Courses
Course descriptions and schedules offered below are a helpful guide to find courses offered by the department.
This listing is not meant to replace the official course catalog maintained by the University Registrar.
COMM 1100
Communication in Society
Role of communication in society; forms, strategies, theories and issues; interpersonal, group, organizations, public and mass communication.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 200. GE soc sci indivs and groups course. GE foundation social and behavioral sci course.
COMM 1101
History of Communication
History of human communication from the beginning of spoken and written communication to modern mediated and mass communication.
GE soc sci indivs and groups course. GE foundation social and behavioral sci course.
COMM 2110
Principles of Effective Public Speaking
A course in critical thinking and public speaking; how to analyze and organize information for oral presentations; basics of public speaking for majors and non-majors.
COMM 2131
Business and Professional Speaking
Train students in public speaking and developing interpersonal skills for business and the professions.
COMM 2221
Media Writing and Editing
Designed to help students develop the fundamentals of news reporting, writing, and editing across news platforms.
Prereq: C- or higher in 1100 and 1101, English 1110.xx or equivalent, and enrollment in Comm or Journal; or enrollment in AgrComm major; or permission of instructor.
COMM 2223
Lantern Practicum
The practice of journalism as a member of the staff of the Lantern student newspaper and Web news site.
Prereq: 2221 (421 and 422), or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 8 cr hrs.
COMM 2321
Writing for Strategic Communication
Introduction to, and instruction and practice in writing, reporting, and editing for the strategic communication industries.
Prereq: English 1110 or equiv., and enrollment in AgrComm or Comm or Journal major; or permission of instructor.
COMM 2331
Strategic Communication Principles
The role of strategic communication in business, including basic principles of integrated marketing, theory, and ethical standards.
GE soc sci indivs and groups course. GE theme lived environments course.
COMM 2367
Persuasive Communication
This course is designed to increase your understanding of persuasive communication as it relates to citizenship and the American experience. As an advanced level writing course, the course is specifically designed to improve your persuasive writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as specific citizenship behaviors.
Prereq: Completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course. Not open to students with credit for 2367H. GE writing and comm course: level 2. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course.
COMM 2367H
Persuasive Communication
This course is designed to increase your understanding of persuasive communication as it relates to citizenship and the American experience. As an advanced level writing course, the course is specifically designed to improve your persuasive writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as specific citizenship behaviors.
Prereq: Honors standing, GE foundation writing and info literacy course, and sophomore standing. Not open to students with credit for Comm 2367. GE writing and comm course: level 2. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course.
COMM 2511
Visual Communication Design
The examination of visual symbols, graphics, photographs, art, movies and video, and their impact on society.
Prereq: Enrollment in Comm, Journal or AgrComm major/minor. Not open to students with credit for 311.
COMM 2540
Introduction to Communication Technology
This course is designed as an introduction to major communication technologies. The course will consider a range of older media and contemporary new media, with a focus on societal, relational, and psychological effects.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 240.
COMM 2596
Communicating Science, Health, Environment, & Risk
This course provides a general introduction to the fields of science, risk, environmental and health communication from multiple perspectives including psychological, social, cultural, and sustainability sciences. Students will apply theories and research covered in class to address real-world challenges of communicating science, health, environment, and risk to wide audiences.
GE theme sustainability course.
COMM 2704
Language, Culture & Communication in Latino Health
Examines how language, culture & communication shape the healthcare experiences of Latinos in the US. Considers the individual & social factors contributing to health inequalities and key theories & techniques for developing health communication interventions. Team-taught with a faculty member in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for Spanish 2504. GE diversity soc div in the US course. Cross-listed in Spanish 2504.
COMM 2850
Media and Citizenship
This course provides an overview of media's role in citizenship by learning about media industry operations, how media influence us, critical evaluation of media, media responsibility and literacy, and how our experiences and biases affect the current relationship between mass media and democracy. We will learn how to engage with media to promote informed, active, and responsible citizenship.
GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course.
COMM 2985
Media and Well-Being
The course has two main goals. The first is to explore, via media use theories, how to use media in ways that promote personal health and well-being. The second is to become skilled at communicating this information with others to inform and persuade them to adapt healthy media habits.
GE theme health and well-being course.
COMM 3160
Communication Research Methods
This course provides an overview of quantitative research methods as they apply to communication research. Students will gain an understanding of how to conduct research, as well as hands-on experience with data collection and data analysis.
