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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Provides a communicatively based definition of formal organization and deals with individual-organizational relationships. Addresses topics such as organizational theory, organizational culture, power, technology, decision making, teamwork, leadership, diversity, gender, socialization, and ethics. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1210, 1300, and 1600. Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
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3.00 Credits
Explores select issues in communication. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different issues. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1210, 1300, and 1600.
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3.00 Credits
Acquaints students with general, thematic, and contextual theories of human communication. Gives attention to criteria for evaluating theories. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1210, 1300 and 1600. Restricted to junior/senior COMM majors.
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3.00 Credits
Provides the rhetorical foundations of communication through study of the humanistic traditions of rhetorical theory, with applications to social interaction and message analysis. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1300, 3310.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on principles of argument, the process of critical decision making, and uses and limitations of logic and evidence. Contemporary issues (personal, social, political, or philosophical) are analyzed and debated. Prereq., COMM 1300. Restricted to juniors/ seniors. Credit not granted for this course and COMM 3310.
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3.00 Credits
Explores how persuasion influences decision making, focusing on different definitions and models of persuasion, ethical perspectives on persuasion, qualitative and quantitative research on persuasion, and the tools of motivation, as well as how to create effective and ethical persuasive messages. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1210, 1300, or 2400.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of the role of communication in contemporary political life. Topics include political communication theories, political campaign communication, media and political communication, and the role of political communication in promoting democracy and public policy. Recommended prereqs., COMM 3210, 3300, and 3320, or PSCI 1101.
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3.00 Credits
Explores complex relationships between culture and communication processes from various conceptual perspectives, such as social, psychological, interpretive, and critical. Considers the important role of context (e.g., social, historical, and cultural) in intercultural interactions. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1210, 2400, 2500, and 3210. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: cultural and gender diversity.
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3.00 Credits
Explores communication in families from various theoretical perspectives, such as social constructionism, systems theory, and dialectical theory. Communication patterns and processes created and sustained by family members are examined, including rules, roles, stories, rituals, myths, metaphors, themes, and cycles. Recommended prereqs., COMM 1210, 2400, 2500, and 3210.
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3.00 Credits
Presents theory, research, and exploration into computer-based technologies; studies implications for communication, interaction, and social relationships. Recommended prereq., COMM 1210.
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