Oct 31, 2024  
2021-2022 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2021-2022 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]

Course Descriptions


Many course descriptions include a designation of Term(s) Offered: with one or more of the following: Fall, Spring, Summer. This indicates the term(s) in which the course is typically offered and is intended to aid students in planning their programs of study. Departments reserve the right to change the term(s) in which a course is offered.

 

Accounting

  
  
  
  
  
  • ACCT 628 - Accounting Regulation and Compliance


    Credits: 3

    This course examines current regulation related to accounting and financial reporting as well as various professional organizations’ compliance and ethical statements and standards. Specific emphasis is given to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, AICPA Auditing Standard No. 99, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board PCAOB and its standards No. 3 & No. 5, as well as other current relevant legislation. The course will also investigate the role of professional organizations in setting ethical and professional standards. Other topics will include fraud, disclosure statements and corporate governance, as well as the role of corporate council.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to MBA program

    Term(s) Offered:


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Administrative Systems/Business Education

  

Art

  

Art History

  

Biology

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Business Analytics

  
  
  

Business Law

  

Chemistry

  
  
  
  
  
  • CHEM 551 - Polymer Chemistry


    Credits: 3

    Polymer chemistry studies the chemical synthesis and chemical and physical properties of polymers. It is one of the most relevant of the sub-disciplines of chemistry with large number employment opportunities. This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic structure, classification, synthetic techniques, physical properties and utilization of polymer compounds and to show the interrelation of basic polymer concepts with their everyday use. Students will gain current knowledge of polymer concepts and an ability to apply them in career situations.

    Prerequisite(s): Organic Chemistry (CHEM 354) or equivalent

    Term(s) Offered:


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  • CHEM 664 - Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy


    Credits: 3

    The course offers a thorough examination of applied chemical quantum mechanics and spectroscopy.  Coverage includes the historical development of quantum mechanics, the postulates of quantum mechanics, the Schrodinger equation, the free particle and particle in a box systems, Heisenberg uncertainty, the harmonic oscillator, the rigid rotor, ro-vibrational spectroscopy, the hydrogen atom, many-electron atoms, atomic spectroscopy, molecular structure, electronic spectroscopy, and computational chemistry.

    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate degree in Chemistry, Chemistry Teaching, Science Teaching or related field

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Communications

  
  
  
  • COMM 603 - Quantitative Research Methods in Communication


    Credits: 3

    Students will be introduced to basic issues of research design, methodology, and statistical analyses. This course will emphasize the scientific approach to understanding how research methods apply to areas of communication research. The course is designed to develop the tools a student will utilize in one’s career as a communication practitioner or a researcher. Students will find that many of these tools will apply to their daily lives.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring


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  • COMM 604 - Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism


    Credits: 3

    This course is a graduate seminar in the practice of rhetorical criticism. Rhetorical criticism examines the process of how we communicate with symbols and the various techniques used by rhetors. Students analyze how symbolic artifacts (films, speeches, images, words, performances, and “discourse” in general) act on people. That is, how does a text inform, entertain, arouse, or persuade an audience?  Students explore various rhetorical theories and methods, including neo-Aristotelian, ideological, narrative, generic, metaphoric, and feminist approaches.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring


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  • COMM 605 - Gender, Communication, and Culture


    Credits: 3

    This course investigates the relationship between gender and communication in contemporary society. It explores various ways communication within families, schools, media, and society create and perpetuate gender roles and stereotypes. Additionally, it examines a variety of historical, cultural, social, institutional, and individual factors that structure gender. Students learn to connect theory and gender research to their personal lives.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 607 - Teaching Communication


    Credits: 3

    This course emphasizes best practices for teaching communication with emphasis on basic courses in public speaking, radio/television, and journalism. The course will introduce students to the practical issues of creating a communication syllabus, course management, delivery methods (lecture, discussions, etc.), assessment, and handling communication with students. The course will also examine theoretical issues about pedagogy, including teaching philosophies, learning styles, and teaching styles and strategies, as well as the legal and ethical issues of teaching at the college level.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Spring, Summer


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  • COMM 610 - Special Topics in Interpersonal Communication


    Credits: 3

    This seminar integrates 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. Through studying these diverse interpersonal processes, students should become more aware of how these processes influence and impact each other. Topics may include privacy management, disclosure, remarriage, family communication, aging, and other topics related to interpersonal communication.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Repeatability: Repeatable without limit with topic change
    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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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.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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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).

