HomeSummer Doctoral Seminar 2007
May 14 - 18, 2007
"Intergroup Communication: Its Ubiquity and Dynamics"
Professor Howard Giles
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The Department of Communication at Wayne State University held their second annual Summer Doctoral Seminar in May 2007. This year's seminar leader was Howard Giles (Ph.D.) from the University of California-Santa Barbara, who is one of the most prolific and accomplished communication researchers in the World. Dr. Giles designed the Summer Doctoral Seminar around his new theories on inter-group communication (see Harwood & Giles (Eds.) (2005), "Intergroup Communication: Multiple Perspectives") as a way to expose this year's seminar participants to new and innovative ideas in the field. This year's seminar participants were competitively selected and came from a variety of Ph.D. programs across the USA, incuding Rutgers, Cornell, University of Nebraska, University of Missouri, and, of course, Wayne State. The Summer Doctoral Seminar was designed not only to expose the Ph.D. students to new ideas in the field of communication but also to allow them to develoop professional friendships and working relationships that can be of benefit for the life of their career. Thus, in addition to a rigorous four-day schedule of in-class meetings, participants were also able to socialize outside of the seminar through planned activities to become familiar with each other and to experience the vast array of cultural and social events that define the Wayne State and metro Detroit experience. This year's Summer Doctoral Seminar was a huge success for the Department of Communication.