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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.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Principles of public speaking; practice in composition, delivery, and criticism of informative, persuasive, and entertaining speeches.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Integrate information and research through readings, discussions, speech analysis, and formal speaking assignments utilizing emerging technologies.
- Understand the applicable communication theories in the subject of public speaking.
- Develop a professional level presentation in an informative, persuasive and mediated context.
- Demonstrate improved oral and written communication skills.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
Principles and techniques of persuasion through argument, evidence, and logical inference. Practice in debate.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand how reasoned argumentation can help them make their own decisions, and how people use arguments to influence others’ decisions through communication.
- Survey dialectical, rhetorical, and logical approaches to argumentation, and practice reconstructing real-life argumentation in order to evaluate its reasonableness and identify fallacious reasoning.
- Apply these insights to build an argumentative case about an issue of your choice. You will evaluate each other’s arguments, engage each other in debate, and finally write an argumentative essay in which you argue your side of the issue.
- Appreciate the risks of improper or sloppy argumentation in applied contexts in life, and the ways critical thinking about argumentation can generate fresh understanding of conflicts in interpersonal, public, and institutional settings.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines children’s and adolescents’ interactions with media and technology and their influence on communication and social development.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use communication theories and concepts to analyze human behavior (specifically: interpersonal, family, and group settings).
- Gather and use evidence to study and understand communication processes and consequences (including asking questions and systematically attempting to answer them, understanding the value and limitations of the research processes and conclusions).
- Write and orally communicate in varied settings (specifically: interpersonal, family, group, and mediated settings).
- Apply communication theories and concepts to social and professional life (including issues of diversity, ethics and civic engagement).
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:192:380 Corequisites: None
This workshop-based course aims to enhance students’ current oral communication skills in a variety of real-life scenarios (personal and professional) with a focus on civic engagement.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Present complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.
- Develop advanced storytelling techniques for presentation scenarios.
- Demonstrate proficiency in virtual presentation strategies.
- Design advanced visual aids to support group and individual presentations.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200 Corequisites: None
This course provides a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment focused on leadership theory and current practice in public and private sector organizations through a communication lens. Leadership models will be analyzed and evaluated for effectiveness from a variety of perspectives providing opportunities to gain a greater understanding of theories, concepts, models, and approaches of leadership in diverse contexts (personal, team, group, organization, community, etc.). Students will also make connections with their own leadership philosophy, experiences, and areas for future growth.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Define what leadership is (and is not) in terms of central characteristics, goals, and principles.
- Identify and describe key foundational theories, approaches, and disciplinary perspectives to the study of leadership and communication.
- Analyze different leadership traits, competencies, skills, and styles and assess their effectiveness in diverse contemporary settings.
- Self-assess one's leadership traits, competencies, skills, and styles, as well as strengths and areas for future growth, and identify a personal leadership philosophy to adopt in personal and professional endeavors.
- Practice principles of leadership in personal and professional endeavors particularly leadership involving group dynamics.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:300, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course examines features of interpersonal conflict situations, explores individual conflict styles, and identifies strategies for managing or resolving interpersonal conflict.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand and describe the dynamics of conflict, influence, and negotiation.
- Demonstrate an ability to assimilate information and identify main themes in the readings, using a writing style that is appropriate for the social sciences.
- Discuss research findings and reflect on how theory and research on conflict, influence, and negotiation are applicable within your own life experiences.
- Apply class concepts to understand the dynamics of real social conflicts in your community.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:300, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course examines the role of interpersonal communication in managing a variety of challenging events in friendships, romantic relationships, and family relationships, such as hurt, conflict, jealousy, negotiating sexual intimacy, terminating relationships, etc.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify some of the challenging experiences that emerge in close relationships and explain the circumstances surrounding these events and the role of interpersonal communication in resolving those events.
- Demonstrate an ability to assimilate readings from class and to write in a manner that is appropriate for the social sciences.
- Demonstrate an ability to use communication concepts to analyze human behavior and to apply those concepts to improve social and professional life.
- Demonstrate competency in library research and an ability to integrate resources to understand a relational phenomenon.
- Demonstrate an ability to construct survey questions and analyze survey data to better understand a relational phenomenon.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:201, 04:192:300; Open only to Major. Seniors. Corequisites: None
The effects of gender roles in interpersonal communication; examination of literature and research on differences between male and female patterns of interaction.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the conceptual foundations of gendered communication including how to think critically about contemporary global issues from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Understand the process of communication and how it affects the social construction of gender as well as gain a better understanding of the terminology related to communication, gender, and culture in terms of how it is put into practice.
- Analyze and synthesize information and ideas from multiple sources in order to generate new ideas and insights.
- Appreciate diverse cultures and intergenerational traditions particularly as they relate to self-identity, education, close relationships, organizations, media, and issues of power/violence.
- Demonstrate an ability to work with a team in planning and presenting scholarly materials as well as facilitating group discussions around issues related to our gendered lives.