This was the first communication class that I took at Pitt, and I loved it! It encouraged me to take many other communication classes at Pitt, as you can see below, and it provided a great baseline understanding of communication processing which I took through all of the other classes. I also watched The Breakfast Club for the first time for an assignment for this class (which I think is overrated, but that's neither here nor there). I definitely recommend this class for anyone, especially people who are interested in studying communication.
Rhetorical processing was very chill. In this class I wrote a paper about the rhetorical choices made by the National Safety Council when the following public service announcement was made in 1964:
I really liked this class. We learned a lot, and the professor was very fun and told stories very well. My only qualm was that we would get study guides for the exam that had like 300 terms and then the actual test was only like 60 questions. If you're going to take this class, make sure you have a Quizlet account.
Public speaking is never a fun class to take, especially when you have to take it over Zoom. As a Pathfinder, I don't mind public speaking, but these classes really depend on the professor you had. My professor did not like me (I still don't know why), so this class was not the best for me.
I learned so much in this class. The professor gives you a perspective of media that you don't often get in other classes looking from a historical perspective because he really highlights the experiences of disenfranchised groups like women and African Americans. He recorded all of his lectures and added fun effects, videos, and songs which was very cute.
I really enjoyed this class! This was the first class where I had to do groupwork during the pandemic which was challenging, but also super cool because my group got to put together an entire marketing plan for a made-up business throughout the semester. Our professor was absolutely hilarious, and you can tell that he has a lot of great experience in the media relations field. He was very encouraging with students and would also call them out with things that he did not like in a presentation. He also brought in lots of guest speakers to the class including one of the media relations professionals for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Even though I am not planning on going into media relations, I found this class very interesting.
Very interesting class. Lots of writing, though. You have like three discussion board posts due each week, and they are intense. The professor is very nice.
As someone continuing my education in public health after this semester, I really love this course. It's all online and it entails lots of reading and writing. I absolutely love the textbook that we use for this course because it looks at health in a very holistic way.