communication

Winter 09 (rough draft)

Courses

8/21/09
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
FALL 2009 COURSE LISTING


ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY IN ALL CLASSES AND SECTIONS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF THE QUARTER

All majors meeting the pre-requisites of a class will be allowed to enroll during WebReg. WebReg times are allocated by class standing so declared majors should not suffer any adverse effects from the system. If you try to WebReg for a class that is full, put yourself on the waitlist as the university now uses an automatic waitlist system to add students into classes. If a seat opens you will be added into this class automatically. For updated communication course information look on the Communication


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3. APPROPRIATE DOCUMENTATION (DR’S NOTE)
4. COLLEGE APPROVAL
5. COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION POLICY APPROVAL

THIS DEADLINE APPLIES TO ALL CLASSES AND SPECIAL STUDIES ENROLLMENT.

PLEASE PLAN YOUR SCHEDULES CAREFULLY BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE TO ADD A CLASS AFTER THIS DEADLINE IT WILL TAKE TWO – THREE WEEKS TO PROCESS THIS PAPERWORK AND IF THE ADD IS DENIED YOU WILL HAVE WASTED HALF A QUARTER OF CLASSWORK


COMMUNICATION LOWER DIVISION

COGN 20
Introduction to Communication (4) Nitin Govil
Lecture: MWF 2:00 – 2:50PM Peterson 110
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01- 659155 M 8:00 – 8:50AM HSS 2152
A02 659156 M 3:00 – 3:50PM HSS 2321
A03 659157 Tu 4:00 – 4:50PM Center 205
A04 659158 Tu 5:00 – 5:50PM HSS 2321
A05 659159 W 9:00 – 9:50AM U413-1
A06 659160 W 4:00 – 4:50PM WLH 2110
A07 659161 Th 8:00 – 8:50AM WLH 2110
A08 659162 Th 2:00 – 2:50PM WLH 2110
A09 659163 Th 3:00 – 3:50PM WLH 2110
A10 659164 Th 6:00 – 6:50PM WLH 2110
A11 659165 F 8:00 – 8:50AM HSS 2152
A12 659166 W 10:00 – 10:50AM Solis 109

A historical introduction to the development of the means of human communication, from language and early symbols, through the introduction of writing, printing and electronic media, to today’s digital and multimedia revolution. Examines the effect of communications media on human activity, and the historical forces that shape their development and use.

 

COMMUNICATION UPPER DIVISION

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

COCU 130
Tourism: Global Industry and Culture (4) Michele Goldwasser
Lecture: TuTh 5:00 – 6:20PM CSB 001
Section ID: 659149

The largest industry in the world has far-reaching cultural ramifications. We will explore tourism’s history and its contemporary cultural effects, taking the perspective of the “toured” as well as that of the tourist. Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 144
Globalization of Culture and Communication (4) Elana Zilberg
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 – 3:20PM CENTR 105
Section ID: 659150

We live in a world of transnational flows of media, money, goods and people. What representational and methodological challenges does globalization pose for the study of culture and communication? We will explore such questions from a cross-cultural and global perspective.

COCU 162
Popular Culture (4) Chandra Mukerji
Lecture: MWF 9:00 – 9:50AM CSB 002
Section ID: 659152

An overview of the historical development of popular culture from the early modern period to the present. Also a review of major theories explaining how popular culture reflects and/or affects patterns of social behavior.

COCU 175
Advanced Topics in Communication and Culture (4) Naomi Young
Title: Intercultural Communication
Lecture: MWF 12:00 – 12:50PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 659153

This course explores the concepts and issues in culture, communication and worldview. For examination will be the complex relationship between culture and communication from different conceptual perspectives and the importance of context and power in varying interactions in contemporary U.S. society. This course will focus on varying cultural contexts, by exploring the ways that one’s 'location' within social hierarchies impacts access to society’s resources. In addition, the constructs of race, gender and class – as well as other social and demographic categories such as age, ability, nationality, etc., will be discussed, with regards to the impact of differing groups and communication, and how media representations present these phenomenon.   This course will encourage the student to draw connections from their own lives as raced, classed and gendered individuals, understanding the ways that various groups worldview is effected by social and political constructs.   This is designed to enhance self-reflection, critical thinking, and awareness to the complexity of culture, worldview and communication.

