Moodle at Eckerd College 2024-25 Academic Year

An introduction to the significance of nonverbal communication on the communication process through theory, application, and critiques of quantitative and qualitative research in order to increase knowledge, awareness, and understanding of the role that nonverbal communication plays in various contexts.

Media Ethics is designed to promote greater understanding of moral reasoning and ethical decision-making processes within the fields of journalism, advertising, and public relations.

This course seeks to lay a groundwork for the study of modern Chinese. It provides instruction in integrated language skills and combines sentence patterns with everyday life topics.

This course is designed to help students achieve greater proficiency in the oral and written use of modern Chinese on the basis of the First-Year Chinese curriculum. More everyday life topics are covered. Prerequisites: CN 102.

Study Chinese martial arts literature and cinema from pre-modern and modern periods. Examine the evolution of Chinese knight-errantry. Consider masculinities vs. femininities, representation of action, nationalism and internationalism, and relationship between tradition and modernity. Taught in English translation.

Experience contemporary Chinese pop culture through fiction, popular/rock music, TV drama, and films in a global context. The literary, musical and visual works will demonstrate the artistic trends and the consumers' taste in the commercialized society.

This course seeks to help students develop integrated skills of modern Chinese by handling more abstract topics. Formal written language is also introduced. Prerequisites: CN 307H.

Critical reading and analysis of texts, with attention to audience, organization, evidence, persuasion. Collegiate research report: research questions, writing from sources, presenting evidence logically.

Critical reading and analysis of texts, with attention to audience, organization, evidence, persuasion. Collegiate research report: research questions, writing from sources, presenting evidence logically.