Ohio University Graduate Catalog 2017-19 [Archived Catalog]
Courses
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CHIN 5410 - Advanced Reading and Conversation
Designed to meet the needs and demands of students who have completed the third year Chinese language courses yet who still would like to continue with their studies on Chinese language and culture Will significantly enhance students’ Chinese proficiency level with authentic materials in different cultural settings.
Requisites: CHIN 5320
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CHIN 5420 - Advanced Chinese: Myth and Traditional Values
Continues the 4th year Chinese language series to meet the needs and demands of students who have completed the third year Chinese language courses yet who still would like to continue with their studies on Chinese language and culture. Will significantly enhance students’ Chinese proficiency level with authentic materials in different cultural settings.
Requisites: CHIN 5320
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CHIN 5900 - Special Topics in Chinese
Specific course content will vary with offering.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 15
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CHIN 5990 - Special Studies
Reading and discussion of arranged assignments in books, periodicals, and tapes on specific topics related to Chinese language and culture.
Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLAS 5900 - Special Topics in Classics
Special topics in Classical literature, civilization and archaeology.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 15
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLAS 5930 - Independent Study in Classical Literature
Supervised reading on a specific topic in classical literature or civilization.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 independent study
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5330 - Islam
Introduces Islam as a religious and cultural system. Topics include pre-Islamic Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad and the first Muslims, the Qur’an and shari’a, basic ritual practices, mysticism, theology and philosophy, Shi’ism, the visual and musical arts, women, modernism, fundamentalism, and Islam in the USA. Draws on historical, sociological, anthropological, and literary-critical approaches and utilizes a range of primary and secondary material to examine the development of Islamic religious practices and ideals as they interact with larger social and cultural processes. While we will be concerned to understand how practitioners of Islam interpret their beliefs and actions, we will also place ‘insider’ perspectives in a broader social and historical context. Religion is a segment of culture, and thus we undertake our inquiry into Islam in the spirit of the Quranic injunction that ‘humanity consider from what it is created’.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5340 - Hinduism
Explores Hindu concepts and practices through readings, films, and slide presentations. Traces the origin and development of Hinduism from its roots in Vedic ritual and the indigenous civilizations of Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa. Introduces the Upanishads (perhaps the earliest philosophical texts), the great Hindu Epics, Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Sastras (manuals on Hindu life dating from the early centuries of the current era), the Puranas (medieval compositions telling the stories of the gods), Tantra (an esoteric form of Hinduism), the artistic traditions of Hinduism, and modern Hindu political movements. Special emphasis placed on the Gandhi’s interpretation of Hindu teachings of non-violence. Hinduism), the artistic traditions of Hinduism, and modern Hindu political movements. Graduate students write a research paper on a topic of their choosing with approval from the professor.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5350 - Buddhism
Introduces Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. Focuses on the spread and development of Buddhism across Asia and beyond, with an eye toward examining how foundational Buddhist ideas and practices have taken shape in specific places and in particular historical contexts. Selectively surveys the foundational teachings, history and diversity of Buddhism, from the lifetime of the Buddha in fifth century BCE India to contemporary Buddhist communities in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North America. Along the way, considers some important questions raised and addressed in the critical study of religion.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5410 - Contemporary Religious Thought
Since the end of World War II new movements have arisen in every major religious tradition. This resurgence of religion as a political and social force responds to a widespread and profound concern at the failure of modernity and secular nationalism to bring prosperity and provide meaning for life. Looks at the New Age Movements and Liberation Theology in the 1960s, movements generally called fundamentalist that arose in the 1970s, and militant movements that justify the use of violence that have emerged in the last two decades. Research paper on a major thinker or contemporary movement in one of the great world religious traditions–Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam required.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5420 - Political Islam
Why have some Muslims turned to religion as a source for political identity in the contemporary world? What terms should we use to describe this phenomenon? Which individuals and groups have embraced the religio-political renewal, and why have they done so? What forms have the renewal movements taken? In what directions have they developed? What role, in particular, have modernizing states played in the instrumentalizing of Islamic institutions for purposes of control and legitimacy? How have non-state actors–the `ulama’, lay activists, social movements–responded to the conditions created by modernizing states? Addresses these questions by exploring a range of case studies in different national/cultural context–Africa (Morocco, Sudan, Somalia), Southeast Asia (Indonesia), Western Europe (France, Germany, the Netherlands), and North America (US and Canada). Through these case studies, probes what we mean by ‘political Islam’–but also the politics of Islam, and what the implications are for a wider globalized modernity.
