
    • Understand how different theories can be used to explain persuasive behavior.
    • Think constructively about one’s own communicative actions and the consequent effects messages send to others both directly and indirectly.
    • Identify and apply concepts, definitions, and ideas discussed in class to one’s own individual relationships in hopes of explaining and identifying healthy and unhealthy behavior.
    • Advance critical thinking of scholarly material and be able to discuss academic concepts with others.