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Christenson, Goldsmith Content: Methods of communication research grounded in data collection for the purposes of prediction and explanation (quantitative methods) or description and interpretation (qualitative methods). Course spans philosophy of inquiry; relationship of theory to data in developing questions and hypotheses; logic of sampling, measurement, and statistical inference; uses of interviews, fieldwork, and textual analysis; criteria for evaluating quantitative and qualitative work; research ethics. Prerequisite: Communication 100 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: Independent reading and/or research in an area other than the normal course offerings of the department. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits. Maximum of 4 semester credits, total, in independent study and/or practicum may be counted toward the major.
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Hunt, Kaplan, Reyes Content: Major critical methods for analyzing and understanding communicative action. Major historical developments in rhetorical criticism during the 20th century. Role of criticism in understanding persuasive messages in various forms, including political discourse, advertising, music, film, television. Prerequisite: Communication 203. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Christenson, Kaplan Content: Survey of the key theories and research regarding the role of mass media in shaping society, spanning the early 20th century to the present. Coverage includes areas such as media's impact on the political process, the cultivation of attitudes and values through media exposure, critiques of mass culture and mass society, and the role of interpretation and social construction in media audiences. Prerequisite: Communication 260 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Goldsmith Content: Theories of the processes through which communication enacts identities, constructs relationships, and organizes social interaction. Processes are examined in a variety of contexts, including personal relationships, social and task groups, and institutions such as workplaces and communities. Prerequisite: Communication 260 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Reyes Content: Investigation of public memory as the public negotiation of the past for political purposes in the present. Exploration of how different cultures have remembered and rhetorically constructed traumatic historical events such as the Holocaust and institutionalized slavery. Role of communication and persuasion in public acts of remembrance. Prerequisite: Communication 100 or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Christenson Content: How legislatures, courts, administrative agencies, and the mass communication industries define the rights and responsibilities of the mass media. Evolution and application of First Amendment theory. Argumentation of hypothetical legal cases. Prerequisite: Communication 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Kaplan Content: Critical analysis of the television, film, radio, and multimedia documentary with emphasis on institutional practices that shape and sustain the genre, argument in documentaries, expectations of audiences. Organization of materials for documentaries, editing and montage, principles of visual composition as they relate to moving images, functions of sound, ethical considerations. Planning and production of short radio and television documentaries. Prerequisite: Communication 200 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Goldsmith Content: Culture as produced through systems and practices of communication, communication as a product of culture. Cross-cultural communication, cultural contexts for communication, rules and forms of expression in varied cultural settings. Cultural adaptation, codes, and appropriate communication behaviors; problems of intercultural critique. Communication in a global environment, diversity and multiculturalism. Prerequisites: Junior standing. Communication 100 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Christenson Content: Theoretical perspectives on the political and social role of mass communication in developed and developing nations. Mass communication organizations, content, regulatory models, audiences in diverse cultures. Implications of public versus private ownership of mass media. Evaluation of claims of U.S. cultural imperialism. Minority and ethnic media. Prerequisites: Junior standing. Communication 100. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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