Prereq: Stat 1350, 1450, or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 2160H or 2163.
COMM 3163
Communication Industry Research Methods
This course (1) introduces students to traditional and state-of-the-art methods in communication industry and (2) describes how these methods can be used to answer important questions in communication industry.
Prereq: Stat 1350, 1450, or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 2160H or 2160.
COMM 3165
Evaluation and Usability Testing
Application of electronic research through the design, implementation, and reporting of an online data collection or technology-based project.
Prereq: Stat 1350, 1450, or equiv.
COMM 3188
The PRactice Experience
Students will obtain first-hand experience as to how a real communication agency works with multiple deadlines and deliverables. From strategic communication research to content creation to delivery to evaluation, the course will produce opportunities to learn more about elements of the account process and work with real clients.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs or 6 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 3189
Freelance Journalism Experience
Practicing journalism as a freelance reporter.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 3226
Multimedia Journalism
Multimedia journalism, including relevant theories and practices, and hands-on instruction and experience creating an original news-oriented web site.
Prereq: 2221 (421 and 422), or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 426.
COMM 3325
Introduction to Organizational Communication
Addresses prior and current approaches to the study of organizational communication.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 325.
COMM 3330
Communication and Conflict Management
An overview of the communication and conflict literature with emphasis on effective conflict management.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3330H (531H) or 531.
COMM 3331
Communication and Decision Making
Decision-making as a process; comparisons between interpersonal, bargaining-negotiation contexts, and group organizations; descriptive and prescriptive models of decision-making in small groups and organizations.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 631.
COMM 3332
Risk Communication
Students will learn how to plan, implement and evaluate a risk communication effort. Message design is an integral part of this class.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 632.
COMM 3334
Strategic Message Design
Message development for marketing communications - strategic communications writing.
Prereq: Enrollment in Comm, Journal, or AgrComm major/minor. Not open to students with credit for 634.
COMM 3340
Principles of Environmental Campaigns
A seminar on the principles of strategic communication and campaigns around environmental and risk topics such as green marketing & advertising, environmental advocacy, social marketing, and environmental risk.
COMM 3345
Strategic Media Planning
Media planning for students interested in careers in advertising, public relations and other forms of strategic communication.
Prereq: 2331 (431), and enrollment in Journ or Comm major, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 545.
COMM 3402
Crime and the News Media
Study of the nature of news coverage of crime and the criminal justice system, and the implications for individuals, social groups, and society.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 502.
COMM 3403
Sports Writing and Reporting
This advanced writing course provides hands-on, active-learning experience in mastering sports writing and reporting. Students will develop expertise in crafting compelling stories while enhancing their abilities with in-depth research, interviewing and multimedia techniques. Emphasizing professional practices, the course prepares students for real-world applications and careers in sports writing.
COMM 3404
Media Law and Ethics
This course will explore the theory, history, and ethical issues associated with free speech and free press areas of the First Amendment. Students will analyze key legal and ethical issues that affect journalism and media, with a focus on cases that have shaped media law and theories that help journalism professionals make decisions.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3404H.
COMM 3405
Introduction to Lantern TV
This course will prepare students to work in television news. There will be a particular focus on writing, editing, and shooting video. Students will apply knowledge by creating and presenting news content. Students will leave this course ready for internships at television stations or Internet news outlets.
Prereq: Theatre 3351, or permission of instructor.
COMM 3413
Media Entertainment
Explores speculation, theory, and research regarding effects and appeal of media entertainment, emphasizing emotional reactions.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 613.
COMM 3414
Sports Media Relations
This hands-on, active-learning course will teach the theory and practice of sports media relations, developing strategic communication skills including writing, social media and multimedia, which will prepare students for sports media careers at the collegiate or professional sports levels.
COMM 3415
Sports, Mass Media & Society
Sports communication is a growing area of study within the communication discipline, as scholars recognize the increasingly important role media play in conveying and shaping sports and society. This course will examine the intersection of sports, society, and the media, by exploring historical and current issues in sports that shape our ideas, perspectives, and assumptions about U.S.
COMM 3440
Mass Communication and Society
This course is designed to promote an understanding of basic mass communication practice.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 642.
COMM 3442
Violence in Society and Violence in the Media
This course examines the causes, consequences, and solutions to human aggression and violence. It discusses how aggression and violence are defined and measured, aggression theories, individual risk factors, contextual risk factors, protective factors, and aggression targets. It examines in detail violent media research. It also discusses how to reduce anger, aggression, and violent media effects.
