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2016-2017 University Catalog 
    
2016-2017 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Classics

  
  • CLCS 49900 - Special Topics In Classics


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Special Topics in Classics. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 59000 - Directed Reading In Classics


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Directed readings in Classics. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • CLCS 59300 - Special Topics In Classical Literature


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Special topics in Classical Literature. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall.

Clinical Pharmacy

  
  • CLPH 36100 - Geriatric Pharmacy Practice


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is designed to provide health professional students with a general understanding of the elderly population and the medical care they receive. The course considers sociological-psychological aspects of aging and their effects on health delivery for the elderly. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CLPH 43000 - Introduction To Critical Care Pharmacotherapy


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the specialized use of drugs in certain types of critical care disease states with a strong orientation toward case based learning. The course is designed to meet the needs of students with an interest in further developing their knowledge base in common acute diseases by utilizing real-life patient cases. Instruction will be provided through a combination of lectures and progressive case discussions. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 43500 - Pediatric Pharmacotherapy


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This elective course will focus on the pharmacotherapeutics and pathophysiology of the more common disorders that apply to the pediatric population. The purpose of the course is to discuss the relevant differences between the adult and pediatric population in regards to the diagnosis, treatment options, desired therapeutic outcomes and therapeutic drug monitoring parameters. Instruction will be provided through a combination of lectures, case discussions, homework assignments, and group presentations. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 44800 - Therapeutic Case Studies


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course is intended to complement instruction of other courses in the second professional year of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum and to review many of the topics previously addressed in the Integrated Pharmacotherapy courses and Professional Program Laboratories. It is hoped that students who elect this course will enhance their development of a strong foundation of knowledge, clinical skills and abilities in order to meet the school’s professional outcome abilities. Team-based problem-solving methodology will be utilized to discuss patient cases related to topics covered in the IP sequence. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CLPH 44900 - Introduction To Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course that provides an overview of psychiatric pharmacy practice, introduction to stigma and diversity issues in mental illness, and disease state overviews in a lecture format. In one class period, the students are able to interact with 4th year pharmacy students and/or pharmacy residents who have worked or are working in the area of psychiatric pharmacy. Four of the class periods also provide live presentations and interactions with persons living with severe mental illness and mental health workers who work with them. Mental Health America of Tippecanoe County works with the instructor to schedule these live presentations. Students are assessed for attendance and participation and also for a reflection written about each class period. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CLPH 45100 - Pharmacy Practical Training


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Course allows students to gain practice-related employment experience in a pharmacy setting. Pre-approval of enrollment through ISS is required prior to employment experience. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLPH 45300 - Advanced Primary Literature Evaluation: A Focus On Therapeutic Issues


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this elective course is to enhance the primary literature evaluation skills of the student prior to clerkship rotations. The course is designed to meet the needs of students with an interest in pursuing post-graduate training programs to enhance their ability to discuss the medical literature. Instruction is provided through a combination of lectures and class discussions of recently published literature articles with a cardiovascular focus. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 45400 - Advanced Practice In Psychiatric Pharmacy


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with knowledge and insight regarding the use of medications in persons with mental illness. Instruction will be provided in the following areas (but not limited to): (1) psychiatric disease states; (2) psychiatric medications - usual dosing, adverse effects, drug interactions; (3) clinical use of psychiatric medications in psychiatric pharmacy practice; (4) useful and appropriate monitoring parameters; (5) the interaction of medical illness in the treatment of psychiatric disorders; (6) strategies to improve medication adherence and minimize adverse events; (7) utilization of recognized treatment guidelines in clinical care. Case-based learning will be utilized in emphasize important points in clinical use and monitoring of psychiatric medications and disorders. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 45600 - Pharmaceutical Care Of Diabetes


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this course is for students to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical care of diabetes. Students will expand understanding of comprehensive diabetes care. This will expose the students to experiences in which they will gain an appreciation for the complexities involved with diabetes, develop empathy for patients with diabetes, construct evidence-based treatment plans, and enhance oral and written communication skills. Students will also complete care plan assignments to apply concepts learned in the didactic lectures. This course provides a platform for shaping pharmacists into excellent caregivers for patients with diabetes. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CLPH 45700 - Pharmaceutical Care In Developing Countries


