Mar 28, 2024  
2013-2014 Undergradate & Graduate Bulletin 
    
2013-2014 Undergradate & Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]

Course Descriptions


 

Communications

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Computer Science

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • CS 411 - Network Management and Security


    Credits: 3

    This course provides an overview of network management and security. It covers topics in communication technologies, communication design, communication protocols, and communication system planning and development. It includes distributed computing, encryption technology, and collaboration technology. It will introduce security sites representing the state of the art in security. It will cover major security concerns of IP security, network security, security in distributed object systems, security in distributed systems, Web security, email security, viruses, trojans and worms, firewalls, and denials of service. Hands-on assignments with system and firewall configuration. Prerequisite(s): CS 201 , CS 301 , and CS 365 .


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Criminal Justice Studies

  
  
  
  
  
  
  • CRIM 311 - Convict Criminology


    Credits: 3

    This course introduces the “Convict Criminology Perspective” as a means to educate students, prisoners, and general public. Convict Criminology is a new way of thinking about crime and corrections. Convict criminology is a developing field in critical criminology that “… consists primarily of essays and empirical research conducted and written by convicts or ex-convicts, on their way to completing or already in possession of a Ph.D. or by enlightened academics who critique existing literature, policies, and practices, thus contributing to a new perspective on criminology, criminal justice, corrections, and community corrections” (Ross and Richards, 2003, p. 6) Students will complete required readings, and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills through interaction with the professor and other students in the classroom. This course provides students with opportunities to discuss course topics and material both in class and through email. Prerequisite(s): two of the following CJS courses: CRIM 234 , CRIM 244 , POLS 208 , SOC 225 .


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Decision Sciences

  
  
  
  
  
  

Dental Assisting

  
  
  
  
  
  
 

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