Along with delivering a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Communication, as well as minors in Arabic Studies, Communication and Broadcast Media, and Humanities, the Department of Humanities and Communication offers a full spectrum of courses in communication, philosophy, ethics and other areas that enhance the technical skills students develop elsewhere on campus.
The Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies is a flexible degree program that allows students to design their own course of study by choosing from three minors that are in some way synergistic. Students can choose from areas of specialization like Flight, Air Traffic Control, Aviation Weather, Space Studies, Humanities, and Psychology.
The Communication program is geared toward Embry-Riddle’s strength: science and technology. Students become familiar with the language of that niche through courses that are designed to help them understand the science and then present it so that the audience understands what it means and how it applies to their lives.
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Submissions from 2024
Writing Matters in Student Employment, Karen Bronshteyn, Lindsey Ives, Laura Pope Robbins, Hannaliisa Savolainen, Akshay Kaundinya, James Brown III, and Cassandra Branham
Narrative World Building: Creative Applications for Gamification in Study Abroad, Ashley Lear
Book Review: Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years, Andy Oler
The BreakBeat Poets: Translocal Placemaking in the Contemporary Midwestern Lyric, Andy Oler
Submissions from 2023
Working Class Roots, Joanne DeTore
Deep Change Theory: Implications for Educational Development Leaders, Caitlin Martin and Elizabeth Wardle
Rural Black Masculinity and the Blues in Not without Laughter, Andy Oler
Submissions from 2022
Editors' Introduction: Back to School Issue of Feminist Pedagogy, Rachel E. Silverman and Emily D. Ryalls
Submissions from 2021
Writing a Literature Review Checklist, Jennifer Nader and Clara Volker
"To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity and the Midwestern Farm Novel, Andy Oler
Submissions from 2020
Islam, Emad Hamdeh
Spirit Confronts the Four-Headed Monster: Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Mistik–Infused Flood-Rise in Duvalierist Haiti, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 2019
Time and Tomato Salads, Joanne L. DeTore
Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Emad Hamdeh
Sprinting Toward Genre Knowledge: Scaffolding Graduate Student Communication Through "Sprints" in Finance and Engineering Courses, Lindsey Ives, Jayendra Gokhale, William C. Barott, and Michael V. Perez
The Rhetorical Situation Meets Adult Education: A Public Speaking Workshop for B-School Graduate Students, Lindsey Ives, Janet Tinoco, and Sally Blomstrom
How to Win Papers and Influence Professors: Creating Positive First Impressions through Effective Titles, John Lamothe
Resume Headings, John Lamothe
The Mysterious Incident of the Missing Title: Why Did Titular Concern Vanish from Composition Studies?, John Lamothe
Cosmic Consciousness and Rawlings’s the Sojourner, Ashley Q. Lear
Syllabus Design for Place-Based Gen-Ed Courses, Andy Oler and Yunxiao Liu
Submissions from 2018
Love Bug Love, Joanne L. DeTore
The Color of Olives, Joanne L. DeTore
Tread, Joanne L. DeTore
Tread, Joanne L. DeTore
Aurel Stein and the Kiplings: Silk Road Pathways of Converging and Reciprocal Inspiration, Geoffrey Kain
Breaking Down Traditional Classroom Walls and Studying Spacesuits Abroad, Ryan L. Kobrick, Jessica McKee Ph.D., Sue A. Macchiarella, and Angelica Gould
A Review of Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation, Caitlin Martin
Speaking, Writing, Organizing: Matilda Gage’s Parrhesiastic Acts, Caitlin Martin
Submissions from 2017
Qurʾān and Sunna or the Madhhabs?: A Salafi Polemic Against Islamic Legal Tradition, Emad Hamdeh
The Role of the ʿUlamā’ in the Thoughts of ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghudda, Emad Hamdeh
“No But”—Understanding Sally Jenkins’ Friction with Feminism, Steven Master and Taylor Joy Mitchell
Submissions from 2016
Audio Tours of Fish: Angling for an Effective Mediated Speech, Sally Blomstrom, Barbara Hayford, and Lori A. Mumpower
Multiple Perspectives Community Engagement Assessment Model, Sally Blomstrom, Barbara Hayford, Lori A. Mumpower, and Andrelle Bobinsky
The Formative Years of an Iconoclastic Salafi Scholar, Emad Hamdeh
Sherwood Anderson’s "Shadowy Figure": Rural Masculinity in the Modernizing Midwest, Andy Oler
Multimodal Presentations in the Humanities, Andy Oler and Lucas Weakley
Submissions from 2015
