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The following courses are regularly offered by the Communication Department.
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COM 1000 -
Surv of Communication Studies
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 1100 -
Public Speaking
Description: Principles of communication related to speech composition and delivery; finding, analyzing, organizing and presenting material in ways appropriate to and effective with diverse audiences. Does not fulfill C&F requirement.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 1101 -
Business & Prof Communication
Description: Communication strategies and skills for a variety of business professional settings. Combines public speaking and small group organizational communication, featuring individual and group presentations. Fulfills the VSB requirement; not intended for Communication Department majors.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 1200 -
Intro to COM Research
Description: Basics of research in communication. Introduction to the philosophy of scientific inquiry, the logic of research design, and the chief quantitative and qualitative methods used in communication studies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 1300 -
Film Analysis
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
COM 1903 -
Communication Internship
Description: Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 1906 -
Communication Internship
Description: Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
COM 1909 -
Communication Internship
Description: Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
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Credit Hours: 9.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 2200 -
Theories of Rhetoric
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
COM 2240 -
Theories of Perform Studies
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
COM 2280 -
Theories of Persuasion
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007
COM 2300 -
Theories of Mass Communication
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008
COM 2340 -
Theories of Visual Com & Cultu
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 2400 -
Theories of Interpersonal Com
Description: Survey of concepts and theories in interpersonal communication. Focuses on dyadic interaction and relationships as created, maintained, and modified through verbal and nonverbal behavior.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 2440 -
Theories of Organizational Com
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 2993 -
Communication Internship
Description: Supervised work/study program in radio, television, advertising, publicity or public relations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 2996 -
Communication Internship
Description: More intensive, in depth work/study/program in radio, television, advertising, publicty or public relations.
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 3201 -
Rhetoric & Social Justice
Description: Examination of public discourse surrounding issues in social justice and human rights. Through traditional and contemporary rhetorical theory, rhetorical strategiew are traced through contemporary movements.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2340 or COM 2240 or COM 2400
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3202 -
Rhetoric, Identity & Conflict
Description: Focused reading of contemporary rhetorical theorists. Examines the cultural use of symbols for the generation of community and/or the promotion of social conflict; rhetoric as performed through ritual acts; and correct and incorrect enactment resulting in social acceptance and alienation. Instructor's permission required.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2340 or COM 2400
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007
COM 3203 -
Communication Law & Policy
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3204 -
Rhetoric and Democracy
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
COM 3205 -
Adv Speaking & Speechwriting
Description: Intensive study of oral style and content; introduction to rhetorical theory and criticism; utilizing these concepts to prepare and deliver speeches.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2006
COM 3206 -
Argumentation & Advocacy
Description: 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 (such topics as political lobbying, agitating for social change, human rights law, civil rights law and other advocacy issues may be explored). Instructor's permission needed to waive pre-requisites.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006
COM 3207 -
African American Rhetoric
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007
COM 3208 -
Rhetoric and Myth
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2007
COM 3240 -
Performance for Social Change
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006
COM 3241 -
Performance of Literature
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
COM 3242 -
African American Performance
Description: Recent work in the African-American Diaspora performance culture. Encompasses music, art, sports, religion, literature, politics as well as examples of performance. U.S. racial formation, and how it intersects, diverges, influences, and is influenced by other diasporic black cultures. (Pre-requisites will be waived for Africana Studies concentrators or minors).
Prerequisites: COM 3207
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006
COM 3243 -
Performance Art
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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COM 3244 -
Folklore & Oral Traditions
Description: Genres of oral literature and an introduction to the methods and aims of folklore research. Two themes in modern folkloristics: the nature of orality in performance and the importance of cultural context.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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COM 3245 -
Voice & Diction
Description: Improvement of vocal quality and articulation through study of vocal anatomy, phonetics, projection, and expressiveness. Emphasis on live and taped performance of readings.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
COM 3246 -
Performance of Greek Lit
Description: 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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2006
COM 3290 -
Spec Top in Rhetoric & Perf
Description: Topic or problem in the Rhetoric & Performance area of communication selected by the instructor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Summer 2007
COM 3301 -
Intro to Film & Video Prod
Description: 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 1300 and COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
COM 3302 -
Advanced Film & Video Prod
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3303 -
Screenwriting
Description: Development of narrative strategies through improvisation and techniques of mediated visualization using video.
Prerequisites: COM 1300 and COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3304 -
Documentary Theory & Practice
Description: 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.
Prerequisites: COM 3301
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3305 -
Radio Broadcasting
Description: The history and principles of commercial radio broadcasting: programming, research, sales, promotions, broadcast engineering and federal regulations. Hands-on-audio production experience with broadcast equipment focusing on the art of audio production and development of public affairs radio program to air on WXVU.
Prerequisites: COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3306 -
Audio Production
Description: 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 3305
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
COM 3307 -
Multimedia Production
Description: Principles of visual design, use of sound and images, and hands-on production of text and animated resources for use in a variety of communication contexts.
Prerequisites: (COM 3301 or COM 3305 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3308 -
Digital Image Production
Description: 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)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009
COM 3340 -
Film History
Description: Evolution of film as an art form; includes the impact of technology.
Prerequisites: COM 1300 and COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006
COM 3341 -
Gender and Film
Description: 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 1300 and COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3342 -
International cinema
Description: Study of the film of or about a particular country with emphasis on political, social, cultural and artistic issues.
Prerequisites: COM 1300 and COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007
COM 3343 -
Contemporary Cinema
Description: Seminar course in which various strategies are applied to the analysis of contemporary films.