COCU 175
Advanced Topics in Communication and Culture (4) – Hillel Schwartz
Title: The Mail: From Babylon to Blackberries & Beyond
Lecture TuTh 8:00 – 9:20am PCYNH 120

Correspondence, composed by one person for the eyes and ears of one or several others beyond speaking distance, is almost as old as writing. Mail has had its own series of structures, rules of privacy and publicity, notions of integrity and audience, modes of distribution and archiving. We will trace the physical and technological changes in the mail from cuneiform tablets through papyrus, parchment, and paper to telegrams and electronic media. These changes will serve as the background to an analysis of the cultural and political assumptions of written acts of correspondence and the social implications of each historical shift with regard to person-to-person, familial, and group communications.

COCU 175 - NEW CLASS ADDED 8/24/08
Advanced Topics in Communication and Culture (4) – Jonathan Markovitz
Title: Representation of Race and Violence
Lecture MWF 9:00 – 9:50am Pcynh 121
Section ID 673918

The mass media and popular culture play crucial roles in disseminating representations of race to national audiences, and some of the most powerful and widely circulated racialized imagery centers around discussions of crime and racialized violence.  Racial spectacles involving the criminal justice system, international law, and foreign policy provide the occasion for the closest thing we have to national dialogues about race, and are therefore crucially important for national processes of “racial formation” in which categories of race are continually contested and reconstructed.  Mass media representations of race, violence, and crime often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but they also provide opportunities for critiquing prevalent conceptions of race, and are often seized upon as vehicles for social protest.  This course presents an extended investigation into the contested nature of representations of race and violence. 

GENERAL COMMUNICATION

COGN 150 A00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Boatema Boateng
Title: Knives and the Female Body: The Social and Cultural Meanings of Cosmetic and Other Surgeries
Lecture: Tu 1:00 – 3:50PM MCC 133
Section ID: 659167

This course examines notions of the ideal female body that result in physical alteration. We shall look at practices ranging from different kinds of cosmetic surgery to female genital cutting (described by some as “female genital surgery”). We shall also examine examples of resistance to these practices. We shall consider why these practices occur and the issues they raise, such as human rights, individual agency, and the relation between gender discourses and practices. In examining these practices and issues we shall draw on scholarship on gender, sexuality, transnational feminism and human rights.

COGN 150 B00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Michael Cole
Title: Re-Viewing Communication
Lecture: Th 9:00 – 11:50AM MCC 133
Section ID: 659168

This senior seminar has two purposes.

First, we will be re-visiting some of the key ideas and articles that you have read in earlier courses in the Communication Department that the faculty think contain life time take home lessons that you will find important in later life. I will so organize these readings (supplemented by readings that appear to me to represent gaps in what has been taught) that as an ensemble they will help the student make maximal use of their Communication Department experience. These readings will be supplemented by films, music, and other media.

Second, the course will be oriented to the students' futures, whatever those might be imagined to be. Students will write a resume for their favorite hoped for next step in life, be it education or work of some kind. We will have guest speakers who work in some part of the vast territory associated with Communication in Society.

The final project will integrate these two purposes and will be designed individual depending upon individual student's experience in the curriculum, interests, and life goals.
Prerequisites: Senior Communication major or permission of instructor.

COGN 150 C00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Brian Goldfarb
Title: The Culture and Politics of Display: from Museums to Mannequins
Lecture: W 9:00 – 11:50AM MCC 133
Section ID: 665332
 
This seminar course will consider theories and practices of public forms of display. We will discuss the historical and contemporary issues arising from visual presentation including: the exhibition of art and artifacts, modes of commercial display (from store windows to billboards to runway), the re-conceptualization of these as digital forms, etc.
 
