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This course allows students to demonstrate their expertise as communication scholars through discussion and evaluation of contemporary research in communication.The course examines qualitative and quantitative methodologies in understanding the research design process.As members of research teams, students design and conduct research projects related to their areas of concentrated study.This is the required major capstone course.(Prerequisites: Senior status and CO 100, CO 101, CO 130, CO 200, at least one intermediate or advanced course in student's area of concentrated study) Three credits.
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This course examines selected aspects of the practice, resources, and issues surrounding communication training and development.It focuses on the techniques and strategies used by business and professional communication trainers and internal and external consultants to assess and diagnose communication problems as part of an overall process of organizational growth and change.Students examine various research methodologies in communication (e.g., interviewing and the communication audit) as diagnostic tools.(Prerequisites: CO 220 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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This course reviews and explores, through simulation and experiential learning, negotiation as a communication process in and among organizations.It focuses on core concepts and approaches to negotiation, and exercises the negotiative process in a contemporary context.In this course, which is open to majors and minors in communication and other disciplines related to the study of humans and their organizations in the work world, participants carry out individual and team work, and contribute on time and proportionately to team preparations and class simulations.(Prerequisites: CO 220 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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This is an upper-level, undergraduate seminar for students in the Organizational Communication emphasis of the major.The course provides an opportunity to examine in depth particular theories of organizational communication, or to conduct research about communi-cation in particular types of organizations.Emphasis is on contemporary theoretical and/or methodological approaches to the close analysis of interpersonal, group, and intercultural communication in organizational settings, or strategic communication practices of organizations with their external audiences/publics.Topics may include: Organizational Communication in the Global Economy; Communication in Healthcare Organizations; Gender and Communication in Organiza-tions; and Communication in Organizational Crisis.(Prerequisites: CO 220 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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This course examines the role of communication media in history, as well as the history of the media industries.From the earliest media of symbolic interaction to the newest technologies, the course examines why different media come into being, how they function in various societies, and their impact.Students come to understand how media have been influential in maintaining social order and as agents of change.The course pays attention to a variety of national media and international perspectives, with special emphasis on the evolution of American broadcasting.(Pre- or co-requisite: CO 130) Three credits.
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Globalization, a complex and transformative process that influences our lives at every level, has produced the increased flow of goods, capital, people, knowledge, images, crime, pollutants, drugs, fashion, viruses, and beliefs across territorial and ideological boundaries of all kinds.This course focuses on the role of communication media (radio, television, film, computers) in the processes of globalization and examines the impact of globalization on cultural representations, cultural identity, and international relations.(Prerequisites: CO 130 or IL 10 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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This course provides an opportunity to examine in depth particular media theories or to conduct careful media analysis and criticism.The course emphasizes contemporary theoretical and/or methodological approaches to the close analysis of television, radio, newspaper, the Internet, and/or magazine texts so as to understand the ways meaning is constructed and situated within the larger social context.Topics may include mass media and the public sphere; television criticism; sex, lies, and videos; and children and the media.Students may take CO 339 up to two times with different topics.(Prerequisites: CO 130 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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This course explores phenomena, trends, and theories related to emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as relationships among those technologies, socio-economic structures, "old" media institutions, media users, and culture.Through a combination of theoretical and practical explorations that emphasize historical, ethical, and critical thinking, the course introduces students to academic and non-academic perspectives on new media.(Prerequisites: CO 130 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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This course examines the relationship between communication and the natural environment.We will discover how the media portray the environment, how environmentalism is produced in public opinion, how the news covers environmental stories, how environmental politics is carried out, how advertising relates to environmental issues, and how narratives construct environments.We will also look at environmental advocacy campaigns and environmental communication in the public sphere.Students investigate how values, attitudes, social structure, and communication affect public perceptions of environmental risk and public opinion about the environment.(Prerequisites CO 100, CO 130) Three credits.
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This course engages a critical understanding of the way in which spirituality is constructed through communication.Using the unique perspectives and empirical tools of the communication discipline, the course seeks to familiarize students with the variety of ways in which spirituality has been studied both within and outside of religion.Examining various contexts that engage spiritual discourses, from interpersonal communication settings to organizational, health and mass mediated settings, students reflect on the potential for spiritual discourses to transform individuals and society, and consider their own participation in such discourses.(Prerequisites: CO 200 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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