Intercultural Communication
CMN 203
Department of Communication

Tentative Course Schedule


4 January Course Introduction
6 January
Road Scholar screened in class

Internet Resources:
9 January

Road Scholar (cont.)

Required Reading:

  • Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayma, and Lisa Flores, "A Dialectical Approach to Intercultural Communication"
Narratives about Intercultural Life
11 January
Required Reading:
  • Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayma, and Lisa Flores (cont.)
13 January
Required Reading:
  • Jacqueline Taylor, "Performing Commitment"
Internet Resources:
16 January
Required Reading:
  • Eduardo Santiago, "The Night Rodney King Kissed Me"
  • Sherman Alexie, "Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star Spangled Banner' at Woodstock"
Internet Resources:
Communication and Age
18 January
Required Reading:
  • James Lull, "On the Communicative Properties of Music"
Internet Resources:
20 January
Required Listening (in class):
  • Daniel Makagon, Bass/(super)sonicstructure
Internet Resources:
23 January
Required Reading:
  • Barbara Meyerhoff, "Life Not Death in Venice"
Internet Resources:
25 January
Required Reading:
  • Meyerhoff (cont.)/TBA
27 January
Cultural Context Presentations
Immigration, Integration, and Conflict
30 January
Required Reading:
  • Dwight Conquergood, "Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accommodations in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement"
Internet Resources:
1 February
Required Reading:
  • Fernaanda Eberstadt, "A Frenchman or a Jew?"
  • Elaine Sciolino, "France Envisions a Citizenry of Model Muslims"
  • Manthia Diawara, "The Pretender"
Internet Resources:
3 February
Cultural Context Presentations
Race and Class in America
6 February
Required Reading:
  • Mark Edmundson, "On Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students"
8 February
Required Reading:
  • Earl Shorris, "On Education: As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor"
Internet Resources:
10 February
Required Reading:
  • Lisa Jones, "Is Biracial Enough? (or, What's This About a Multiracial Category on the Census?: A Conversation)"
  • Joseph Berger, "Indian, Twice Removed"
Internet Resources:
13 February
Required Reading:
  • Thomas Nakayama and Robert Krizek, "Whiteness: A Strategic Rhetoric"
15 February
Required Reading:
  • Nakayama and Krizek (cont.)/TBA
17 February
Cultural Context Presentations
Popular Culture as Intercultural Communication
20 February
Required Reading:
  • Gilbert Rodman, "Race . . . and Other Four Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity"
Internet Resources:
22 February Required Reading:
  • Rodman (cont.)
Last Due Date for Analysis Papers
24 February
Required Reading:
  • Rodman (cont.)
27 February
Required Reading:
  • Eileen Luhr, "Metal Missionaries to the Nation: Christian Heavy Metal Music, 'Family Values,' and Youth Culture, 1984-1994"
1 March
Required Reading:
  • "Pro Vs. Pro: Vietnam Feature for gamepro.com"
Internet Resources:
3 March
  • Class Review
6 March
Required Reading:
  • Isabel Molina Guzman and Angharad Valdivia, “Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture”
8 March
  • Conferences
10 March
Final Papers Due by Noon

Last Update: 30 December 2005
Send questions, comments, or reasonable suggestions to: Daniel Makagon