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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give training in field and experimental research methods, especially in scientific and technological communication. The student designs and conducts preliminary research projects as time permits. When Offered: A fall-spring sequence annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give training in field and experimental research methods, especially in scientific and technological communication. The student designs and conducts preliminary research projects as time permits. When Offered: A fall-spring sequence annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include such topics as visual perception, design theory, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics software. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4460. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. For graduate students, one additional assignment will be required and their work will be evaluated at a higher level. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course examines typography-the design of text. Students learn the fundamentals of how to choose appropriate fonts, design with type, and integrate text with graphics in print and screen-based compositions. Discussion topics include type anatomy, classification, measurement, readability, and legibility; typographic grids; type and technology; copy fitting and editing type. When Offered: Spring term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4570. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
A practicum in research focusing on methodology for assessing Web usage and computer-mediated behavior. Topics include research design issues, data gathering, sample frames, recruitment and treatment of subjects, and quantitative analysis of online surveys, server bits, and other forms of direct and unobtrusive data. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: at least one previous 4000-level research course; one course in statistics is advisable. When Offered: Offered upon availability of instructor. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the notion of visual literacy-the ability to create effective visual layouts and analyze visual language for meaning. Through readings, discussions, and praxis exercises, students learn the lexicon of visual communication, how to critically evaluate a visual argument, and how to apply visual literacy theory to practice. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4660. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This is a theoretical course exploring three aspects of photography that have a rhetorical component. These aspects are the formal "aesthetic" elements of the photographic image; the psychological, psychoanalytical relationship between viewer, model, camera, and photographer; and the social/political effects of photography in our culture.Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the social uses and impacts of computer-mediated communication in contexts such as education, industry, and informal social interaction. Students may examine traditionally important variables such as self-disclosure, rules, status, power, message sequencing, etc., as well as processes such as reality construction, learning, decision making, and group development. The course introduces analytic procedures that are as useful for spoken or written discourse as for computer-mediated discourse. When Offered: Fall term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This seminar course will investigate issues in hypermedia design and development. Class discussions will include topics such as designing the structure of a hypermedia program and designing the user interface. Students will have an opportunity to put theory into practice by designing and developing an interactive program. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4750, COMM 6400, COMM 6560, or permission of the instructor. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces hypermedia interface design and communication issues involved in designing interactive programs for the World Wide Web. Students will design and develop an interactive Web site or experience and explore related rhetorical, social, cultural, and legal issues. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: 1) completion of Web development or hypermedia development course and 2) knowledge of basics of Web or hypermedia development, or 3) permission of the instructor. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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