Kirk Rose took three communication studies courses at SJSU that taught him about different theories in the field. He particularly enjoyed his quantitative study class, where he learned how to conduct surveys and analyze numerical results. His rhetoric in public life class taught him that rhetoric is the art of persuasion, which he used unknowingly his whole life. This class helped him develop arguments for a class he designed in democratic deliberation. Throughout the courses, the theory of rhetoric stuck out the most to Kirk as the art of persuading others to see your perspective, for better or for worse, as Hitler famously demonstrated.

1. Kirk Rose
F paper reflection
Taking the F courses here at SJSU really gave me some insight into the theories that are
embedded in the communication studies field. One F course that I really enjoyed and got a lot
out of was my quantitative study class. This class was very interesting to me because I love math
and numbers and this was a way to perform study and being able to read the result in a number
based way rather, than having to interpret different situations or interpret written responses. This
class also taught me how to create a questionnaire and how to administer the questionnaire to my
desired group of study. Another class that I found interesting and taught me a lot was my
Rhetoric in public life class. Before coming into this class I had no idea what rhetoric was. Once
I found out it was the art of persuasion and I had been using it and not even knowing the majority
of my life. In this class we had to create a class in democratic deliberation, and we were to use
our rhetorical skills to convince the reader that the way we set up our class was justified. This
helped me develop arguments for why I was doing certain things in the class I created.
Throughout my time at SJSU I took three different F courses and they all taught me
different theories and different concepts within the field. One that stuck out the most was the
theory of rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion in an attempt to get people to see things your
way and feel what you are saying or doing is right. Take Hitler for instance, he used his power of
rhetoric to convince the Nazi party that what he wanted to accomplish was justified and right for
his people. Now most people I their right mind would not agree that killing millions of people
who didn’t feel the same as them would be right. But Hitler was so good at using his rhetorical
skills that he convinced a whole country of people that what he was doing was right. Now just
because you use rhetoric doesn’t mean you have to use it negatively, you can also use it in a
good way.