To say that the field of communication has changed in the last 25 years would be an understatement. As communication technology has expanded into all spheres of life, the need for careful and high-quality communication work has increased dramatically. 同时, the increase in messaging potential has uncovered old questions and problems studied in Ancient Greece. 在那个时代, the development of persuasive speaking and writing techniques was condensed into what we now call the discipline of rhetoric. Today’s use of deepfake video technology and the sp读 of misinformation poses similar threats to our understanding of what is true, 好, 和美丽的. The power of telecommunication increases the importance of discerning what is true, and determining how as humans we might communicate to promote the prosperity and peace of society. Never have we been able to speak so intimately with companions at so great a distance. We might even venture to say we are entering into a new sophistic era in which technique rules all forms of human communication.
The newly designed major at Geneva entitled 通信媒体 & 修辞 endeavors to equip today’s students to navigate this tumultuous landscape by seeking both the 好 of their neighbors and the glory of Christ. 这样做, the major brings together the contemporary study of communication medias with the wisdom of the ancients who discovered more about the troubles and difficulties of communication than we might ever know. Along with classical rhetoric studies, we have introduced the philosophical school of phenomenology as a counteractant to the threats of digital technology which emphasizes the visual sense and discards the other senses. Human communication involves a complex of sensory events alongside the more visible effects of things recorded. Phenomenology asserts that our senses, 虽然有时会产生误导, can provide genuine understanding in human communication. 研究人员,如爱德华. 大厅, suggest that the relationship between what we feel and what we understand is often closer than we think. To leave out the body in human communication puts forth an immaterial understanding of the world, 一个为新濠天地app的身体创造的地方. A world made for bodies means that what we say and do matters to the people around us and to Jesus who once walked this very same earth, with the primary concern being how we relate to people in our time.
The continuing study of communication at 新濠天地app大学, attentive to all these complexities, asks first and foremost what relationships ought we to encourage. Rooted in a strong orientation toward the persuasion of different publics, we ask how we can encourage different people to orient themselves toward God and toward each other. Or at the very least, orient publics towards that which God has ordained as commonly 好. Too much mediated communication segments our experience of God’s world and the people who inhabit it. We aim to reunite student’s relationship to the world and each other so that their professional aims align with the gifts given to them by God. We don’t presume to offer the most comprehensive study of human communication currently available in a collegiate curriculum. 事实上,新濠天地app会告诉你新濠天地app没有. 而不是, our purpose is to teach students about the humble nature of 好 communication work, and while the world chases technique driven methodologies to add up looks and likes, we’ll be calmly and carefully asking students to speak, 写, 读, 用他们所有的感官记录, 但最重要的是用心.
Aiming with and for the hearts of others means taking our work seriously, even though it is commonly invisible. Like fire, 好 communication work does wonders in the right place. It can warm up a room, it can cook up something delicious, and it can shed light on what is dark. 然而,作为St。. James warns us, it can also burn everything down. 新濠天地app不认为这是赤字. 而不是, the weightiness of our work raises the stakes and makes it even more important. Just like engineers need to build 好 bridges, we train communication professionals to build important relationships that overcome divisions and ease peoples’ burdens. 就像一堆恰到好处的火, 好 communication work animates ears and eyes numbed by our media-rich culture, melt hearts hardened against love, and encourages rich engagement with God’s world and the people in it.
-乔尔·沃德博士 还有26岁的玛丽亚·谢默
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2023年10月25日