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   Bob Rudd

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E-Mail:   rrudd@boisestate.edu
Phone:    426-1904
Office:    C128

Office Hours:  Monday       12:00 -   1:30
                     Tuesday        1:40 -   3:30
                     Wednesday  10:00 - 12:00 And by Appointment

Courses and Syllabi - SPRING 2008
COMM 368 Advanced Audio Production
COMM 370 Advanced Video Production
COMM 467 Mass Communication and Democracy
COMM 595 - Readings and Conference

CLASS READINGS/ASSIGNMENTS
COMM 368:
1.    ABC Classic FM The Listening Room
2.    Hearing Voices, Radio Stories
3.    Infrasonic Soundscape
4.    KUNSTRADIO ON LINE 2
5.    New American Radio
6.    Phonography
7.    Radio Diaries
8.    Sound Portraits
9.    SOUNDPRINT Media Center, Inc.
10.  The Public Radio Exchange
11.  Third Coast International Audio Festival
12.  Transom A Showcase, Workshop for New Public Radio
13.  Voice of the Planet
14.  Welcome to Seeing Ear Theatre

COMM 370:
Advertising Strategy
1.  Chapter 4:  Concepting (What's the Big Idea?)
2.  Chapter 13:  TelevisionCOMM 467:
1.  The Centrality of Reciprocity to Communication and Democracy
2.  Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places:
     Why Negative Advertising is a Suspect Category
3.  The News Media: The Politics of Anti-Politics
4.  The Withdrawal of the Voter
5.  Media Moments Presentation Schedule Revised 2/26/08
6.  Course Outline Revised 2/26/08

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     http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
     http://pcl.stanford.edu/campaigns/2008/

Biography:

     One of my graduate professors, Carl Bybee, used to tell his students that university professors are the privileged class in our culture.  It is, I believe, something which in our occasional discontent over such issues as workloads, salaries, or the  increasing corporatization of higher education, we should never forget. We are a privileged class.
    And, like all beneficiaries of privilege, we should be judged by what we do with that  privilege -- whether we use that privilege solely to further our own self-interest and  well-being, as so many of privilege in our culture do, or whether we use our  position of privilege to serve as an advocate, in our instance through education, for  those not as privileged; for those whose voices are too often unheard in our culture,  for those who are rendered powerless in a society whose institutions too often serve  only the interests of the privileged.
    There is considerable debate in our culture about what purposes, and whose interests,  higher education should serve.  In my view, the university should, above all other  pursuits, be about the building of a more just, a more equitable, and a more democratic  society.  There are increasingly few institutions in our society which take seriously  these values, much less accept them as their primary obligation.  Let us hope that this university remains one of those few.
    To learn more about me, you can click on my vita.  The other links will direct you to information about my courses, as well as a range of media and political sites that I find interesting.