Communication
Programs
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Courses
ASL 1111: Intro to Amer Sign Language I
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Functional use of American Sign Language for students with no prior knowledge of ASL and Deaf Culture. May fulfill CLAS language requirement (with ASL 1112, 1151 and 1152).
ASL 1151
ASL 1112: Intro to American Sign Lang II
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Continuation of ASL I with increase understanding and knowledge of the ASL through description, classified and facial. Each unit has student/instructor interaction and information on grammar, comprehension and Deaf Culture. May fulfill CLAS language requirement (with ASL 1111, 1151 and 1152).
ASL 1111
ASL 1152
ASL 1151: Intro to ASL 1 Lab
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Practice lab to accompany ASL 1111. May fulfill CLAS language requirement (with ASL 1111, 1112 and 1152).
ASL 1111
ASL 1152: Intro to ASL 2 Lab
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Practice lab to accompany ASL 1112. May fulfill CLAS language requirement (with ASL 1111, 1112, and 1151).
ASL 1112
COM 1000: Surv of Communication Studies
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Process of communication; range of perspectives from which communication can be studied (from classical rhetoric to contemporary theory); the functions communication serves; and the forms of communication such as interpersonal, small group, organizational, public address, and mass media.
COM 1100: Public Speaking
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Principles of communication related to speech composition and delivery; finding, analyzing, organizing and presenting material in ways appropriate to and effective with diverse audiences.
COM 1101: Business & Prof Communication
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Communication strategies and skills for a variety of business professional settings. Combines public speaking and small group organizational communication, featuring individual and group presentations. Not intended for Communication Department majors.
COM 1102: COM Foundations for Engrs
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Technical & professional communication: Oral & visual presentations, including technical reports; formulation/evaluation of data-driven arguments; group communication & listening skills. This course is only for students enrolled in Mechnical Engineering.
COM 1300: Film Analysis
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Methods and perspectives used to analyze visual media drawing on contemporary and historically important films. Historical, theoretical, and aesthetic approaches to film analysis, as well as the social, political and economic forces that influence film content. This course does not fulfill a COM major requirement.
COM 1400: Introduction to Deaf Studies
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Introduces the history, language, culture, artistry, and contemporary life of the American Deaf community from a Communication and interdisciplinary perspective.
COM 1903: Communication Internship
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Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
COM 1906: Communication Internship
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Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
COM 1909: Communication Internship
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Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
COM 1910: Journalism
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COM1910 is a 0-credit placeholder for students who are completing an internship for a particular concentration but are not looking to receive course credit for it.
COM 1920: Production
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com1920 is a 0-credit placeholder for students who are completing an internship for a particular concentration but are not looking to receive course credit for it.
COM 1930: PR
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COM 1930 is a 0-credit placeholder for students who are completing an internship for a particular concentration but are not looking to receive course credit for it.
COM 2200: Theories of Rhetoric
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Rhetoric as the process of symbolic creation and recreation of community identity. Theory and history of rhetoric applications to the study of politics, popular culture, speeches, media images, artistic works, advertising, and legal issues.
COM 2240: Theories of Perform Studies
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Exploration of theory surrounding the embodied and aesthetic elements of solo and group performance. Evaluates key approaches to performing literature, performance art, performance for social change, oral traditions, performance ethnography, and performance in everyday life.
COM 2280: Theories of Persuasion
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Presents the theoretical processes by which communication influences the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of message recipients. Both rhetorical and social scientific approaches to persuasion are examined. Application is made to the areas of advertising, public relations, politics and health communication.
COM 2300: Theories of Mass Communication
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Traces the evolution and structure of core theoretical approaches to understanding mass communication phenomena. Both behavioral and critical approaches and their related research traditions are explored.
COM 2340: Theories of Visual Com & Cultu
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Introduction to the major theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of images as communicative phenomena. Explores the philosophical and strategic implications of these approaches and applies them both to the analysis and production of visual messages in a variety of media and contexts.