Prerequisites: COM 1300 and COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3351 -
Media & Society
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2200
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2006
COM 3352 -
Media & Technology
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2200
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Summer 2007
COM 3353 -
Media & Politics
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
COM 3354 -
Media Criticism
Description: Analysis of contemporary film, television, music, print media and electronic media from a cultural studies perspective.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
COM 3355 -
Media Effects
Description: A service learning course that trains students on how to critically evaluate media content given its role in society and degree of compliance with prevailing media policies. The course culminates with a compilation of analysis results and the production of a research report to be disseminated to academics, advocacy groups, industry executives, and parents.
Prerequisites: COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008
COM 3360 -
Introduction to Journalism
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3361 -
Journalism Practices
Description: Principles of gathering, researching and writing the news for students interested in journalism and those who expect to interact with journalists professionally. Press releases, news leads and features and techniques for successful interviewing. Surveys critical and ethical challenges facing today's journalist; explores business news, media reviews and comment writing, editing and page design, and how computer technology is changing investigative reporting. Classes will be held in a computer lab to simulate newsroom conditions.
Prerequisites: COM 3360 or COM 3160
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3362 -
Feature Writing
Description: Theoretical and practical training in writing feature articles for newspapers and magazines. Develop ideas for articles, carry out research, conduct interviews and write appropriate articles. Suggests strategies for selling written work on a freelance basis. Range of related genres will be surveyed including columns, profiles, review, travel and comment.
Prerequisites: COM 3361 and COM 3361
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
COM 3363 -
Broadcast Journalism
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3364 -
Photojournalism
Description: Exploration of the uses of descriptive and interpretative photography to document views and newsworthy events. Consideration of ethics and law as well as the impact of digital imaging on news gathering and newspaper production processes.
Prerequisites: COM 3361
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007
COM 3390 -
Spec Top in Media & Film
Description: Topic or problem in the Media & Film area of communication selected by the instructor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3401 -
Relational COM Studies
Description: 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 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3402 -
Family Communication
Description: 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 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
COM 3403 -
Intercultural Communication
Description: 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 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3404 -
Communication & Conflict
Description: Communicative elements of conflict that arise out of personal and cultural differences in a variety of interpersonal interactions and relationships. Intergroup conflicts between dominant and minority groups also examined.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2006
COM 3405 -
Health Communication
Description: The role of communication in: constructing the health beliefs of individuals, interactions between profiders and patients, dyadic and team encounters promoting healthy lifestyles, the rhetorics of orthodox and alternative medicine organizations, strategic public health campaigns, and health messages in entertainment media. Student projects: health communication ethnographics of family beliefs and self-efficacy and critique of a health communication campaign.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009
COM 3406 -
Gender & Communication
Description: 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 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Summer 2007
COM 3407 -
Nonverbal Communication
Description: Examination of codes of nonverbal communication within personal, interpersonal, and professional contexts. Topics include appearance, body language, space touch, interpersonal attractiveness, credibility and impression management. Focus on major nonverbal communication theories to understand the role of non-verbals in human interaction.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
COM 3440 -
Leadership
Description: Examination of organizational leadership in the context of managing continuous change. Topics include models and theories of leadership, leading organizational culture, effective leadership models, theories and applications of change management, and leading and sustaining change.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008
COM 3441 -
Negotiation & Dialogue
Description: Examination of the practical, theoretical, and critical analysis of a variety of approaches to negotiation and resolving conflicts. Verbal forms of negotiation, mediation, and dialogue are developed as key components in the maintenance of any healthy organization.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
COM 3442 -
Teambuilding & Small Group Com
Description: Theory and practice of communication for idea generation and problem-solving in groups, teams, and in other multiple contexts.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2280 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
COM 3443 -
Training & Development
Description: Competencies of the successful training professional. Organizational needs assessment, individual skill assessment, technology and modern training techniques. Program design, execution and evaluation.
Prerequisites: COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006
COM 3444 -
Interviewing
Description: 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 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007
COM 3445 -
COM Consulting in Organization
Description: 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 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Summer 2006
COM 3447 -
Globalization, Work, & Organiz
Description: Course focuses on changing landscape of work and organizations within context of globalization. Draws on organizational communication theories to consider various ways of theorizing globalization and how globalizing shapes meanings of work and organizational forms and practices.
Prerequisites: (COM 2200 or COM 2240 or COM 2280 or COM 2400 or COM 2440)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009
COM 3460 -
Public Relations
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2400 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 3461 -
Advertising
Description: 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 2280 or COM 2300 or COM 2340 or COM 2440
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3462 -
Public Relations Writing
Description: 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 3464 -
Public Relations Campaigns
Description: 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 be created and will spend the remainder of the semester developing a professional campaign for a client. The final project is a presentation of this overall public relations plan.
Prerequisites: COM 3462 or COM 3150
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 3490 -
Spec Top in Interpersonal Org
Description: Topic or problem in the interpersonal/Organizational area of communication selected by the instructor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 4001 -
Qualitative Research in COM
Description: 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: COM 1200
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 4002 -
Quantitative Research in COM
Description: 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: COM 1200
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 5000 -
Communication Research
Description: Reading and designing research in communication through gathering and critically analyzing literature in the field and introduction of the chief methods used in communication studies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Summer 2006
COM 5050 -
Senior Project
Description: 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 5000 or COM 4002 or COM 4001
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 5100 -
Directed Study
Description: Supervised project culminating in term paper.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
COM 5150 -
Spec Top in Communication
Description: A topic or problem in Communication selected by the instructor.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002, Fall 2000
COM 5200 -
Topics
Description: Intensive workshops in selected areas of professional development or communication research.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
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