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Sep 24, 2025
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COMM 300 - Argumentation
3 Credit(s)
This course explores the theories, research and practice in developing and presenting arguments emphasizing reasoning skills, sound communicative strategies, and the use of language for argumentative purposes. Focusing on the analysis, evaluation and production of argumentation, students learn the importance that argumentation plays in everyday life. Our conversations with friends, exposure to the media, as well as our social and political lives are wrapped in arguments making it essential each of us is able to understand, criticize, and respond to the arguments we hear and see.
Prerequisite(s): 45 credit hours or permission of instructor.
Course Frequency: ALT F (odd years)
Grading Method: Student option.
Learning Outcomes:
- Define argumentation.
- Identify the structure and components of arguments.
- Evaluate evidence and reasoning of self and others.
- Construct clear, powerful, and complex arguments, both orally and in writing.
- Engage in debate, vigorously and civilly.
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