This is a comprehensive communication skills course that will equip you with the communication skills that you will need to be successful in your future courses, careers, and communities. In this course, you will learn how to conduct research for, organize, and deliver effective presentations that allow you to explain complex ideas, persuade, and advocate for change. You will learn how to build and sustain meaningful relationships as well as manage conflict in those relationships. You will also develop the small group and leadership skills that will help you work successfully in teams. All of these skills will be embedded within a diversity and equity context so that you can understand, analyze, adapt messages for, and demonstrate respect and consideration for the multitude of audiences with whom you will communicate in a range of intercultural, personal, and professional contexts. Limited to three attempts.
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Intensive work in creative forensics events, including rhetorical criticism and informative, persuasive, extemporaneous, after-dinner, and impromptu speaking. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Intensive work in recreative forensic events, including dramatic duo, program interpretation, poetry interpretation, dramatic interpretation, and prose interpretation. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Work in affirmative research, case construction, and oral presentation; directed toward affirmative analysis of intercollegiate debate proposition. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Work in negative research, case attacks, and oral presentation directed toward negative analysis of intercollegiate debate proposition. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Practical experience in writing, editing, or business aspects of newspaper production at Broadside or other papers. Coordinated by newspaper faculty advisor. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 3 credits.
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Students receive individual guidance in podcast production while learning to be on-air show hosts at student internet radio station WGMU. New technologies such as computer automation systems and advanced production software are integrated throughout the curriculum to prepare students to engage in the most current applications for commercial and internet radio and podcasting. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 3 credits.
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Introduces the field of communication, including perspectives on theory and research, topical areas within the discipline, basic research methodologies, and a survey of theories in those areas. Covers basic procedures for theory-building, research, and writing about communication. Limited to three attempts.
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Examines the relationship between media and society through the study of the development of various media systems in the United States, including print media, radio, television, film, the recording industry, and new communication technologies. Introduces media effects and basic theories. Limited to three attempts.
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This is a gateway course to the field of journalism. It covers the history and practices of the industry, and it explores how technology, economics and culture contribute to how people produce and consume the news. Students gain an understanding of the profession by practicing the foundational skills reporters use to produce accurate, ethical and impactful journalism. Limited to three attempts.
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This is a gateway course to the field of Public Relations (PR). Students learn the history, ethics, and practices of the PR industry, and discuss how technology, politics, culture, and globalization contribute to how practitioners plan client campaigns. Students also practice foundational skills to produce professional, ethical, and message-driven PR campaigns. This course is appropriate to all who are interested in exploring the fast-evolving PR field. Limited to three attempts.
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Provides a general introduction to media production with emphasis on the basics of multimedia tools for camera, audio, lighting, and editing, focusing on non-fiction, journalism, or public relations/advocacy presentations. Limited to three attempts.
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Theories and principles of public communication, emphasizing methods of persuasion, critical analysis, speaker-listener alignments in public setting, and measurements of effective public communication. Limited to three attempts.
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Theories and principles of interpersonal communication emphasizing models of communication, verbal and nonverbal message systems, and analysis of communicative relationships. Limited to three attempts.
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Provides a comprehensive review of mass communication and media theory, focusing on media effects and the complex relationships between media producers, messages, technologies, and users/audiences. Examines role of media in news, politics, and popular culture. Limited to three attempts.
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Analyzes communication variables as they relate to intercultural encounters. Emphasizes culture's influence on communication process, particularly influence of verbal and nonverbal communication on how message is interpreted. Notes: Communication majors are encouraged to complete COMM 200 prior to enrolling in this course. Limited to three attempts.
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This course emphasizes practicing impactful and newsworthy PR writing and editing for materials such as news releases and media pitches. These strategic and targeted messages are designed to be shared across traditional and digital communication platforms to various publics and stakeholders. Students learn how to craft persuasive messages to achieve organizational objectives and optimize media attention. Limited to three attempts.
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This course covers journalistic writing techniques for media platforms in wide use today. Students examine basic story structures and practice writing informative stories using those structures. The course emphasizes journalistic writing, yet it is appropriate for non-journalism students who seek to sharpen their writing skills in nonfiction sectors of the media industry. Equivalent to COMM 303.
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Study of basic theories and skills of communication in professional contexts, including interviewing, relationship maintenance, small group teams, and public presentations. Emphasizes developing practical and critical thinking skills. Limited to three attempts.
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Building upon earlier coursework, this course helps students develop the practical skills and competencies they need to succeed as a public relations professional, such as strategic and crisis communication, community relations, and advocacy campaigns. Students work on creating a strategic set of materials intended to enhance a client’s reputation. Students will produce a portfolio of research, writing, and multimedia materials in collaboration with a client. Limited to three attempts.
