49 courses with the subject COM, 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.
Public Speaking: This course develops student ability to prepare and deliver an effective speech for a variety of purposes. Topics include overcoming speech anxiety, composing appropriate beginnings and endings, choosing organizational patterns, and improving diction and body language. (Offered every fall and spring term.) Credit: 4 190
Introduction to Communication: This course examines the processes of communication and multimedia storytelling and serves as a survey of all the Knight School offerings to aid students in making the best selection to suit their interests. The course includes such topics as perception and listening; the development, dissolution and maintenance of relationships; group decision making; public persuasion and mediated communication. This course also introduces students to the tenets, principles, and practice of multi-media storytelling, from podcasts and photos essays to vlogs and online videos. It highlights the dynamic relationship between the media and the medium, and the people who create and consume it. This course serves as the writing-intensive requirement for the major. (Offered every fall and spring term.)
Note that some but not all pharmacy schools require a public speaking course. Business: Some pharmacy programs recommend courses in business, accounting, or economics.
Communication Theory: This course involves the study of various communication theories as they frame research questions and influence conclusions about the ways in which people interact. Theories range from basic concepts of the communication process to complicated interpersonal, public and mass media relationships. This course will also engage students in focused writing instruction for literature review writing in the communication field, including constructing an academic argument; supporting that argument by compiling, digesting, and summarizing research studies of relevance; and referencing materials through appropriate source citation. Prerequisite COM 101 or MMS 101. (Offered every fall and spring term.) Credit: 4
Organizational Communication: This course explores the ways communication builds, maintains, and transforms organizations. Students explore how traditional and contemporary theories of organizational communication illuminate and shape organizational strategies, processes, and practices. Topics include communication in management; organizational culture; interpersonal relationships in the workplace; communication in small groups and teams; leadership; communicating across differences, and strategic and crisis communication. Students will gain an understanding of the importance of global awareness and ethical and social responsibility in organizations.
Integrated Strategic Communication: Strategic communication refers to the totality of an organization's efforts to inform, persuade, motivate, and lead its various publics, which include consumers, investors, employees, and the media. Students will learn how effective strategic messages are created and framed, how different strategic messages garner particular responses, and how to employ communication strategies to advance organizational goals.
Health Communication Campaigns: This integrated strategic communication course focuses on local and global health communication issues, causes, education and campaigns.
Gender and Communication: This course examines the interactive relationship between gender and communication in various communication contexts. Throughout the course, we will explore the multiple ways communication in our society creates and perpetuates gender roles; we consider how individuals enact socially created gender differences in public and private settings and how this affects success, satisfaction, and self-esteem; and we connect gender theory and research to our professional and personal experiences. Therefore, areas to be studied include: theories of gender; roles and stereotypes; gender styles in verbal and nonverbal communication; processes and socialization; the personal and social constructions of gender and representations of gender in the media.
Communication Research: In this course, students will study quantitative and qualitative approaches to communication research. Methods range from conducting focus groups, to creating online questionnaires, to doing close analysis of media texts. This course will also engage students in focused writing instruction for research papers in the communication field, including designing and authoring a research methods section; developing supporting materials needed to conduct a particular method; and drafting results and discussion sections.
Interpersonal Communication: Life requires interpersonal communication—formal or informal; social or professional; brief or extended; which is influenced by cultural, societal, and regional scripts. Therefore, this course is designed to equip students with the communication theories and strategies required to enhance their interpersonal communication skills, in turn influencing their relationships within various contexts. Throughout this class, students will examine concepts and processes related to interpersonal communication, and will be required to apply such material to analyze their own interpersonal interactions, relationships, and experiences. An emphasis will be placed on individual skill building and application.