Prerequisite: Senior communication major or permission of instructor

COGN 175
Advanced Topics in General Communication (2) Daniel Martinico
Title:
Lecture:
Section ID: 659169

Students registered for AIP 197 and want to get Communication credit for it need to webreg for this. Contact the professor for approval.

COGN 191A
Honors Seminar in Communication (4) Morana Alac
Lecture: F 4:00 – 6:50PM MCC 133
Section ID: 659170

Only students accepted into the Honors Program can webreg for this class.

 

COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING

COHI 100
Introduction in Communication and Individual (4) Barry Brown
Lecture: TuTh 12:30 – 1:50PM WLH 2001
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 659299 M 9:00 – 9:50AM HSS 2150
A02 659300 M 3:00 – 3:50PM WLH 2110
A03 659301 M 5:00 – 5:50PM HSS 2152
A04 659302 Tu 8:00 – 8:50PM WLH 2110
A05 659303 Tu 2:00 – 2:50PM HSS 1305
A06 659304 Tu 3:00 – 3:50PM Center 205
A07 659305 Tu 6:00 – 6:50PM Center 205
A08 659306 W 8:00 – 8:50AM HSS 2152
A09 659307 W 3:00 – 3:50PM WLH 2110
A10 659308 Th 4:00 – 4:50PM WLH 2110
A11 659309 Th 5:00 – 5:50PM WLH 2110
A12 659310 F 9:00 – 9:50AM HSS 2152

An introduction to theories of human mental processes which emphasizes the central role of mediation. The course covers methods of research that permit the study of mind in relation to different media and contexts of use. The traditional notion of media effects is critically examined in a number of important domains, including television, film, writing and oral language.

COHI 115
Education and Global Citizenship (4) Olga Vasquez
Lecture: TuTh 12:30 – 1:50PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 659311

The course introduces students to concepts, possibilities, and dilemmas inherent in the notion of global citizenship. Students will formulate goals and instructional strategies for global education and the expected competence of an individual within a global society--e.g., able to focus upon many diverse elements, issues and contexts simultaneously. It will examine the role that communication and curriculum can play in the formation of identity, language use and civic responsibility of a global

COHI 175
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) Michele Goldwasser
Title: Language, Communication and Gender
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 – 3:20PM Solis 104
Section ID: 659312

This course examines the social construction of gender through language and media.  We will ask questions such as:  Do men and women talk differently?  How does language negotiate power relationships, social roles, and personal identities? How does the media construct a sense of community while transforming gender into a commodity?  We will address these questions by analyzing everyday conversations, classroom discussions, courtroom discourse, online communities, and media advertisements.

COHI 175
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) Heidi Feldman
Title: International Children’s Songs, Musical Play, and Learned Identity
Lecture Tues 5:00 – 7:50 WLH 2204
Section ID 666533

Is the idea that children are different from adults, and therefore require a separate body of "children's" music, a fundamental truth or a cultural invention? Is there a universal children's music, or does children's music vary in different cultural settings? How do children's songs and musical play shape cognition, identity formation, and enculturation? This course examines the role of music in the lives of children around the world. Beginning with an overview of scholarship on childhood, we will consider the impact of a range of international children's music, including:  nursery rhymes, medieval church music, Sesame Street songs, Disneyland rides, baby rock, the Mozart Effect, jump rope and handclapping games, piano lessons, griot songs, patriotic youth songs, rite of passage ceremonies, children's dances, and more.

 

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA METHODS

COMT 100
Non-Linear Digital Editing (4) Daniel Martinico
Lecture: M 3:00 – 5:50PM MCC 221
Section ID: 659313

This course will prepare students to edit on non-linear editing facilities and introduce aesthetic theories of editing: time code editing, time line editing on the Media 100, digital storage and digitization of audio and video, compression, resolution and draft mode editing. By the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate mastery of the digital editing facilities.

COMT 104
Studio/TV (6) – Wolfgang Hastert
Lecture M 10:00 – 12:50 MCC 140
Section ID’s assigned by section

A01 666638 W 9:00 – 11:50
A02 666639 W 12:00 – 2:50

This course offers students the opportunity to produce and engage in critical discussions around various television production formats. We will study and produce a variety of projects including public service announcements, panel programs, scripted drama, and performance productions. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22.