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 613 - Political Communication


    Credits: 3

    Political communication incorporates the creation, distribution, control, use, and effects of information as a political resource. Students will explore such topics as the role of journalists and news organizations in the political system, the development and effectiveness of communication strategies in political campaigns, communication patterns and issues in international relations, and the function of communication in the politics of modern societies. Special attention will be given to the relationship between political communication and civic discourse.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 614 - Problematic Workplace Communication


    Credits: 3

    This course provides a review of the research and applied approaches to organizational communication. This course includes an examination of the process of selecting appropriate communication channels, a consideration of the ways in which meaning, both verbal and nonverbal, is conveyed, and an exploration of ways in which communication can help alleviate typical interpersonal problems within organizations.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 615 - Communication and Popular 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.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 616 - Seminar in Personal and Cultural Identity


    Credits: 3

    This course examines the intersections between community and performance. After examining scholarly perspectives of performance and of community, we will explore the ways performance appears in our daily lives and in our community. When possible we will go into our community to observe and participate in these performances. By understanding the social and cultural contexts of performances, we become more attuned to our daily experiences and to the world that provides the social and cultural context for those experiences.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 624 - Nonprofit and Association Communication


    Credits: 3

    This course explores communication in nonprofit organizations, institutions, foundations, and associations. After addressing the historical foundations and implicit ideology of the nonprofit sector in the U.S., the course examines nonprofit organizations and concludes with a survey of essential communication tasks - marketing, working with volunteers, fundraising, grant writing, capacity building, and education and community outreach.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 628 - Crisis Communication


    Credits: 3

    This course will examine several lines of research from multiple disciplines that influence communication during disasters, crises, and emergencies. This course may explore crisis communication from an organizational and/or public relations perspective; risk perception and communication; the role of social media and emerging technologies in disasters and emergencies; media coverage of disasters; and communication and recovery, resilience, antifragility, and growth.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 634 - Social Media, Culture, and Society


    Credits: 3

    This course provides a broad introduction to the empirical and theoretical study of social media. In this course, we will explore how is the rise of social media affecting our identities, interactions, organizations and society. This course will be based around a selection of empirical studies from the social media literature. Students will learn how scholars are approaching social media empirically, and upon completion they will be able to apply the knowledge gained to their own research projects.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 640 - Independent Study in Communication


    Credits: 3

    This course provides students in the Master of Arts in Communication program the opportunity to conduct basic or applied research or scholarly engagement on a topic or problem in communication that is not otherwise covered in the curriculum.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree). All topics and plans of study must be approved by the program director in conjunction with a designated instructor of record.

    Repeatability: Repeatable with topic change to a maximum of 6 hours
    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 670 - Special Topics in Instructional Communication


    Credits: 3

    This seminar focuses on a number of factors that impact teaching and learning in educational settings. Course topics may include instructional applications of technology, teacher immediacy, communication apprehension, source credibility and message construction, assessment and curricula design, and other topics associated with communication education.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program or the Joint Undergraduate-Master’s Path (JUMP) option of the Communication Studies major (BA/BS degree)

    Repeatability: Repeatable with topic change
    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • COMM 690 - Capstone Project


    Credits: 1-6

    Students will complete an applied communication project, demonstrate their ability to work independently, and master an area of concentration as approved by their advisory committee. Students will engage in the research process to compose a communication product. These projects may take a number of forms - including but not limited to a campaign, film or video, training seminar - depending on the student’s interest and advisory committee expertise.  Students must enroll in capstone credit until the project is complete and submitted to Graduate Studies.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in Communication program

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring


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Computer Information Systems

  
  

Criminal Justice

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Decision Sciences

  
  
  

Economics

  
  
  

Education

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 

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