Master’s students will go on to apply the knowledge gained from their graduate education to their professional lives; however, there are limited resources and programs that help master’s students to do so. by application of Giddens' (1979) structurati . . .

Being part of the legal community can be defined as belonging to a discourse community. This is a community where the members are exclusively made privy to the knowledge and social norms based on the texts and discourse found within them. When people . . .

This project addresses the issue of funding in intercollegiate athletics in the United States, and how social media marketing serves as a neutralizing resource for marketing gains. This project analyzes social media through the perspective of relation . . .

The objective of this project is to select, organize, and present a recital in that phase of the speech-arts, termed "oral interpretation". The development of the project includes the following : (1) the presentation of selections that comprise two di . . .

The purpose of this project is to introduce and develop a pattern of teaching techniques for general semantics. Teachers of English are continually searching for stimulating material. This project will help satisfy that quest for fresh , student-cente . . .

Lawyers typically work long hours under extreme pressure and have great responsibility. Oftentimes the importance of interpersonal communication and conflict management skills gets overlooked, which is truly unfortunate as their significance is paramo . . .

This project addresses issues that arise from misleading or confusing food marketing messages. The project primarily seeks to create awareness about the persuasive use of food marketing messages. The project proposes a new branch of media literacy cal . . .

This project focuses on the application of The Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication and its three tenets. These tenets suggest that words and images have equal importance, symbolic meaning, and are used to culturally describe a community. This pro . . .

Individuals in possession of skills to communicate appropriately and effectively across cultural boundaries will be those in a position of leadership in a global world. Of the total student population in the United States, less than 1.5% chooses to st . . .

Small group discussion is the tool teams use to collaborate intellectually and to coordinate activities in the pursuit of a common goal. Discussion procedures alter natural discussion by providing rules or guidelines for conversation to allow a team t . . .

Teaching conceptually in mathematics, which draws on the underlying structure and logic of concepts, has shown to be successful for students’ knowledge construction. Traditional mathematics instruction often focuses on procedures and rote memorization . . .

This study examined the worker identity of volunteer workers and compensated workers in a Sports Entertainment Organization. Participants included 30 volunteer workers and four compensated workers. Interviews were conducted with the compensated worker . . .

Over the last ten years social media sites, such as Facebook, were widely adopted and used as tools to communicate by people around the world. Since communication via Facebook became increasingly more common, it is important that researchers examine h . . .

Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTCA) has flooded media channels since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted pharmaceutical companies the ability to advertise medications to patients in the 1980’s. This has altered how patients receive inform . . .

The purpose of this study is to determine the use of political campaign lawn signs as an information channel in the nonpartisan Supervisorial election in the Fourth District of San Joaquin County in which Lodi is the largest urban area. The study was . . .

It was the purpose of this study to formulate a desirable curriculum pattern for a minimal sequence of college courses in Speech Correction; said pattern to be based on an investigation of the Speech Correction curriculums offered by thirty U.S. colle . . .

This thesis explores how space and ritual functioned rhetorically in religious settings in ancient Greece. Epidaurus, Eleusis, and Delphi were the three sacred spaces used as case studies. These spaces represented three different functions of Greek re . . .

This thesis looks at the representation of African American identity in the film Dear White People (2014). I specifically analyze the main protagonists to understand how African American identity is being developed in Dear White People using the Nigre . . .

The cultural expectations surrounding the father have evolved in the last century to include a more involved and active father. In that case, the researcher is interested in seeing if this shift has been shown in popular children’s media. Young childr . . .

This thesis employed the Discourse Historical Approach of Critical Discourse Analysis in order to uncover discursive strategies used to dismantle California’s bilingual education system. This study identified the ideological groundings that allowed Pr . . .

The restaurant industry boasts one of the youngest, fastest growing workforces in the country. Despite the unique nature of restaurant work and size of the industry’s workforce, it has remained an underexplored context within organizational literature . . .

This thesis examined comments sections pulled from five articles that were part of an 11 article series published by People magazine online focusing on Rachel Frederickson’s weight loss and win on The Biggest Loser Season 15. In particular, this thesi . . .

Ever since its founding in the 1970s, the field of instructional communication has regularly conducted comprehensive reviews of the research it produced to assess the discipline’s current state, quality of studies, and the merits of its contributions. . . .

Since 2000, the Internet has quadrupled in size and Computer-Mediated Dating (CMD) websites have become multibillion-dollar businesses (Wysocki & Childers, 2011). The Internet has been able to accommodate increasingly smaller niches, speaking to a . . .

Telenovela literature has looked at the reasons why Latinos in the United States like to view telenovelas and the implications of it. However, this literature mostly focused on women and children who viewed these programs and completely ignored the ma . . .