The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa By Rudolph Ware III, Emad Hamdeh
Formation and Assessment of a Tool to Evaluate STEM Literacy in Service-Learning Projects, Barbara Hayford, Sally Blomstrom, and Lori A. Mumpower
An Interview with Dilip K. Basu, Geoffrey Kain
Focusing the Village: Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali and Prafulla Mohanti's My Village, My Life, Geoffrey Kain
Guest Editor's Column, Geoffrey Kain
Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of Performance Enhancement Technologies in Sports, John Lamothe
Virginia as a Response to Parental Influence, Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Submissions from 2014
"I Don't Know if That Was the Right Thing to Do": Cross-Disciplinary/Cross-Institutional Faculty Respond to L2 Writing, Lindsey Ives, Elizabeth Leahy, Anni Leming, Tom Pierce, and Michael Schwartz
“Their Song Filled the Whole Night”: Not Without Laughter, Hinterlands Jazz, and Rural Modernity, Andy Oler
Submissions from 2013
Competition in Higher Education: Build It and They Will Come or You Have to Spend Money to Make Money, Matthew R. Sharp
Submissions from 2012
Service-Learning as a Pedagogical Approach for Net Generation Learners: A Case Study, Sally Blomstrom
New Media and Ethno-Politics in the Guinean Diaspora, Mohamed S. Camara
Abstinence Mission at Odds with Evidence: Sticky Shame and Forbidden Pleasures, Lynn Koller
A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Public Apology and Acts of Contrition, James Shoopman
Submissions from 2011
Defining and Addressing Expectations for L2 Writers Across Disciplines, Lindsey Ives, Tom Pierce, and Michael Schwartz
Review of Neeti Nair's Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India, Geoffrey Kain
The Machinery of Design: Playing with Brecht, the Surrealists, and Provocative Images, Lynn Koller
Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy, Taylor Joy Mitchell
Staff Terminations in the Church: A Beastly Endeavor, James Shoopman
Submissions from 2010
Assessing Service-Learning to Improve Instruction, Sally Blomstrom and Hak Tam
Continuing the Gandhi Legacy: An Interview with Arun Gandhi, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 2009
Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” and the “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear
Book Review: Fireship: The Terror Weapon of the Age of Sail, Robert Oxley
Book Review: The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British & French Navies, 1650-1815, Robert Oxley
Submissions from 2008
Benediction and Malediction in Fulani Culture: Exploring an Afro-Muslim Perception of the Socio-Spiritual Dimensions of Success and Failure, Mohamed Camara
Media, Civil Society and Political Culture in West Africa, Mohamed Saliou Camara
Can Good Muslims Be Good Americans?, James Shoopman
Submissions from 2007
Nation Building and the Politics of Islamic Internationalism in Guinea: Toward an Understanding of Muslims’ Experience of Globalization in Africa, Mohamed S. Camara
Gaurav's Troubles, Geoffrey Kain
Globalization and the Deepening Indian-U.S. Partnership in an Age of Entrenched Anti-Americanism, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 2005
Tuning In (or Out) the Big Voice of Arundhati Roy Following The God of Small Things, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 2004
R.K. Narayan: Straddling Metropole and Malgudi, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 2003
Dissertation Distress: A Room of One's Own With a Crib and a Computer, Joanne Detore-Nakamura
From Gunboats to Transgenic Seed: The Western Quest for Tools of Enforced Global Dependency, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 2002
Talkative Man: R.K. Narayan's Consummate Performance of Narayan, Geoffrey Kain
The Civil War Gulf Blockade: The Unpublished Journal of a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer Aboard the USS Vincennes, 1861-1864, Robert M. Oxley
Submissions from 2001
"My Village My Mind": Prafulla Mohanti's Internal Landscape, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 1999
An Interview with Prafulla Mohanti, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 1994
Twelve Step Addiction Recovery Groups: An American Religious Movement, James Shoopman
Submissions from 1993
Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend, Donna Jean Kessler
Submissions from 1991
Change and Stasis in Dream of the Red Chamber, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 1990
The Scarlet Letter and the Red Star: Hawthorne's Appeal to China's Students of American Literature, Geoffrey Kain
Submissions from 1989
Religion in China, Geoffrey Kain
