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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
New technologies result in immediate and far-reaching changes in our communications systems and in our communication practices. They even affect how we define ourselves. This course examines a broad array of issues from Artificial Intelligence to the WWW.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how individuals communicate through and about disability. Topics covered include the place of perceptions, identity, language, non verbal behavior, and assistive technology in interpersonal communicative interactions among and about individuals with disabilities in family, friendship, and professional relationships.
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3.00 Credits
This course extends organizational communication theory into the context of organizational effectiveness, and training and development. Through an examination of theories related to topics such as organizational structure, goal setting, organizational change, human resources, and organizational culture, the course provides students with tools to diagnose organizational issues and develop plans to address these issues at an organizational and personal level.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 215
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the intricacies of nonverbal communication through an appreciation for communication theory and research. This enhanced understanding, combined with honing skills, will help shape the way you experience and witness nonverbal communication in interpersonal interactions. In this way, the course will apply to the complexities and contexts of your daily life. Topics covered include kinesics, vocalics, haptics, proxemics, artifacts, chronemics, and physical appearance.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 214
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3.00 Credits
This course refines students' public speaking skills and introduces students to new forms of public speaking. Topics covered include speech structure, speech delivery, impromptu speaking, ceremonial speaking, motivational speaking, style, narratives, and visual aids.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores resolving conflict in a variety of contexts from close interpersonal relationships to family relationships and work relationships. Topics covered include the means of resolving conflict through argument, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 214
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces communication skills needed when working with people in organizational team settings. The focus is on developing a working knowledge of theory and skills for the preparation of, analysis of, and participation in problem-solving-oriented teams. This course focuses on the communication processes of the family, social, work, and political groups that people engage in throughout their personal and public lives. As such, this course will provide students with an understanding of basic concepts and theories that describe these processes, opportunities to analyze how these concepts and theories apply to their team experiences, and practice in applying these concepts and theories to problem-solving situations.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 215
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the organizational communication topic of corporations and social impact. Students will examine how corporations operate sustainably by ethically serving their stakeholders such as employees, the community, suppliers, and customers. Students will analyze and critique corporations' current efforts to communicate their aims for positive social impact. Topics covered include the history of social impact in the development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), organizational communication and reputation, stakeholder communication, and global organizational sustainability efforts. Students will learn how and why corporations go beyond providing a product or service, how the organizations communicate their sustainability efforts, and how corporations navigate the conflict between profit motive and creating a positive social impact.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 215
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to focus on organizational theory as it relates to leadership and change concepts. Students will evaluate organizational leadership in the public sphere and reflect on their own personal leadership as it relates to their own interaction with organizations.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 215
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of communication in the political process. Topics include persuading with political messages, citizen talk about politics, media coverage of politics, political ads, political debates, and politics over the Internet.
Prerequisite:
(COM 209 or SPK 208), COM 211, COM 213
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