COM 2400: Theories of Interpersonal Com
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Survey of concepts and theories in interpersonal communication. Focuses on dyadic interaction and relationships as created, maintained, and modified through verbal and nonverbal behavior.
COM 2440: Theories of Organizational Com
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Exploration of the relationship between organizational and communication theories. Addresses issues of leadership, structure, culture, decision-making, communication channels, conflict, change, motivation, performance, diversity management, and external communication as they relate to organizations.
COM 2993: Communication Internship
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Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
COM 2996: Communication Internship
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More intensive, in depth work/study/program in radio, television, advertising, publicty or public relations.
COM 3201: Rhetoric & Social Justice
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Examination of public discourse surrounding issues in social justice and human rights. Through traditional and contemporary rhetorical theory, rhetorical strategies are traced through contemporary movements.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3203: Communication Law & Policy
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Constitutional, statutory, and case law as well as other public policies affecting communication professions. Surveys a wide-range of issues related to the First Amendment, access, broadcasting, commercial speech, copyright, defamation, obscenity, political speech and privacy.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3204: Rhetoric and Democracy
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An upper-level course in which students study important rhetorical artifacts and theoretical perspectives to come to understand important ways that rhetoric has served and sometimes disserved democracy. The specific focus of the course will change according to the instructor and the semester taught. (Pre-requisites will be waived when the course is offered for the Study Abroad in Greece program). Instructor's permission needed to waive pre-requisites.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3206: Argumentation & Advocacy
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Argumentation theory and practice, emphasizing the construction of well-reasoned arguments and attacks/defense of arguments in a variety of contexts in which argument can be used in the interest of advocacy.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3207: African American Rhetoric
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The symbolic construction of African American identity in the United States through an analysis of speeches, films, television and other media. (Pre-requisites will be waived for Africana Studies concentrators or minors).
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3208: Rhetoric and Myth
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The relationship among rhetoric, myth, and culture with attention paid to the forces that shape mythic consciousness in culture(s). The focus of the course will vary according to instructor and semester the course is taught. (Pre-requisites will be waived when offered for the study abroad in Greece program or instructor's permission).
COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2340 or COM 2200 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3209: Rhetorics of Race
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Explores the rhetorical constructions, through language, visual, and material artifacts, of racialized identities and publics. Focus on rhetorical theories that explore and challenge these constructions.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3212: Rhetoric ofConspiracy Theories
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Explores the relationships that have the most consequences for us. Examines ways to rework relational dilemmas, collisions through dialogue, and generate effective communicative strategies.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3240: Performance for Social Change
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Performance as a powerful medium of art and art as a powerful tool for social change. Studying established performance artists and creating original peformance pieces, students address social issues through various modes of performance.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3241: Performance of Literature
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Solo and group performance of poetry, prose, and drama. Focus on rhetorical power of performed literature. Combines elements of theatre, literature and communication.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2400 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2440
COM 3243: Performance Art
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Introduction to performance art, a highly diverse theatrical art form that has gained popularity in American and European performance since the 1960s. Analysis of well-known performance artists as well as creation and performance of original student pieces. Emphasis on relationships among language, visual arts, music and dance; the construction and expression of self and identity through performance; and the relationship of performance to rhetoric and social change. Previous performance experience a bonus but not required.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3246: Performance of Greek Lit
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Students analyze and perform both ancient and contemporary Greek literary texts; the performances, both solo and group are at Greek archaeological sites based on Greek oral traditions, poetry and drama, such as from Homer, Sappho, Antigone and Medea. THIS COURSE IS ONLY OFFERED IN THE SUMMER STUDY ABROAD IN GREECE PROGRAM.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3247: Storytelling
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Focus on story craft, form and practice. May include sound stories, image stories, performance, personal narrative, oral history, nonfiction. Attention on how to use stories for personal and social change.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3248: Performance Ethnography
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Explores ethnographic and autoethnographic performance as an artistic tool to make discoveries about our world. Uses methods such as interviewing, participant observation fieldwork, and self-reflection to create original performance that challenge ideas of """self"""" and """"other""""."