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Theory, principles, and methods to analyze nonverbal communication. Emphasizes physical behavior, facial expression, personal space and territoriality, physical appearance, vocal cues, and environment. Limited to three attempts.
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Examines how family communication contributes to physical, psychological, and social wellness. Explores how family communication affects our experience with health transitions (e.g., coping with cancer; becoming a caregiver; losing a loved one), contributes to health outcomes (e.g., stress and anxiety; disordered eating behavior; schizophrenia; drug abuse), and is central to health promotion behavior (e.g., understanding health history and genetics). Limited to three attempts.
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Theory, practice, and methods to analyze communication in organizations. Emphasizes process and structure, interaction formats, mechanisms for modification, and career paths in organizational communication. Limited to three attempts.
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Intensive work in various types of creative forensics events, including rhetorical criticism and informative, persuasive, extemporaneous, after-dinner, and impromptu speaking. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Intensive work in various types of recreative forensics events, including dramatic duo, program interpretation, poetry interpretation, dramatic interpretation, and prose interpretation. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Work in affirmative research, case construction, and oral presentation directed toward affirmative analysis of intercollegiate debate proposition. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Work in negative research, case attacks, and oral presentation directed toward negative analysis of intercollegiate debate proposition. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 5 credits.
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Practical experience in writing and editing for student newspaper or other papers. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 3 credits.
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Practical experience in television programming, promotion, and marketing of a campus television cable network operation. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 3 credits.
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Intensive practical application of previously acquired on-air show hosting skills at student internet radio station WGMU. Skill development in podcast production and interviewing is included. New technologies such as social media, computer automation systems and advanced production software are integrated throughout the curriculum to prepare students to engage in the most current applications for commercial and internet radio and podcasting. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 3 credits.
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Students gain practical experience in real news gathering by reporting and writing hard news and feature stories. The course content advances what students learned in COMM 303/309. Topics include interviewing, fact-checking, sourcing, developing news judgement and applying reporting ethics for the purpose of crafting accurate, ethical and impactful journalism. Limited to three attempts.
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Students gain experience editing and evaluating copy while exploring the role and responsibilities of an editor within a news media organization. Topics include news judgment, story judgement, ethical issues that confront editors, basic principles of editing and design, and writing headlines, decks and captions. Limited to three attempts.
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Offers instruction on delivering high-quality image and video products for digital media. Students will be introduced to an array of video-audio editing and digital image software for integrating video, audio, photo and graphic postproduction. Student projects focus on journalism, public relations, and advocacy contexts. Limited to three attempts.
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Focuses on online journalism, research, reporting, web page and weblog creation, and writing for Internet. Limited to three attempts.
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Students explore the history of advertising, advertising regulations, and how processes of technological change have reshaped the advertising field. Students also discuss topics related to media buying, audience targeting and segmentation, advertising campaign development and evaluation, and more. Limited to three attempts.
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Examines practical criticism of a wide variety of media texts including television programs, newspapers, articles, films, photographs, and advertisements. Introduces principles of major contemporary modes of analysis for systematically interpreting visual and verbal forms of communication. Limited to three attempts.
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Students engage in social media research and analysis, examine best practices for designing effective campaigns, understand the conditions that create viral media, implement a personal branding strategy, and gain experience in strategic content creation by writing and executing a team-based social media campaign. Limited to three attempts.
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Explores applications for primary research methodologies used in communication. Research project with focus on survey, critical ethnographic, or experimental methodologies. Notes: Students may not receive credit for both COMM 400 and COMM 490. Equivalent to COMM 490.
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Theories of persuasive communication including traditional and contemporary attitudinal change; relationship among speaker, message, and audience; and relationship between attitudinal and behavioral change. Limited to three attempts.
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On-the-job training in communication through approved field work study programs. Internships arranged and supervised by Department of Communication through internship coordinator. Related class work in resume preparation and job interviewing. Notes: See department for the application process. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
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Theory and practice in creation, distribution, and response to media productions. Students complete minimum 150 hours of work as assistants to engineers, producers, directors, and organizers of media production facilities on campus, under supervision of a sponsoring faculty member. Notes: Only 3 credits may be applied to the communication major. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
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Major issues surrounding roles of speech, press, and electronic media in society. Includes history of free speech and press issues in society, government role in regulating marketplace of ideas, and responsibility of individual in free society. Limited to three attempts.
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This course introduces how American law affects journalists. Students examine the legal principles journalists weigh when news-gathering and explore landmark court cases that have tested the right to a free press. Topics include the First Amendment, libel, privacy, free press and fair trial, and broadcast regulation. Students also consider how journalistic values of fairness, objectivity, humanity and credibility intersect with the law. Limited to three attempts.
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Honors version of COMM 400. Notes: Students may not receive credit for both COMM 400 and 490. Equivalent to COMM 400.
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