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This elective will emphasize the major disease states, rational drug selection, especially with a limited medication formulary, desired therapeutic outcomes, and the provision of complete pharmaceutical care to patients in developing countries. The impact of drug therapy on health care, economics, and quality of life for diverse populations will be emphasized. Students will prepare to provide care in a cross-cultural environment in which resources are limited. Instruction is provided through a combination of lectures, discussions, and presentations. Enrollment is limited to Doctor of Pharmacy students (068) DP-C status or by consent of course coordinator. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 46300 - Pediatric Pharmacotherapy


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course will consist of a lecture/case discussion format. The lectures will focus on the pediatric management of the following topics: Clinical Application in Pharmacokinetics, Fluids and Electrolytes, Nutrition, Respiratory Infections/Meningitis, Pain Management, and OTC products. The case discussions allow for practical application of the information gained through the lectures. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 49000 - Special Topics


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. An honors course to be used to relate to, and supplement, an existing course. Subject matter and method of approach individually directed by instructor. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CLPH 69000 - Special Problems


    Credit Hours: 2.00. Individual research topics pertaining to the practice of clinical pharmacy in institutions and the community. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLPH 69600 - Seminar In Pharmacy


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Designed to provide the student with experience in the oral and written presentation of special topics of interest to clinical pharmacists and researchers. Discussion of current problems relating to the clinical practice of pharmacy. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CLPH 87300 - Pathophysiology And Therapeutics III


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. A continuation of CLPH 57200. Pathophysiologic and therapeutic instruction on selected disease states to prepare the student to design, recommend, implement, monitor, and alter cost-effective, patient-specific pharmacotherapeutic plans. Typically offered Spring.

Communication

  
  • COM 10000 - Introduction To Communication Studies


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This semester-long course will introduce students to many opportunities offered by the Department of Communication. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 10200 - Introduction To Communication Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Overview of approaches treating communication as an individual, functional activity and as a social, structuring activity. Covers definitions and models of communication, core processes (interpretations, sending, receiving), structures (language, nonverbal behavior), and key contexts (personal, organizational, public). Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of communication theories as applied to speech; practical communicative experiences ranging from interpersonal communication and small group process through problem identification and solution in discussion to informative and persuasive speaking in standard speaker-audience situations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. NOTE: Concurrent registration is not permitted for ENGL 10600  and COM 11400. CTL:ICM 1103 Fundamentals Of Public Speaking
  
  • COM 20400 - Critical Perspectives On Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to critical thinking and writing about communication. Draws on humanistic and qualitative traditions to help students learn and apply critical approaches to understanding communication. . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 21000 - Debating Public Issues


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of argumentation as applied to public discourse. Lectures on logic and reasoning, library research methods and bibliography, identification and analysis of issues, construction and organization of cases, refutation and rebuttal, and the phrasing and delivery of the argumentative speech. Preparation of debate cases. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 21200 - Approaches To The Study Of Interpersonal Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the basic characteristics of human communication and the theoretical and practical implications of these characteristics for various forms of oral communication. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. CTL:ICM 1101 Interpersonal Communication
  
  • COM 21700 - Science Writing And Presentation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Students learn to effectively communicate scientific and technical information both verbally and in writing to a variety of audiences. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 22400 - Communicating In The Global Workplace


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This introductory course explores communication issues that arise in the global workplace. The course develops an appreciation of the relationship among culture, communication, and ways of organizing and doing business. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • COM 25000 - Mass Communication And Society


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the print, broadcast, and film media in their relationship and influence on society. Study topics include: mass communication theories, documentaries, commercialism, news media, media effects and control, feedback, educational broadcasting, and audience analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. CTL:ICM 1102 Introduction To Mass Communication
  
  • COM 25100 - Communication, Information, And Society


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an introduction to information and communication technologies, including media and computer-related technologies. Basic information and technical literacy skills are developed, while discussing fundamental concepts of mediated communication in 21st century contexts. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 25200 - Writing For Mass Media


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Labor intensive course teaches basics of newspaper writing, broadcast writing, news releases, and online journalism. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 25300 - Introduction To Public Relations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of public relations theory and practice from their origins to the present. From a communication perspective, the course examines public relations environments, audiences, and message strategies. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 25600 - Introduction To Advertising


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of commercial persuasion from colonial times to the era of mass communication. The course examines the structure of advertising messages, how they are adapted to specific audiences, and the social settings in which they occur. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 25700 - Public Relations Techniques


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This class introduces students to a range of public relations techniques, with a focus on writing. From press releases to new media, this class offers practice and feedback on how to use common public relations tools. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 26100 - Introduction To Digital Video Production