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Health Communication: This course examines the role of health communication in our everyday lives, with a focus on health communication theories, strategies, and competencies that inform, educate, and influence individuals, families, health care organizations, and communities. This course explores the dynamics and impact of health communication between individuals and the health care system such as provider- patient communication, cultural conceptions of health and 190
Argumentation and Public Advocacy: This course examines argumentation as a central practice of public advocacy, civic engagement, and political decision making. Argumentation is approached as a powerful communicative tool that can be used to advance self-interest and consolidate power, as well as to promote policies and positions oriented toward the public good. The course emphasizes critical reflection on how arguments function within democratic culture and how they shape political judgment, institutional authority, and collective action. Students will study key concepts and terminology used to analyze argumentation at both surface and structural levels of public discourse. Through engagement with contemporary and historical examples, the course explores how arguments establish credibility, mobilize emotion, frame collective identity, and influence political change. Topics may include presidential campaign rhetoric, narratives of the American past, institutional claims to expertise, nationalist discourse, and the role of emotion in democratic deliberation. In addition to analytical study, students will practice constructing and evaluating arguments through structured classroom debates and oral advocacy exercises. The course emphasizes ethical reasoning, rational analysis, and evidence-based judgment in the evaluation of public arguments.
Conflict Management: This course introduces students to the study of conflict and effective strategies for managing conflict. In today’s society it is vital for students to not only become more knowledgeable of the underlying social, economic, and ideological factors that contribute to conflict but how to manage it to maintain productive and healthy relationships. Therefore, this class will examine various ways in which conflict can be understood and the value decisions one will need to address as one determines not only how to deal with conflict, but how to manage its various existence in a human community, both personally and professionally. The importance of ethical communication in managing various conflict situations is also addressed.
COM 401 or one additional course in COM or MMS at or above the 300 level (4 hrs.) Organizational & Strategic Communication Concentration (16 hrs.)
Family Communication: This course examines and analyzes the patterns, issues and systems that impact the relationships in a family. Identifying and understanding these concepts and systems will provide students with the tools and means to interact successfully within their families while providing insight into how family relationships impact our understanding of the self and others. Emphasis is also placed on examining how our cultural, ethnic, and generational expectations about family shape the way we enact and experience family life. Understanding and knowledge of these communication patterns, systems, and styles will enable successful and meaningful relationships in our ever-changing contemporary family culture.
Independent Study: Students may investigate a communication topic in depth with a faculty member. major with a 3.0 grade point average.
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Sports Promotion and Publicity: This course surveys the strategy, techniques and communication media employed by public relations, marketing and promotion professionals in their unique application of the sports industry. Students will learn how to analyze sports audiences, develop promotion strategies, plan sporting events add understand the role of advertising and sponsorship. Students will examine sports- related corporate responsibility and community relations initiatives in local, national and international settings. term.)
Topics: International Preparation: This course examines international aspects of a selected subject matter in preparation for international experience around the same topic. Open only to students enrolled in the corresponding international experience course. Students must earn a grade of C- or better (an average of 70) in order to participate in COM 399. The total number of hours for COM 398 and COM 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
International Experience: The international experience component of COM 398. Students will have the opportunity to 191
Communication Seminar: The seminar course is a smaller, seminar setting in which students will investigate a specific communication topic or trend related to a current market trend, communication event, or other intensive discussion topic. Admission to each seminar course has a unique set of prerequisites based on the course material.
Persuasion: This course examines the political, philosophical, and historical foundations of persuasion in contemporary American culture. It approaches persuasion from a rhetorical perspective, emphasizing how language functions within systems of power, ideology, and cultural meaning. Persuasion is defined as a social and mediated practice through which individuals and institutions negotiate values, resolve conflict, and produce ethical and social tensions in both public and private contexts. Students will study classical and contemporary rhetorical theory alongside analyses of popular culture texts, including political speeches, film, television series, music videos, and other forms of mediated communication. Through sustained critical inquiry, the course explores how persuasive strategies shape public opinion, cultural norms, and social action. Particular attention is given to the role of argumentation, narrative, and representation in shaping contemporary debates and controversies. By connecting rhetorical theory to everyday communicative practices, this course prepares students to critically assess persuasive messages and to understand their own participation within cultures of persuasion and public discourse.
