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4.00 Credits
4 hours The course takes a rhetorical perspective on argument. Basic principles of argumentation are explored: problem solving through evidence, reasoning, and persuasion. Analysis and criticism of various types of contemporary speech making based on principles, models, and theories of argumentation. Prerequisite: COMS 132. (HE, E, S)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours The course examines contemporary persuasion theory and its applicability to the media of news, advertising, and political communication. Prerequisites: COMS 130, 132, and COMS 133. (HB, S)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours This course examines key concepts in the area of rhetorical theory. Grounded in classical and contemporary texts, students explore the function of rhetoric in relation to knowledge, community, governance, identity, power, and resistance. Throughout the course, particular attention is given to the relationship between rhetoric and social transformation. Prerequisites: COMS 130, 132, 133. (HB)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours Students are introduced to communication and rhetorical methods including design of experimental, survey, textual, rhetorical, and ethnographic research. Prerequisites: COMS 130, 132, 133. (HBSSM, W, R)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours An in-depth exploration of the relationship between mass media and culture with particular emphasis on the relationship between the media of mass communication and particular fundamental institutions, such as family, government, religious institutions, and the commercial sphere. The course will also offer opportunities for student research concerning how media influence language, values, and social norms. Prerequisite: COMS 133. (HB)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours The course focuses on health-related issues in the multicultural society. Students will examine different values and beliefs related to health in different cultures (e.g., through customs and health-related campaigns/promotions in various cultures) and how they affect health practice in the multicultural society. By taking the functional and the critical approach to communication issues in healthcare settings, students will become better equipped to analyze, understand, improve, and/or solve those issues that arise in the healthcare field in today's multicultural society. Offered alternate years. (Intcl)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours This course will examine human communication in interpersonal, small group, and organizational structures at a higher theoretical level. Students will analyze and synthesize various conceptual, descriptive and explanatory theoretical orientations that have been introduced in previous communication courses. Prerequisite: COMS 130, 132, 133. (HB)
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2.00 Credits
1 or 2 hours
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4.00 Credits
1, 2, or 4 hours Supervised on-campus or off-campus work experience in some area of public communication. No more than four hours may be counted toward the minimum requirement in a communication major.
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4.00 Credits
1, 2, or 4 hours Directed research involves students in research projects conducted under the supervision of departmental faculty. With the approval of the department, students may register for more than one semester (but the cumulative total may not exceed four credit hours). Prerequisite: approval of the department head.
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