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic production principles and practices. Emphasis on preplanning and conceptualizing skills in addition to practical production techniques. Required for admission to all television production courses. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 30300 - Intercultural Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the complex relationship between culture and communication in a variety of interpersonal, group, organizational, and computer-mediated settings. Application of theory and research to development of the knowledge, attitudes, and skills associated with intercultural communication competence. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 30400 - Quantitative Methods For Communication Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the development and application of quantitative research methods pertinent to communication problems. Fundamental concepts of problem identification, reliability and validity of both measurement and research design, and statistical analyses of data. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 31100 - Copy Editing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of, and practice in, copyreading and headline writing. Laboratory practice includes copy editing on video-display terminals. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 31200 - Rhetoric In The Western World


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An explanation of major theoretical and philosophical concepts concerning rhetoric; the relationships between rhetoric and political, social, and personal decisions are explored. Ancient and modern authors will be read. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 31400 - Advanced Presentational Speaking


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of a marked degree of skill in the composition and delivery of various types of speeches including presentations in corporate board rooms, orientation meetings, banquet halls, public forms. Special emphasis on speeches related to the student’s major vocational area. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 31500 - Speech Communication Of Technical Information


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The organization and presentation of information of a practical technical nature. Emphasis is placed upon the study, preparation, and use of audiovisual materials in such presentations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 31800 - Principles Of Persuasion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Persuasion and its effects, ranging from individual influences to societal impacts. Various perspectives and models of persuasion are examined, including classical and modern approaches. Both theoretical and pragmatic considerations are introduced. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 32000 - Small Group Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of group thinking and problem-solving methods; participation in, and evaluation of, committee, and informal discussion groups. Focus on the roles, networks, and messages employed by small group communicators. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 32400 - Introduction To Organizational Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to fundamental concepts and basic research related to communication behavior in organizational settings. Units cover message processing, leadership communication, communication climates, communication training, and communication audits. Students participate in an organizational simulation in some sections. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 32500 - Interviewing: Principles And Practice


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory and practice of methods in selected interview settings: informational, employment, and persuasive. Emphasis on communication between two persons, questioning techniques, and the logical and psychological bases of interpersonal persuasion. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 32800 - Diversity At Work: A Rhetorical Approach


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduces students to theories and experiences related to issues dealing with both diversity in the workplace and diversity at work to change or influence the world. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • COM 32900 - History Of The Mass Media


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of Anglo-American press traditions, including the development of American mass media within socio-cultural environments. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 33000 - Theories Of Mass Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of mass communication theories and theorists. Readings and discussion of McLuhan, Lippman, De Fleur, Lazarsfeld, Schramm, Stephenson, and other significant contributors. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 33200 - Television Production


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic principles of producing, writing, and directing for television. Treats program types and television criticism, and explores creative treatment of visual, artistic, and nonverbal elements of communication in television. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • COM 33600 - Advertising In The Electronic Mass Media


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory and practice of advertising as applied to the electronic mass media. Emphasizes the adaptation of advertising messages to government regulation, client, audience, product, and particular medium. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 33700 - Advanced Digital Video Production


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides experience in writing program proposals and scripts, taping with small-format television equipment, and audio and video editing for various program formats. Special attention to editing, theory and technique, aesthetic considerations, and institutional and community cable outlets. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 35100 - Mass Communication Ethics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of various ethical approaches applied to situations confronting contemporary mass communicators, including misrepresentation in newsgathering, protection of sources, suppression of information, reporting of terror and violence, pressure from management and advertisers, and reporter bias. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 35200 - Mass Communication Law


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of Anglo-American traditions and trends as well as current American conditions of the laws of libel, privacy, fair comment and criticism, privilege, property rights, and copyright as such factors affect the print journalist and the broadcaster. Emphasis is on existing state and federal regulations and precedents. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 35300 - Problems In Public Relations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Approaches to problems in public relations as they occur in industry, government, education, social agencies, and other institutions. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 35600 - Problems In Advertising


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Approaches to problems in advertising as they involve the planning, creation, and evaluation of commercial messages. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 35900 - Public Affairs Reporting


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of, and practice in, reporting local and state news, including activities of the state legislature, local school boards, the courts, and the impact of national and international events on local affairs. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 36800 - Sociolinguistic Study Of African American English


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 36800 , AUSL 36800, ENGL 36800 , LC 36800 , IDIS 37800, LING 36800 ) A study of the history, structure, uses, and educational concerns of African American English in African American speech communities and the U.S. culture at large. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 37200 - Communication In Relationships


