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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an introduction to understanding the impact of communication messages related to environmental issues. Students will examine their own environmental practices, research environmental communication practices in organizations, and make recommendations for appropriately promoting environmental issues. [**Core Curriculum Goal Area 10]
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3.00 Credits
A course proposed for inclusion in the University curriculum. May not be offered more than two times as an experimental course.
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3.00 Credits
This class frames research as a way of knowing and provides balanced treatment to both quantitative and qualitative traditions in communication inquiry. Conceptually, this class will provide in-depth discussion about the role of reasoning in the research enterprise and how this process 'plays out' in planning and writing a research proposal and report. Students will understand the differences (and utility) of three methodological frameworks (quantitative, interpretive/systems, and critical). Prerequisite: COMM 2000 or instructor consent.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes oral and written communication related to interview settings such as employment, job performance, information gathering, health, persuasive, and counseling. Students will learn fundamental concepts and principles of interviewing, develop skills for researching and collecting data relevant to interviews, create interview question guides, practice communication skills as the interviewee and interviewer in simulated and real settings, deliver presentations related to the interview process, and develop critical listening skills in interview settings. This course is designed to prepare individuals for taking part in various interviews throughout their career. [Core Curriculum Goal Area 1]
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3.00 Credits
This course examines historical and contemporary communication models, theories, and processes within organizational environments. Students will critique social practices and examine the effects of communication messages on employees, employers, and external publics. Topics of analysis include organizational change, decision-making, socialization, gendered identities, leadership, bullying, diversity and inclusion, emotion, technology, and conflict management. Students will learn to develop effective communication behaviors for being successful in their organizational lives. [Core Curriculum Goal Area 5]
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help you become aware of the processes and theories of intercultural communication within and about relationships that impact our personal and professional lives. Through self-analysis, case studies, practical application, and critique of cultural practices, you will examine the influence of communicative behaviors on intercultural relationships, groups, and society. Concepts include perception, ethics, conflict, cultural awareness, cultural bias, intercultural communication competence, power, nonverbal communication, and immigration. [Core Curriculum Goal Area(s) 7 & 8]
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how communication functions to develop, maintain, enrich, or challenge family relationships. Topics covered include the meaning of narratives and stories, family roles and rules, decision-making, conflict resolution, exploration of family types, cultural implications of family functioning, societal influences on family functioning, and examining communication changes throughout the family life cycle. Overall, this course is designed to develop understanding of, and ability to, analyze communication within families through theory, research, and experiential application of concepts. [Core Curriculum Goal Area 7]
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore the historical and contemporary theory, research, and practice of gender communication. Students will examine the relationship between gender and communication and explore how communication influences our understanding of biological sex and gender as a cultural construction. Contexts include the impact of gender communication in in a variety of relationships such as friendships, romantic partners, family life, educational, political, and workplace settings. Overall, this course introduces students to various perspectives on gender and encourages an understanding of, and respect for, all of those perspectives. [Core Curriculum Goal Area(s) 5 & 7]
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3.00 Credits
The course examines health communication through theory, research, and experiential application of concepts in interpersonal, public, mediated, and organizational health care contexts. The course emphasizes issues of ethics and communication variables such as verbal, nonverbal, conflict, cultural competency, listening, and self-disclosure between individuals, health care providers, patients, and families. Overall, this course will help students understand how personal, societal, political, and culture factors impact health communication and healthcare among diverse populations. [Core Curriculum Goal Area(s) 7 & 9]
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the intersections between environmental issues, communication processes, and social change. Students will explore the unique contribution that communication theory and research can bring to the study of the environment in private and public contexts such as political, legal, organizational, educational, mediated, relational, and cultural. Students will learn how to appropriately advocate for environmental change in private and public spheres. Overall, this course helps students understand how communication creates, shapes, and maintains social realities as we make sense of our decisions about how to negotiate relationships between humans and Earth. [Core Curriculum Goal Area 10]
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