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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
Principles of group communication, types of groups, group structure, leadership, and membership roles; techniques for working with groups.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Contribute to successful small group participation and satisfaction.
- Engage in critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in small groups during class and out of class.
- Understand current research, theories, and principles of small group processes to provide the basis of effective application.
- Function as a participant-observer within a small group in order to improve skills and succeed in group work.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
Communication in organizations, communication networks, management and communication, decision making, goal setting, and process consultation in varying organizational settings.
Learning Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Identify and understand major concepts and theories related to organizational communication.
- Apply theoretical perspectives and concepts to analyze organizational situations and settings and make recommendations for resolving organizational issues.
- Persuasively communicate (in both written and oral form) connections between course concepts and organizational communication in the world around them.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
Principles and techniques in persuasive communication: credibility, audience analysis, assessment of effects, media selection, resistance to persuasion, and attitude change.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the foundations of persuasive communicative behavior.
- Understand how different theories can be used to explain persuasive behavior.
- Think constructively about one’s own communicative actions and the consequent effects messages send to others both directly and indirectly.
- Identify and apply concepts, definitions, and ideas discussed in class to one’s own individual relationships in hopes of explaining and identifying healthy and unhealthy behavior.
- Advance critical thinking of scholarly material and be able to discuss academic concepts with others.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
Analysis of the interview as a unique communication context, including the application of theoretical concepts and practice in designing and conducting interviews of various types (e.g., surveys, employment, information giving, counseling).
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and describe foundational communication theories and approaches that are evident in different interviewing roles (e.g., interviewer, interviewee, observer) and contexts.
- Compare and contrast various types of interviews, structural options, interactional strategies, and question designs utilized in various interviewing contexts (e.g., informational, employment, research, broadcast news, counseling, persuasive, recruitment, performance, mediation, and/or networking, etc.).
- Apply principles and interviewing when participating as an interviewer (e.g., informational interview - selecting a subject, designing a question list) and as an interviewee (e.g., employment interview - background research and preparing for common questions) and evaluate performance.
- Analyze (as an outside observer) interview events (e.g., healthcare, broadcast news, research, etc.) to determine the effectiveness of the interview choices made by the interviewer and/or the interviewee.
- Design and assemble artifacts (e.g., documents, question lists, research, interview notes, audio/video recordings) related to interviewing that demonstrate competency in written, mediated, and visual communication.
- Display improved skills with engaging in academic dialogue, both written (via paper assignments) and spoken (via class discussions).
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
Basic principles and policies of public relations and advertising; includes history, development, ethics, roles, functions, media selection methods, and message strategies of public relations.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Review the theoretical foundations of public relations by studying rhetorical theory, resource dependency theory, stakeholder theory, persuasion theory and agenda setting theory.
- Study cases which help us understand various successful and poor public relations campaigns and tactics.
- Use theoretical concepts to gain insights into PR campaigns and public events
- Develop professional-level writing skills required in the practice of public relations and become familiar with the rhetorical and communication theories and practices governing writing techniques.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200. Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Organizations represent themselves to various stakeholder groups, both inside the organization and within the environment. In doing so, organizations encounter issues of reputation and identity. Combining theoretical foundations and a case study approach this course will examine these issues critically and analytically.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain fundamental concepts of organizational reputation and representation.
- Describe the importance of reputation and representation as an organizational asset.
- Identify approaches to communication that enable organizations to build, manage, and protect reputation and representation.
- Apply the theoretical and practical aspects of reputation and communication in a real-world context.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, and permission of the instructor. Open only to Communication majors who apply and are accepted. Corequisites: None
Practical field experience in intercultural, international, interpersonal, group, organizational, mass, or speech communication, or public relations and advertising. Requires application to Internship coordinator. Students may register online provided prerequisites are complete.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Reflect and effectively describe their communication competence and expertise (create content) for use in resumes, cover letters, online job applications and interviews and draw conclusions on what kind and type of work they want to pursue.
- Integrate communication theory and their coursework with their experience in the workplace; draw connections between course work and workplace and see theory in action.
- Develop descriptions and explanations of their own workplace experiences; compare and contrast this internship experience with other internships or work experiences; and evaluate the communication culture of the workplace and role of the communication professional.
- Compare and contrast their experiences to their classmates as way of helping the intern put his/her own circumstances into context and by doing so, gain understanding into uniqueness of communication practices within his/her workplace.
- Describe their work tasks and explain the expectations their supervisors have for them and what they hope to learn in the internship.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:192:369 and permission of the instructor. Corequisites: None
To continue 369 Internship.
Note: Requires application to Internship coordinator. Does not count toward major.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Reflect and effectively describe their communication competence and expertise (create content) for use in resumes, cover letters, online job applications and interviews, and draw conclusions on what kind and type of work they want to pursue.
- Integrate communication theory and their coursework with their experience in the workplace; draw connections between course work and workplace and see theory in action.
- Develop descriptions and explanations of their own workplace experiences; compare and contrast this internship experience with other internships or work experiences; and evaluate the communication culture of the workplace and role of the communication professional.
- Interpret the design of messages received (primarily digital ) and apply this knowledge to their own response or to the construction of their own digital messages.
- Develop descriptions and explanations of their own workplace experiences and then compare and contrast their workplace experiences to their classmates as way of helping the intern put his/her own circumstances into context and by doing so, gain understanding into uniqueness of communication practices within his/her workplace.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:300; Open only to Major. Other prerequisites may vary with each offering. Corequisites: None
Topical seminar dealing with issues of concern to contemporary communication studies.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:300; Open only to Major. Other prerequisites may vary with each offering. Corequisites: None
Topical seminar dealing with issues of concern to contemporary communication studies.