The Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies offers a new intensive course in communication. Anyone interested in the course is welcome.  The syllabus and the reading materials are now available at the Graduate School Office.

Course Title:

Contemporary Communication Issues in the US:
Gender, Politics and Emerging Technologies

Dr. Catherine Helen Palczewski
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
University of Northern Iowa

Place: Ropponmatsu Campus Graduate School Classroom 204

Short Description:
This course will first introduce basic rhetorical theory -- how and why language matters, why language is more than just a tool to transmit information, but actually constructs our reality. Then, it will look at three case studies on how this occurs -- through gendered language and rhetoric, through political communication, and through emerging technologies such as the Internet.

Instructor's Profile:
Dr. Palczewski received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1994. Her research specialties include: rhetorical theory and criticism, political communication, social movements, and argumentation theory. Within these areas, She especially focuses on the rhetorical constructions and implications of gender. She was a guest editor of Argumentation & Advocacy (Spring 1996) on "Argumentation and Feminisms." Her own projects include an analysis of the reproductive freedom and of the anti-pornography movements, and a study of feminist humor. She is also the Director of the University's intercollegiate policy debate program and the coach of the 1999 Japan/U.S, Debate Tour, which will come to Kyushu University on June 13.

More information will be provided later. Those interested in the course should contact Professor Inoue in advance either by email or phone.

Narahiko INOUE, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies
Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810-8560 JAPAN
Email: inouen@ilc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Phone: (+81)92-726-4667(direct) FAX: (+81)92-726-4511