Requisites: CLWR 5330 or HIST 5371
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5430 - Sufism-Mysticism and Asceticism in Islam
Introduces the ‘mystical’ dimension of Islam, known as Sufism. Begins by probing key terms such as ‘Sufism,’ ‘asceticism,’ and ‘mysticism.’ Then traces the emergence of Sufism during the formative period of the Islamic political and religious systems. Bulk of course explores contemporary manifestations of Sufism in diverse locations ranging from South/Southeast Asia and Central Asia to Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
Requisites: CLWR 5330 or HIST 5370 or 5371
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5440 - Taoism and Confucianism
Historical survey of the philosophical and religious tenets of Taoism and the writings of Confucius, and their social and intellectual impact.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5450 - Women in Buddhist Traditions
Explores women and Buddhism during different historical periods and in different cultures. Through a variety of sources, illuminates Buddhist concepts of gender and sexuality, views of women’s spiritual capacities, the diversity of women’s images, roles, experiences, concerns, and contributions in Buddhist societies, and scholarly approaches to women in Buddhism. Special attention given to how gender is constructed in each cultural and religious context encountered, with particular emphasis on Buddhist women in Southeast Asia. Explores reasons why texts on religion have not always included the voices of women, and investigates ways to uncover them through research techniques and alternative hermeneutical strategies.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5710 - African Religions
Surveys the broad array of religious systems and practices that have emerged historically in the African continent. Topics range from Vodun to Zar, Pentecostalism to Islam, as well as practices specific to particular ethnic groups.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5810 - Myth, Ritual and Symbolism
Exploration of symbolic thought and the function of myth in contemporary societies. Three case studies are treated comparatively. Research paper required.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5820 - Thinking About Death: Belief and Practice
Survey of belief systems regarding death rituals, burial practices and the intersection of the dead and the living, through textual and archaeological evidence.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5900 - Special Topics in World Religions
Special topics in aspects of world religions.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 15
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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CLWR 5930 - Independent Study
Intensive individual reading, research, and written analysis on topics selected by the student in negotiation with a faculty member and supervised by that faculty member.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 independent study
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5070 - Effective Classroom Communication for Teachers and Trainers
Course focuses on interpersonal communication in classroom environment, with particular emphasis on communication between students and teachers. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5071 - Nonverbal Communication for Teachers and Trainers
Covers nonverbal behavior of teachers and trainers in the classroom. Messages communicated by the classroom environment and how the environment shapes students’ learning patterns are also covered. Small group activities to develop greater sensitivity to nonverbal communication are provided. Readings. Taught in seminar format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5072 - Communicating in Your Workplace: Strategies for Teachers and Administrators
Focuses on the problems of communication within an education-oriented organization. Particular emphasis on elements that help or delay the adoption of change, conflict management, and practical knowledge and skill for communicating successfully in an educational setting. Taught in seminar format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5073 - Effective Listening and Small Group Communication for Teachers and Trainers
Course focuses on steps to more effective listening and working in small groups for teachers and trainers. Designed to familiarize teachers and trainers with the keys to active listening, the stages of group development and decline, how to manage groups, and improving their cooperation and productivity. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5074 - Family Communication for Teachers and Trainers
This course explores issues of family communication for classroom teachers and organizational trainers. The definitions and nature of contemporary families are explored. Childrens’ views of the family and peer relationships are highlighted. Conflict, stress, decision making, and problem solving are discussed. Special activities for the teacher and trainer are provided. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5075 - Instructional Communication Assessment for Teachers and Trainers
Examination of test construction and grading practices, procedures, and formats. Analysis of underlying assumptions and philosophies of assessment in education. Emphasis on the alignment among objectives, testing practices, and evaluation procedures. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5076 - Children’s Conflict and Mediation for Teachers and Trainers
This course focuses on the design and implementation of peer dispute mediation programs within elementary and secondary school systems. Course content includes discussion of children’s communication development and development of conflict management ability, the rationale underlying and challenges involved with implementing peer mediation programs, and approaches to training youngsters in mediation and conflict
management communication skills. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5077 - Communicating with Diverse Students for Teachers and Trainers
This course is designed to explore issues relevant to enhancing communication competence and effectiveness between individuals of diverse backgrounds. Specifically, this course will address interactions between people from a variety of backgrounds, including gender, age, religious, geographical, ethnic, or racial differences. The focus will be on examining the impact of variables such as communication. Students will have the