Communication Capstone: Taken during the senior year, students will engage in a culminating experience by preparing a project in their chosen concentrations under the supervision of a faculty member. The capstone is intended to showcase student work in the program up to the final year. This course will also engage students in focused writing instruction, peer review, and writing workshops for research papers in the communication field building upon writing instruction completed in prerequisite courses.
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Communication Research Methods. In this course, students will explore the scientific, interpretive, rhetorical, and critical research approaches we use to study communication problems and processes. We will focus on the critical analysis, evaluation, and use of quantitative and qualitative communication research methods to investigate communication problems and processes. From taking this course, students will acquire the ability to understand communication research methods, critique and analyze the value of communication research studies, and to conduct communication research to answer communication questions and solve communication problems. As a result, students will be become more critical consumers of quantitative and qualitative research findings and more adept at creating quantitative and qualitative research studies.
Organizational Communication. This course demonstrates the ways social interaction shapes and is shaped by organizing processes. Students will see how communication becomes the means by which we come to make sense of organizational life and develop strategies, structures, and practices for coordinating action and meeting goals. Students explore how contemporary organizations transform individuals participating in society by examining essential topics such as identity construction, motives, motivation, effectiveness, socialization, leadership, and career. Forms of analysis include organizational values, narratives, artifacts, messages, practices, and structures.
Principles of Public Relations. This course explores ways by which we construct and disseminate messages to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes, including to lead, motivate, persuade, inform and advocate. Whether targeting consumers, employees, media professionals, investors, friends, family, or like-minded individuals, students will learn effective tools for creating messages that advance goals, and build and engage community. Students will explore how best to analyze audiences, craft messages, design information, choose among communication media, shape user experience, and evaluate success. The course gives special attention to how digital technology impacts effective communication including how to best consume, filter, create, and critically analyze messages. Students also explore the implications of evolving communication channels on society, especially with regard to opportunities for conversation, engagement, advocacy, and experimentation.
Communication Ethics. This course examines communication ethics in individual, organizational, and societal contexts. 192
Group & Team Dynamics. This course explores the principles and practices of group dynamics. Students will become more knowledgeable in how to apply strategies that improve the effectiveness of the teams in which they have membership. Specifically, this course will explore the factors that impact group dynamics such as group development, rules and norms, individual vs. group goals, group performance, team-building, leadership, diversity and inclusion, conflict management, and traditional vs. virtual meetings. From taking this course, individuals will understand the complexity and challenges of working in team-based groups in order to apply effective strategies that facilitate healthy group dynamics. Prerequisite:
Health Advocacy and Promotion: This course examines the principles and practices of health advocacy and promotion, equipping students to design, implement, and evaluate communication strategies that advance public health, wellness, and equity. Students explore the intersection of media, policy, and community engagement to influence health behaviors and support organizational and societal change.
Issues in Intercultural Communication. Our globalized world with its emphasis on digital, mobile, and internet technology has revealed a greater need to effectively communicate across cultures. We might be more connected but few know how to communicate competently in a global society. Therefore, this course examines differences in cultural values, practices, and styles and how they are impacted in a digital society. This class explores intercultural theory and how it can be applied to improve and enhance intercultural communication in a global society. In particular, this course critically investigates how digital technology (i.e. blogs, video blogs, podcasts, streaming, tweeting, etc.) affects the construction of knowledge and information creation, production, transmission, and censorship in a global society.
Certificate in Strategic Communication (15 hours):
Health and Organizing: This course examines how communication and collective action intersect to advance publich health and social justice. Students explore the theories and practices of community organizing, coalition building, and grassroots mobilization to address systemic health inequities. The course emphasizes the role of communication in empowering communities, influencing policy, and fostering sustainable social change. Students will analyze case studies, engage with applied frameworks, and develop practical skills for planning and evaluating initiatives that promote health equity, civic engagement, and ethical advocacy.