GE soc sci indivs and groups course. GE theme health and well-being course.
COMM 3444
Advertising and Society
Examination of positive and negative contributions of advertising in the American mass media system to society from political, sociological, and economic perspectives.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 644.
COMM 3466
Communication and Popular Culture
Communication causes and impacts of changing technological environment where traditional differences between cultural products, folk, mass, popular, low, elite, high, knowledge, journalistic, and informational are disappearing.
COMM 3513
Video Games and Society
A broad overview of the effects of video game play on society. Students critique the literature on this topic and design their own study to test video game effects.
COMM 3545
Human-Computer Interaction & User Experience
This course is an introduction to human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience (UX). The goal of this class is to help you learn how to design usable interactive technologies. We will consider what constitutes good design, study a variety of ways to conceptualize design problems, examine how users' cognitive abilities and emotions influence design, and learn about interfaces.
COMM 3554
Social Implications of Communication Technology
Analyze the individual, interpersonal, and societal impact of digital and Internet technologies such as blogs, wikis, online dating sites, mobile telephony, texting, apps, social media sites, video games, virtual reality, and online virtual worlds. Covers important issues that cut across multiple technologies, such as privacy, digital deception, and cyberbullying.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 654.
COMM 3558
Social Media
This course functions to help students (1) acquire theoretical and practical knowledge about social media and (2) understand the ways in which social media influence individuals, groups, and society.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 4554.
COMM 3597.01
International Perspectives on Communication
Perspectives on communication media from different parts of the world.
GE diversity global studies and cross-disciplinary seminar course.
COMM 3597.02
Media and Terrorism
Focuses on the portrayal of terrorism in the media and on how terrorists use the media to influence public opinion.
Prereq: Jr or Sr standing. Not open to students with credit for 597.01. GE diversity global studies and cross-disciplinary seminar course.
COMM 3620
Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
Analysis of the role of interpersonal communication to begin relationships, achieve intimacy, sustain a certain relational status and terminate relationships.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 320.
COMM 3624
Communication in Personal Relationships
Advanced level survey of theory and research concerning the role of communication in he development, maintenance, and decay of interpersonal relationships.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 624.
COMM 3628
Contemporary Persuasion Theory
Persuasion theories and issues in mass audience settings; persuasion in interpersonal contexts, including organizations, communities, family, and personal relationships.
COMM 3629
Language and Social Interaction
Examination of perspectives on and ways to analyze language use in everyday contexts, discourse in society, implications for communication theory, practice, and competencies. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 629.
COMM 3662
Communication and Gender
Examination of contemporary communication theory, method, and practice relevant to gender issues. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 662.
COMM 3667
Nonverbal Communication
Theory and research on communication that does not use words.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 435.
COMM 3668
Intercultural Communication
An examination of the role of intercultural communication in organizational contexts and the attendant effects on the creation and transmission of cultural consciousness, knowledge, tradition, and practices.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 368.
COMM 3800
Career Development in Communication
This course overviews various career paths for students pursing degrees in Journalism and Communication by using career development theories to develop their career planning skills. Strategies and ethical practices for career planning are applied to each major specialization for business and non-profit occupations.
COMM 4190
Journalism and Communication Co-Operative Learning Experience
Allows students to participate in a full immersion professional experience in a career-related position.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 4191
Internship
On-the-job internships in communication practice or research conducted under supervision of internship coordinator through the undergraduate advising office.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 4193
Individual Studies
Students make extensive and significant studies in the field of journalism or communication.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 4202
Feature Writing
This hands-on, active-learning course will teach students how to identify, research, report and write non-fiction feature articles that combine fact-based journalistic writing with non-fiction writing techniques, including characters development, description and narrative arc.
COMM 4221
Data Journalism in Enterprise Reporting
A capstone experience devoted to enterprise journalism that springs from computer assisted reporting techniques and presented through the use of traditional print and multimedia journalism.
Prereq: 2221 (421 and 422), and enrollment in Comm, Journal, or AgrComm major. Not open to students with credit for 621.
COMM 4240
Science Communication
Explores the structure, meanings and implications of "science communication" with an emphasis on how values, attitudes, social structure, and communication affect public perceptions of science and technology.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 4240H (640H), 3240H, or 640.
COMM 4337
Public Communication Campaigns
Application of management techniques to public relations; public relations strategy; campaign development.