opportunity to explore the underlying patterns that influence their own, as well as others’, communication behaviors, and discuss strategies to improve their understanding of, and appreciation for, those differences. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5100 - Field Research Methods in Communication
Development of research methods such as content analysis, participant observation, Q-analysis, questionnaire design, sampling procedures, case studies, and unobtrusive measures.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5200 - Cross-Cultural Communication
Analysis of processes and problems of communication as affected by national cultures; effects of differences in languages, values, meaning, perception, and thought.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5300 - Communication and the Campaign
Processes of communication as applied in a campaign, defined as any organizational goal-oriented effort designed to influence behaviors of identifiable population. Emphasizes theory application in nonclassroom campaign situations (political, fund-raising, publicity, etc.).
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5310 - Theories of Argument
Relationship between formal logic and rhetorical systems of arguments; intensive study of fallacies and experimental findings related to study of argument.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5320 - Responsibilities and Freedom of Speech in Communication
Ethical and rhetorical implications of constitutional guarantees on political, social, and religious speech; analyses of significant legal cases on freedom of expression.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5630 - Rhetoric and Electronic Media
This course examines meaning-making via the electronic symbol, verbal and graphic. Classes will alternate between the analyses of theory and close examination of radio, hypertext (online via the World Wide Web and stored on CD-ROM), E-mail, word processing, and television–especially in contrast to print and speech.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 5900 - Topics in Communication Studies
Course structure varies by instructor, but readings, classroom discussion, and demonstration of understanding through written work is typical.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 15
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6000 - Introduction to Graduate Study
Definition of field of communication, methods of structuring field, and research concerns within areas of field. Examination of theory and function of research. Analysis of representative types and methods of research.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6010 - Theories of Communication
Survey of contemporary communication theory, emphasizing cross-disciplinary contributions to such theory.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6020 - Language and Symbol Systems
Role of verbal and nonverbal signs and symbols in communication. Emphasizes human symbolizing capabilities and relationships between symbolic structures and physical reality.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6100 - Measurement Methodology in Communication
Measurement principles, instruments, and techniques in communication; problems and procedures in testing, measuring, and evaluating communicative attitudes and skills; development and availability of relevant standardized tests.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6150 - Corporate Communication
This course will provide students with an overview of strategies for the management of communication within corporate settings. Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice, with an emphasis on how theory serves as a framework for the evaluation of communicative strategies. The topics will vary, but could include the role of communication in creating corporate identity, handling crises and repairing images, managing intercultural communication, decision-making strategies and use of technology in managing communication.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6200 - Communication in Social Conflict
Roles of communication in conflict and conflict in communication. Communication strategies for reducing or managing conflict in social situations.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6209 - Communicating and Organizing
Communicating and Organizing provides a broad overview of theories and perspectives describing communication processes within organizational settings. Students taking this course will learn about classic theories describing functionalist approaches to organizing and communicating as well as contemporary theories exploring organizational communication from interpretive and critical perspectives.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6210 - Negotiation and Mediation
Explores communication dynamics involved in negotiating and mediating interpersonal and organizational disputes. Examines research and ethical issues relevant to communication within the contexts of negotiation and mediation.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6220 - Nonverbal Communication
Survey of major theories and research areas in field of nonverbal communication. In-depth analysis of research in areas of student interest.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6230 - Gender and Communication
Explores variations in communicative behaviors related to biological sex and psychological gender. Examines female and male communication in intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group, public, and organizational settings.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6240 - Communication in the Family
Examination of the communication concepts that are basic to understanding interaction in the family. Provides a framework for analysis of family communication. Explores communication issues that relate to conflict, power, intimacy, and the development of relationships. Presents a model of effective communication in the family. Consideration of verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6250 - Seminar in Instructional Communication
This course provides graduate students with an overview of the impact of communication in the classroom. Specifically, this course focuses on the dynamics of communication and how this influences student outcomes (e.g., learning, motivation) as well as instructor outcomes (e.g., efficacy, job satisfaction).
