Scott Tulloch
Associate Professor, Communication Studies Program (COM) Coordinator
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts
EMAIL: stulloch@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: S-628S
Office Hours: Spring 2024 -- On Zoom -- Meeting ID: 913 7128 8770 Passcode: SPECOM (all caps)
Phone: +1 (212) 776-6229
Scott Tulloch is an Associate Professor in the Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Scott earned a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Public Communication from Georgia State University and an M.A. in Communication Studies from The University of Maine. Scott joined BMCC as a full-time faculty member in 2015, after serving as an adjunct professor at St. John’s University.
Expertise
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Communication Studies, Media Studies, Public Address, Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Critical Geography, Urban Communication, Environmental Communication
Degrees
Ph.D. Georgia State University, Rhetoric and Public Address, 2014
M.A. The University of Maine, Communication, 2008
B.S. Millersville University, Speech Communication, 2005
Courses Taught
- The aim of this course is to develop effective skills in speech communication. The student examines how to generate topics and organized ideas, masters elements of audience psychology and practices techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. All elements of speech production and presentation are considered.
- The course introduces the basic concepts and theories of interpersonal communication in personal, educational and business settings. This includes a study of self as communicator, the effect of language on others, verbal and nonverbal expression of thoughts and feelings, and factors which contribute to effective communication. Prerequisite: SPE 100 or permission of department
- The focus of this course is to provide an understanding of the influence and impact on our lives and society by the mass media. The course examines the history, law, technology, economics and politics of the mass media through independent study, field trips, etc. Students are encouraged to be aware of techniques of influence used by the mass media to influence and determine social and political values. In addition, students learn to develop tools for critical analysis of and standards for discriminating consumption of the mass media.
Prerequisite: SPE 100 or permission of department - This course is designed to provide an understanding of intercultural principles and perspectives when communicating with people from diverse cultures. Consideration will be given to both verbal and nonverbal communication processes in the "American" culture, co-cultures, contact cultures, and popular culture. Through readings, lectures, response papers, and interviews, as well as through in-class discussion and exercises, this course will explore how culture shapes communication, how situations are framed through cultural lenses, and how histories, perceptions, values, contexts, aspects of stereotypes, and ethnocentrism all contribute to the complexity of intercultural communication. Prerequisite: SPE 100 or SPE 102
- Students survey benchmark rhetorical perspectives and apply them to analyze various “texts” of the contemporary public sphere, such as: speech; public oratory; radio; television; film and news media; digital media; images; architectural landscapes and geographic place. Students will be introduced to the history of the rhetorical tradition and become acquainted with a wide range of analytical approaches. This introduction to rhetoric and public address aims at empowering students to actively participate in civic discourse and advocacy by honing their ability to critically analyze and respond to rhetorical appeals.
Prerequisite: ENG 101 - Introduction to Communication Studies is a survey course that examines major research areas, perspectives, and theories within the field of communication studies. The course will introduce and review key approaches to the study of human interaction, rhetoric, language, persuasion, and cultural processes across diverse contexts. Specifically, the course provides an interdisciplinary framework from which students will think seriously about how culture and society are constructed in our communicative practices, explore how language and meaning structure our reality, as well as examine the social, cultural, and political impacts of human communication as it unfolds in varied fields including interpersonal communication and conflict resolution, intercultural communication, rhetoric, media studies, as well as organizational and small-group communication.
Research and Projects
Public Discord and the Circulation of Body Worn Camera Recordings of Police-Involved Shootings (Popular Culture Association – American Culture Association 2019 National Conference, Washington DC)
The Montgomery Story Comic: Mythmaking and Linking Nonviolent Movements (Rhetoric Society of America 2018 Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN)
Publications
Styling Sustainable Atlanta: Touring the BeltLine and Public Performances of Concordance, in erin daina mcclellan, Yongjun Shin, & Curry Chandler (Eds.) Urban Communication Reader IV: Cities as Communicative Change Agents, Peter Lang Publishing (2021).
https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Communication-Reader-IV-Communicative/dp/1433181576
Book Review: All My Friends Live in Computers. Impact 12.1 (Summer 2023).
Trauma Informed Approaches to Media Studies: Reflections from an Epicenter. FLOW: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 27.5 (March 15, 2021).
https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/03/trauma-informed-approaches-to-media-studies/
Review of Public Speaking: Concepts and Skills for a Diverse Society. Communication Center Journal 6.1 (2020).
http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ccj/article/view/2096
Carrie Packwood Freeman and Scott J. Tulloch, Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice in Anat Pick & Guinevere Narraway (Eds.) Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Berghahn Books (2013).
https://books.google.com/books?id=qPUcAgAAQBAJ&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false
