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Kevin Baaske Office: Music 250 Dr. Kevin Baaske is a Professor in the Department of Communication Study. He is an active member of the University community, and is currently serving as Chair of the Academic Senate and is one of two CSULA representatives to the Academic Senate of the CSU. "Such service not only enables me to represent faculty and student interests, but it also has permitted me to get to know many of my excellent colleagues across the University,” said Baaske. He has also served in leadership positions in argumentation and forensics at the National Communication Association, the Western States Communication Association, and the National Individual Events Tournament. One of Dr. Baaske's greatest passions is teaching and he regrets that his Senate duties limit the opportunities for classroom instruction. He has recently taught graduate seminars in Rhetorical Theory, in Argumentation Theory and in the fall 2007 term he is teaching Introduction to Scholarship in Communication Studies. Dr. Baaske has also taught undergraduate courses in Argumentation, Oral Communication, Introduction to Rhetorical Studies, Presidential Campaign Communication, Intercultural Communication and Rhetorical Criticism. Dr. Baaske's professional and personal interests lie in examining public policy disputes. He considers himself a student of public argumentation and enjoys exploring the nature and functions of argumentative and rhetorical discourse. The same fascination applies to presidential campaign rhetoric. He is especially interested in the role that vice presidential candidates play in these national campaigns. Dr. Baaske serves on the editorial board of Argumentation and Advocacy, the Journal of the American Forensic Association. He also regularly attends the annual meetings of the National Communication Association and the Western States Communication Association. In addition to attending panels, Dr. Baaske views such conferences as an opportunity to introduce the many gifted CSLA students who attend these conventions. He also tries to attend an argumentation conference each summer. Representative Professional Activities 2007 With Megan Baaske, (in Press). Hurricane
Katrina: An argumentative analysis of race and gender issues in the media
coverage of a natural and national disaster. Proceedings of the sixth
conference of the International Society for the Study of Argument. 2006 Arguing
about marriage: Antimiscegenation laws in analogue
to the same-sex marriage dispute. In
P. Riley (Ed.), Engaging Argument, (271-277). 2004 With Thomas A. Hollihan, Arguments
and arguing: The products and process of human decision-making. 2nd
Ed. 2004 Race, meaning and substance: An
analysis of arguments over the government’s use of racial
classifications. . C. A.
Willard (Ed.). Proceedings of the Alta Argument Conference, (328-336).
2002 With Patricia Riley, In Defense of the
Realm: Administrative Responses to Anti-Globalization
Argumentation. In F.H. Van Eemeren, A.
Blair, C.A. Willard, & A. F. Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.), Proceedings of the fifth conference
of the international society for the study of argument (22-26). 2000 Equality
and the Public Moral Code: Argument and the Affirmative Action Debate. In
Thomas A. Hollihan, (Ed.), Argument at Century’s End: Reflecting on the
Past and Envisioning the Future (pp. 446-453). 2000 With
Patricia Riley, Spectacle in Ph.D. Rhetoric 1989 M.A. Communication 1978 B.A. Communication 1976 |
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