36 courses with the subject COMM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
COMM 100Introduction to Communication
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed to provide an introductory survey of the study of communication. The course begins with a general history of the evolution of human communication, and goes on to examine such areas as definitions, models, and basic concepts in communication; the range of verbal and non-verbal codes, and their complex interrelations in the message systems of modern electronic media; and various communication contexts, with emphasis on the structure and function of interpersonal communication and mass communication, particularly broadcast and cable television. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Course Catalog ID: 031166 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores a variety of topics and concepts related to gender, sex, and communication using an intersectional, feminist approach. Specifically, this course examines the ways that individuals and society create, reinforce, and challenge the meaning of gender. This course will discuss and examine how we develop gender identities (and how these identities differ from biological sex), how this identity is shaped through the messages we receive from a number of communication systems (family, education, media, etc.), and how our gender identities in turn influence our communication patterns. As we go through the course, we'll examine various masculine and feminine roles and stereotypes, and the impact of gender stereotypes on communication. We will also consider the limitations of gender binaries, and explore a diverse array of gender identification and expression. Course Note: COMM 215L and WGS 215L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 215L Course Catalog ID: 040915 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines human communication in numerous intercultural and international contexts. Readings, discussion, assignments, and projects are designed to help students achieve cross-cultural competence in mediated communication, interpersonal and group dynamics, and organizational climates. Students will learn how to better exchange meaningful and unambiguous information across cultural boundaries, in a manner that maximizes understanding and minimizes antagonism. Course Catalog ID: 037763 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the understanding of human communication within complex organizations. It addresses the study of messages, interactions, and meaning in the process of managing organizations. Topics include, but are not limited to, superior-subordinate communication, technology in the workplace, message flow and diffusion, the construction and maintenance of organizational culture, communication in diverse organizations, and negotiation and conflict. Course Catalog ID: 037764 Course Offer Number: 1
Formerly: COMM 350 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will present an overview of the role of communication in the manipulation of political opinions. It explores research on a range of political communication and the cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral effects of this communication on the public and examines 549
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Participants intensively examine mass media products, including print media, radio, television, and the visual and musical arts. They develop skills in deconstructing media products and evaluating them to arrive at a sophisticated understanding of how the various mass media are produced and how they interact with society and culture. The course makes use of both theoretical texts and the media products themselves. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Course Catalog ID: 012450 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Since the widespread use of Gutenberg's printing press, there has always been the cultural assumption that information is best communicated through written formats. But since the invention of computers and desktop publishing, the role of visual messages in the communication process has expanded. This course is an exploration into the idea that memorable visual messages with text have the greatest power to inform, educate, and persuade an individual. It aims to discover and explain why some images are remembered while most are not. Course Catalog ID: 040511 550
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the effects of mediated communication on individual cognition. Course topics include the psychological impact of media on attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. These individual level effects are evaluated as they relate to entertainment media, news, and marketing. The course devotes particular attention to variability in these responses across audiences from diverse sociological and psychological backgrounds. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Course Catalog ID: 037765 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course presents an introduction to strategic communication. It focuses on the strategic communication industry (including advertising and public relations), ethics and regulation of the strategic communication industry, and the role of new media technologies in strategic communication. Course Catalog ID: 037766 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the impact of mass media and technology on romantic and sexual relationships. Drawing on theory and research related to gender, sex, and sexuality, we will examine how these relationships are depicted in traditional media such as television, film, and advertising. We will also critically think about the role of technology and new media in developing and maintaining relationships. Course Note: COMM 310L and WGS 310L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 310L Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: COMM 100 or WGS 100 or WGS 150 Course Catalog ID: 040978 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will examine research and theory on persuasion, compliance gaining, and social influence. Topics include message characteristics, credibility, compliance-gaining strategies, advertising, marketing, public health campaigns, decision-making, and motivational appeals. The course will also explore the applicability of research and theory to everyday practice. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: COMM 100 Course Catalog ID: 038177 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed to examine communication in intimate relationships such as friendships, dating, and marital relationships. The goal of the course is to help students become familiar with the topics and theories related to communication over the course of these intimate 554
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Deception occurs in communication behavior across species and lying (i.e., intentional deception) is a pervasive phenomenon in human communication. This course explores the varieties of deceptive communication, their causes and consequences in a wide range of contexts (advertising, art, interspecies contact, family and romantic relationships, journalism, mass media, politics, etc.), and the strategies used to detect their occurrence (behavioral cues, interrogations, integrity testing, polygraphs, etc.). Examines the nature of lying and deception, truth, and various ethical perspectives associated with truth telling and deception. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: COMM 220 Course Catalog ID: 041422 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will focus on community organization, defining power through relationships, communicating across differences, and the limits of community organizing. It focuses on moving from theory to action in the campaign development. It culminates in a group or individual project wherein students must identify a problem, research solutions, and outline a 555
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not Repeatable Description: This course is aimed at developing analytical and communication skills that are necessary for successful negotiations in all walks of life. In addition to the theory and exercises presented in class, students practice negotiating with role-playing simulations that cover a range of topics, including employment negotiation, interpersonal dispute, and intercultural conflict. Students will learn how to analyze their experiences using insights collected from decades of psychological research on social judgment, social cognition, and decision-making. Semester(s) typically offered: Fall and Spring Course Catalog ID: 042566 557
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines theories, research, and practice related to communication before, during, and after crises. Students examine the fundamentals of crisis management and strategic crisis communication. The course emphasizes practical application of theories, strategies, and tactics of communicating to multiple stakeholders in crisis situations. The goal is to help students develop the skills to strategically plan, implement, and evaluate crisis communication efforts across various organizations and crisis scenarios. Additionally, they will enhance their ability to critically analyze crisis communication in real-world contexts. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: COMM 100 and one 200-level COMM course Course Catalog ID: 042796 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: In this course, students will explore processes for developing a comprehensive integrated marketing communication (IMC) campaign, including research, planning, creative, media, and evaluation aspects. Students will construct and execute research plans and learn about the way the advertising/PR industry operates. Students will compile findings and recommendations into a final written plan and oral presentation that comprehensively outlines the integrated marketing campaign developed during the course. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: COMM 270 Course Catalog ID: 040508 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Social Media and Strategic Communication is a course dedicated to exploring the new emerging technologies and mediums influencing business, marketing, public relations, and advertising practices and research. This course acquaints you with practical knowledge and analytical skills necessary to create, evaluate, and execute social media campaigns. This course also provides lectures, iconic and current case studies using social media, team and individual assignments, and engaged activities that will help you in developing a strong social media skill set to take a future job and/or internship interviews in your respective field of study. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: COMM 270 Course Catalog ID: 041478 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: This course offers an independent project undertaken at an off-campus location under the guidance of a faculty advisor and an off-campus supervisor. Internships must be approved by the supervising faculty member in the Communication Department. Students will submit a written final report and, at the discretion of the faculty advisor, an interim report. Details may be obtained from the department chairperson. Grading is "Pass/Fail." Enrollment Requirements: Department consent consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 012459 Course Offer Number: 1
