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Mark J. Hlavacik

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Communication Studies

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014
    Major: Communication Arts & Sciences
  • MA, Pennsylvania State University, 2009
    Major: Communication Arts & Sciences
  • BA, Western Illinois University, 2007
    Major: History

Current Scheduled Teaching

COMM 5950.763Master's ThesisSpring 2025
COMM 2040.002Public SpeakingSpring 2025
COMM 2040.201Public SpeakingSpring 2025
COMM 2040.202Public SpeakingSpring 2025
COMM 2040.400Public SpeakingSpring 3W1 2025
COMM 5340.001Rhetorical MethodsSpring 2025
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2025
COMM 5950.753Master's ThesisFall 2024
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

COMM 2040.901Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5950.763Master's ThesisSpring 2024
COMM 5440.001Public Address StudiesSpring 2024 SPOT
COMM 5930.703Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2024
COMM 1440.001Honors Classical ArgumentFall 2023 SPOT
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3445.001Propaganda and PersuasionFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
INFO 6900.047Special ProblemsFall 2023
COMM 5340.001Rhetorical MethodsSpring 2023 SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.201Public SpeakingFall 2022 SPOT
COMM 2040.202Public SpeakingFall 2022 SPOT
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5950.763Master's ThesisSpring 2022
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.201Public SpeakingSpring 2022 Syllabus
COMM 2040.202Public SpeakingSpring 2022 Syllabus
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5950.753Master's ThesisFall 2021
COMM 5950.753Master's ThesisSpring 2021
COMM 5930.703Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2021
COMM 5340.001Rhetorical MethodsSpring 2021 SPOT
COMM 5340.601Rhetorical MethodsSpring 2021 SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4340.001Rhetoric and PoliticsFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5910.703Special ProblemsFall 2020
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2020 SPOT
COMM 5440.001Public Address StudiesSpring 2020
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2020 Syllabus
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5080.001Introduction to Graduate Study and Research in Communication StudiesSpring 2019 SPOT
COMM 5080.601Introduction to Graduate Study and Research in Communication StudiesSpring 2019 SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4340.001Rhetoric and PoliticsFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5340.001Rhetorical MethodsFall 2018 SPOT
COMM 5340.601Rhetorical MethodsFall 2018 SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5440.001Public Address StudiesSpring 2018 SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2018
COMM 5950.753Master's ThesisFall 2017
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4340.001Rhetoric and PoliticsFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5640.001Classical RhetoricSpring 2017 SPOT
COMM 5640.632Classical RhetoricSpring 2017 SPOT
COMM 5950.753Master's ThesisSpring 2017
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4340.001Rhetoric and PoliticsFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingSummer 3W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5440.001Public Address StudiesSpring 2016 SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4340.001Rhetoric and PoliticsFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5640.001Classical RhetoricSpring 2015
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismSpring 2015 Syllabus
COMM 3340.001Methods of Rhetorical CriticismFall 2014 Syllabus
COMM 4340.001Rhetoric and PoliticsFall 2014 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Hlavacik, M.J. (2016). Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform. 216. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Education Press. http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/assigning-blame
  • Book Review

  • Hlavacik, M. (2020). Review of Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship by William Keith & Robert Danisch. WPSU. https://radio.wpsu.org/post/bookmark-beyond-civility-robert-danisch-william-keith
  • Hlavacik, M.J. (2018). Review of Democracy, Deliberation, and Education by Robert Asen. Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 21 365-68.
  • Hlavacik, M.J. (2018). Review of Selling School: The Marketing of Public Education by Catherine DiMartino & Sarah Butler Jessen. Teachers College Record.
  • Hlavacik, M.J. (2012). Review of Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent by Karen Tracy. 98 462-467. Abington, Oxfordshire, Taylor & Francis.
  • Conference Proceeding

  • Lain, B.A., Hlavacik, M.J., Ivanovic, M., Ontiveros-Kersch, B. (2018). Recovering Debate Coach as Civic Figure: Highly Active Debate Coaches, Their Participation in Civic Outreach Activities, and Reward Perceptions.. Recovering Argument: Selected Works from the 19th NCA/AFA Alta Conference on Argumentation. Annandale, Taylor and Francis.
  • Journal Article

  • Krutka, D.G., Hlavacik, M.J. (2022). How Do We Discuss Controversial Issues that Confront Injustices?: Three Approaches to Framing Critical Inquiries. Social Education. 86 (3) 342-345.
  • Hlavacik, M., Schneider. (2021). The Echo of Reform Rhetoric: Arguments About National and Local School Failure in the News, 1984-2016. American Journal of Education. 127 (4) 627-655. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/715037
  • Hlavacik, M., Krutka, D. (2021). Deliberation can wait: How civic litigation makes inquiry critical. Theory and Research in Social Education. 49 (3) 418–448. https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2021.1933665
  • Hlavacik, M. (2019). The Rhetorical Secretary. Phi Delta Kappan. 101 (4) 6. Arlington, VA, Phi Delta Kappan.
  • Hlavacik, M.J., Lain, B.A., Ivanovic, M., Ontiveros-Kersch, B. (2016). The State of College Debate According to a Survey of Its Coaches: Data to Ground the Discussion of Debate and Civic Engagement. Communication Education. 65 382-396. Abington, Oxfordshire, Taylor & Francis.
  • Mitra, D.L., Mann, B., Hlavacik, M.J. (2016). Opting Out: Parents Creating Contested Spaces to Challenge Standardized Tests. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 24 23. Tempe, AZ, Arizona State University. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2142
  • Rhodes, J., Hlavacik, M.J. (2015). Imagining Moral Presidential Speech: Barack Obama’s Niebuhrian Nobel. Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 18 471-503. East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press.
  • Adams, H., Engels, J., Faris, M.J., Hawhee, D., Hlavacik, M.J. (2012). Deliberation in the Midst of Crisis. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies. 12 342-345. Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE.
  • Hlavacik, M.J. (2012). The Democratic Origins of Teachers Union Rhetoric: Margaret Haley’s Speech at the 1904 NEA Convention. Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 15 499-524. East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press.
  • Research Report

  • Hogan, J.M., Hlavacik, M.J. (2012). 2011 Pennsylvania Civic Health Index: Promoting Civic Education and Public Engagement. National Constitution Center.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Champlin, S. (Supporting), Frith, J. (Supporting), Hlavacik, M.J. (Principal), Jensen, K. (Supporting), Lakes, R. (Supporting), Larke-Walsh, G.M. (Supporting), Marrero, M.T. (Supporting), Nogay, D.L. (Supporting), Vickery, J.R. (Supporting), "Research Colloquium in Communication-Allied Disciplines," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $12000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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