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3.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 3 semester hours. The course explores how people reason and what makes a good persuasive speaking style. After choosing topics on current events, students prepare their arguments and then debate. Students learn to develop effective persuasive speaking skills and to constructively analyze the arguments of others. Prerequisite: COM102.
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Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Organizational communication is the study of how communication occurs in large cooperative networks, especially in work settings. Students learn how to supervise people, attract customers and clients, and understand the values and cultures of the organization within which they work. Knowledge of organizational communication is especially useful for future employees of corporate and non-profit organizations, since effective communication is a critical skill for success. Prerequisite: COM102.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Language, thought, and a particular way of viewing the world are all conveyed through culture, which can refer to people bound together by a shared language or to a sub-set of people contained within a larger society. Intercultural communication examines the way in which culture influences communicative practices behaviorally, affectively, and cognitively. Students who expect to participate in an international work place will better understand the importance of intercultural communication. Prerequisite: COM102
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Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course explores theories that explain communication behavior in relationships, in group decision-making, in work organizations, and in the media. Communication theory explains how and why people construct meaning, how theories explain fact patterns, and what constitutes an appropriate test of a theory. Students will appreciate some of the strange and wonderful things humans do as we create and interpret symbols. Prerequisite: COM102.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course explores how the communication medium, whether smoke signals, newspapers, television or the Internet, influences human communication. With each change in technology, communication changes. These changes alter what it means to be human. Students must be able to understand the power of the media to better manage its influence in their personal and professional lives.
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Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Interviewing is a skill with both theoretical and practical applications. This course prepares students to be excellent interviewers and interviewees in employment, informational, survey, and performance appraisal interviewing. Students also learn resume writing and how to write recommendations, as well as how to create and sustain supportive networks in the work-world. Prerequisite: COM102.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Throughout history, people have protested injustice, prejudice, inhumanity, and colonialism. They have tried, and even sometimes succeeded, in protesting without violence. Persuasion is an alternative to physical aggression. This course examines why and how protest occurs, the challenges protesters face rhetorically, and the available options from which protesters can choose. Students will emerge with an appreciation of how difficult protest is and how important it is for a vital society. Prerequisite COM102, COM240.
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1.00 Credits
On demand.1 semester hour. Students pursue special research in communication studies. Prerequisite: permission of professor.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 1-3 semester hours. This course is a guided work experience in an established institution such as a non-profit or for-profit organization or a governmental institution. The student must arrange the internship in agreement with the instructor and with the office of career services, and the internship must be a learning experience that is connected with the professional communication degree. A contract is required. A maximum of three semester hours can be counted toward the major in communication. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing.
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1.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 1 semester hour. This course is designed for students actively preparing for, and/or participating in, individual intercollegiate events or debate. Pass/no pass grading.
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