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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Beginning skills in American Sign Language (ASL) and skills needed in communication with deaf persons. Offered in Summer Session only. Does not count toward the major.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the different forms of sign language and discuss cultural background of the deaf.
- Acquire a working foundation of ASL grammar and slang.
- Use both expressive and receptive skills.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:192:120 or equivalent course, or permission of the instructor. Offered in Summer Session only Corequisites: None
Intermediate skills in American Sign Language (ASL) and skills needed in communication with deaf persons. Offered during Summer Session only. Does not count toward the major.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand American sign language and gain skills needed in total communication with deaf persons
- Understand psycho-social aspects of deaf culture.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101 Corequisites: None
Basic concepts, models, and theories examining the role of communication in human behavior.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the importance of theory as it relates to communication research and communication practice.
- Name and recognize key features of at least 15 different theories and theoretical perspectives used by communication scholars.
- Describe one’s own worldview of communication based on meta-theoretical considerations.
- Effectively summarize, critique, and apply an existing communication theory to social/professional life.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101 Corequisites: None
Patterns of human interaction, types and stages of relationships, verbal and nonverbal exchanges, strategies and tactics.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the foundations of human communicative behavior.
- Understand the different contexts of interpersonal relationships, and how each context impacts the nature and quality of those relationships.
- Understand how our own behavior affects our interpersonal relationships.
- Understand how different theories can be used to explain relational 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.
- Produce an academically sound research paper highlighting an area of interpersonal communication.
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Credits: 1 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course will explore the nature of persuasive argumentation as applied through the specific lens of parliamentary style debating.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape personal experiences of and perspectives on the world.
- Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence, arguments, and theory in social and historical analysis.
- Understand different theories about human culture, social identity, economic entities, political systems, and other forms of social organization.
- Apply concepts about human and social behavior to particular questions or situations.
- Examine critically philosophical and other theoretical issues concerning the nature of reality, human experience, knowledge, value, and/or cultural production.
- Engage critically in the process of creative expression.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Limited to non-Communication majors Corequisites: None
Development of effective oral presentation and participation skills in interpersonal, small group, organizational and public settings. Particular attention is given to issues of diversity and multiculturalism in presentation and participation. Does not count toward the major.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:189:101 Corequisites: None
Exploration of the uses of experimental, descriptive, historical-critical, and field-research approaches to the study of communication.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demystify the process of conducting communication research and the nature of research design and methods.
- Understand the process of inquiry—how research projects are born, developed, and conducted.
- Critically analyze the statistics and ‘facts’ that are presented in our media, and by our friends, family, and teachers.
- Appreciate how academic research, properly conducted, can be relevant to and inform the processes of our own lives and understandings of the world around us.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines types and qualities of civic infrastructure, civic engagement, and community leadership. Students are introduced to the methods and nature of community communication in varied contexts.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain important types and dimensions of community.
- Explain features of the communication that plays a role in facilitating, disrupting, and creating community and that are markers of weak and strong community communication.
- Analyze key elements of "civic infrastructure" and the individuals, roles, and careers in communities who contribute to and create infrastructure.
- Examine real life cases of community communication and evaluate the aspects that are healthy, dysfunctional/problematic, and challenging for those involved.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter represent a new class of communication platforms that have become quickly interwoven into the everyday lives of millions of people around the world. In this course we will draw on competing communication perspectives to explore the reasons behind the widespread popularity of these platforms. In doing so we will consider the role of individual choice, social influence, technological influence, and how these three perspectives can be combined. We will further explore the implications of social media for personal relationships, youth culture, organizations, social research, and personal privacy.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply multiple communication perspectives to make sense of social media adoption and use, through class discussion, the theory paper and the final projects.
- Understand the various methodological approaches that can be used to study social media by applying class discussion to reading material.
- Discuss social media intelligently using appropriate language and terminology derived from scholarly papers and class discussion.
- Understand the implications of social media for a variety of social issues through the course readings and class discussion.
- Think abstractly about the role of social media in personal and organizational contexts during class discussion and while writing the theory paper and final project.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Social networks are a core part of our lives. We are embedded in networks of friendship, support, and communication -- as well as in organizational, industry, and technological networks. This course explores the emergence and impact of networks, with a focus on understanding and analyzing their structure. Students will learn the fundamentals of network theory and social network analysis, gaining tools to critically evaluate social structures. The class will examine how social connections shape human behavior, success, and creativity.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Apply their knowledge of network data to analyze the structure of social relations.
- Explain foundational concepts, theories, and research findings related to social network analysis.
- Critically evaluate research that uses basic network methodology.
- Apply knowledge of communication networks to solve social, organizational, and interpersonal challenges