COM

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COM

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An introduction to the practice of journalism and the role of the journalist in today’s media world. Students will demonstrate an understanding of and enjoy the process of journalistic writing in all of its steps. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Discussion of terms, strategies, and professional models in poetry and fiction with practice in writing and critiquing. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 On film and through new technologies, media have influenced how we find romantic love, what we expect from romance, and where or with whom we make meaningful connections. This course will ask students to think critically about media representations in American Culture, as well as new technologies of love. Do media help us understand and practice love? If not, how can we expand our conception of love beyond formulaic narratives and compatibility matrices? Why is popular culture so myopically focused on romantic love? How are different kinds of love connected to our search for a happy and meaningful life? Our exploration will be theoretically grounded by readings in Cultural Studies, which proposes media representations as ideologically charged through rhetorics of difference (race, class, gender, etc); Media Ecology, which sees new technology as an environment that dictates the kind of conversations we can have, who can speak, and who can listen; and perspectives on the concept of love Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An introduction to voice and body work in front of the camera through basic elements of anchoring, weather reporting, sports casting, interviewing, and commercial reads for both radio and television. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Introduction to and analysis of literary, sensory, technical, genre-based, and production aspects of film. This will largely be accomplished via film clips and reaction papers. A cohesive study of entire films presented in long papers will culminate the course. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

Subject

COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 A survey of the historical development and contemporary issues of both print and non-print media with a focus on mass media as it pertains to our digital world today. This course is a deliberate review of basic communication theory and seeks to comprehend the historical contexts of major mass media entities while developing a capacity for strategic thinking when considering media. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

Subject

COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course investigates the relationship of women and media through film, television, magazines, news, politics, advertising, and the internet. Media, collectively, are full of narratives and intents seeking audiences and attention. However, media literacy as it pertains to women is very much about who or what is driving those stories and the cultural impact they leave upon us. The ultimate goal is to determine if there are women in media today who are self-actualized enough to transcend stereotyping and exploitation and what our cultural response is to such women. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An examination of the role of communication media in the context of changing global realities. The course examines the theoretical underpinnings of understanding multiculturalism and the effect of the processes that constitute difference as we define it. The course explores the multicultural practices, theories, polices, normative models, relationships between media and society, and the production of cultural diversity. (Fulfills the required course for the Global Studies Minor) Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Introduces students to tools, vocabulary, and techniques used to tell a screen story and take an original idea to outline form. Students become familiar with screenwriting terminology as scenes from well-known films are analyzed to reveal structural elements in the writing. By the end of the course, students have developed an original idea into a detailed short-length screenplay. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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Type

course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course gives students the tools to design, write, and present primary communication research in both academic and professional contexts. Developing the literacy to interpret and evaluate published research will also be stressed. The research methods introduced will include experiments, surveys, content analysis, focus groups, interviews, and participant observation. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Focus on how the discipline of public relations evolved, and how public attitudes are influenced by the media. Students will learn to recognize ethical and legal implications of media situations. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Issues of race, gender, class, and disability and the ways these impact the teaching of writing are introduced. Students learn and contrast disciplinary conventions and features of academic genres to understand how embedded values inform writing style. Through exploring how tutor and writer identities are implicated in the tutorial and examining language from various sociolinguistic, multi-literacy, and translingual perspectives, students learn how to navigate differences to collaborate with writers in meaningful ways. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Development of communication techniques through speech writing and delivery. This course helps to ease communication apprehension, organize speech material appropriately, and develop verbal and nonverbal techniques for delivery. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Planning, researching, and writing in-depth news projects and features with attention to writing for radio and television. (

Subject

COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Prerequisite

COM 206 or instructor approval) Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course teaches the entire proposal writing experience of research, funders, project definition, letters of inquiry, proposal components, and tracking systems all through the spectrum of practical experience with real non-profits. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

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COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An advanced review of both the purpose and process of public relations writing. This course emphasizes stylistic procedures of writing including; planning, researching, targeting an audience, using the appropriate media format and writing for new emerging media. Successful students will be able to attend job interviews with a strong assurance that they have had professional exposure to the writing required for a public relations career. (

Subject

COM

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3

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3

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Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Prerequisite

COM 239) Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

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2025-2026

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catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Advanced research in a chosen area of writing studies, culminating in a scholarly written project with the aim of publication or conference presentation. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course investigates recent advances and controversies in alternative communication including nonverbal communication theory and research. Nonverbal communication (NVC) is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact (oculesics), body language (kinesics), social distance (proxemics), touch (haptics), voice (paralanguage), physical environments/appearance, and use of objects. These four main categories of NVC will be explored along with prevalent technological nonverbal communication methods including texting, abbreviations, memes, and use of emojis. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

Subject

COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An advanced review of communication principles, communication skills, and leadership. Thus, the individual student gains much practice in public speaking. The best way to improve in this area is to repeat the process for understanding and confidence. The techniques of public speaking, such as eye contact, gaining audience interest, and organizing the presentation will be addressed. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

Subject

COM

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3

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3

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Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course will give professional writing majors, and more specifically, professional writing majors with a creative writing concentration, another diverse genre of writing to engage in with strong insights into the freelance and publishing company pursuits of such writing. Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

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COM

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3

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3

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Advanced research in a chosen area of communication study or advanced writing in a specific mode. (Agreed upon by the student and instructor, with permission of the department.) Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

Subject

COM

Credits (min)

1

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3

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Subject

COM

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course is for junior and senior communication students who wish to gain practical, curriculum-related experience in the field of communications. Students will complete 125 hours of practical experience under professional supervision and with the support and feedback of their peers completing similar internships. This course can be taken multiple times for credit but not at the same organization. Communication Field Experience I and II must be taken with different organizations. (

Subject

COM

Credits (min)

3

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3

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu

Prerequisite

COM 305 and Instructor Permission) Subject: Communication Department: Arts, Languages, and Letters

Subject

COM

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.immaculata.edu