Communication

Programs

Courses

ASL 1111: Intro to Amer Sign Language I

Program
Credits 3

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).

Corequisites

ASL 1151

Corequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202310

ASL 1112: Intro to American Sign Lang II

Program
Credits 3

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).

Prerequisites

ASL 1111

Prerequisite Courses
Corequisites

ASL 1152

Corequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202310

ASL 1151: Intro to ASL 1 Lab

Program
Credits 1

Practice lab to accompany ASL 1111. May fulfill CLAS language requirement (with ASL 1111, 1112 and 1152).

Corequisites

ASL 1111

Corequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202310

ASL 1152: Intro to ASL 2 Lab

Program
Credits 1

Practice lab to accompany ASL 1112. May fulfill CLAS language requirement (with ASL 1111, 1112, and 1151).

Corequisites

ASL 1112

Corequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202310

COM 1000: Surv of Communication Studies

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200020

COM 1100: Public Speaking

Program
Credits 3

Principles of communication related to speech composition and delivery; finding, analyzing, organizing and presenting material in ways appropriate to and effective with diverse audiences.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200110

COM 1101: Business & Prof Communication

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Effective Term
200030

COM 1102: COM Foundations for Engrs

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
201930

COM 1300: Film Analysis

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200620

COM 1400: Introduction to Deaf Studies

Program
Credits 3

Introduces the history, language, culture, artistry, and contemporary life of the American Deaf community from a Communication and interdisciplinary perspective.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202320

COM 1903: Communication Internship

Program
Credits 3

Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
201930

COM 1906: Communication Internship

Program
Credits 6

Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200020

COM 1909: Communication Internship

Program
Credits 9

Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
200020

COM 1910: Journalism

Program
Credits 0

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202410

COM 1920: Production

Program
Credits 0

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202410

COM 1930: PR

Program
Credits 0

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
202410

COM 2200: Theories of Rhetoric

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200620

COM 2240: Theories of Perform Studies

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 2280: Theories of Persuasion

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Effective Term
200610

COM 2300: Theories of Mass Communication

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 2340: Theories of Visual Com & Cultu

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 2400: Theories of Interpersonal Com

Program
Credits 3

Survey of concepts and theories in interpersonal communication. Focuses on dyadic interaction and relationships as created, maintained, and modified through verbal and nonverbal behavior.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 2440: Theories of Organizational Com

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 2993: Communication Internship

Program
Credits 3

Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
201930

COM 2996: Communication Internship

Program
Credits 6

More intensive, in depth work/study/program in radio, television, advertising, publicty or public relations.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200020

COM 3201: Rhetoric & Social Justice

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
200610

COM 3203: Communication Law & Policy

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Effective Term
200610

COM 3204: Rhetoric and Democracy

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2023, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2016
Effective Term
200720

COM 3206: Argumentation & Advocacy

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2009, Spring 2006

COM 3207: African American Rhetoric

Program
Credits 3

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).

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Effective Term
201920

COM 3208: Rhetoric and Myth

Program
Credits 3

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).

Prerequisites

COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2340 or COM 2200 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2025, Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022
Effective Term
200720

COM 3209: Rhetorics of Race

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2022
Effective Term
202120

COM 3212: Rhetoric ofConspiracy Theories

Program
Credits 3

Explores the relationships that have the most consequences for us. Examines ways to rework relational dilemmas, collisions through dialogue, and generate effective communicative strategies.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023
Effective Term
202320

COM 3240: Performance for Social Change

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2017
Effective Term
200610

COM 3241: Performance of Literature

Program
Credits 3

Solo and group performance of poetry, prose, and drama. Focus on rhetorical power of performed literature. Combines elements of theatre, literature and communication.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2400 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2023, Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2016
Effective Term
201810

COM 3243: Performance Art

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2015
Effective Term
202420

COM 3246: Performance of Greek Lit

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2025, Summer 2024, Summer 2022, Summer 2017
Effective Term
200620

COM 3247: Storytelling

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
Effective Term
202120

COM 3248: Performance Ethnography

Program
Credits 3

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""""."