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3249: Performance& Intersectionality
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Practice of the embodied and aesthetic elements of intersectional thought. Examine artistic and methodological innovations in global feminisms, queer thought, decolonial praxis, and transformative arts-based traditions.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3290: Special Topics in Rhetoric
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Topic or problem in the Rhetoric & Performance area of communication selected by the instructor.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3291: Spec Top in Performance
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Special Topic in Performance.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3301: Intro to Film & Video Prod
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In-studio workshop that deals with basic television production techniques, including producing and directing short interview programs, news, demonstrations and short dramatic pieces. Discussion of current problems in the management and operation of a television broadcasting station.
COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3302: Advanced Film & Video Prod
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Visual aspects of location single camera video productions, audio acquisition, lighting, post production support, video editing and digital effects and finished distribution. Each student will work as producer, director, camerman, editor and writer. Helps students understand the world of film and video funding, production and distribution.
COM 3301
COM 3303: Screenwriting
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Development of narrative strategies through improvisation and techniques of mediated visualization using video.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440 and COM 1300
COM 3304: Documentary Theory & Practice
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A study of the documentary as art, propaganda, social document, and instrument for social change. After a review of theory and work in documentary, students develop their own short works. For COM majors who have taken COM 3600, this course counts as a Free Elective. For COM majors who have not taken COM 3600, this course counts as a COM 3000-level course.
COM 3305: Radio Broadcasting
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Is a vital medium, which needs imagination and innovation to continue to attract wide and diverse audiences. This hands-on course will explore: the business of radio/streaming; creative writing, presentation for news, music, and podcasting; live broadcasting; and studio skills.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3306: Audio Production
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Hands-on studio course serves as introduction to the history, fundamentals and methods of audio production used in radio, television and recording studios. Students learn, identify and operate different aspects of audio production hardware such as microphones, mixing boards, and digital multi-rack recorders. Students will complete in-studio or remote recording projects for evaluation.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3308: Digital Image Production
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This hands-on workshop introduces to the fundamentals of using digital images to communicate specific information. Students produce still and moving images for use in public relations, advertising, photojournalism, and electronic or web-based publication.
(COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440)
COM 3321: Interactive Media Design
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Study of the principles of creating effective communication for the World Wide Web. Explores basic web design techniques with emphasis on designing and integrating diverse media elements. Focus on the creation and manipulation of text, graphics, audio and video for the Web.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3340: Film History
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Evolution of film as an art form; includes the impact of technology.
COM 1300 and COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3341: Gender and Film
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This course attends to the role of cinematic images in the cultural production of gender in contemporary societies. Students analyze images of gender in a variety of films, as well as the work of film makers who have been marginalized because of gender. This analysis of specific films is grounded in course readings taken from primary sources in feminist film theory and criticism, gender theory and media studies. Students will have the opportunity to propose and explore analytic, creative, and/or theoretical projects within the purview of the course theme. Outside viewing required. (Pre-requisites will be waived for Women's Studies concentrators or minors).
