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2016-2017 Graduate Bulletin 
    
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2016-2017 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]

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  • COMM 610 - Seminar in Interpersonal Communication

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to the many ways that we, as human beings, communicate in and about interpersonal relationships.  This seminar has been designed to integrate numerous theoretical and methodological perspectives on interpersonal communication in order to give students a broader scope of how interpersonal messages and interpersonal communication processes are enacted, mediated, conceptualized, and studied.  Students will read and analyze how messages are communicated and interpreted in interpersonal contexts.  Through studying these diverse interpersonal processes, students should become more aware of how these processes influence and impact each other.

    Repeatability: Maximum of six hours with topic change.
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  • COMM 611 - Communication and Personal Relationships

    Credits: 3

    The course is an introduction to the contemporary research, topics, theories, and methodologies of communication and personal relationships. In the course, students will explore interpersonal communication in a variety of contexts including, but not limited to: (a) marital communication and relational satisfaction; (b) dialogic communication in romantic relationships; (c) family communication systems; (d) friend and social network systems; (e) disclosure of private information; (f) relational dialectics; and (g) problematic/abusive behavior within interpersonal communication. The course will focus on current research trends in the area, paradigmatic shifts in the field of personal relationships over the past decade, and how interpersonal communication scholarship lends itself to improving social interactions and communication competence in a number of venues.

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  • COMM 612 - Health Communication

    Credits: 3

    An introduction to the many ways that we, as human beings, communicate about our health. This seminar has been designed to integrate numerous theoretical and methodological perspectives on health communication in order to give students a broader scope of how health messages and health communication processes are enacted, mediated, conceptualized, and studied. Students will read and analyze how health messages are communicated interpersonally, organizationally, rhetorically, and through the mass media. Through studying these diverse health communication processes, students should become more aware of how these processes influence and impact each other (e.g., television messages about smoking impact how people discuss tobacco use interpersonally).

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  • COMM 615 - Communication and Culture

    Credits: 3

    This course explores the intersection between rhetoric and public culture. Traditionally, rhetoric scholarship has focused on the conception, composition, presentation, and reception of messages that tend to be persuasive in nature. Scholarship in cultural studies, on the other hand, has tended to analyze the production of meanings and how they relate to social practices. Drawing from the two fields, we will explore how different cultural texts and their meanings are produced, interpreted, and circulate. Specifically, we will investigate such issues as: ideology, hegemony, polysemy, discourse, text/context, rhetor/audience, publics, place/space, collective memory, narrative, and power. In addition, we will learn about the different research practices of rhetorical criticism and cultural ideas.

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  • COMM 623 - Telecommunications Operations: A Leadership Approach

    Credits: 3

    This course covers two areas: 1) management of broadcast stations and cable systems, both commercial and non-commercial and 2) leadership theory and practice.  Cases and topics specific to the telecommunications industry will be stressed.  Topics will include management theories, functions and roles.  Principles of leadership will be applied to personnel management, sales management, promotion and marketing, and program management.  Different leadership approaches will be examined including, but not limited to skills approach, style approach, situational approach, and contingency theory.  Culture and leadership, leadership ethics, and women and leadership will be addressed.

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  • COMM 631 - Organizational Rhetoric

    Credits: 3

    This graduate seminar examines organizational communication from a rhetorical perspective.  Students will investigate the communicative processes through which formal organizations influence public attitudes.  Additionally, students will examine how members within organizations use persuasive methods to reinforce particular organizational values and goals, to generate collective identities, and to motivate others to work in particular ways.  Students will attempt to answer questions such as: How do organizations persuade customers to purchase their products?  How do they communicate with their stakeholders?  How do they manage organizational crises?  This course will allow students to understand how organizational members use various forms of communication, such as public relations, to accomplish their goals.

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Computer Information Systems
  
  

Decision Sciences
  
  
  
  

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Education
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • EDUC 567 - The Internet in Education

    Credits: 3

    Focuses on the process of connecting learners with remote resources as primary or secondary means of learning. Examines the systematic design and development of distance learning environments (e.g., video, computer, and Internet-based delivery systems) with special consideration to learner needs and varied communication channels. Students plan and design instructional sequences, then apply distance learning techniques that address issues such as the need for real-time vs. delayed interaction. The evolving roles of technology, faculty, and learners are discussed. The course will be taught using the technologies demonstrated in class.

    Prerequisite(s): EDUC 214 , EDUC 565 , or equivalent.

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