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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CMS 06202 or CMS 04205 or permission of instructor Students analyze the special problems of advanced speech composition and delivery through discussion and platform appearance. In addition to strengthening students' command of the fundamentals of public speaking, this course gives attention to rhetorical style and specialized types of speaking situations. This course may not be offered annually.
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Prerequisites: COMP 01112 or ENGR 01201 This course examines the concept of gender as it is rhetorically constructed in contemporary popular culture. Students will analyze how various cultural texts (such as advertisements, popular songs, television shows, or video games) communicate what it means to be masculine and feminine in U.S. culture. The course will examine how these images have changed historically and how depictions of race, class, and sexual identity also contribute to our understandings of gender in popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 or ENGR 01201 Communicating Gender will consider the theory, research, and experience of the intersection between gender and communication. Focus will be given to the ways in which gender, as a concept and set of expectations, is created through communication. Students will also consider their own individual experiences as gendered communicators while studying the varying perspectives of communication studies scholars with regard to this phenomenon.
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3.00 Credits
Students study the nature of human language by examining four major components: phonology, semantics, syntax, morphology. Linguistics principally emphasizes linguistic universals, characteristics which all human languages share. Students also discuss dialect formation, first-language acquisition in children, animal communication systems, and they compare modern linguistic theories.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines systems of communication from a global perspective, analyzing the historical, cultural, and philosophical influences that have shaped those systems. The course enables students to analyze the systemic effects of globalization, new technologies, regulation, efforts of various groups to control development of communication structures, inequities in communication infrastructure, so-called cultural imperialism, and the linkage between international media and diplomacy, economics, and politics.
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Prerequisites: 60 credits required This course provides students with an understanding of research in general and survey research in particular. Theory is applied through emphasis on survey design, sampling, interviewing, tabulating and analysis of data. Students learn the "whys" and "hows" of public opinion polling by doing an actual survey.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 or ENGR 01210 This course focuses on how scholars and researchers study and understand the communication patterns and relationships in families. Family types, roles, and ongoing communication processes are discussed. Students are asked to consider a variety of prospectives and theories of family communication while comparing them to each other and to their own experiences as family members.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CMS 06202 or CMS 04205 or permission of instructor This course focuses on the principles and techniques of argumentative speaking and formal debating. Students study types and tests of evidence and reasoning, and develop skills in logical persuasion, cross examination, intensive research, case preparation, and critical listening. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CMS 01220 or CMS 04200 and CMS 01300 or CMS 04250 This course introduces the student to quantitative and qualitative research methods used in communication studies. Students will learn about research procedures, identification and definition of variables, sampling methods, and basic statistical methods such as discourse analysis, correlational analysis, parametric and non-parametric tests, and descriptive techniques. Students will become familiar with current communication studies research and will design and complete a research project.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 75 credits required or Communication Studies Major, or permission of instructor Under professional supervision in the field, students practice theories and skills learned in the classroom. No part is a prerequisite for another; order is not a factor in selecting this course.
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