COMT 110
News Writing Workshop (4) – Dean Calbreath
Lecture: TuTh 8:00 – 9:20am CSB 005
Section ID 666661

Designed for students working in student news organizations or off-campus internships or jobs in news, public relations, or public information. A workshop in news writing and news analysis. Prerequisites: COCU 100 and COSF 171 (may be taken concurrently).

COMT 115
Media and Design / Social Learning Contexts (6) Robert Lecusay
Lecture: MW 1:30 – 2:50PM SSRB 305
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 659315 TuTh 3:30 – 5:30PM
A02 659316 MW 4:00 – 6:00PM

A combined lecture/lab course cross listed in Communication and Human Development Students attend lecture, write field notes, and spend 3 hours per week in specially designed afterschool setting working with children and designing new educational media and producing special projects.

COMT 116
Practicum in Child Development (6) Angelica Marcello
Lecture: TuTh 9:30 – 10:50AM Solis 109
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 659318 MW 9:00 – 10:30AM
A02 659319 MW 10:30 – 12:00PM
A03 659320 MW 4:00 – 5:30PM
A04 659321 TuTh 3:00 – 5:00PM
A05 659322 W 3:00 – 4:30PM
A06 659323 W 4:30 – 6:00PM
A07 659324 TuTh 4:00 – 5:30PM
A08 659325 TuW 4:00 – 5:30AM

A combined lecture and lab course for students in Psychology, Communication and Human Dev. Student backgrounds should include a background in general psychology or communication. Students will be expected to spend four hours per week in a supervised practical after school setting at one of the community field sites involving children. Additional time will be devoted to readings and class prep, as well as six hours a week transcribing field notes and writing a paper on some aspect of the field work experience as it relates to class lectures and readings

COMT 120
Documentary Sketchbook (4) – Lindy Laub
Lecture Th 2:00 – 4:50 MCC 140
Section ID 666984

Digital video is the medium used in this class both as a production technology and as a device to explore the theory and practice of documentary production. Technical demonstrations, lectures, production exercises, and readings will emphasize the interrelation between production values and ethics, problems of representation, and documentary history. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22.

COMT 122
Social Issues of Media Production (4) - Ivonne Montoya
Lecture: Tu 12:00 – 2:50PM MCC 221
Section ID: 665156

Analyze forms of social issue media production, photography, audio/radio, arts, crafts, web, print zines, political documentary. Students work with several forms of media making: video, audio, web design and a project in their chosen format. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22.

COMT 125
Representing Communication (4) – Kelly Moore
Lecture MWF 10:00 – 10:50 CRB 305
Section ID 667412

This is a small hands-on class how to represent an academic Communication Department to a wider community. Students create quarterly electronic newsletters and special events. Selected readings on the entrepreneurial university and communication are required. Final project and paper required. Communication majors only.

COMT 175
Advanced Topics in Communication, Media Methods (4) – Gary Anderson
Title: Theory and Practice of Intergroup Communications
Lecture TuTh 11:00 – 12:20PM HSS 1106A
Section ID: 659326

The ability to facilitate effective communications across differences is a highly valued leadership skill. This course is designed to provide foundational knowledge of inter group relations theory and practical skill development essential for effective facilitation of multi-cultural or multi-identity group communications, particularly inter group dialogues. Topics include social identity formation, group process, systems of power, privilege and oppression, coalition building, and managing inter group conflict. Students interested in this course should exhibit the desire to teach, learn, and grow with others. The course will help students hone their interpersonal and inter group communication and facilitation skills which are highly valued by employers. These skills are especially important for students preparing for careers in community or organizational leadership, teaching, social work, and other professions that require working with people in diverse settings.


