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Comm 105, 106 Oral Communication Skills for International Students
2 credits eachOffers training in aural discrimination of component parts of American speech, pronunciation, and phonetics to help international students acquire standards of general American speech.
4 creditsFocuses on message exchange in dyadic interaction. Emphasizes development of various communication skills in interpersonal contexts.
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4 creditsProvides an introduction to cultural and intercultural communication. Students are exposed to a variety of cultures—both national and ethnic—through readings, lectures, and guest speakers from the multicultural community.
4 creditsOffers a critical evaluation of how the media influence individual and societal perceptions, values, and behavior. Examines a variety of media systems and practices across cultures that contribute to individual and collective meaning; analyzes how that process in turn shapes communication practices.
4 creditsEmphasizes developing public speaking ability and critical awareness of the processes, content, and form of oral communication. Open to freshmen and sophomores who do not have previous speech experience.
4 creditsExamines the communication variables within the small, task-oriented group. Emphasizes the decision-making process.
4 creditsEmphasis is on newspaper style and structures: inverted pyramid; grammar; punctuation; spelling; and principles of clear, concise writing.
4 creditsIntroduction to making news judgments, interviewing, news gathering, and alternative structures of stories. Focuses on spot news, speeches, obituaries, and press releases. Prerequisite: Comm 251.
Comm 300 Research Strategies
4 creditsExamines key concepts and methods for gathering and evaluating information. Students gain an understanding of the research process within the field of communication, from formulating a research question and organizing a search strategy to hands-on research. Prerequisite course for 400-level human communication courses.
4 creditsAnalyzes various media operations, including book, magazine, and newspaper publication; film, radio, and television; advertising and public relations; and the Internet. Considers how competition, ownership, audience, and government influence content and other management decisions. Prerequisite: Comm 201.
4 creditsPublic speaking course for students who have taken an introductory course, or for college juniors and seniors who have not taken Comm 210 and have experience in public speaking. Emphasizes content strategies, alternate organizational patterns, speaking style, and use of language.
4 creditsProvides instruction and practice in editing newspaper copy, writing headlines, and applying design techniques, including use of photos, color, graphic elements, and typography. Offers desktop computer and paste-up experience. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
4 creditsCovers the study, mastery, and application of skills required for newspaper and magazine photojournalism: photo content, photo essay, editor-photographer relationships, ethics of photojournalism, and printing techniques, including computer image production. Prerequisites: Comm 251 and Art 240; Art 250 or demonstrated photographic and darkroom skills.
4 creditsExamines the nonlinguistic aspects of human communication. Students review literature and use exercises to promote awareness of nonverbal message exchanges. Prerequisite: Comm 125.
4 creditsFocuses on how communication affects interpersonal relationships during relationship development, maintenance, and decay. Prerequisite: Comm 125.
4 creditsExplores the theory and practice of the oral presentation of literature. Emphasizes development of verbal skills to present one's interpretation of various selections of prose and poetry. Culminates in the preparation and presentation of a manuscript speech. Prerequisite: Comm 210.
4 creditsExamines and develops interviewee and interviewer skills in job selection interviews, as well as social scientific interviewing techniques.
4 creditsExamines the history, basic concepts, and tools of public relations. Covers image-making, media relations, crisis management, strategic planning, and case studies. Prerequisite: Comm 201.
4 creditsLectures, readings, and exercises address three central questions: 1) What are communication and culture, and what is the nature of the relationship between them? 2) What can be studied as a focused inquiry in intercultural communication? and 3) What constitutes communication competence in intercultural encounters?
4 creditsStudy and application of the primary aesthetic movements that have impacted film production practices.
4 creditsExplores advanced desktop publishing techniques. Students create a complex publication using many of the features essential to professional desktop publishing. Includes elements of design and typography.
4 creditsStudy and practice of persuasive communication. Examines social and psychological foundations, ethical issues, and contemporary theory and practice.
4 creditsExplores critical thinking and its direct application to propositions of value and public policy. Students participate in two debates.
2 credits a term _ maximum 12 creditsStudents serve on independent student newspaper. Includes writing, editing, photography, production, advertising, and sales. Students need not be enrolled to be a member of newspaper staff, but must be enrolled to receive academic credit. No more than 6 credits may be applied toward major.
4 creditsFocuses on reporting governmental affairs, specialized reporting, and investigative reporting. Analyzes budgets and information gathering techniques. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
4 creditsStudy and application of contemporary theory and criticism in film and video. Prerequisite: Comm 340.
4 creditsIntroduces and analyzes various social, scientific, and humanistic theoretical models of mass communication, with an emphasis on the relationship of these theories to mass media in today's society. Prerequisite: Comm 301.
4 creditsTheory and practice of writing editorials, commentaries, reviews; gathering information; and establishing structure. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
1 to 4 credits a term _ maximum 12 creditsSupervised activity in various forms of communication. Includes the application of principles and theories of communication in educational, professional, and community settings. No more than 6 credits may be applied toward major. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
4 creditsStudents write feature stories for newspapers and magazines and study marketing manuscripts. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
4 creditsOffers training and practice in writing and editing for public relations formats, including news releases, advertising copy, brochures, newsletters, and speeches. Covers writing for various media (e.g., print, and broadcast). Students gain practice using audiovisual techniques. Prerequisite: Comm 201.
