Offers opportunities for graduate-level communication related work projects. Limited to 3 hours in spring and fall semesters, 6 hours in summer. The 6-hour limit at MA level and 9-hour limit at PhD level applies to any combination of independent study and internship credit.
Introduces students to practice-based research methods in intermedia art, writing and performance. Requisites: Restricted to College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI) graduate students only.
Provides an introduction to graduate study of communication, offering an overview of the discipline and its scholarship. Required for MA and Ph.D. communication students. Requisites: Restricted to Communication (COMM or COMN) graduate students only.
Introduces students to the practice of quantitative research in communication: conceptualization and critique of research projects, measurements, methods (e.g., experimental and survey), statistical data analysis, and written reports. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduction to the epistemology, methodology, and representational practices associated with qualitative communication research. Fieldwork methods emphasized include participant observation, interviewing, and document/artifact analysis. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies theories and perspectives of mass communication and explores the role of mass media in society. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduction to concepts, theoretical approaches and research methods of media criticism. Students apply these frameworks in research on mediated communication. Covers qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering and analyzing data. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduction to critical theories and analysis of media and popular culture. Examines major theoretical traditions and/or theorists that significantly inform media studies (e.g., culturalism, structuralism, Marxism, critical theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism) and applies these to media analysis and criticism. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Facilitates understanding of current and past theory and research on a selected topic in communication and the ability to develop new theory and research on that topic. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Collaborative studio course in which students focus on emerging practices in intermedia art, writing and performance. Learn new technological developments and apply them to collaboratively built art, writing and performance projects that are presented to the community as public events and programs including exhibitions, publications and performances. Requisites: Restricted to College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI) graduate students only.
Covers mass communication within the international system, including similarities and differences in functions, facilities, and content; social theories of the press; and the international flow of mass communication. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies and analyzes communications technologies and techniques used in addressing social problems in developing countries. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces students to historical and contemporary uses of fundamental concepts in research and theory about media institutions, particularly public, community, mass, publicity, public space, public opinion, public interest, and the public sphere. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Reviews current critical methods and issues related to rhetorical criticism, such as contemporary theory of rhetorical criticism, continental discourse theory, and critical theory. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prereqs., COMM 5310 and COMM 5320. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies free-speech issues in the context of current and historical philosophical foundations for freedom of expression. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines various literatures that consider the role of power in shaping social orders and the social beings that constitute that order and the place of media in both processes. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Reviews current theory and research on topics such as contemporary rhetorical theory, rhetoric and public life, rhetoric as an interpretive social science, and rhetoric of social movements and political campaigns. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prereq., COMM 5320. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Analyzes the work of journalists who became some of the greatest fiction writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the increasingly indistinct lines between journalism and narrative fiction. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Surveys foundational texts and contemporary research in the rhetoric of inquiry. Focuses on the role of persuasion in the production of knowledge. Critical analysis of major theoretical and methodological traditions and topics, with an emphasis on social dimensions of inquiry. Recommended prereq., COMM 5320. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores therelationships involving media and politics. Incorporates normative and empirical perspectives on the media-politics complex. Areas covered include media effects on public opinion and policy, uses of media ingovernance, journalism sociology, coverage of elections, and implications of interactive media for governance and civic participation. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Considers performances of public life as rhetorical inducements of civitas. Topics include negotiation of self-regulation among interdependent partners, rhetorical exclusions and/or counterpublics, and dialectical tensions of public/private as these contribute to and have civic consequences for publicness, community, and social will. Recommended prereq., COMM 5320. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines the concepts of children and childhood from the historical, social, cultural, economic and political perspectives, this course explores the interaction between mass media and the socialization and cultivation process of children and youth. Multiple theoretical traditions are used as a framework to study a variety of issues related to children and the media. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