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6260 - Communication Audits in Organizations
Examination and discussion of literature covering methods of assessing communication in organizations. Designed to give students practical skill development through actual assessment, data analysis and interpretation, and client report preparation.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6270 - Instructional Training and Development in Communication
Includes philosophies of organizational development; theories of instructional design, emphasizing stages of planning implementation, and evaluation; and communication training skills, including needs assessment and evaluation, writing objectives, application of communication content, and selection of instructional modes and resources–all investigated within business, professional, and governmental organizational contexts.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6300 - Communication and Persuasion
Process of communication and attitude change, survey of general theories and typical research, analysis of contemporary persuasion.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6310 - History of Rhetorical Theory
Covers main concepts and principal figures in the history of rhetorical theory. Begins with classical Greece and ends with postmodernity.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6320 - Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
Course takes a specific theoretical approach to the critique of rhetoric as expressed in and by contemporary culture. The goal will be to explore the rich variety of rhetorical expression current in our lives. The reading list will encompass such topics as the critique of hate speech, the critique of whiteness, as well as focus on the discourse of African American, Native American, Latina/Latino cultures. Student projects will focus on one or more of the areas of inquiry with a goal of understanding and critiquing the role of rhetoric in the perpetuation and alteration of a culture.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6330 - Modern Rhetoric
Aims, tasks, and significance of rhetoric in relation to human communication processes. Distinctions among speculative, critical, canonical, and performative perspectives in rhetorical inquiry.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6340 - Religious Rhetoric
Pulpit oratory examined through analyses of selected clerics including Luther, Wesley, Whitefield, Beecher, Brooks, Fosdick, Sunday, Graham, and others. Rhetorical analysis of revivalism, camp meetings, social gospel, and ecclesiastical and polemic debates.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6341 - The Rhetoric of Protest and Reform
Rhetorical analysis and criticism of speaking during reform and revolutionary protest movements. Selected areas include American Revolution, antislavery debates, Populists, Progressives, labor unrest, women’s rights, and civil rights agitation.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6342 - The Rhetoric of the World Wars
Analysis and criticism of wartime communication, its principal modes, techiques, media, and effects. Theory and practice as reflected in WWI and II.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6343 - Analysis and Criticism of Legal Rhetoric
Analysis and criticism of principal modes, types, and styles of western legal rhetorical communication as mirrored in selected cases, jurists, attorneys, decisions, and arguments, with western legal communication studies as unique mode of rhetoric focusing upon English-American jurisprudence and courtroom advocacy. Case study method employed. Critical analysis accomplished.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6344 - Analysis and Criticism of Political Rhetoric
Analysis and criticism of principal modes, media techniques, and effects of western political rhetorical communication. Theory and practice as reflected in major campaigns, administrations, and movements in both open and closed societies.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6350 - Foucault, Discourse, and Social Change
The overarching goal of this seminar is to develop a clearer sense of what it means to have rhetorical agency in a postmodern world. In moving toward that goal, we will interrogate Foucault’s work that bears on the themes of discourse, knowledge/power, subject, and space.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6900 - Special Topics in Communication Studies
Specific course content will vary with offering.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 15
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6910 - Internship
Experience in communication-related activities in organizational environments. Written proposal required.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 12
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 15.0 field experience/internship
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6930 - Independent Study
Readings on special problems under planned program approved by advisor. Projects must be approved prior to registration.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 8
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 independent study
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6940 - Research
Individual research on special problems. Projects must be approved prior to registration.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 12
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 6950 - Thesis
Independent research as part of completion of master’s degree.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 1 - 12
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 36.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 thesis/dissertation
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7000 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Pedagogy
The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner.
