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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101,04:192:200, 201, 300. Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course features critical exploration of the theory and research regarding personal and community experiences of social support, its influences on interpersonal relationships and health, and its social functions.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Construct a nuanced definition of social support, including consideration for its various types and how scholarly understanding of social support has evolved over time and across disciplines.
- Identify and explain how social support influences our interpersonal relationships as well as individual outcomes (including health and well-being).
- Compare advanced perspectives on key movements, themes, and thinkers in the study of social support and its relationship with various outcomes.
- Analyze "big ideas" (abstract theoretical concepts) and how such conceptualizations have been extended and applied in contemporary research on supportive communication.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:189:102 or 103, 04:192:200, 04:192:201, 04:192:300; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Nonverbal aspects of human communication, including proxemics, kinesics, haptics, vocalics, eye behavior, human artifacts, and environments; the functions served by nonverbal behavior in interaction.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:189:102 or 103, 04:192:200, 04:192:201, 04:192:300; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and general semantic analysis of language as a component of human communication systems.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of fundamental perspectives on language in communication; use theories and concepts to analyze human behavior.
- Identify and appraise various approaches to language, their methodologies, and implications.
- Analyze features of conversational organization, such as turns and action sequences.
- Analyze how we accomplish basic everyday activities in conversation (e.g., story-telling, complaining, and blaming) and their implications for interpersonal relationships.
- Analyze how nonverbal behaviors contribute to communication.
- Demonstrate proficiency in using evidence to study and understand everyday communication processes.
- Create detailed transcriptions from tapes of ordinary talk.
- Analyze recordings and transcripts of ordinary talk in order to describe how conversational activities are accomplished.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:189:102 or 103, 04:192:200, 04:192:201, 04:192:300; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
The role of communication in social change, diffusion of innovations, and national development.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply an ecological approach to communication.
- Demonstrate how ecological levels are interrelated.
- Explain how ecological factors impact community engagement and practices through case studies.
- Determine appropriate communication strategies to enhance context-placed practices.
- Demonstrate an understanding of community-based principles and ethics.
- Identify how an ecological approach is relevant to certain careers working with communities.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:192:200 and 04:192:300, Open to majors only Corequisites: None
Urban communication addresses the ways individuals, institutions, and information communication technology use organize urban life. This course helps students appreciate the city as a communication environment with its own communicative practices and processes, as well as variations in urban communication related to geography, culture, inequality, and other factors. Students will learn how contemporary urban issues can be understood and addressed through communication and will practice doing urban communication research.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Define the field of urban communication and relevant scholarly concepts.
- Describe how urban spaces “communicate” and promote communication.
- Explain points of convergence between cities and information communication technology (ICT) and media use.
- Examine approaches urban communities use to enhance civic engagement.
- Practice doing urban communication research.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course takes a communication-based approach to key workplace processes that operate in the shadows (e.g., violence, wrongdoing, harassment) and what are called hidden organizations (e.g., terrorist cells, informal economy, secret societies).
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the various problematic practices in organizations and the destructive forms of communication typically associated with them.
- Diagnose dark/problematic communication in organizations and make recommendations for addressing such problems.
- Recognize types of and examples of dark organizations based on the characteristics that determine a dark organization.
- Discuss the (in)effectiveness and (in)appropriateness of organizations and organizational practices that can be described as dark/hidden.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:300; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
An exploration of communication theories and organizational practices that support effective employee onboarding and socialization.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this class, students will be able to:
- Analyze the role of communication in integrating new members into an organization.
- Apply relevant communication theories to explain the dynamic processes of employee socialization in various workplace contexts.
- Evaluate onboarding program design and delivery to determine their effectiveness in achieving individual and organizational goals.
- Use communication theories and concepts to analyze human behavior, including in interpersonal, family, group, health, organizational, or 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: 04:192:300 Communication Research. Open only to Communication majors. Corequisites: None
This course examines how organizations communicate corporate social responsibility (CSR) in response to growing social, environmental, and ethical expectations at the global level. Through case studies, applied projects, and theoretical frameworks, students learn to assess and design effective CSR communication strategies.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Analyze how organizations communicate corporate social responsibility (CSR) to build legitimacy, accountability, and stakeholder trust.
- Evaluate CSR initiatives using communication theories and stakeholder engagement frameworks.
- Design a realistic and ethically grounded CSR partnership proposal that demonstrates mutual organizational and stakeholder benefit.
- Develop strategic communication and engagement plans that promote participation, transparency, and impact.
- Apply professional communication practices to convey complex CSR concepts clearly and persuasively.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:201, 04:192:300; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Examines leadership from a communicative perspective, integrating theory and practice. Combines traditional information components of university courses, with experimental learning activities such as interactive simulations, exercises, case studies, and an organizational simulation.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply communication theories, concepts and skills to the study and practice of leadership.
- Understand fundamental perspectives, theories and concepts of leadership as they apply in relationships, groups, organizational and civic settings.
- Demonstrate an analytic/critical perspective relative to leadership perspectives, theories and concepts.
- Systematically assess individual, group and organization leadership practices and situations.
- Acquire enhanced experience and competency in, and commitment to, personal leadership in relationship, group, organizational, and civic settings.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101, 04:192:200, 04:192:300. Open only to Major. Corequisites: None
This class explores facets of patient-provider communication and their impact on patient and provider satisfaction and health outcomes.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe characteristics of the U.S. healthcare system and analyze their influence on patient-provider communication.
- Appraise the models of the patient-provider relationship and consider how they have framed patient-provider communication.
- Compare different methodological approaches to studying patient-provider communication (e.g., communication as perceptions, as attitudes, as behavior).
- Identify features of patient-provider communication and social/ecological factors (e.g., technology, medical interpreting, physician training) and explicate their significance for the patient-provider relationship and/or health outcomes.