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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 1.00-4.00 Credits; H) Allows departments to offer special topics not normally offered. Departments may offer more than one special topic. Prerequisites vary by topic.
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3.00 Credits
(Either Semester; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; CW,CS,H) Designed for students to improve and polish their speaking skills for effective presentations in professional settings. It is a performance course with emphasis placed on structure, audience adaptation, style of presentation (oral report and manuscript reading), and use of PowerPoint and Smart Board. Videotaping is used to help speakers understand the relationship between their behaviors and responses of listeners. Prerequisites: CM200.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; S,CW) Introduces students to the practice of qualitative research methods-including participant observation microanalysis, interviewing and content analysis- in communication and the social sciences. Specific methods will vary by semester. Prerequisites: CM130 or CM230 or CM220 or CM405.
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3.00 Credits
(Either Semester; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; CW,H) Designed to explore analytical approaches when applied to a variety of media, including advertising, television sitcoms, new shows, propaganda, film, music and architecture, in order to ascertain the persuasive messages inherent in each genre artifact. By examining the rhetorical choices revealed by each method of criticism, we can better understand the structure of message design, the medium and in larger sense the cultural values that shape both. Prerequisites: CM132 or CM133.
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3.00 Credits
(Either Semester; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; CW,H,I) This course examines symbolic patterns of communication as they relate to issues of diversity. Interactive skills needed to open channels of communication between and among people of diverse backgrounds will be analyzed and developed. A multi-cultural approach to the study of human communication will serve as a basis for exploring issues of diversity that include but are not limited to race, gender, class, ability, orientation, religion and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
(Either Semester; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,S) Examines the strategic uses of communication by individuals in organizations and by organizations as a whole in the pursuit of organizational goals. Provides students with a theoretical vocabulary to analyze communication in organizational settings in order to understand a variety of organizational processes such as social networks, leadership, and power. Focuses on personal and organizational ethics in workplace communication. Prerequisites: CM130 and CM230 and CM220.
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4.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 1.00-4.00 Credits; H)
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3.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,CS) Topics in communication philosophy examine the relationship between thoughts, words, and actions. The study of rhetoric will be the basis for each course as it applies to contexts such as specific social movements, health care, public discourse, diversity, conflicts and debates, political campaigns, and family dynamics. Prerequisites: CM130 and CM230.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Odd Years; 3.00 Credits; H) Explores how communication functions to promote health, the important role of information in health care, the development of communication campaigns to promote health awareness, alternative and multicultural approaches to health care, the promotion of ethical health communication, an the use of new health communication technologies. Prerequisites: CM130 and CM230.
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3.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,CW,CS) This course gives students the opportunity to examine the oral traditions of the language through the art of reading, writing, listening to, watching and telling stories. Stories are at the heart of the human experience. They form the foundation for many academic disciplines. Stories help us to understand our own beliefs, vlaues traditions and civilities. This course aims to stenghten our appreciation and understanding of storytelling, old and new.
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