Crisis Communication. This course explores various strategic communication issues and challenges with a diverse, global audience. The increased global climate necessitates new thinking habits and strategies to best craft targeted, integrated messages to a particular audience, whether it be global, national, or local. This course investigates strategies for successful audience analysis, community development and dialogue, image and branding, innovation, marketing, public relations, and risk and crisis management for global and multinational audiences.
Media Theory & Criticism. Even in the digital age, the stories we tell about ourselves and the stories that are told about us are narratively (re)constructed and evaluated. This class draws upon media theory (e.g. Marshall McLuhan) and narrative theory (e.g., Walter Fisher's narrative paradigm) as it pertains to creating, interpreting, and evaluating stories in the digital age. In particular, this course addresses the opportunities and challenges of creating stories for different media, the requisite skill sets needed for telling stories in different media, and an understanding of how audiences interpret and evaluate stories across different media platforms.
Digital Community Engagement. Society today faces many unanticipated, unexplored problems and challenges, and communities can come together to develop innovative solutions for a better tomorrow. As part of the Knight School of Communication mission to enhance digital and media literacy in Charlotte, in this course, students work together or in small groups to develop a digital community engagement project that aims to foster community and produce a solution to a particular social, civic, fiscal, or environmental problem or issue. The group nature of the course allows students to also explore group and team communication principles and practices, such as roles, norms, power, leadership, decision-making and problem-solving processes, and conflict.
Independent Study: A student collaborates with a supervising professor to develop a program of directed readings and a research project that allows him or her to independently explore a particular area of interest that is not specifically covered within the existing curriculum. This course requires approval of the supervising professor and director of the graduate programs. Credit: 3
Health Communication and Advocacy (9 hours)
Creativity and Networks. This course explores both traditional and contemporary approaches to innovation. Creativity, collaboration, and design are still essential, yet contemporary organizations are realizing the potential of new ways of thinking, such as distributed creativity using digital and mediated tools. By building an authentic, collaborative relationship among a community, organizations can tap into the creative potential of its members and harness the distributed knowledge of many. This course investigates how shifting communication practices have shaped knowledge, networks, and innovation. The course also explores how creativity and innovation can be fostered through human- centered design, digital connection and dialogue, learning from failure, and storytelling.
Internship: Students participate in in-depth academic coursework and onsite internship work in order to strengthen the connections between the academics, industry trends, and professional development. Students are expected to complete 43 onsite internship hours per credit hour in addition to coursework. The supervising faculty member and the Director of Graduate Programs must approve a course plan. This course may be repeated for up to 6 credits. The internship may not exceed 20 hours per week and may not be completed in the eight-week format. No more than 3 credits may be applied to the elective requirements for the degree.
Organizational Identity and Brand. This course explores the ways organizations today craft and communicate an authentic brand identity. As the marketplace has changed, organizations have had to find ways to differentiate and gain
International Experience. In this course, students participate in an exploration of the communication environment in an international country with particular attention on communication culture, values, and practices and issues such as digital and media literacy. This course requires attendance at pre-trip seminars and completion of all course assignments after the conclusion of the international experience. : COM 668 Special Topics in Communication Special Topics in Communication: This course intensively considers a single topic related to communication. Topics and prerequisites vary depending on the topic and instructor. Repeatable as needed.
Interprofessional Communication
Directed Topics in Communication: Topics vary each term. Check the term schedule for specific topic descriptions. Repeatable for a total of 6 hrs. (Offered as needed.) Credit: 1-
Capstone Seminar in Communication: This course is the final course for students admitted prior to the 2012-13 academic catalog. It requires students to integrate the major theories and principles from all of their courses so that the graduating student creates a defining perspective of the entire program of study. The course requires students to prepare and present a written comprehensive exam and integrative project. (12 hours) and an additional 21 hours of course work.
Strategic Digital Design. This course explores location-based and digital interventions and the role of digital technology in local, group, and community participation. With an emphasis on social and participatory media, the course examines the ways digital communities form and organize in digital, geographic, physical, and hybrid environments. Students in this seminar will design a digital intervention for a community of their choice as their culminating project.
Source: Queens University of Charlotte's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
