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Comm 100 Survey of Communication Studies
2 creditsSurvey of the contexts of human communication: intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, public, and intercultural communication. Additional topics such as conflict, family communication, and gender communication are also introduced.
2 creditsDevelops understanding of mass media and popular culture through critical study of what media does to and for consumers, including the providing of information and entertainment as well as the shaping of attitudes and values.
2 credits eachTraining in aural discrimination of component parts of American speech, pronunciation, and phonetics to help international students acquire standards of general American speech. Credit does not apply toward general education Goal 2.
4 creditsFocuses on message exchange in dyadic interaction. Emphasis is placed on developing a range of communication skills in interpersonal contexts.
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4 creditsAnalysis of various media operations including book, magazine, and newspaper publication; motion pictures; radio; television; advertising; and public relations. Considers how competition, ownership, audiences, and government may influence content and other management decisions. Prerequisites: Comm 100, 101.
4 creditsEmphasis is on 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 creditsStudy of the communication variables within the small, task-oriented group. Emphasis is placed on the decision-making process.
4 creditsExploration of cultural diversity and intercultural contact. Considers how communication is culturally shaped by people around the world, how communication is influenced by culture and, in turn, how communication influences culture.
4 creditsEmphasis on newspaper style and structures: inverted pyramid; grammar; punctuation; spelling; principles of clear, concise writing.
4 creditsUpper Division CoursesIntroduction to making news judgments, interviewing, news gathering, and alternative structures of stories. Focus on spot news, speeches, obituaries, and press releases. Prerequisite: Comm 251.
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 creditsPublic speaking course for students who have taken an introductory course, or for college juniors/seniors who have not taken Comm 210 and have experience in public speaking. Emphasis is on content strategies, alternate organizational patterns, speaking style, and use of language.
4 creditsInstruction and practice in editing newspaper copy, writing headlines, and applying design techniques including use of photos, color, graphic elements, and typography. Includes desktop computer and paste-up experience. Prerequisites: CS 116 and Comm 261.
4 creditsStudy, mastery, and application of skills required for newspaper and magazine photojournalism: photo content, photo essay, editor-photographer relationships, ethics of photojournalism, printing techniques including computer image production. Prerequisites: Comm 251 and Art 240 or demonstrated photographic and darkroom skills.
4 creditsNonlinguistic 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 creditsTheory of and practice in the oral presentation of literature. Emphasis is on developing verbal skills for presenting one's interpretation of various selections of prose and poetry. Culminates in the preparation and presentation of a manuscript speech. Prerequisite: Comm 210.
4 creditsExamination and development of interviewee and interviewer skills in job selection interviews, as well as development of social scientific interviewing techniques.
4 creditsExamination of the history, basic concepts, and tools of public relations. Covers image-making, media relations, crisis management, strategic planning, and case studies. Prerequisites: Comm 201, 251.
4 creditsStudy and application of the primary aesthetic movements that have had an impact on film production practices.
4 creditsStudy and practice of persuasive communication. Examines social/psychological foundations, ethical issues, contemporary theory and practice.
4 creditsCritical thinking and its direct application on propositions of value and public policy. Students participate in two debates.
2 credits per term maximum 12 creditsStudents serve on independent student newspaper. Includes writing, editing, photography, production, advertising, 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 creditsFocus is on reporting governmental affairs, specialized reporting, and investigative reporting. Analysis of budgets, and techniques of information gathering are included. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
4 creditsStudy and application of contemporary theory and criticism for film and video. Prerequisite: Comm 340 or permission of the instructor.
4 creditsIntroduction to and analysis of various social, scientific, and humanistic theoretical models of mass communication, with emphasis on relationship of these theories to mass media in today's society. Prerequisite: Comm 201.
4 creditsTheory of and practice writing editorials, commentaries, reviews; gathering information; and structure. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
1 to 4 credits per term maximum 12 creditsSupervised activity in various forms of communication. Application of principles and theories of communication in educational, professional, and community settings. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. No more than 6 credits may be applied toward major.
4 creditsWriting feature stories for newspapers and magazines. Study marketing manuscripts. Prerequisite: Comm 261.
4 creditsTraining and practice in writing and editing for public relations formats: news releases, advertising copy, brochures, newsletters, and speeches. Writing for various media (e.g., print, broadcast). Practice in use of audiovisual techniques. Prerequisites: Comm 100, 201, 251, 331.
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Credit to be arranged. Maximum 15 credits.Prerequisites: consent of instructor, must attend organizational meeting at beginning of each quarter. No more than 6 credits may be applied toward major.
1 to 4 credits per term maximum 12 creditsCourse project, research paper, teaching assistantship, or internship/practicum supervised by faculty member which synthesizes four years of learning. Includes a written and an oral presentation.
4 creditsSurvey and application of the major classical and twentieth century approaches to the analysis and criticism of public communication. Emphasis is given to understanding and applying various models of analysis.
2 to 4 creditsAn 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, by preparing and teaching assigned units within the course, and by assessing student work. Emphasis is placed on learning through a mentoring experience. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
4 creditsStudy of 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. Prerequisite: CS 116.
4 creditsAn examination of 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 creditsDevelopment 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 331.
4 creditsStudy of ethnographic inquiry and its possibilities for creating insights into intercultural communication. Examination of 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 235.
4 creditsHistorical background and current status of mass communication media throughout the world; conflicting theories and methods of governmental control of media. Prerequisite: Comm 201.
4 creditsAnalysis of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research in human communication. Examination of the nature of theory and theory development including theory types, components, functions, and evaluation criteria.
2 creditsThis is a five-week course examining the teacher's role in advising secondary school newspapers and yearbooks. Prerequisite: Comm 201, 361.
4 creditsStudies negotiation and conflict avoidance, collaboration, competition, and the various strategies and tactics used in a variety of communication contexts (e.g., marital, organizational, 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 to be 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. The lack of communication skills associated with loneliness is also studied.
Communication Theory
Examines a broad range of communication theories within the dyadic, group, organizational, public, intercultural, and mass communication contexts.
Contemporary Theories of Persuasion
A review of 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 Michael Foucault. Prerequisite: Comm 342 or 412.
Family Communication
A theoretical approach to family communication emphasizing systems, dialectical, and narrative theories. In addition, students examine their own family stories.
Political Communication
Analysis of political communication practiced by candidates, public officials, and lobbyists with emphasis on campaigns, legislative and administrative communication, and lobbying. Prerequisite: Comm 342.
Presidential Communication
Analysis of presidential communication with 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, news conferences), and policy addresses to the nation. The concept of a rhetorical presidency is evaluated.
4 creditsConsideration of how the media contributes to the social construction of masculinity, femininity, and race. Examination of potential effects of mainstream media messages on self and other, including the role of the media in shaping reality. The portrayal of power in media images is also examined. Prerequisites: Comm 101, 125.
4 creditsReview of major events, trends, concepts, and persons involved in the growth and development of mass media in the United States. Emphasis placed on relationships between historical occurrences and contemporary media. Prerequisite: Comm 201.
4 creditsHistory 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, human resources) and organizational processes (e.g., assimilation, leadership, decision making). Prerequisites: Comm 125 and 225, or professional experience.
4 creditsStudy of 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 201.
4 creditsStudy of ethical theories and analysis of 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 201.
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501 Research Credit to be arranged
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505 Reading and Conference Credit to be arranged
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507 Seminar Credit to be arranged
1 - Comm 501, 505, 507 limited to 12 credits singly or in combination.