Communication 1100

Below you'll find some helpful links for Dr. Coleman's Communication 1100 class, including web sites used in class, guides to properly citing sources, and a useful news portal maintained by Dr. Coleman.

Links

(Please inform Dr. Coleman if you find any broken links here.)

Here's a very helpful site for anyone transitioning from high school to college: http://www.d.umn.edu/tutoring/transition-to-college/.

We'll use this site throughout the semester to watch and listen to speeches and for general information about American Rhetoric.

If you suffer from speech anxiety (which most people do), you can find useful advice here, here, and here.

Here's an overview of early Early Greek philosophy that includes the lives and works of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Here are maps of the Mediterranean, the Persian Empire, the Empire of Alexander the Great, and the Roman Empire.

These are some definitions of "philosophy" found online.

And these are some definitions of "rhetoric" from AmericanRhetoric.com.

Here's a brief definition of "sophistry" and a discussion of its history.

This is a list of logical fallacies compiled by Dr. Glen Whitman at California State University, Northridge.

And this is another list of logical fallacies compiled by Dr. Kip Wheeler at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee.

Here is a list of literary/rhetorical devices to help you liven up the language in your speeches.

This is a guide to citing your sources using the APA (American Psychological Association) and MLA (Modern Language Association) style formats, brought to you by the excellent Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

Here are two sites that will format your bibliography for you: Easybib.com and Citationmachine.net. (Be careful--these aren't always accurate and don't do anything to help you learn to format citations...)

These are links to some of the speeches, scenes, and web sites we'll be watching this semester:

  1. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech (video)

  2. "I Have a Dream" (text)

  3. Robert Kennedy announces the assassination of Martin Luther King: text with audio; partial video (Warning: graphic images); full video

  4. Ronald Reagan addresses the nation after the Challenger disaster: partial video with text; video from Reagan Library

  5. Hillary Clinton speaks on human rights (especially women's rights) in Beijing, China

  6. Hillary Clinton in Beijing (with full text)

  7. Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on human rights in Paris, 1948 (text only)

  8. Eleanor Roosevelt argues at UN for adoption of a Declaration of Human Rights (text, video)

  9. Anna Howard Shaw speaks on women's rights, the meaning of "republic," 1915

  10. Barry Goldwater accepts the Republican Party's nomination to run for president in 1964

  11. President Bush's Address to the Nation on 9/11

  12. President Bush's Address to Congress on 9/20

  13. Comedian Red Skelton on the Pledge of Allegiance 

  14. Video of Skelton's Pledge

  15. Several performances of the Gettysburg Address, including one by Johnny Cash

  16. Adolph Hitler speaks in praise of intolerance

  17. Another clip of a speech by Hitler (note his nonverbal communication skills)

  18. One more clip of Hitler speaking (note the rising intensity that builds to a climax)

  19. Charlie Chaplin in a classic scene from The Kid---all nonverbal communication/physical humor

  20. Charlie Chaplin makes fun of Hitler in The Dictator

  21. The Three Stooges make fun of Hitler and the Nazis---more nonverbal communication/physical humor

  22. Jim Carrey makes some incredible faces

  23. An Indian dances the Navarasa, which nonverbally expresses nine emotions (Nava=nine, Rasa=emotions or moods)

  24. George Carlin on the American Dream

  25. George Carlin's "Advertising Lullaby"

  26. John Cleese's eulogy for Graham Chapman

  27. Joel Osteen opens sermons with a joke

  28. More jokes from Joel Osteen

  29. Roseanne Barr on US politics in 2003

  30. Dennis Miller on Iraq on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  31. Stephen Colbert roasts President Bush with ingenious satire

  32. A series of clips of inspirational movie speeches, cleverly edited together

  33. Face-pulling and Gurning contests---facial expressions to the max

  34. Monkey calls warn of predators...but do they ever lie? 

  35. Bower birds' works of art/interior design

  36. Whale songs 

  37. Honeybee forager communication

  38. Bioluminescent deep sea creatures go "fishing"

  39. Cuttlefish uses its own skin as medium for visual communication (amazing!)

  40. Dung beetles navigate by the light of the Milky Way

  41. Nature photography shows fascinating faces, shapes, colors, and survival strategies

  42. More nature photography shows examples of camoflage---the ultimate mimetic communication?

  43.  Two rock web sites, The River 97.1 FM (classic rock) and Magic 106.7 (soft rock)

  44. Two thrash/heavy metal web sites, KNAC.com and Chronixradio

  45. Two girly music web sites---some mixes from 8tracks.com and GirlsRockRadio.com (as in grrrrrls)

  46. Magazines for men of different ages---Maxim and Esquire

  47. Magazines for women of different ages---MarieClaire and Woman's Day

  48. An interesting map of magazine demographics by sex and age

  49. Another map of television genre demographics by sex and age

  50. Barack Obama's keynote address, 2004 Democratic National Convention

  51. Zell Miller's "spitball" speech, 2004 Republican National Convention

  52. Leningrad Cowboys and Soviet Army Choir sing "Sweet Home Alabama"

  53. Kiki is pulled from the rubble after the earthquake in Haiti (Dr. Coleman's favorite gesture and smile of all time)

  54. Athens songwriter Vic Chesnutt sings about death 6 months before his Xmas suicide (powerful vocals)

  55. Reggae singer Bunny Wailer speaks/sings "Rise and Shine"

  56. Bunny sings "Rise and Shine" live (notice the visual communication)

  57. Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

  58. Clarence Carter speaks and sings "Patches" with great emotion, vocal variety, vocal inflection

  59. Jerry Reed sings "Patches" in a country version

  60. Brook Benton sings "Rainy Night in Georgia" (and he feels fine...)

  61. Jackie Evancho sings "Pie Jesu"---mind-blowing vocal performance of a sublime piece of religious music

  62. Interspecies communication between an orangutan and a hound dog

  63. Interspecies communication between sled dogs and polar bears

  64. Interspecies communication between two men and a lion; a shorter version

  65. Communicating Universal awe and wonder through macro-photography (video)

  66. More spectacular macro-photography (47 images from the Hubble Telescope)

  67. Communicating Infinitesimal awe and wonder through micro-photography (20 images)

  68. More spectacular micro-photography (30 images)

  69. Satellite images of Earth, chosen with an aerial aesthetic (38 images)

  70. Unusual media used to create unusual art

  71. Lil buck dances "Swan Lake" with Yo Yo Ma in China

  72. Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis do "Georgia On My Mind"

  73. Willie, Wynton and Norah Jones do "Hit the Road, Jack"

This is my news portal, newsprism.com, where you can surf the web for news and commentary. The news sites are arranged by political orientation, from left to right, in order to illustrate how the rhetoric of journalists and commentators is influenced by their political views.

And this is PrestonColeman.com, where you'll find my works of satirical fiction.