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of communication in personal relationships (including dating and marital relationships, friendships, and families) and professional relationships (including co-worker and supervisor-supervisee relationships and relationships in specific professions, such as doctor-patient and attorney-client.). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 37300 - Self-Presentation And Social Image


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of history, research, and theory in impression management. People frequently ‘package’ information about themselves to influence others to draw the ‘right’ conclusions about them. This course examines how people use interpersonal communication to manage how others perceive them. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 37400 - Social Interaction Skills: Assessment And Development


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of several major communication skills and procedures for their development. Focus is on skill measurement, methods of enhancement, assessment of training programs, and personal skill development. Skills examined include those for conversing, managing conflict, providing support, and influencing. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 37500 - Conflict And Negotiation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys theory and research focused on the role of communication in conflict and negotiation, and helps students develop skills needed to manage conflict effectively in their personal and professional relationships. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 37600 - Communication And Gender


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course is based on the assumption that studies of gender and communication are intertwined. Focus is on communication processes that create symbols of gender and how those processes recreate the meanings of gender in the lives of individuals and groups. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 38100 - Gender And Feminist Studies In Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the ways in which communication constructs and maintains our conceptions of gender. It explores different approaches to the study of gender and feminist issues in public, organizational, and mass communication. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 40600 - Web Production


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduces students to basic theoretical principles of web production and the process of creating web sites. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 40700 - Introduction To New Media/Social Media Production


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An exploration of how new technologies such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Soundslides, blogs, and audio and video are influencing the dissemination of information to mass audiences and correct practices such technologies. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 40800 - News Magazine Production


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Students plan, write and produce a weekly video news magazine to be aired on Boiler TV. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 40900 - Video Journalism


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Students plan, write and produce a weekly news magazine to be aired on Boiler TV. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 41100 - Communication And Social Networks


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the growing area of networks. The class focuses on understanding how social structure influences our everyday life by examining the ways individuals, groups, and entities are tied together. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 41200 - Theories Of Human Interaction


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An exploration and critique of major theories of human interaction in a variety of contexts; consideration of language, nonverbal behavior, cognition, emotion, social perception, and social relations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 41500 - Discussion Of Technical Problems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of speech communication related to interpersonal and group discussions on technical topics and problems; practice in using these modes in situations typically encountered by technologists. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 41600 - United States Politics And The Media


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the roles and influences of the mass media on American politics generally and with particular emphasis on election campaigns and the evolving political culture of the U.S. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 41700 - Training And Development In Organizations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to enhance student understanding of the design, development, presentation and evaluation of organizational training programs. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 41900 - Judgment And Decision Making


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to foster an understanding, critique and analysis on issues related to judgment and decision processes. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 42300 - Leadership, Communication And Organizations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores leadership from a communication perspective. It examines topics such as leadership styles, leading change, influencing others, emotional intelligence, burnout, and engagement. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 42700 - Careers, Communication Issues And Strategies


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the nature of career from a variety of definitions and strategies for employability, objective or external and subjective or psychological success, entrepreneurship, and advancement in corporate and not-for-profit contexts. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 43500 - Communication And Emerging Technologies


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Both historical and contemporary perspectives of the reciprocal influence of new and changing technologies and the processes and practices of communication. The impact of print, telegraph, telephone, radio, and television will be surveyed, along with cable systems, direct broadcast satellites, and videotext. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 44400 - Introduction To Communication And Social Entrepreneurship


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This class introduces students to the roles that communication and innovation play in social entrepreneurship. It explores activities of entrepreneurs, ethics and skill development at the individual and organizational levels, and communication functions in not-for-profit and social venture space. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 44700 - The Television Documentary


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study and application of principles of documentary television formats. Students will research an appropriate topic for documentary treatment and produce that program during the semester. Documentary formats examined include news, biographical, ethnographic, and documentary drama. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 45300 - Reporting Of Science News


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of, and practice in, the techniques of gathering and reporting news of scientific developments to the general public through the examination of samples of science news and regular reporting exercises. Attention given to professional demands made of science reporters. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 45600 - Advertising Writing


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The theory and practice of copy writing in various advertising contexts. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 46200 - Advanced Newswriting


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Combines practical experience with classroom learning. Students will work 10-12 hours weekly at the daily local city newspaper and attend a one hour class weekly, during which their writing assignments are critiqued and readings discussed and applied to work assignments. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 46400 - American Political Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the content, processes, and effects of communication within the American political system. Designed for students to experience the breadth of the field of political communication, the course emphasizes relevant theories and practical skills. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 48900 - Research Experience In Communication