Requisites: COMS major
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7001 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Scholarly Writing
The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner.
Requisites: COMS major
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7002 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Service
The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner.
Requisites: COMS major
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7003 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Advanced Pedagogy
The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner. All iterations of the course will instruct graduate students on approaches for teaching particular undergraduate courses in communication including but not limited to: Communication Theory, Small Group, Interviewing, Argumentation, Interpersonal, Health Communication, Rhetoric, or Organizational Communication. Students may repeat the course as new topics are offered.
Requisites: COMS major
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 5.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7010 - Research Designs in Communication
Nature and selection of communicative research problems; development of strategies, techniques, and appropriate designs, critical evaluation and development of experimental and descriptive procedures.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7020 - Integrated Theory in Communications Studies I
COMS 7020 (and its companion course, 7030) will provide students with a broad-based introduction to, and critical examination of, the historical foundations as well as the contemporary theoretical investigations of the communication discipline. Students will read primary source materials coupled with contemporary texts extending these works in developing, applying and testing communication theory.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7030 - Integrated Theory in Communications Studies II
COMS 7030 (and its companion course, 7020) will provide students with a broad-based introduction to, and critical examination of, the historical foundations of communication theory, as well as the contemporary texts extending these works in developing, applying, and testing communication theory.
Requisites: COMS 7020
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7040 - Research Design and Analysis I
COMS7040 (and its companion course COMS 7050) introduces students to fundamental principles of research design and analysis and serves as a foundation for other courses in the program. Students will learn theoretical principles and research skills associated with four content areas: (a) metatheoretical assumptions, (b) quantitative design and analysis, (c) qualitative design and analysis, and (d) mixed-method design.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7050 - Research and Design and Analysis II
COMS 7050 (and its companion course COMS 7040) introduces students to fundamental principles of research design and analysis and serves as a foundation for other courses in the program. Students will learn theoretical principles and research skills associated with four content areas: (a) metatheoretical assumptions, (b) quantitative design and analysis, (c) qualitative design and analysis, and (d) mixed-method design.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7110 - Communication Historiography I
Bibliographic, analytical, and interpretive skills for dealing with published primary source materials, including letters, speech texts, and audiovisual recordings in their historical contexts. Designed to help students become skillful library users, situate a research problem in context, and analyze primary historical materials.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7120 - Communication Historiography II
Techniques for research using archival material: transcripts, unpublished speeches, letters, diaries, artifacts (e.g., scrapbooks, museum exhibits), memoirs, manuscripts. Readings exemplify a variety of historical philosophies. Students research an original problem of their own definition within the theme of the semester; the writing of conference papers is encouraged. Course builds on the pedagogical skills introduced in 7110 by developing the ability to critique bibliographies, argumentation, and prose style.
