Communication (COMM)

Study and practical application of communication concepts, theories and skills relevant to public relations programs in businesses and nonprofit organizations. (Formerly 7600:506)

This course focuses on crisis communication, crisis communication theory, and research of events that require the use of crisis communication messages. (Formerly 7600:510)

This course covers writing for social media and incorporates best practices for online content creation. (Formerly 7600:516)

This course emphasizes content production in professional settings based on key social media platform characteristics, audiences, and social contexts. (Formerly 7600:517)

This course explains and defines the applied nature of risk communication. Students will analyze risk situations, develop and execute messaging strategies, and assess message effectiveness. (Formerly 7600:531)

Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Graduate Studies. This course takes a critical cultural approach to studying health communication disparities across contexts. Students critically examine the ways power disparities impact effective communication in a host of settings, including patient-provider relationships, health care organizations, and public health campaigns. The goal is to raise awareness of the role communication plays in both perpetuating and challenging health care disparities that exist along the lines of gender, sex, sexuality, race, citizen status, and socio-economic status.

This course presents an overview of health communication theory and research issues in interpersonal, small group, organizational, public relations, and mass media contexts. (Formerly 7600:538)

This course provides an overview of the current social media landscape, and explores theories, research, business models and strategies of social media marketing and communication. (Formerly 7600:540)

Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Graduate Studies. This course provides an overview of how business is conducted in social media industries and helps students identify business and entrepreneurship opportunities in a convergent environment. (Formerly 7600:541)

Prerequisite: COMM 540. This course gives students the knowledge and tools to measure social media effectively. Students will learn how to measure, monitor, and evaluate social media communication. (Formerly 7600:542)

This course provides an intensive overview of the field of sport communication, and explores opportunities and challenges of sport communication. (Formerly 7600:550)

Theories of leadership and communication across public, organizational, small group, interpersonal, and political contexts. Assessments tools provided. Guest speakers. (Formerly 7600:559)

Provides an overview of popular communication approaches in science, the role of communication in science, and how to communicate science to non-technical audience. (Formerly 7600:560)

Students explore the relationship between politicians, citizens, and media. Topics include media coverage, campaign technologies, advertising, debates, engagement, rhetoric, and attitudes. Theories and methodologies analyzed. (Formerly 7600:575)

Prerequisite: Completion of 21 credits in the Strategic Communication curriculum. Required capstone project for eligibility for graduation in the online MA in Strategic Communication. (Formerly 7600:599)

Introduction to the ideas and scholarship that constitute the various research interests in the department. (Formerly 7600:600)

Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Graduate Studies. This course focuses on the basic concepts of how to conduct and analyze communication research using various methodologies utilized in professional settings. Students will learn quantitative and qualitative methods. (Formerly 7600:601)

Overview of the foundational principles for teaching communication courses including philosophical and theoretical perspectives, strategies and tools. (Formerly 7600:608)

This course is designed to merge critical thinking and research skills in order to facilitate explorations of communication phenomena through a number of theoretical perspectives. (Formerly 7600:623)

Overview of theories and approaches for understanding communication flow and practices in organizations; including interdepartmental, networks, superior-subordinate, formal and informal communication. (Formerly 7600:630)

Analysis of the impact on the communication process of cultural difference between communicators; examination of existing literature in intercultural communication. (Formerly 7600:645)

This course explores how digital technologies shape human interaction, including interpersonal communication, relationships, and identity. Students will examine how foundational theories of interpersonal communication evolve in mediated contexts and will apply contemporary frameworks to online interaction. Emphasis will be placed on the communicative implications and practical application of constant connectivity including influences on self-presentation, relational maintenance, workplace and family relationships, and mental health.

Introduces the basic elements, approaches and types of critical discourse as it is relevant to communication and mass media studies. (Formerly 7600:670)

(May be repeated for a total of six credits.) Prerequisites: must have attained the category of full admission and be in good standing in the School's graduate program; must receive permission and approval of internship placement and research proposal. Provides communication graduate students with opportunity to obtain experience and to apply knowledge of academic concepts in a supervised work setting in the communication field. (Formerly 7600:680)

(May be repeated for a total of six credits.) Special topics in communication in areas of particular faculty expertise. Consult department for particular topic each semester. (Formerly 7600:691)

Prerequisites: Permission of graduate faculty required. (May be repeated for a total of six credits.) Graduate-level research in the communication discipline. (Formerly 7600:697)