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department of communication

department chair 
Michelle Kelsey

Meet Michelle Kelsey 

Chair of the Department of Communication and Associate Professor of Communication

Michelle Kelsey is associate professor in the Department of Communication.  Michelle researches interests include rhetoric, identity, social movements, and feminist theory.  
 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.,Communication Studies, Arizona State University
M.A., Communication Studies, Illinois State University
B.A.,  Political Communication, University of Northern Iowa
 

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COURSES TAUGHT AT PURDUE FORT WAYNE
    
COM 521: Theories of Rhetoric
COM 518: Theories of Persuasion
COM 517: Communication and Politics
COM 515: Persuasion in Social Movements
COM 500: Introduction to Graduate Studies
COM 499: Capstone in Communication
COM 401: Rhetorical Criticism
COM 316: Controversy in America
COM 312: Rhetoric of the Western World
COM 303: Intercultural Communication
COM 300: Introduction to Communication Research Methods
COM 210: Debating Public Issues/Debating Public Life
COM 203: Communication Theories
COM 114: Fundamentals of Public Speaking COM 101 Introduction to Communication
WOST 304: Feminist Theories
IDIS 10605: Introduction to the Liberal Arts (topics: Eugenics, Hidden Histories)