Previously Announced Activities and Events
Friday, October 30th. 1:00. Professional Development Seminar. Dr. Casey Maugh and Dr. Steven Venette will preview papers they are presenting at the Annual Convention of the Natiional Communication Association. Students and faculty are invitied. 469 LAB
Friday, October 16th. 1:00. Professional Development Seminar, "Faculty Research: NCA Preview." Students and faculty are invited. 469 LAB.
Friday, October 2nd. 1:00. Robert J. Glenn will make a public presentation of his dissertation, "An Investigation of the Persuasive Effects of Rhetorical Questions, Message Framing, and the ELM in Promoting Responsible Cell Phone Usage." Students and faculty are invited. 469 LAB.
Friday, September 25th, 1:00. Professional Development Seminar. Dr. Steven Venette, "Suggestions for Seeking Funding." Graduate students and faculty are invited. 469 LAB.
Friday, September 18th, 1:00. Professional Development Seminar. Dr. Keith Erickson will lead a discussion on "The Dangers of Plagiarism." Graduate students and faculty are invited. 469 LAB.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:00 – 11:30 am Stout Hall. Graduate Studies Fall Orientation
Friday, August 14, 2009 12:00 noon Liberal Arts Building 467 (Dept. Office). SCM New Graduate Student Lunch
Monday, August 18, 2008 10:00 am LAB 469. SCM Teaching Assistant Orientation.
2:00 pm LAB 469 SCM Department Graduate Student Orientation
4:00 pm Bennett Auditorium. University Graduate Assistant/Teaching Assistant Convocation
5:30 pm. SCM Department Fall Welcome Picnic
Thursday, June 18th, 3:30 pm. Yan Guan will make a public presentation of her dissertation, “A Cross-cultural Study of Intergenerational Communication in Workplaces.” LAB 469.
Friday, April 24th. 1:00 p.m. Speaking Center, Cook Library 114. Professional Development Seminar
Dr. Wendy Atkins-Sayre will moderate a discussion of "Speaking Centers: Purposes and Challenges."
Friday, April 17th. 1:00 p.m. 469 LAB. Professional Development Seminar
Dr. Richard Conville will lead a discussion of " Service Learning, the Academy, and Speech Communication: Reaching Out to the Community."
Friday, February 27th. 1:00 p.m. 469 LAB. Professional Development Seminar.
Dr. John Meyer will lead a discussion of The Research and Publication Process: Successes and Pitfalls Along the Way.
Friday, November 14th. Professional Development Seminar: NCA Convention Preview Session. 1:00. LAB 469.
Michael King, Teaching the Basic Course Using Bloom's Taxonomy as a Framework for the Entire Curriculum.
Dr. Steven Venette, Assessing Risk Message Effectiveness with Diverse Cultural Groups Based on Learning Styles .
Friday, October 31. Professional Development Seminar. 1:00. LAB 469.
Dr. John Meyer, Why (or Why Not) Attend Professional Association Conferences?
The department will be hosting next week a campus visit by Dr. Christina Morus, Assistant Professor of Comparative Genocide & Rhetorical Studies in the Departments of Holocaust & Genocide Studies & Communication at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She will be speaking in the following venues:
Thursday, Oct. 23, 4 pm; Gonzalez Auditorium; A panel discussion of “Gender and Conflict in the Middle East .” Dr. Morus will speak on Gendercide: The Use of Rape as Genocide Against Bosnian Muslim Women.
Friday, Oct. 24, 11-11:50 am; LAB 469; Dr. Atkins-Sayre's rhetorical criticism class. Dr. Morus will speak on Reading Visual Texts as Sights/Sites of Memory & Struggle.
Friday, Oct. 24, 1-2 pm, LAB 469; Speech Communication Professional Development Seminar. Dr. Morus will speak on Photographic images as sights/sites of memory & struggle: Analyzing the strategic use of images in the contest for the public memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Friday, October 10. 1:00. Professional Development Seminar. LAB 469.
Ms. Rebecca Woodrick, USM Affirmative Action Office. Professional Relationships: Powers and Pitfalls
Friday, September 19th. 1 p.m., LAB 469. Professional Development Seminar. Student Research Presentation.
Victoria Smith-Butler, Persuasion and Speech Style: The Evaluative and Persuasive Consequences of Power of Speech Style on Expert Testimony in the Courtroom.
The following activities are planned for the department's new graduate students:
Thursday, August 14, 2008
10:00 – 11:30 am Joseph Green Hall 116. Office of Graduate Studies Fall Orientation. This university-wide session for all new graduate students will discuss university resources and policies.
12:00 noon Liberal Arts Building 467 (Dept. Office). SCM New Graduate Student Lunch. All new graduate students who are available are invited to a social lunch with available faculty.
Monday, August 18, 2008
10:00 am LAB 469. Department Teaching Assistant Orientation. This session is for all SCM graduate students who have a teaching assistantship.
2:00 pm LAB 469. SCM Graduate Student Orientation. This session for all new graduate students will introduce students to the faculty as well as graduate program policies and procedures.
4:00 pm Bennett Auditorium. University Graduate Assistant Orientation. This session is for new graduate students who are on assistantship and will cover university policies and the mandatory insurance plan.
5:30 pm Kamper Park Pavilion (enter park at Hardy St. and 19 th Ave). SCM Department Fall Welcome Picnic. All new and current students are invited to this social event.
April 29th, 2008. Speech Communication Department Banquet.
Students should make their reservations with Ms. Mary Jo McKay in the department office for the annual banquet. Featured speaker this year will be Ms. Cindy Smartt, founder and president of Smartt Entertainment.
Thad Cochran Center Room 216; 5:30-7:00 p.m.
April 16th, 4:30 pm. Faculty Research Presentations. Professional Development Seminar.
Dr. Wendy Atkins-Sayre, “Attacking the Food Police: Center for Consumer Freedom Responds to Animal Rights Rhetoric"
Dr. Steven Venette, “ Risk Aversion's Effect on the Perception of Risk: Agricultural Inspection at US Ports ”
469 Liberals Arts Building.
March 26th, 4:30 pm. 469 Liberal Arts Building. Professional Development Seminar. SSCA Convention Preview.
Graduate students will preview presentations to be made at next month's Southern States Communication Association Convention.
Yan Guan, “Facial Expressions on Chinese and American Magazine Covers: A Cross-Cultural Study"
Erin Hammond, “Racist Speech: A Right or Too Wrong?”
Dave Nelson, ”Baseball, American as apple pie or is it?”
February 27th, 4:30 pm. Professional Development Seminar. Ms. Becky Woodrick, USM Director of Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity, will lead a discussion of legal and practical
issues faced by faculty in higher education in contexts ranging from job interviews to professional relationships with students and colleagues. 469 Liberal Arts Building.
February 13th, 4:30 pm. Professional Development Seminar. Dr. John Meyer, " Kids, Parents, and Organization: Cooperation and Conflict in a Child Development Center Culture." 469 Liberal Arts Building.
January 30th, 4:30pm. Professional Development Seminar. Dr. Keith Erickson will lead a discussion of the tenure and promotion process. Students and faculty are invited to attend.
Department of Speech Communication
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