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Credit to be arranged - maximum 15 creditsNo more than 6 credits may be applied toward major. Prerequisites: consent of instructor; students must attend organizational meeting at beginning of each quarter.
1 to 4 credits a term - maximum 12 creditsCourse project, research paper, teaching assistantship, or internship/practicum supervised by faculty member that synthesizes four years of learning. Includes a written and oral presentation.
4 creditsSurvey and application of the major classical and twentieth century approaches to analysis and criticism of public communication. Emphasizes understanding and applying various models of analysis.
2 to 4 creditsProvides an introduction to teaching communication courses. Students read material on communication instruction and then apply the concepts by assisting a regular faculty member with development of a course syllabus for an introductory course, preparing and teaching assigned units within the course, and assessing student work. Emphasizes learning through a mentoring experience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
4 creditsExamines the function of communication in the social construction of gender. Students are exposed to historical and contemporary prescriptions relating to women's and men's verbal and nonverbal behaviors within a variety of settings and contexts. Prerequisite: Comm 125.
4 creditsStudies the development of effective short- and long-term relationships between organizations and their various publics. Includes practice in all phases of a public relations campaign, from research through implementation and follow-up. Prerequisite: Comm 391.
4 creditsExplores ethnographic inquiry and its possibilities for creating insights into intercultural communication. Examines the basic philosophy and theory of "cultural pragmatics," with particular attention to the theoretical, descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and critical moments of intercultural inquiry. Prerequisite: Comm 335.
4 creditsCovers the historical background and current status of mass communication media throughout the world. Examines conflicting theories and methods of governmental control of media. Prerequisites: Comm 301 and 361.
4 creditsAnalyzes qualitative and quantitative approaches to research in human communication. Examines the nature of theory and theory development, including theory types, components, functions, and evaluation criteria.
2 creditsA five-week course examining the teacher's role in advising secondary school newspapers and yearbooks. Prerequisites: Comm 301 and 361.
4 creditsExplores negotiation, conflict avoidance, collaboration, competition, and the various strategies and tactics used in a variety of communication contexts (e.g., marital, organizational, and international). Students examine their own past and present conflicts and work on developing productive ways of managing them. Prerequisite: Comm 125.
4 creditsSelected topics in communication based on interest and need. Repeated credit is allowed for different topics. Prerequisites are determined by topic. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Communication and Intercultural Contact
- Addresses issues surrounding the construction of identity in situated communicative events, acts, and scenes. Through ethnographic analysis, participants address cultural categories of communication and demonstrate how various speech communities are communicatively (re)constructed. Prerequisite: Comm 435.
- Communication and Technology
- Examines how communication is affected by technology, emphasizing the Internet and other forms of computer-mediated communication.
- Communication in Friendship
- Examines the role of communication in the formation and maintenance of friendship among various age groups. Also studies the lack of communication skills associated with loneliness.
- Communication Theory
- Examines a broad range of communication theories within the dyadic, group, organizational, public, intercultural, and mass communication contexts.
- Contemporary Theories of Persuasion
- Reviews the major theories of persuasive communication, including the work of Kenneth Burke, I. A. Richards, Richard Weaver, Stephen Toulmin, Chaim Perelman, Milton Rokeach, Ernesto Grassi, Jurgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault. Prerequisite: Comm 342 or 412.
- Family Communication
- Offers a theoretical approach to family communication with an emphasis on systems, dialectical, and narrative theories. Students examine their own family stories.
- Political Communication
- Analyzes political communication practiced by candidates, public officials, and lobbyists, with an emphasis on campaigns, legislative and administrative communication, and lobbying. Prerequisite: Comm 342.
- Presidential Communication
- Analyzes presidential communication with an emphasis on mandated speeches (e.g., inaugurals and state-of-the-union addresses), foreign policy and war speeches, informal communication (e.g., cabinet and staff meetings and news conferences), and policy addresses to the nation. Evaluates the concept of a rhetorical presidency.
4 creditsConsiders how the media contribute to the social construction of masculinity, femininity, and race. Examines the potential effects of mainstream media messages on self and other, including the role of the media in shaping reality. Also explores the portrayal of power in media images. Prerequisites: Comm 125, 200, and 201.
4 creditsReviews major events, trends, concepts, and persons involved in the growth and development of mass media in the United States. Emphasizes relationships between historical occurrences and contemporary media. Prerequisite: Comm 301.
4 creditsExplores the history and development of freedom of speech in America, concentrating on significant United States Supreme Court decisions and contemporary conflicts. Prerequisite: junior standing.
4 creditsStudy of the formal and informal channels of message movement (up, down, and lateral) in modern profit and nonprofit organizations. Examines the role of communication in different theoretical approaches (e.g., classical, cultural, systems, and human resources) and organizational processes (e.g., assimilation, leadership, and decision making). Prerequisites: Comm 125 and 225, or professional experience.
4 creditsStudies the constitutional freedoms and statutory limitations affecting mass media in the United States. Topics include freedom of the press, the right of privacy, libel, media and the courts, copyright, broadcast and cable regulation, obscenity, access to information, advertising regulation, and freedom of the scholastic press. Prerequisite: Comm 301.
4 creditsExplores ethical theories and analyzes major ethical questions facing mass media, such as invasion of privacy, campaign coverage, compassion versus need to know, revealing sources of information, conflict of interest, advertising content, and coverage of crime and violence. Prerequisite: Comm 301.
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