COMMUNICATION AS SOCIAL FORCE

COSF 134
Communications, Politics, and Citizenship in America (4) - Jeffrey Minson
Lecture: TuTh 6:30 – 7:50PM Peterson Hall 102
Section ID: 665157

Selected topics, both historical and contemporary, on the public sphere, political participation and the meaning of citizenship. Topics may include: voting practices, the role of political parties, social and cultural dimensions of citizenship, and shifts in public understanding of what counts as “political”. The course may require five to ten hours of internship work, arranged through the AIP office. See instructo for further information. Prerequisite: COSF 100.

COSF 140B
Comparative Media Systems: Europe (4) Natalia Roudakova
Lecture: TuTh 3:30 – 4:50PM Peterson Hall 102
Section ID: 659327

Development of mass media systems and policies across Europe. How and why European media systems differ from one another and from media systems in other parts of the world. The extent and the character of links between the media and the state, the political parties, and social organizations; the status and prospects of public broadcasting; the various understandings of journalistic professionalism and partisanship; the rules governing commercial speech and political advertising, and other topics. A portion of the course is devoted to recent media transformations in the countries of the former Soviet Bloc.

COSF 141
History of US Telecommunications (4) Nadine Kozak
Lecture: TuTh 6:30 – 7:50PM Center 222
Section ID: 665158

This course provides a sustained historical focus on the developing social form and industry structure of U.S. telecommunications, beginning with the Post Office. Policy issues are regularly incorporated into readings and discussions. Emphasis is placed on the emergence, around the turn of the century, of the regulated, national telephone network system dominated by AT&T and its extension.

COSF 175
Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force (4) Chad Harris
Title: Propaganda and Persuasion
Lecture: M 5:00 – 7:50PM WLH 2111
Section ID: 659328

This course will consist of an historical and critical overview of different theories and approaches to the subject of propaganda, including a comparative approach that examines systems of propaganda in other political-economic and national settings, such as the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the United states in World War I and World War II.  We will also be looking at propaganda films, as well as the contribution of film-makers to propaganda campaigns and propaganda theory.  We will cover a wide range of issues in propaganda and persuasive communication, from political propaganda to the persuasive techniques of advertising and public relations, and will be inclusive of practical, epistemological, and ethical perspectives.  The structure of daily classes will be a mixture of lecture, films, and guided discussion around weekly topics and readings.

COSF 175
Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force (4) Jonathan Markovitz
Title: Film and Social Struggle
Lecture: Th 5:00 – 7:50PM Pcynh 121
Section ID: 665159

This course examines the relationship between film, social movements, and the state. Why have social movements seen film as worthy of attention?  Why have they decided to target some films while mobilizing in support of others?  What role has the state played in such efforts?  The course will pay particular attention to social movement responses to the racialized depictions of gender and sexuality that have been central to Hollywood film from its inception, as exemplified in such films as The Birth of a Nation.  Topics to be addressed include the importance of film for the anti-lynching movement, the blacklist and the “Hollywood Ten,” and Turkish efforts to suppress cinematic acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide.

COSF 182
Surveillance, Media and Risk Soc (4) Kelly Gates
Lecture: TuTh 11:00 – 12:20PM CSB 001
Section ID: 659329

Contributions of the field of communication to the study of surveillance and risk. Critical and legal perspectives on consumer research, copyright enforcement, the surveillance capacity of ICTs, closed-circuit television, interactive media, and the “rhetorics of surveillance” in television and film.

 

COMMUNICATION GRADUATE

COGR 201B
Ethnographic Methods in Communication Research (4) Elana Zilberg
Lecture: W 3:00 – 5:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 659226

A supervised and coordinated group project will allow students to develop competence in a variety of ethnographic approaches to communication. Subjects covered include choosing a field-work site, setting or process for participation; entry and development of relationships; techniques of observation, interviewing, notetaking, and transcription. Course may also include photography and video as research tools. All participant observation and interviewing strategies fall under the review of the Committee on Human Subjects.

COGR 201L
Qualitative Analysis of Information Systems (4) - Brian Goldfarb
Lecture: Th 1:00 – 3:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 665331

Historical and ethnographic studies of information systems-the design and use of information and communication technologies in their social, ethical, political, and organizational dimensions. Objects of study range from the invention of file folders to e-mail use and distributed databases as communication systems.

