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3.00 Credits
A study of digital rhetoric with emphasis upon the uses of verbal and visual media in digital spaces such as email, discussion lists, webs, blogs, wikis, and community technology centers. An examination of verbal and visual communication for the purposes of persuading, negotiating, contesting, and creating individual and community identities and an exploration of issues such as the relationship between privacy and panopticism, subjectivities and intersubjectivities, local and global communities, and online and offline communities. When Offered: Fall alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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The application of rhetorical concepts in the analysis and appraisal of discourse. Students pursue projects under the direction of the instructor; weekly seminar meetings are devoted principally to discussions of ongoing projects. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 6240. When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for communication majors who wish to incorporate field experience in their educational programs. Students work with local business, industrial, civic or educational organizations in positions where they can observe communication processes and apply written, interpersonal, and public communication skills to the solution of real problems. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate status. When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4300 and COMM 4310. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to techniques for seeing the underlying patterns in verbal data, including conversations, texts, interviews, and protocols. Topics include: conversation analysis; content analysis; activity analysis; narrative analysis; protocol analysis; theme analysis; and discourse analysis. Students will have a chance to read a range of studies, discuss issues relevant to research in the field, practice analytic techniques, and conduct preliminary field research. When Offered: Spring term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
In this seminar, we examine new communication technologies that depend upon reading and writing in counterpoint to four concepts in literacy studies: literacy as practice, literacy as control, literacy as mediation, and vernacular literacy. Our goal is to understand the scope and limits of these concepts for new technologically mediated environments - to see, in what sense, literate technologies challenge, extend or modulate the ways we use texts. When Offered: Fall term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of user research in visual communication. Readings in cross-cultural communication theory generate discussions on how culture affects the interpretation of visual language-that includes text and graphics. Students analyze the important role of graphics in cross-cultural communication and develop heuristics for the creation and use of effective cross-cultural graphics. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4400. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on theories, perspectives and methods of ethnography, and on their applications to the various disciplines in which graduate students are working. Emphasis is given to foundational activities: defining a problem, research design, proposal writing, field methods, and protection of human subjects. Students will undertake original field research involving interviews, multi-sited fieldwork, participant-observation, situated ethnography, archival work, focus groups and audio/videotaping. When Offered: Fall alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will consider methods for gathering users' requirements for product functions and information, ways to test products and information for usability and suitability, and procedures for incorporating the results learned through testing. We will design and conduct usability tests on products, documents, and interfaces of interest. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4420. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This seminar course examines theories that have shaped, and continue to drive, the fields of technical communication and human-computer interaction with an emphasis upon the ways each field makes new knowledge. Connections between theoretical findings, research results, and the evolution of both fields as they are practiced in industry, government, and academia are important themes. Course work includes lectures, discussions, student presentations, and written projects. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 1510 or equivalent. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to a range of theories from across the humanities and social sciences: theories of meaning, discourse, persuasion, interpersonal communication, and mass communication. Also introduces students to how theories are constructed and how knowledge is generated in communication studies. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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