Goyland Williams to Offer Course on Ethnic and Intercultural Communication

Students in all programs are encouraged to take this course to be offered in Spring 2022 by Goyland Williams, this year’s Jackie McLean Fellow in the School of Communication. This is a great elective course to take without any prerequisites required. Here is the course information:

CMM 335. Ethnic and Intercultural Communication. CRN 13359. TR 2:10-3:25 p.m.

Intercultural Communication focuses on the importance and presence of culture in our everyday lives and the ways that culture influences, and is connected to communication processes. Given our places in an increasingly global economy, it is paramount that students are prepared to engage difference in their personal and professional lives. As such, the object of the course is to engage in the field of intercultural communication by looking at both the practical application of theory and research. Topics covered will include but are not limited to identity, perception, cultural conflict and contact, linguistic and philosophical differences, stereotyping, cultural performances, and intercultural communication in the workplace/organizations. Readings will be diverse and engaging that will range from film, music, articles, book chapters, plays, and personal narratives/experiences. In addition, we will have a number of guests who speak to the professional relevance of intercultural communication and scholars across the discipline of Communication Studies.   Prerequisites waived this term.

 Here is some information about Professor Williams:

Goyland is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Specializing in Rhetoric and Performance Studies, his research is situated in Black studies, social movement rhetoric, Africana critical theory, cultural criticism and performance theory|(auto)ethnography. Goyland’s dissertation theorizes what he calls Black Interruptions as a way to think more about the ways that conditions of daily life both structure and undergird African American expressive life and cultural imagination. 

Goyland’s scholarship and lectures have been featured in The Art of Voting, Race Baitr, The Black Teacher Project, SXSW Interactive Festival, the Health Equity Lab Summit, Texas State University Philosophy Dialogue Series, and “Let’s Talk With JMO.” His academic research has been jbanks@hartford.edupublished in The Journal of the Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri and is forthcoming in Argumentation and Advocacy and #Verzuz and Club Quarantine: Sustaining Black Music and Black Culture During COVID-19 which will be published by Lexington Press.  

Students can contact Jack Banks directly at jbanks@hartford.edu to register for the course. Please include your student ID number in the email.