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3342: International Cinema
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Study of the film of or about a particular country with emphasis on political, social, cultural and artistic issues.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440 or COM 2340
COM 3343: Contemporary Cinema
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Seminar course in which various strategies are applied to the analysis of contemporary films.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3351: Media & Society
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Structure and content of the major media industries in America (radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, recordings, and books), and how each interacts with individuals, groups, and institutions. Students analyze and critique media systems and content in terms of social, legal, political, and economics forces that influence them.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3352: Media & Technology
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Surveys the development of communication technologies from the printing press through the internet and beyond. Technological development will be used as a way to explore critical issues about economic development, the nature of meaning, technological determinism and globalization.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3353: Media & Politics
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Examination of political communication research, theory and history. A particular focus on the role of media, such as advertising and news reporting on political campaigns and policymaking.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3354: Media Criticism
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Analysis of contemporary film, television, music, print media and electronic media from a cultural studies perspective.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3356: Media Audiences
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Introduction to the study, measurement and analysis of media audiences, merging theoretical approaches with applied methods for understanding user behavior.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3357: CriticalApproachesAdvertising
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Focuses primarily on commercial advertising, teaches us to examine and critique the consumerist logic of advertising culture and understand how that logic is a byproduct of a capitalist system that values profit/commodity/wealth over democracy, equality, and collective rights.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3360: Introduction to Journalism
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News is an integral part of our lives. This course aims to provide a critical understanding of the role of journalism in modern society, combining theoretical perspectives on the making of news with insights from the journalists, broadcasters and editors who produce it. Students will analyze research material on journalism in the press, as well as examining newsmaking on television and on the internet.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3363: Broadcast Journalism
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Styles and techniques of broadcast journalism performance, including studio and location reporting and interviewing. Historical and contemporary trends in broadcast journalism explored.
COM 3360
COM 3365: Sports Journalism
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Evolution and current trends in sports journalism, emerging platforms and technologies, reporting with social media, developing source relationships, competing with your sources, working with media relations, developing written and oral reporting skills, anchor-analyst and sports-talk formats.
COM 3360
COM 3366: Multimedia Journalism
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Students learn to write across media platforms, create integrated news packages, and maintain strong journalistic principles, techniques and ethics.
COM 3360
COM 3367: Journalism Topics
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Rotating topics in journalism. Each offering will give students in-depth exposure to a particular area of journalism, taught by a foremost expert in that area.
COM 3360
COM 3368: Feature Writing
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Longform articles remain a staple in journalism, and this course will show students how to explore topics in broader contexts. They will learn advanced reporting, interviewing and storytelling techniques so they can create more expansive news and feature accounts.
COM 3360
COM 3390: Spec Top in Media Studies
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Topic or problem in the Media & Film area of communication selected by the instructor.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3391: Spec Top Media Production
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Special Topics - Media Production
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3401: Relational COM Studies
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Explores everyday communication between people across many contexts. Critical examination of the personal, social, and cultural dimensions of human relationships. Experiential activities augment lectures/discussions.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3402: Family Communication
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Explores the relationships that have the most consequences for us. Examines ways to rework relational dilemmas, collisions through dialogue, and generate effective communicative strategies.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3403: Intercultural Communication
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The impact on culture of communication styles, and practices. The role of communication in personal and professional intercultural relationships.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3404: Communication & Conflict
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Communicative elements of conflict that arise out of personal and cultural differences in a variety of interpersonal interactions and relationships.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3405: Health Communication
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The role of communication in constructing the health beliefs of individuals, interactions between providers and patients, cultural dimensions of dyadic and team encounters, mediated health messages and strategic public health campaigns.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3406: Gender & Communication
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Communication of women and men against the backdrop of society and feminism in such communicative contexts as families, schools, friendships and relationships, organizations, media, and technology. (Pre-requisites will be waived for Gender & Women's Studies concentrators or minors).
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3409: Social Identity Perspectives
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Students will learn about social identity theories and perspectives, the connections between personal and social identities; socialization and cultural norms, intergroup competition, prejudice, and bias; and intergroup contact, cooperation, and equity.
COM 3442: Team Based Communication
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Theory and practice of communication for idea generation and problem-solving in groups, teams, and in other multiple contexts.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3443: Work Life Negotiation
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Explores the increasingly blurred intersections of """public"""" work and """"private"""" lives
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3444: Interviewing
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Theory and practice of methods in selected interview settings: informational, employment, and persuasive. Emphasis on communication between two persons, questioning techniques, and the logical and cultural bases of organizational persuasion.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3445: COM Consulting in Organization
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Course explores theory and practice of communication consulting through a variety of case studies in the field of organizational/corporate communication. Students will be expected to work as part of a consulting team for part of the semester.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3446: Space, Time & Tech in Organiz.
