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CST
52 courses with the subject CST, 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.
CST 105Introduction to Communication Studies 3
Students will learn to construct and deliver coherent oral arguments for various contexts. Principles of competent communication will be addressed. Recordings will be used to evaluate and enhance communication skills.
Course content explores the theory and practice of collaborative dialogue, deliberation, and decision-making in the American Democratic tradition. This includes analysis and deliberation over the foundational documents of our democracy, and with contemporary issues. Students will be trained in conducting reasoned, reasonable, and persuasive oral and written communication.
This course prepares students to ask and answer questions from a communication perspective. Students will engage critical thinking skills to evaluate evidence, interpret communication journal articles, and package information.
Exploration of role and impact of communication in diverse communities. Ethical and social responsibilities of civic action are examined in the context of community problem solving. Includes service learning experience in a supervised setting.
Contemporary theory and practice of relational communication, with emphasis on increasing awareness of strategic and ethical uses of communication to build relationships.
Examines contemporary organizational communication theories and practices as they enable students to function, change, learn, and create/recreate within and across a variety of organizations.
Communication Inquiry prepares students to ask and answer questions from a Communication perspective. The course focuses on information literacy, communication theory and practice, and synthesizing research to advance ideas. Lectures will emphasize how theory assists us in understanding, predicting, and transforming society.
The history of rhetoric (persuasion) and its evolution in Western culture, from ancient Greece to our current age. Application of rhetorical theory/criticism to various historical and contemporary communicative events.
Provides students with an opportunity to think critically about ethical and moral dimensions of current practices in interpersonal, institutional, and public communication.
CST 311Dialogue, Deliberation, and Decision Making 3
Course content explores the theory and practice of collaborative dialogue, deliberation, and decision-making. This includes analysis and deliberation over contemporary issues and training in reasoned, persuasive oral and written communications.
Theories and practices of persuasion in critically evaluating and creating/composing persuasive messages. Role of ethics in relational, group, and mass mediated persuasive communication.
This course teaches students to create engaging and ethical digital content across multiple genres, preparing them for professional communication in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Drawing from multiple theoretical perspectives, this course explores theories, research, and issues important to the understanding of communication between people from different racial, ethnic, national, and other cultural backgrounds.
CST 341Communication and Workplace Relationships 3
Advanced communication skills applied to the workplace. Emphasis on both oral and written communication in interviewing, making presentations, and creating ethically grounded professional communication.
CST 342Communication and Public Relations: Strategies and Innovations 3
Prepares students for effective and ethical public communication and relations on behalf of profit and not-for-profit organizations. Students conduct research, apply strategies, and utilize innovative methods to meet organizational communication objectives.
Investigates the range of crises facing us in every segment of society. From readings, case studies, videos, and presentations an understanding of current communication functions relating to these issues are studied.
Course explores how communication is central to expressing opposing voices and managing conflicted relationships, change, diversity/difference, and identities.
Theory and practice of small group/team communication, emphasizing student participation. Develops skills for leadership in small group/teams. Develops framework for analysis of effective small groups/teams.
Explores principles of Communication Across the Curriculum, applying them to interpersonal communication, listening, group communication, public speaking, and pedagogy to prepare Communication Consultants in UNCG's Speaking Intensive program.
Theoretical examination and practical application of the philosophical, ideological, and processual bases for selecting, using, and evaluating methods of conducting and reporting communication research.
Seminar focusing on the effect of communication upon learning. For undergraduates interested in teaching or training. Emphasis on pedagogical principles and instructional materials.
Exploration of theory and practice in community advocacy. Focus on public deliberation, moral conflict, and community dialogue in value-laden topics and controversies.
Using a case study method, this course examines the relationship of gender to communication process. Identity, language, and relationships within cultural context are key concepts under study.
Focuses on current trends in the design of health messages. Explores health campaigns, interpersonal interventions, health care institutions, and consumer-based models and participatory approaches to health.
Exploration of family communication, including symbols, meanings, rules, traditions, stories, secrets, roles, artifacts, and theoretical frameworks. Practical application exercises and research related to family communication practices and patterns.
CST 416Communication and Ethnography: Writing Life 3
Intensive study and practice of methodologies of personal narrative, ethnography, autoethnography, and memoir. Examination and expression of self, identity, and communication in close personal relationships via writing life histories.
Course focuses on communication in friendships, via a close examination of friendships in everyday and popular culture contexts. Ethnographic methodology and dialectical, narrative, and identity theory frame our study.
Explores environmental communication including current issues, theoretical frameworks, ethical frameworks, and the symbolic relationship of humans to nature. Emphasizes research, analysis, critical self-reflection, and practices.
Examines dynamic ways that African Americans construct, maintain, and negotiate their social identities in a variety of contexts. Explores the connections among race/ethnic identity, communication, and culture.
Focusing on the intersections of communication and technology, this course introduces students to key debates and perspectives on how digital change influences everyday interactions and society.
CST 440Reclaiming Democracy: Dialogue, Decision-Making, Community Action 4
This course asks: How do we reclaim our democracy as a humane, inclusive process responsible to the needs of all community members and what does this require of us?
CST 455Relational Communication and the Hollywood Feature Film 3
Analysis and application of images, discourses, and practices concerning human communication and relationships as they are represented in the powerful cultural medium of film.
Graduating seniors synthesize their experience of the communication studies major by reflecting on course work and scholarly focus areas, assessing departmental learning outcomes, and constructing a career portfolio.
Theories and research methodologies in communication studies. Emphasis on application of theory to social and cultural contexts and use of methods to solve research problems/answer research questions.
Study of theories and research methodologies in communication studies. Application of communication theory to social and cultural contexts and use of methods to solve research problems/answer research questions.
Seminar focusing on the effect of communication upon learning. For graduate teaching assistants in any discipline, graduates or undergraduates interested in teaching or training. Emphasis on pedagogical principles and instructional materials.
Theoretical and practical views on how to work inside and outside institutions of power to transform values, assert credibility, and mobilize others. Emphasis on how communication creates social change. Topics and emphasis vary by semester.
Exploration of theory and practice in community advocacy. Focus on public deliberation, moral conflict, and community dialogue in value-laden topics and controversies.
Focuses on core communication theories, methods, and practices of advancing innovation, as well as public communication about health, science, and technology. Emphasizes multimedia storytelling and improving speaking and writing skills to communicate with public audiences about innovative ideas and navigating change.
Examines how digital technologies reshape communication, combining historical perspectives with contemporary debates to help students analyze the evolving relationship between technology and society.
CST 630Communication, Organization, and Democracy 3
Draws upon critical organizational communication and critical/cultural studies to consider the role of communication in creating and sustaining democratic organizing in micro, meso, and macro contexts.
Takes critical/cultural studies approaches to examine how culturally significant identity sites such as race, ethnicity, gender, and diaspora are constructed, negotiated, and resisted through communication.
CST 698Capstone Experience in Communication (Final Research Project) 1-3
Synthesis of theories, research methods, and practices of communication that will shape the 21st Century, demonstrated through independent scholarly research conducted in consultation with faculty committee.