Requisites: COMS 7110
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7130 - Qualitative Research: Ethnography of Communication and Conversational Analysis
Provides students with an understanding of how to conduct communication research projects using two qualitative research methodologies that stress the collection and analysis of naturalistic data–ethnography of communication and conversation analysis.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7140 - Qualitative Analysis in Communication
This class engages students in the practice of doing qualitative data analysis. Students use their own collection of qualitative data and learn techniques for analyzing and interpreting this data. The course covers many different approaches to coding ranging from the general (e.g., descriptive coding) to the specific (e.g., grounded theory, narrative, etc.). Students code data, engage in analytic memoing, create a codebook, and craft a methods section based on the knowledge gained in class.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7170 - Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Ethnographic Methods
An advanced qualitative methods seminar focusing on critical and contemporary ethnographic research. Students understand the history, meaning, and evolution of ethnographic fieldwork by learning about mainstream, marginalized, de-colonial, indigenous, transnational, and feminist approaches to ethnographic practices. Students explore the crucial relationship between researchers and participants, researcher subjectivity and positionality, cultural translation, the crises of representation, and ethnographic claims to knowledge. Students are exposed to critical writing epistemologies such as experimental and performative writing, ethnopoetics, and autoethnography The course is both conceptual and practical, with theoretical discussions and hands-on training in participant observation, interviewing, analysis, and writing.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7190 - Advanced Topics in Qualitative Communication Research
Advanced seminar focusing on qualitative research in communication studies. Topic varies with instructor. Students may repeat course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits. Students should have some background in qualitative research prior to taking this course.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7200 - Introduction to Relating and Organizing
This course is the first in a series of courses designed to introduce graduate students to the interconnections between micro practices and macro organizational and societal structures and influences. Particular attention will be paid to how individuals and collectives experience and enact fundamental tensions in their efforts to relate and organize.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7210 - Communication Process in Small Groups
Theory and research in group social system, group modification of individual judgment, leadership styles, group vs. individual goals, and intragroup lines of communication in small problem-solving and learning groups.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7220 - Communicative Process in Organizations
Interaction between organizational structure and communication within organizations. Emphasis on theoretical and methodological analysis. Primary focus on conducting major research project.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7230 - Communication and Information Diffusion
Analysis of major approaches to data and information diffusion systems on local, regional, national, and international levels. Emphasis on acquisition analysis and dissemination of data as information, including critical points of interface and interaction between a system and its uses.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7250 - Organization Communication Consulting: Foundational Perspectives
A focus on theoretical perspectives to organizational communication consulting and organizational development. Review of theory and research on communication training, consulting practices, communication variables involved in the client/consultant relationship, as well as intervention techniques.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7300 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Public Culture
An introductory survey of ideas theorizing the relationships between rhetoric and public culture. Since many of these ideas offer critical and analytic perspectives, students will also learn how to engage in critical analysis of the relationships between rhetoric and public culture. Likely theories/theorists include: Kenneth Burke, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Jergen Habermas, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, feminist studies, and postmodernism.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7340 - Narrative Approaches to Rhetorical Criticism
This rhetorical methods class explores narrative approaches to rhetorical criticism. “Narrative” is construed broadly to encompass methods that view rhetorical transactions as dramatic events or as story-telling. Examples of narrative approaches to rhetorical criticism include Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic approach, Ernest Bormann’s rhetorical vision/fantasy theme analysis, or Walter Fisher’s narrative perspective. These approaches tend to construe rhetorical discourse as involving heroes/villains (protagonist/antagonist), conflict, and events (a plot).