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Considers individuals' experiences of organizational spaces, time, and technologies across diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts. Examines how workplace designs (Facebook's new Menlo Park building), pace of life (shrinking vacation time), and technologies (audio-video conferencing tools) influence organizational communication processes.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3448: Leadership
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Introduces scholarship addressing injustice and misunderstanding in America. Students will develop a dialogic perspective and a set of skills as one means of transforming themselves and their community.
COM 3449: Applied Topics in Organization
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Examines current events, social issues, and relevant topics through an organizational communication lens. Exploring a particular topic or theme, students employ organizational communication theories and approaches to consider how a chosen issue is organized, complicated, and even resolved through communication.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3450: Sexual Violence in Org
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Utilizes organizational theories and perspectives to examine violence as a material and symbolic structural process before employing organizational communication theories and approaches to consider how sexual violence is organized, perpetuated, complicated, and resolved through communication.
COM 3460: Public Relations
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Provides a foundation for students interested in the field of public relations. It chronicles the development of the profession from its earliest beginnings to its role in modern management. Also attempts to bridge the gap that exists between theory and practice. It achieves this by emphasizing the fundamental management perspective of the profession and the persuasive intent of message construction while highlighting the four essential skills required for success in the industry - research, writing, planning and problem solving.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3461: Advertising
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Strategies and techniques used in contemporary American advertising: consumer behavior, market research and analysis, message development for print and broadcast, and media selection.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3462: Public Relations Writing
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Offers students the foundation for producing a variety of written public relations materials. Structure includes an overview of the journalistic style of writing along with extensive practice in writing fundamentals. Following the work on enhancing writing skills, students will develop a variety of pieces for their portfolios. Final class products include print news releases, position papers, feature stories, media advisories, media kit, and other related assignments. Course is strongly recommended for students interested in public relations, advertising, marketing, and organizational communication.
COM 3460
COM 3465: SpecTop in PR & Advertising
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Topic or problem in the PR & Advertising area of communication selected by the instructor.
COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
COM 3490: SpTopIntrpersonalIntrcultural
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Topic or problem in the interpersonal/intercultural area of communication selected by the instructor.
COM 3600: Social Justice Documentary
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Students will work together to create a documentary film that examines a social justice issue. Only three credits counts toward the COM major/minor, and the other three are free electives. If taken twice, six credits count towards free electives.
COM 3993: WFI Internship
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WFI Internship Permission of director is required.
COM 4001: Qualitative Research in COM
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Review of basis principles of critical inquiry in the interpretive paradigm. Reading and designing qualitative research in communication through gathering and critically analyzing literature in the field and proposing an original study. Methods include ethnography and textual analysis.
COM 4002: Quantitative Research in COM
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Review of basic principles of scientific inquiry in the empirical paradigm. Reading and designing quantitative research in communication through gathering and critically analyzing literature in the field and proposing an original study. Methods include experiments and surveys.
COM 5050: Senior Project
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Design, implementation, and presentation of a group research project in which students apply the knowledge and skills learned through the Communication program of study to the investigation of rhetorical or communication phenomena.
COM 4001 or COM 4002
COM 5100: Directed Study
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Supervised project culminating in term paper.
COM 5200: Topics
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Intensive workshops in selected areas of professional development or communication research.
COM 5300: DialogueIdentity&SociaJustice
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Strategically topic to increase understanding of self, others, facilitated dialogue on a specific identity systemic (in)equity, (in)justice, and their own agency to enact change. Individuals learn skills to engage in honest and dignifying conversations as they build relationships and community.
COM 5464: Public Relations Campaigns
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Course explores a variety of case studies in the field of public relations including examples in media relations, crisis communication and planning. Following the review of cases, student groups will develop a professional campaign and present the campaign.
COM 3462 and (COM 4001 or COM 4002)
COM 5600: Special Topics in Production
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One-Credit Workshops in areas of media and multimedia production. Course may be repeated six times