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2021
Effective Term
202120

COM 3249: Performance& Intersectionality

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Effective Term
202420

COM 3301: Intro to Film & Video Prod

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
201920

COM 3302: Advanced Film & Video Prod

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 3301

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
200620

COM 3304: Documentary Theory & Practice

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
201230

COM 3305: Radio Broadcasting

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
200620

COM 3306: Audio Production

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2007
Effective Term
200620

COM 3308: Digital Image Production

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

(COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440)

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200920

COM 3321: Interactive Media Design

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202120

COM 3341: Gender and Film

Program
Credits 3

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).

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Effective Term
200620

COM 3351: Media & Society

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Effective Term
201920

COM 3352: Media & Technology

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2015
Effective Term
200610

COM 3353: Media & Politics

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Effective Term
202330

COM 3356: Media Audiences

Program
Credits 3

Introduction to the study, measurement and analysis of media audiences, merging theoretical approaches with applied methods for understanding user behavior.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2025, Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022
Effective Term
201630

COM 3357: CriticalApproachesAdvertising

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202520

COM 3360: Introduction to Journalism

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
200620

COM 3363: Broadcast Journalism

Program
Credits 3

Styles and techniques of broadcast journalism performance, including studio and location reporting and interviewing. Historical and contemporary trends in broadcast journalism explored.

Prerequisites

COM 3360

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
200620

COM 3365: Sports Journalism

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 3360

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
201320

COM 3366: Multimedia Journalism

Program
Credits 3

Students learn to write across media platforms, create integrated news packages, and maintain strong journalistic principles, techniques and ethics.

Prerequisites

COM 3360

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Effective Term
201620

COM 3367: Journalism Topics

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 3360

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2020
Effective Term
202520

COM 3368: Feature Writing

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 3360

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025

COM 3401: Relational COM Studies

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Effective Term
200620

COM 3402: Family Communication

Program
Credits 3

Explores the relationships that have the most consequences for us. Examines ways to rework relational dilemmas, collisions through dialogue, and generate effective communicative strategies.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Effective Term
200620

COM 3403: Intercultural Communication

Program
Credits 3

The impact on culture of communication styles, and practices. The role of communication in personal and professional intercultural relationships.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Effective Term
200620

COM 3405: Health Communication

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2011, Spring 2010
Effective Term
202520

COM 3406: Gender & Communication

Program
Credits 3

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).

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Spring 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020
Effective Term
200620

COM 3409: Social Identity Perspectives

Program
Credits 3

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 3444: Interviewing

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Summer 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2018
Effective Term
200610

COM 3445: COM Consulting in Organization

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2022, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Effective Term
200610

COM 3446: Space, Time & Tech in Organiz.

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025
Effective Term
202120

COM 3448: Leadership

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
Effective Term
201410

COM 3449: Applied Topics in Organization

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2340 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Effective Term
202520

COM 3450: Sexual Violence in Org

Program
Credits 3

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.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2002
Effective Term
202420

COM 3460: Public Relations

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
200620

COM 3461: Advertising

Program
Credits 3

Strategies and techniques used in contemporary American advertising: consumer behavior, market research and analysis, message development for print and broadcast, and media selection.

Prerequisites

COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
200620

COM 3462: Public Relations Writing

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 3460

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200620

COM 3600: Social Justice Documentary

Program
Credits 6

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
201520

COM 4001: Qualitative Research in COM

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 4002: Quantitative Research in COM

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200610

COM 5050: Senior Project

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 4001 or COM 4002

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
200020

COM 5200: Topics

Program
Credits 1

Intensive workshops in selected areas of professional development or communication research.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
201330

COM 5300: DialogueIdentity&SociaJustice

Program
Credits 1

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.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202420

COM 5464: Public Relations Campaigns

Program
Credits 3

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.

Prerequisites

COM 3462 and (COM 4001 or COM 4002)

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202120