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This course grants credit to students who participate in structured research projects within the Brian Lamb School of Communication. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 49000 - Internship In Communication


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Experiential, supervised training in public relations, journalism, telecommunication, oral interpretation, speech education, organizational communication, or public communication. Usually given in junior or senior year. Usually gives two credits per internship experience. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 49100 - Special Topics In Communication


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Intensive study of selected topics, varying from semester to semester, from the literature or practice of communication. Course content will be drawn from areas not dealt with in the regular curriculum and may include such topics as photojournalism, economic reporting, and campaign communication. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 49500 - Special Topics In Public Relations And Rhetorical Advocacy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. In-depth study of a particular area of public relations and rhetorical advocacy. Students read, discuss, and write about contemporary applications of public relations, advertising and rhetoric. Possible offerings include Integrated Marketing Communication, Persuasion and Social Protest, Communication Campaigns. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 49600 - Special Topics In Corporate Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course offers students the opportunity to explore in-depth, thorough readings, lectures and written assignments on current issue in corporate communication. Topics may include diversity in the workplace, organizational assessments, or spirituality in organizations. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 49700 - Special Topics In Mass Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Offers students the opportunity to explore in-depth, thorough readings, lectures and written assignments, a current topic or trend in Media, Technology and Society. Possible offerings include Media and Social Change, Online Communities, and Technology and International Communication. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 49800 - Practicum In Human Relations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides students within the Human Relations major an opportunity for an internship or directed research. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 50700 - Introduction To Semiotics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 51900 , AUSL 58900, ENGL 57000 , LC 57000 ) The study of languages, literatures, and other systems of human communication. Includes a wide range of phenomena, which can be brought together by means of a general theory of signs. The course deals with three fundamental areas: 1) verbal communication, 2) nonverbal communication (iconic systems, gestures, body language, etc.), and 3) communication through art forms. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 50800 - Nonverbal Communication In Human Interaction


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of theoretical writings and critical studies in selected areas of nonverbal communication, e.g., the environmental influences, space and territory relationships, physical appearance and dress, physical behavior, and vocal cues. One unit will deal specifically with measurement, recording, or transcription methods used in nonverbal study. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • COM 51200 - Theories Of Interpersonal Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of contemporary theories, analysis of concepts, models, and pertinent research across the broad spectrum of interpersonal communication. Typically offered Summer Fall.
  
  • COM 51500 - Persuasion In Social Movements


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the concept of persuasion in social movement theory and the role rhetoric has played historically in selected social movements such as suffrage, women’s liberation, civil rights, evangelism, and trade unionism. Typically offered Summer Spring.
  
  • COM 51700 - Communication In Politics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development and application of critical standards to the rhetoric employed by candidates for public office, study of the campaign strategies employed by parties and their candidates at various levels of government. Typically offered Summer Fall.
  
  • COM 51800 - Theories Of Persuasion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of contemporary theories, including analysis of concepts, models, and pertinent research across the broad spectrum of persuasive communication. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 52000 - Small Group Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey and critical evaluation of theoretical and empirical literature dealing with human communication within small group settings. Typically offered Summer Fall.
  
  • COM 52100 - Theories Of Rhetoric


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive survey of the principal figures, theories, and movements in rhetoric from the classical era to the present. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • COM 53100 - Special Topics In Mass Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical analysis and evaluation of current and continuing problems in both commercial and public mass communication. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 55700 - Legal Dimensions Of Communication


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of contemporary issues in communication law. Research into selected problems concerning the law and its impact on both face-to-face and mass communication. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 55800 - Historical Trends In Mass Communication Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of research on the process and effects of mass communication. Early studies on radio and film effects, propaganda, attitude formation and change, public opinion and voting, and the interpersonal dimensions of mass communication. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • COM 55900 - Current Trends In Mass Communication Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of current research as it contributes to understanding the process and effects of mass communication. Topics covered include gatekeepers and information control, audience selection processes and uses of the media, persuasive effects of the media, media content and social learning, the effects of adult programming on children, and the effects of the media on the governmental process. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • COM 56500 - Sociolinguistics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 56500 , AUSL 56500, ENGL 56500 , LC 56500 ) An introduction to language in its social context, focusing on uses and users of language. Topics include social class, ethnic group, gender, language attitudes, and bilingualism. Typically offered Fall Spring.
 

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