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4.50 Credits
Teaches ability to access, analyze, and evaluate information received from the media. Investigates message design strategies, the effects of media consumption and information fatigue, and the influences of bias and economic forces on media content. Covers meaning formation, verbal and visual rhetorical structures and the effects of media convergence.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Examines the theory and research that explores interpersonal communication. Explores communication processes between dyads, small groups and teams, and in organizational settings. Teaches skills to improve students' communication competence in both personal and professional environments. The course also covers self-awareness, self-disclosure, relational development, and conflict resolution.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Looks at communication across cultures and considers how culture influences communication. Focuses on the dynamics of cross-cultural face-to-face interaction, conflict styles across cultures, societal influences on ethnocentrism and racism, cultural value orientations, non-verbal dimensions of communication, language interaction, stereotypes, relationship development, and cultural adaptation.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Provides a broad survey of the theoretical approaches employed in the study of communication. Focuses on theories relevant to many levels of interaction from interpersonal to mass and mediated communication. Also explores how and why theories are developed and how they can be evaluated.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Introduces students to quantitative and qualitative communication research methods to enable them to become competent evaluators, designers, and authors of research. Teaches the fundamental principles of communication research, providing learners with the knowledge base and experience to answer many questions in the practice of communicating.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Examines critical thinking and ethics and their application to academic, personal, and professional situations. Covers systems of logical reasoning, critical analysis, and evaluation of message content, including supporting evidence, and logical fallacies. Discusses the morality and ramifications of decisionmaking in media industries.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Introduces learners to the principles, functions, and practices of social influence. Examines how to influence others' attitudes, beliefs, opinions, values, and behaviors through communication. Explores scientifically established principles of persuasion that are used in contemporary media.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Provides for the study and application of current theories and research on communication within and among organizations. Includes the study of the influence of management styles on organizational communication. Discussion of communication structure, functions, contexts in organizations, and communication ethics in organizations.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 101 and COM 100, COM 103, or 220) Explores professional speaking and presentations. Identifies and provides practice of theory and skills used in advanced speaking. Teaches creation and integration of text, graphics, audio, and video into presentations. Offers hands-on experience applying theory and methods to create professional presentations.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Explores how popular media represent our diverse and dynamic culture. Focuses on images and narratives of race and gender portrayed in popular culture. Examines cultural forces that influence how such representations are produced and perceived, their political and behavioral consequences, and methods for analyzing and critiquing popular media.
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