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COMM 5085 - Pedagogy and Communication
Study of pedagogy and communication. Examines philosophical, theoretical, and
practical issues faced by university instructors.
COMM 5120 - Group Processes
Theoretical and practical examination of task group processes. The role of communication
and technology in group development, maintenance, decision making, leadership, and
performance.
COMM 5160 - Performative Writing
Seminar in experimental scholarly/critical writing. Prepares students to produce
and critique writing that may challenge current modes of acceptable expository academic
writing. Explores a variety of textual and theoretical perspectives for writing produced
for both the page and the stage.
COMM 5180 - Qualitative Research Methods in Communication
Qualitative research methodologies for communication studies research.
COMM 5185 - Quantitative Research Methods in Communication
Experimental and quantitative techniques usable in research in communication.
COMM 5220 - Organizational Communication
Study of the transmission of information and ideas within an organization with
emphasis on the problems encountered in the business world.
COMM 5221 - Crisis and Disaster Communication
Theoretical and practical examination of communication during crises and/or disasters.
The role of communication in crisis/disaster planning, real-time crisis response,
and post-crisis recovery and sensemaking.
COMM 5226 - Seminar in Health Communication
Introduction of communication theories and approaches related to health care in
interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication settings.
COMM 5240 - Rhetoric and Mediated Culture
Rhetorical consequences of mediated discourse on American culture. May include
critical and cultural approaches for theorizing the rhetorical creation and maintenance
of political identity, social movements, campaign or war rhetoric, theories of mediated
persuasion and political influence, ideological and feminist criticism of media, the
rhetorical aspects of popular culture, and theories of aesthetic rhetorics.
COMM 5260 - Adaptation and Staging
Historical and contemporary theoretical approaches to the adaptation and staging
of texts for performance.
COMM 5265 - Performance Methods
Survey of 20th- and 21st-century performance methods. Examination of performance
methods as critical discourses and how they impact teaching, performance, and the
means of writing about performance.
COMM 5325 - Communication Theory
Survey of scientific and humanistic perspectives on the communication process
and social contexts in which it occurs.
COMM 5340 - Rhetorical Methods
Use of critical and rhetorical theories in the investigation and evaluation of
rhetorical acts and artifacts.
COMM 5345 - Rhetorical Theory
Examination of significant rhetorical theories and theorists.
COMM 5365 - Performance Theory
Historical and contemporary theoretical approaches to performance studies, including
theories from related disciplines and their impact on theory and practice in performance
studies.
COMM 5420 - Seminar in Computer-Mediated Communication
Examination of communication in technologically mediated environments through
principles derived from cognitive and social psychology. Emphasis on theory and research
in computer-mediated communication with special emphasis on CMC as an area leading
to original research.
COMM 5440 - Public Address Studies
Research and theory in the critical interpretation and assessment of public discourse.
COMM 5445 - Feminist Criticism
Examination of research and theories of feminist criticism in communication studies
focusing on themes, traditions, and touchstones of gender communication from a critical
perspective.
COMM 5465 - Performance and Autoethnography
This course explores various forms of autoethnographic inquiry to consider the
ways in which race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and dis/ability are socially
constructed and performed in everyday life. As a performance-based course, students
will use their bodies throughout the course as methodological tools to question their
social selves, intersectional identities, and ways of being in the world.
COMM 5545 - Race and Public Culture
Studies and functionality of race in public culture. Introduction to core theoretical
concepts related to critical race studies. An examination of case studies related
to race, racialization, and racism in public discourse in the United States.
COMM 5565 - Black Matters and the Body
This Black feminist centered interdisciplinary course asks how a Black feminist
sense of place might help us understand critical questions about embodiment, spatiality,
and power relations. This course considers arguments about the phenomenological, performative,
and cultural implications of embodying and enacting "diversity" in the academy.
COMM 5625 - Communication Consulting
Examination of organization communication consulting and of communication theorists
and practitioners. Opportunities to develop and/or refine training and facilitating
skills and unique models of communication consulting.
COMM 5645 - Rherorics of Worldmaking
This course draws on queer worldmaking, queer of color worldmaking, new materialism,
utopia, speculative and science fiction, and performance art as generative sources
for imagining the future, interrogating the possibilities, limitations, and promises
of each for making new worlds to which we can aspire.
COMM 5740 - Visual Rhetoric
Study of the effect and effectiveness of images in a number of contexts. An introduction
to studies on visual culture, which includes topics such as iconography, memory studies,
photojournalism and democracy, desire and the image, archiving, body politics, and
spectatorship and the politics of viewing.
COMM 5745 - Rhetorics of Protest, Social Movement(s) and Resistance
This course explores relationships between rhetoric and the movement of social
imaginaries with a focus on how people communicate with and about social justice as
rhetorical agents, attempting to change public culture. Since the lessons of the past
are also key to understanding the conditions of possibility for change today and in
the future, this course surveys a range of historically situated social agitators.
COMM 5820 - Seminar in Communication Processes
Contemporary research and theory in communication processes. Rotating topics.
COMM 5840 - Seminar in Rhetorical Studies
Contemporary research and theory in oral rhetorical studies. Rotating topics.
COMM 5860 - Seminar in Performance Studies
Contemporary research and theory in performance studies. Rotating topics.
COMM 5880 - Seminar in Communication Studies and Research
Rotating topics.
Arranged Undergraduate Courses in Communication Studies
COMM 5480 - Practicum
COMM 5481 - Graduate Internship
COMM 5900/5910 - Special Problems
For students capable of developing a problem independently through conference
and activities directed by the instructor. Problem chosen by the student with the
consent of the department director.
COMM 5920/5930 - Research Problem in Lieu of Thesis
COMM 5950 - Master's Thesis
To be scheduled only with consent of department. 6 hours credit required. No credit
assigned until thesis has been completed and filed with the graduate dean. Continuous
enrollment required once work on thesis has begun.