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3.00 Credits
Taking a historical and communication-centered approach to understanding how business and professional organizations function, this course addresses the analysis of upward, downward, and lateral communication; communication channels and networks; power and critical theory; organizations as cultures; internal and external public communication; and leadership.The course uses a case study approach.(Prerequisite: CO 200) Three credits.
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The course concentrates on the economic, political, and legal environment of U.S.mass media.Issues include examination of individual media industries, the economic structure of U.S.media markets, media law and regulation, media watchdogs, advocacy organizations, and media users' forms of collective action.The course's content is approached through an institutional analysis perspective, intended to facilitate students' understanding of institutions as dynamic points of confluence for organizations, norms, and individual agents.As part of the course's requirements, students conduct a research project exploring recent developments and/or decision-making processes within one of the major media institutions covered during the semester.(Prerequisite: CO130) Three credit
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This course enables students to examine the relationship between the representation of women and the development of personal and social identity.Students explore issues of gender and reception, cultivating consumerism, body image, and developing relevant new images through theoretical readings as well as the analysis of various media, including television, film, magazines, and advertisements.The course also covers the experiences of women in a variety of media professions. This course meets the U.S. diversity core requirement. ( Prerequisite: CO 130) Three credits.
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This course takes the cultural artifacts that engulf us, from fashion to television and from music to comic books, and removes these practices and texts from simply being "entertainment" or "diversion" and asks what these things mean, how they constitute power, and how they shape and reflect the lived experiences of consumers.This course takes very seriously those things that are typically discarded as lacking substance and instead suggests that the meanings and impact of popular culture have dramatic consequences for political, social, and cultural life in the United States.(Prerequisite: CO 130 or instructor approval) Three credit
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This course explores how social meanings are constructed through commodities and material society, how consumer goods and practices create categories of social difference.In particular, the course focuses on the intersections of consumer practices and gender/sexuality, race and class, articulating the relationship between communication and consumption practices and social/cultural identities.Theoretical approaches include Marxism, Postmodernism, and other economic and social critiques, and explore research methods to empirically investigate questions of culture.Students reflect on questions of social justice in relation to an increasingly materialistic society as they seek to become citizens prepared to "consume with a conscience. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: CO 130) Three credits.
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This course deals with challenges to communication between people of different cultural backgrounds, emphasizing the ways communication practices reveal cultural values and the role of communication in creating and sustaining cultural identities.Students discuss how differences in value orientation, perception, thought patterns, and nonverbal behavior cause misunderstanding, tension, and conflict in business, education, and healthcare settings. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement ( registration preference given to Communication and International Studies majors).(Prerequisite: CO 100 or IL 10 or instructor approval) Three credits.
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In this course students come to understand how families are constituted through symbolic processes and interaction; explore the verbal and non-verbal communication behaviors that are developed and preferred in different kinds of families; learn various theories for understanding family interactions at the individual, dyadic, group, and systems levels; analyze family communication patterns using established theories and methods; connect family dynamics to social trends and processes including the roles of the mass media and popular culture; and explore ways culture, class, gender, and sexuality affect and are affected by family structures, roles, and communication patterns.(Prerequisite: CO 200 or instructor approval) Three credits.
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This course surveys the multidimensional processes used to create, maintain, and transform complex scientific information into everyday healthcare practices.A major emphasis is on the processes and complexities of communicating health information in a variety of settings (in hospitals, families, insurance companies, policy organizations, etc.) and through different channels (face-to-face, in medical records, through the mass media, etc.).We will study the verbal and non-verbal communication behaviors of providers, patients, families, insurers, and others in healthcare contexts, as well as health-related messages in the mass media, in order to understand effective and problematic communication about illness and health.(Prerequisite: CO 220 or CO 130 or instructor approval) Three credits.
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This course allows students to demonstrate their expertise as communication scholars through discussion and evaluation of contemporary research in communication.The course examines qualitative and quantitative methodologies in understanding the research design process.As members of research teams, students design and conduct research projects related to their areas of concentrated study.This is the required major capstone course.(Prerequisites: Senior status and CO 100, CO 101, CO 130, CO 200, at least one intermediate or advanced course in student's area of concentrated study) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines selected aspects of the practice, resources, and issues surrounding communication training and development.It focuses on the techniques and strategies used by business and professional communication trainers and internal and external consultants to assess and diagnose communication problems as part of an overall process of organizational growth and change.Students examine various research methodologies in communication (e.g., interviewing and the communication audit) as diagnostic tools.(Prerequisites: CO 220 and junior or senior status) Three credits.
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