Rhetoric and Public Address Minor
We offer communication courses that feature performance activities and emphasize the theory, history, and criticism of rhetorical communication. Our experienced faculty members will help you achieve personal fulfillment, civic engagement, and career success.
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Welcome to the Department of Communication Studies!
We offer communication courses that feature performance activities and emphasize the theory, history, and criticism of rhetorical communication. Our experienced faculty members will help you achieve personal fulfillment, civic engagement, and career success.
In addition to providing public speaking classes for hundreds of St. John's students each semester, we also offer a major in Rhetoric and Public Address and several minor programs of study.
- Degree Type
- Minor
- Area of Interest
- Communications, Marketing & Media
- Associated Colleges or Schools
- Program Location
- Queens Campus
- Required Credit Hours
- 15
Courses
Required
SPE 1000C or HON 1020C Public Speaking for the College Student
RCT 2020 Persuasion
Electives (three chosen):
RCT 1155 Language and Intercultural Communication
RCT 2000 Advanced Public Speaking
RCT 2015 Nonverbal Communication
RCT 2025 Organizational Communication
RCT 2070 Strategic Communication
RCT 2080 Media and Culture
Only academic programs approved by NYSED are eligible for federal and state aid: NYS Inventory of Registered Programs http://www.nysed.gov/heds/IRPSL1.html. Minors are not recognized by NYSED therefore associated courses are only eligible for federal or state aid consideration when required by a major or when also used to satisfy a core or general elective requirement.
Contact Us
Jeremiah Hickey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
718-990-5629
[email protected]
Interested in Communications, Marketing & Media, but not sure if Rhetoric and Public Address Minor is right for you?
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The Communication Studies program in St. John’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences provides students with the theories and practices to communicate effectively.
- Queens Campus
We offer communication courses that feature performance activities and emphasize the theory, history, and criticism of rhetorical communication. Our experienced faculty members will help you achieve personal fulfillment, civic engagement, and career success.
- Queens Campus
We offer communication courses that feature performance activities and emphasize the theory, history, and criticism of rhetorical communication. Our experienced faculty members will help you achieve personal fulfillment, civic engagement, and career success.
- Queens Campus