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3.00 Credits
This course is based on theoretical work in cognition and motor behavior and on applied research in computing, sports, and arts. This course analyzes how designers think about human performance systems. Support systems analyzed include online tutorials, wizards, agents, and Web-based systems. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4750 or another LL&C 4000-level graphics or document design course, or graduate standing. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Explore how users get involved in design: as specifiers of requirements, as evaluators, as sounding boards, and as collaborators. Students will gather requirements, design to meet those requirements, and evaluate their success. Cross listed with COMM-4770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420 or permission of instructor. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Lectures and class discussions will analyze narrative theory and interactive narratives in a variety of genres such as oral storytelling, literature, poetry, film, radio programs, artists' books, historical narrative, hypertext fiction, Net Art, and computer games. Students will have the opportunity to apply theory by designing and developing an interactive electronic program OR completing a research paper on interactive narrative. Extra assignments are required in the graduate course. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Knowledge of interactive authoring software or permission of instructor. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4780. Students may not receive credit for both courses. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course is a graduate seminar examining major theories and approaches to studying the media from a cultural studies perspective, with a particular focus on the medium of television. Topics will include: the politics of representation; commercialization; celebrity; media institutions; fictional and factual programming; gender, race, and class. When Offered: Fall alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Most memories of the past are stories that circulate in the present through a variety of media. To probe the 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. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4800. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Graduate students are required to complete additional assignments. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students work on collaborative projects to design human-computer interactions (HCIs) aimed at transforming people's everyday practices. Students work with activity analysis, object-oriented modeling, and UI prototyping. The course serves as the capstone in the HCI MS Certificate. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 6420, COMM 6750, COMM 6760 or COMM 6770. When Offered: Spring term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4180; students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Additional assignments required for students at the 6000 level. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 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. When Offered: Spring term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4820. For COMM 6820, additional statistical analysis as part of each assignment and a literature-based paper on a usability topic are required. Credit Hours: 3
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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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3.00 Credits
Experimental courses tried out in one or two terms. Credit Hours: 3
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master's thesis. Grades of IP are assigned until the thesis has been approved by the faculty adviser and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S. Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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