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Spring
2008
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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 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 2008, Spring 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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 2007
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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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 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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
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 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
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 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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 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 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, 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: 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 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 2008, Spring 2008, Summer 2007, Spring 2007
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 2008
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 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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 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: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 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: 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: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
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
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
COM 5100 -
Directed Study
Description: Supervised project culminating in term paper.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
COM 5200 -
Topics
Description: Intensive workshops in selected areas of professional development or communication research.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
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