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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 New Media Applications. This course explores the roles and potentials of various traditional and emergent technologies/media in organizations' internal and external communication processes. Considering issues inherent to contexts, messages, and audiences, students gain insights about choosing and applying media in particular situations, and recognizing how such choices affect meaning-making. Special attention is devoted to the ways in which new technologies/media are transforming organizations' day-to-day functioning, identities, and public relationships. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Readings in Communication. Study and assessment of major literature in communication. Competence demonstrated in research assignments and papers. Course may be repeated once for a total of 6 semester hours. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Persuation and Media. This course explores psychological, relational, and rhetorical theories of persuasion and provides students with practical strategies. Considering the functions of persuasion in organizational and public contexts, emphasis is placed on the roles of technology and media in facilitating creative and effective messages and campaigns. 3 hours seminar.
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College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Issue Management. Issue Management deals with issues such as problem solving, crisis communication and the process of shaping public opinion. Areas such as lobbying, political public relations, persuasion, dialogue, apologia, and rhetorical approaches to public influence are dealt with as means of managing organization-public relationships. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Seminar in Organizational Communication. This course focuses on special topics in organizational communication relating to leadership strategies and tools for assessment of organizational culture. Leadership is viewed in behavioral and interactionist terms rather than as a position within an organizational hierarchy. Systems of organizational culture are viewed as patterned behaviors with consequences for organizational effectiveness. Tools are offered for observation and intervention in organizational development efforts focused on team building and leadership. 3 hours seminar.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Survey of Public and Organizational Relations. This course overviews the related disciplines of organizational communication and public relations, with an integrative approach to understanding organizations' internal and external communication processes. Topics include: comparative structural conceptions of organizations; key organizational processes (e.g., leadership, change management, technology/media use, cultural diversity, and assimilation); organizational identity; informative and persuasive public campaigns; dialogic public partnerships; and issue/crisis management. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Leadership and Collaborative Innovation. Students explore communication dynamics of teams and small groups with emphasis on leadership and innovation. Recognizing that contemporary organizations often value teamwork (rather than top-down delegation) as means for creative problem solving, this course examines theories and practices pertaining to: leadership; membership; interpersonal and inter-group conflict management; cultural heterogeneity; problem solving and decision making; meeting facilitation; and cooperative execution of complex projects. Course content is conducted through and experiential group practicum. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 to 6.00 Internship: Communication. Prerequisites: Communication Studies majors only; departmental approval. Off-campus practicum assignments that range from serving on a political campaign staff to coaching students and/or conducting forensic tournaments or assisting on a Public Relations staff. Broad, balanced and locally supervised experience by arrangements.)
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Globalization and Contemporary Communicaiton. This capstone course in the Public and Organizational Relations curriculum integrates programmatic topics within discussions of globalization's processes and consequences. Considering themes pertaining to new technologies/media, inter- and mulit-culturalism, organizational identity, and organizational culture, the course examines theoretical, ethical, and practical dimensions of contemporary cases. Guest lecturers from various academic and professional backgrounds provide opportunities for students to interact with experienced practitioners and to explore pertinent communication problems of globalization. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Department: COMMUNICATION STUDIES Credits: 3.00 Media and Mass Culture. Influences and effects of the media on society; policy decisions and the influence of the broadcast media as conveyors of information and stimulus for change. Open to all graduate students. 3 hours lecture.
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