Congrats Rose Cely, Catelyn Curry, and Courtney Washington! Three students presented on a 75-minute panel called, Traditional and Technological Advocacy in South Carolina: Student Activists Speak Out. All three students presented their projects from Dr. Jason Munsell’s The Rhetoric of Public Advocacy course held Spring 2012. The course project asked students to pick a particular cause they were invested in and, utilizing the rhetorical lessons the course supplied, construct very strategic rhetorical packages (thinking in terms of specific messages, audiences, situations, strategies, goals, and the like) for four different mediums of advocacy: traditional oral discourse, written discourse, new/social media, and body rhetoric (marches, protests, and the like). The students on this panel discussed how they utilized their rhetorical training to perform their advocacy. Communication Studies senior Rose Cely discussed her work in advocating for boy’s literacy in a presentation called, “Reading for the Future: Advocating Read-Alouds for Boys Literacy.” When it comes to literacy and reading, boys tend to perform worse than girls at all stages of learning. These low levels can have a huge impact on their education performance and later life. In her presentation titled, “You’ve Got to Fight for your Right to Arty: Redefining the Artistic Experience,” Junior Catelyn Curry, double majoring in Communication Studies and Art, illustrated her work to redefine the arts as a basic right to people of all ages, races and socioeconomic levels as well as equip people to use the arts for expression as well as to better themselves and their communities. Communication Studies senior Courtney C. Washington showcased her work to advocate for a local women’s shelter in the Columbia, SC area in her presentation called, “A Call for Help: Advocating for Homeless Women in the Eau Claire Community.” Part of Courtney’s presentation was a 4-minute video show made as part of her advocacy campaign. Each student showed how she used traditional oral discourse, written discourse, but also new technological trends in new/social media (like YouTube videos and Facebook), and body rhetoric to advocate for their given cause. The presentations were amazingly well received by the audience, mostly made up of faculty from other institutions. In attendance was Dr. Kathleen Turner, Professor of Communication Studies at Davidson College and First Vice President of the National Communication Association headquartered in Washington, DC. She commented that this is the kind of applied learning going on at Columbia College that people need to know about.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:17:34 +0000
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