COGR 225A
Introduction to Science Studies: Part I (4) Robert Westman
Lecture: Tu 9:30 – 12:20PM HSS 3027
Section ID: 659227

Study and discussion of classics work in history of science, sociology of science, philosophy of science, and communication of science, and of work that attempts to develop a unified science studies approach. Required for all students in the Science Studies Program. Prerequisite: enrollment in the Science Studies Program or approval of instructor.

COGR 225C
Colloquium in Science Studies (4) Robert Westman
Lecture: M 4:00 – 6:20PM HSS 3027
Section ID: 659228

A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progress in Science Studies, by graduate students, faculty and visitors. Students must attend the colloquium series for their entire first and second years. They receive course credit in one quarter each year. Prerequisites: enrollment in the Science Studies Program or approval of instructor.

COGR 275 A00
Topics in Communication in Pro Seminar (4) Robert Horwitz
Title: Political Economy
Lecture: Tu 2:00 – 4:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 659230

Political economy is an older interdisciplinary approach explaining how the state, the political environment, the law, and the economic system influence each other. Indeed, the political economy approach predates the study of politics and the economy as distinct and separate areas of research. Political economy covers an enormous body of scholarship and with just ten weeks we have to make absurd choices about which texts and theorists to include and exclude. The course will try to navigate the subject by focusing on two central themes: the relationship between the market and the state, and the question of “value” and “needs.”

In so doing, we will examine several of the classic texts and theorists of political economy. The following list is subject to revision, but is likely to include selections from: Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments), GWF Hegel (The Philosophy of Right), Karl Marx (various texts, including “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” The German Ideology, Capital, and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte), Max Weber (Economy and Society), Karl Polanyi (The Great Transformation), Joseph Schumpeter (Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy), an interlude on the New Deal and John Maynard Keynes (including Daniel Bell’s critique of Marx in western experience in The Coming of Post-Industrial Society), Friedrich Hayek (The Road to Serfdom), Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom), and an interlude on the failure of the planned economy in Alec Nove (The Economics of Feasible Socialism) and Janos Kornai (“The Soft Budget Constraint”). [A useful secondary source for some aspects of these issues is Jean L. Cohen & Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory, chapters 2 & 3.]

Depending on how much time we have remaining, we will trace the political economic approach in some contemporary work in the communication field, including, as possibilities, Nicholas Garnham (Capitalism and Communication), Gary Fields (Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and Innovation at GF Swift and Dell Computer), Yuezhi Zhao (Communication in China: Power, Political Economy, and Conflict), Lawrence Lessig (Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace), C. Edwin Baker (Advertising and a Democratic Press), Thomas Streeter, (Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States), Robert Horwitz (Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa), Cass Sunstein (Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge


COGR 275 B00
Topics in Communication in Prosemina (4) Chandra Mukerji
Title: Reading
Lecture: F 10:00 – 12:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 659231

This seminar will focus on reading and its relationship to memory. We will consider the history of reading, including not only the reading of texts but also maps and other artifacts. The purpose of this is to think theoretically and empirically about what it means to read, how memories are placed in artifacts to read in different historical moments, and how reading evokes memories. Although the focus on the course will be historical, we will read about and discuss contemporary reading groups, too, and students will can do research on contemporary reading practices (or historical ones) for their final paper. I expect a final paper based on original research that is 12-15 pages long.

COGR 294
History in Communications Research (4) Michael Cole
Lecture: M 9:00 – 11:50AM MCC 201
Section ID: 659229

Intellectual history of the field of communication studies from Robert Park to the present. Explication and assessment of major research approaches and classic studies representing both empirical and critical traditions.

COGR 296
Communication Research in Interdisciplinary (4) Natalia Roudakova
Lecture: Th 9:00 – 11:50AM MCC 201
Section ID: 659232

A course that introduces students to the interdisciplinary nature of the field of communication research as represented by the work of faculty in the Department of Communication. Through faculty research, students are presented with concrete examples of communication research theory and practice that can provide them with insights for conducting their own research projects.

 

Department of Communication
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