This case study explores the communicative practices that occur within student teams in a team-based learning (TBL) classroom. Symbolic interactionism serves as the theoretical framework to explain human social activities occurring on a global level w . . .

This study explores how instructional communication functions in a small community organization whose objective it is to pull youth out of the school-to-prison pipeline. The group consists of adult participants (ex-convicts, former correctional office . . .

This investigation of yearbook production methods in California public junior colleges was undertaken in an effort to provide administrators and sponsors with information regarding current practices and costs. That it might aid those schools which pre . . .

This thesis examined five episodes of the CBS situation comedy, The Big Bang Theory, to examine the portrayal of blonde and brunette stereotypes. Framing analysis was used in conjunction with cultivation theory to analyze conversations of the three fe . . .

This thesis examined performances of the real life phenomenon of shifting and how it was performed by black female actors Mo’Nique and Lupita Nyong’o in the Oscar-winning films Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (2009) and 12 Years a Slave . . .

This thesis employs a close textual analysis to trace the rhetorical evolution of obscuritas, gravitas, and imitatio from Pagan to Christian stylistic principles. Every occurrence of these technically charged rhetorical terms was examined in books eig . . .

Prior research suggests that emoticons enhance text-based messages; yet, critics argue that emoticons negatively affect credibility. While research purports that teachers utilize emoticons, they feel uncomfortable doing so (Priddis, 2013). This study . . .

This study examined the effect of face to face and Facebook teacher misbehavior (incompetence, indolence, and offensiveness). Prior research supports that face to face teacher misbehavior negatively impact student perceptions. However, research has no . . .

This thesis employs dialectical theory in the organizational context to understand organizational culture. The specific organization studied was Café Opulence, a vegan restaurant with a unique organizational culture maintained by both employees and cu . . .

This thesis employs Kenneth Burke’s cluster analysis to examine Ang Lee’s martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (USA, 2000). This Mandarin film achieved extraordinary success in the United States, where it was the first foreign-language fil . . .

This study examined infertility patients’ communication with their physicians. Face-to-face, phone, and electronic communication were analyzed to measure patients’ satisfaction and anxiety levels. Participants included 53 women ranging in age between . . .

This thesis looks at the apologia employed by British Petroleum in the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 2010. The critical question of this thesis is: What modes of apologia did British Petroleum emplo . . .

It was the purpose of this study to answer the primary question: What has been the history and development of Sacramento Town Hall? To trace the lines of development in human thought and action which resulted in the organization and operation of this . . .

This study examined communication norms and levels of self-disclosure in Codependents Anonymous online group meetings. The Social Information Processing (SIP) theory, anonymity, and hyperpersonal communication were reviewed to explain how messages wer . . .

This thesis examined framing of the gun-control debate in order to locate the function of frames in message delivery. The study sought to uncover the invisible dynamics of centrist frames in persuading those audiences with little experience with the g . . .

An ideological criticism of the telenovela Por Ella Soy Eva was conducted through a close reading of the text. The close reading of the text provided the means to understand the messages about gender that the telenovela is transmitting. Previous studi . . .

This study examined the recruitment messages used in the Rhode Island Healthy Places by Design pilot program to address the obesity epidemic through the lens of the built environment. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was the theory used to explain how me . . .

This thesis employed dialectical theory to compare communication practices in two online anorexia-based communities of practice, Myproana.com and Grace on the Moon. This study served three primary purposes: (1) to compare dialectical tensions and tens . . .

This thesis examined rape and sexual assault survivor narratives in visual images to better understand lived experiences of sexual assault. The thesis sought to determine ideologies of sexual assault that emerge on the tumblr blog Project Unbreakable . . .

This study assessed how participation in a learning community connected with a basic communication studies course might result in changes in students’ communication competence and communication apprehension levels. The pre-, post-test design of this s . . .

A vital public sphere is essential for a healthy democracy. Unfortunately, research has shown that the public’s engagement in politics and current events has been on the decline. The lack of engagement is partly due to the lack of critique and fact ch . . .

This study uses a semiotic approach to textual analysis to examine social constructions of Barack Obama’s race in televised sketch comedy to discover how this construction contributes to the process of hegemony regarding society’s treatment of mixed r . . .

Research demonstrates that the composition of an advertisement can have a substantial effect upon its success. This study examines the effect of message design upon message reception and subsequent purchasing behavior. Specifically, two features of th . . .

Art is inherently rhetorical in that art can constitute an experience in various ways (Dewey, 1934). In that regard, protest art is rhetorical in nature and allows the artist to voice the need for transformation and revolution. Defined through Langer' . . .

In the last two decades, organizational communication, management and psychology scholars have begun to focus their attention on growing trends of incorporating spirituality in the workplace. At the same time, faith-based organizations have taken up t . . .