CSEN1020-A Argument and Research
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Registration begins Monday, Feb 23, 2026
School of Communication and Media
Undergraduate
Term: Summer 2026
Session: Mid-Summer, 8 Week (Jun 01 - Jul 24)
Start Date: Monday, Jun 01, 2026
End Date: Friday, Jul 24, 2026
Availability: On Campus
Day(s): Tues.
Time: 06:00 PM to 08:50 PM
This course reinforces the integrated nature of the communications skills program and the significance of communications for a successful life and career. By learning to analyze and understand their professors as audiences students are made conscious of the communications and behavioral expectations of their professors and of the reasons for variations in those expectations. While acquiring strategies for researching interviewing interpreting and speaking students focus on principles of logic critical thinking argumentation and audience analysis necessary to create their own arguments as well as critique the arguments of others. Though all the communications skills are practiced speaking and writing are emphasized. All written work is to be done on a word processor. Pre-requisite: CSEN1010 or placement exam.