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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the effects of electronic media such as the Internet, multimedia, computers, pop music, and television. The effects examined include changes in social and work relationships, time displacement, audience aggression, child socialization, education, and consumer behavior. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: any communication course or permission of the instructor. When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Most memories of the past are stories that circulate in the present through a variety of media. To probe the rhetorical mechanism of collective memory, this course combines exploration of several visual media with case studies that interpret the rhetorical potential of specific photographs, films, museums, and monuments. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 2610 or WRIT 1110. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6800. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Electronic media such as the Internet, cable television, movies, and pop music are both producers of information and large organizational structures. The course analyzes the interplay between media organizations and society at large. When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine and practice several methods of formal usability testing. Classes will consist of classroom discussion of scenario-based testing methods and statistical analysis of data collected and of laboratory sessions in which students develop, conduct, record, and analyze usability tests. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4420, COMM 4770, or ITEC 2210. When Offered: Spring term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6820. For COMM 6820, additional statistical analysis and a literature-based paper on a usability topic are required. Credit Hours: 4
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the central role of communication in organizations by exploring the way that communication is used in exercising authority, power, and control. Organizations with hierarchical and nontraditional structures are considered. The course also examines the role of communication in the social construction of organizational life. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: an introductory course in the social sciences or management or permission of instructor. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 4
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Readings and projects adapted to the needs of individual students. Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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4.00 Credits
Experimental courses tried out in one or two terms. Credit Hours: 4
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3.00 Credits
Introduces classical rhetoric and emphasizes the use of language as a means of winning the assent, sympathy, or cooperation of an audience. It examines the rhetorical theories of figures such as Gorgias, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Saint Augustine. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern rhetoric, with an emphasis upon the use of language as a means of generating knowledge and understanding and establishing and maintaining human communities. A study of the thetorical theories of figures such as Francis Bacon, George Campbell, Richard Whately, Kenneth Burke, C. Perelman, L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and Michel Foucault. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This is a graduate seminar designed to introduce Ph.D. students to the history of rhetorical theory and its intersections with culture and technology. The course will consider how theoretical reflection about language and other forms of communication is entwined with changes in technology of communication as well as cultural paradigm shifts. Rather than trace a linear evolution of rhetorical theory from Classical Antiquity to the present, the course will focus on competing conceptualizations of rhetoric and rhetorical power in different historical periods. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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