Prereq: 2331 (431), and enrollment in Comm or Journal major; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 637.
COMM 4401
Mass Communication and Youth
Introduction to theories and research on the uses and effects of media on children and adolescents, including discussion of interventions.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 501.
COMM 4445
Stereotypes in Media
Expose students to the existence and impact of stereotypes in various forms of media.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 645.
COMM 4511
User-Centered Communication Design
Concepts and principles of user-centered design and application of skills to multimedia design.
Prereq: Comm 2511 (311), or Design 320, 570, 571, or 573, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 611.
COMM 4555
Computer Interface and Human Identity
Surveys computer phenomena such as artificial intelligence, agents, avatars, virtual worlds, and humanoid robots, and identities such as humanness, race, gender and sexuality.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 655.
COMM 4556
Information Technology and Organizational Communication
Focus on the role of various technologies within organizations and for work team members.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 656.
COMM 4557
Communication Network Infrastructure
Introduction to the concepts and principles that underlie contemporary telecommunication networks with the opportunity to apply these concepts to the analysis of novel systems.
Prereq: 2540 (240). Not open to students with credit for 657.
COMM 4558
Social Media Analytics
This course is an introduction to analyzing social media data. Students will learn how to operate an established analytics platform and complete a novel research project using real world social media data. Students will learn how to tackle industry and academic research problems using social media logs and metrics.
Prereq: 3160, 3163, or 3165.
COMM 4600
Communication and Emotion
Introduction to research about emotion in mediated communication. Applications in domains of student's choice (e.g. sports communication, entertainment, advertising, online communication, news, public affairs communication, etc.).
COMM 4635
Communication Dynamics in Groups
This class examines how communication dynamics affect group performance in organizations through topics such as: communication roles and norms, effective communication in teamwork and decision-making, leadership, group cohesion, managing conflict and using communication technologies.
COMM 4665
Human Communication in Social Networks
Communication creates a relationship between individuals in various ways, and the large set of these relationships form networks. In this class, our task will be to observe and understand the various ways in which communication may be directly observed or inferred and the consequences that such communication has for humans who are embedded in networks.
COMM 4668
Issues in Intercultural Communication
An examination of insights provided by recent communication theories about the challenges and difficulties resulting when people of different cultures interact.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 668.
COMM 4736
Health Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Study of communication relevant to health care in various face-to-face contexts.
GE theme health and well-being course.
COMM 4737
Health Communication in Mass Mediated Contexts
Overview of theory and research related to the role of mass media as they affect the public's health behavior.
GE theme health and well-being course.
COMM 4738
Health Communication and New Media
Focuses on the current and future uses of technology in health communication with an emphasis on technology in both patient-provider relationships and health campaigns.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 638.
COMM 4814
Political Communication
Analysis of the roles played by the mass media, public leaders, and accidental circumstances in the development of issues and images in contemporary American political communication.
Prereq: Enrollment in Comm or Journal major, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 614.
COMM 4820
Public Opinion and Communication
Investigation of public opinion from social, political, and psychological perspectives, and study of the role communication (including the media) plays in the process.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 620 or 620H.
COMM 4998
Undergraduate Research
Supervised collaborative research in Communication.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr hrs or 8 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 4999
Thesis Research
Individualized instruction in an independent research project.
Prereq: A grade of A in at least half of all Comm courses taken and an average of B in the remainder, and Jr or Sr standing in Journalism or Communication, and permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs or 12 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 4999H
Honors Thesis Research
Individual advising for an honors thesis project.
Prereq: Honors and Sr. standing in Comm or Journal and permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 783H. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs or 12 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 6500
Introduction to Graduate Study
An overview of graduate study in Communication. Research and teaching resources, procedures, and expectations, areas of study and faculty interests.
Prereq: Grad standing, or instructor permission and Grad School approval for undergrad credit. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 6661
Statistical Applications in Communication I
Fundamental principles of statistics commonly used in communication research.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 661.
COMM 6701
Working with Communication Data
Techniques for coding, entering and maintaining data sets in preparation for thesis or other research activities. Includes logical coding, documentation, mapping responses to numerical representations, assessing reliability, merging files, maintaining confidentiality via ID codes and other topics.
Prereq: Grad standing.
COMM 6760
Communication Research Methods
An overview of empirical research methods in communication.
Prereq: Grad standing. Not open to students with credit for 760.