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7350 - Advanced Techniques in Rhetorical Criticism
The course offers an in-depth study of the theoretical underpinning and methodologies in specific techniques of rhetorical criticism. Although the specific rhetorical scholar or school of rhetorical scholars will vary by instructor, each seminar will engage the interdisciplinary dimensions of a specific technique of criticism of rhetorical interactions.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7370 - Performance Methods in Communication Studies
This course focuses on performance as a paradigm for the study of communication processes, broadly defined. Performance is approached as method, experience, metaphor, and subject of analysis. The course is both conceptual and practical. It introduces students to key concepts in performance theory such as ritual, identity performance, culture, play, performativity, performing, performance texts, and performance process. Students gain experiential training in performance ethnography, ethnography of performance, autobiographical performance, autoethnographic performance, social justice organizing and performance, and performative writing. This training is accomplished through exercises in textual, aural, performative, material, poetic, and other sense-based representation of performance and everyday life.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7400 - Introduction to Health Communication
Survey of the wide range of topics within the area of health communication, including cultural concepts of health, patient centered meanings of health, physician patient interaction, social support, health promotion campaigns, harm reduction campaigns, mass media constructions of health, risk communication, and health-related values and ethics.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7520 - Quantitative Measurement and Preliminary Analysis in Communication
This course covers measurement of quantitative data and the preliminary analyses required before conducting the substantive analysis of hypotheses and research questions. The measurement portion of the course focuses on decision making and techniques for producing and working with quantitative data, focusing in particular on conceptualizing and operationalizing quantitative variables. Students will explore statistical techniques for assessing measurement including reliability and exploratory factor analyses. The preliminary analysis portion of the course explores issues such as data cleaning, diagnosis and resolution of missing data issues, item-level analyses, forming multi-item scales, transformation, and evaluating confounds and covariates.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7590 - Topics in Quantitative Methods in Communication
This course focuses on particular quantitative methods (e.g., multi-level modeling, meta-analysis, big data, longitudinal analysis, growth curve modelling, network analysis, etc.) not covered by regularly offered courses. Topics will vary and the course may be repeated three times as topics rotate.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7900 - Topics in Communication Studies I
Seminars focused on a special topic with a COMS faculty instructor, a visiting faculty member, or a visiting professional.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7901 - Interdisciplinary Seminar
Seminar contents vary.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 20.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 7940 - Research
Individual research on special projects. Projects must be approved prior to registration.
Requisites: Permission required
Credit Hours: 1 - 12
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research
Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8200 - Foundations of Organizational Communication
This course is designed to provide an introduction to organizational communication. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research, and practice related to organizational communication. Students in this course are exposed to multiple theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches adopted across the field. Students think critically about how past and present scholarly trends guide our field.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8210 - Foundations of Interpersonal Communication
This course is designed to provide an introduction to interpersonal communication. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research and practice related to interpersonal communication. The course will study multiple theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding communication in interpersonal relationships. Students will think critically about core research programs that have guided our field.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8220 - Public Deliberation
Course addresses theoretical and practical dimensions of the public, private, civil, and technical spheres of human discourse, with an emphasis on the content, structure, suasiveness, and social cultural implications of the speech and action emerging from and contributing to those spheres.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8230 - Integrated Research in Communication Studies
This course is designed to provide advanced students with an opportunity to apply communication theory in exploring questions and/or addressing problems that connect the realms of interpersonal communication studies and organizational communication studies. The course will be open to COMS graduate students who have successfully competed their first year of graduate studies and to graduate students from other programs in the university contingent on instructor permission. The precise questions explored and methods employed in that exploration will vary according to instructor interests and background.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8240 - Communication and Identity
This course is designed to provide an introduction to identity and communication related specifically to interpersonal, intergroup and/or organizational communication contexts. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research and practice related to identity and identification in at least one of these substantive areas. Students study multiple theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding communication and identity. The course requires students to think critically about core research programs that have guided our field.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8250 - Communication in Personal & Social Relationships
The formation, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships comprises a large portion of our communication. These relationships may include romantic partnerships, friendships, family relationships, work relationships, and caregiver relationships, to name a few. In this class, students will investigate communication processes present in these relationships as well as relevant constructs, theories, and topics in order to gain a more complete and advanced understanding of interpersonal communication at both the abstract (theories, empirical research) and concrete (conducting their own research) levels.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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COMS 8260 - Communication, Innovation, and Organizational Change
Advanced seminar in organizational communication that focuses on the ways communication enables organizing around innovation and facilitates organizational change. Specifically, this course highlights communication between individual organizational members, in groups and teams, across organizational units, and between organizations and their communities.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
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