COMM 6806
Contemporary Theories of Communication
Overview of contemporary approaches to the study of communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 806.
COMM 6807
Foundations of Communication Theory
A historical overview of the major theories and research that led to the development of the field of communication.
Prereq: 6806 (806) and Grad standing; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 807.
COMM 7710
Introduction to Social Networks
Focuses on the theoretical and methodological bases of social network analysis.
Prereq: Grad standing, and enrollment in Comm or Sociol program; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Sociol 7710. Cross-listed in Sociol.
COMM 7712
Seminar in Social Networks
The theory, substance, and methods for understanding patterns, causes, and consequences of relationships among populations of actors. Sociol 6649 and 6581 recommended.
Prereq: Grad standing, and enrollment in Comm or Sociol program; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Sociol 7712. Cross-listed in Sociol.
COMM 7713
Political Communication
A graduate-level examination of the role of communication in American politics, acquainting the student with the literature on political communication and stimulating ideas for original research in the field of political communication. Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 713. Cross-listed in PolitSc 7168.
COMM 7715
Meta-Analysis
Meta-analysis means analysis of analyses. This course provides a hands on approach to conducting a meta-analysis that involves seven steps: (1) Formulating the problem, (2) Searching the literature, (3) Gathering information from studies, (4) Evaluating the quality of studies, (5) Analyzing and integrating the outcomes of studies, (6) Interpreting the evidence, and (7) Presenting the results.
COMM 7789
Survey Research Practicum
Hands-on applications for students interested in the planning, implementation and analysis of a scientific sample survey.
Prereq: Admission to grad survey research, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 7789 or 789 in Econ, PolitSc, Stat, AEDEcon, AgrEduc, BusML, EduPL, Geog, Psych, PubHlth, or PubAfrs. Cross-listed in PolitSc, Econ, and Stat.
COMM 7790
Statistical Applications in Communication II
Survey of research methods and practical experience in conducting a research project.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 790.
COMM 7802
Narrative and Communication
Integrated reading and research in communication narrative.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 802.
COMM 7813
Public Opinion and Communication
Discusses the central role of communication in the concept of public opinion. Reviews research on the influence of communication on public opinion direction and quality.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 813.
COMM 7820
Foundations of Interpersonal Communication
Survey of historical and current trends in theory and research methodology; examination of various approaches to interpersonal communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 820.
COMM 7830
Foundations of Organizational Communication
A survey course covering theory, methodological issues, environment, cultural issues and structures in organizational communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 830.
COMM 7840
Mass Communication and the Individual
Survey of theory and research in mass communication dealing with psychological aspects of mass communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 840.
COMM 7841
Mass Communication and the Social System
Survey of mass communication theory at the macro or sociological level. Seminar covers social theories shaping media content and theories of media influence or effects.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 841.
COMM 7850
Communication Technology
Theory and research on the uses and effects of communication technology.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 850.
COMM 7851
Human-Computer Interaction
This course is one of two seminars offered as part of the communication technology focus area of the School of Communication graduate program. The focus of this course is on experiences with technology, including technological adoption and use; affordances across digital platforms; usability; and elements of interface design and their psychological, interpersonal, social and cultural implications.
COMM 7870
Media, Campaigns and Health
How mediated communication can influence human behavior and public policy in ways that can improve (or can negatively impact) human health and well-being.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 870.
COMM 7871
Health Communication in Interpersonal Settings
Introduce students to the research and theories comprising contemporary literature in health communication in interpersonal settings. Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 871.
COMM 7890
Colloquium
Colloquium.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs or 6 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 7927
Theory Construction
The formal principles of theory and model construction function as criteria for examining the strengths and weaknesses of communication research models.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 927.
COMM 7998
Directed Research
Directed research.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 27 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 7999
Thesis Research
Thesis research.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 8193
Directed Reading
Directed reading.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs or 4 completions. This course is graded S/U.
COMM 8801
Special Topics in Communication Research Methods
In-depth study of particular methods in the field of communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr hrs.
COMM 8930
Special Topics in Interpersonal Communication
Advanced seminar on current research in interpersonal communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.
COMM 8940
Special Topics in Mass Communication
Advanced seminar on current research in mass communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.
COMM 8970
Special Topics in Communication
Advanced seminar on current research cutting across sub-fields of communication.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 18 cr hrs.
COMM 8999
Dissertation Research
Dissertation research.
Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 30 cr hrs or 10 completions. This course is graded S/U.