Communication Studies (CMS)
CMS 301 Topics in Communication Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 306M Professional Communication Skills 3 Hours
(TCCN: SPCH 1321)
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Designed to help students develop skills in one-on-one interactions, small group communication, and presentation skills. Basic communication theories as they relate to skill development are explored. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 305, 306M, 319, Speech 305, 319. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 307K Internship 3 Hours
10 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Internship to be arranged by student and approved by instructor. Focuses on career goals of students in communication positions with public and private organizations. Communication Studies 301 (Topic: Internship) and 307K may not both be counted. The equivalent of ten hours a week for one semester, for a minimum of 150 hours a semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of instructor.
Grading: Pass/Fail
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 309T Introduction to Sports Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the study of sports as a communication phenomenon. Discuss sports across communication contexts, methods, and theories. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 210 Forensics Workshop 2 Hours
2 Lecture Hours 8 Lab Hours
Training for participation in extracurricular speech activities, including intercollegiate debate. May be taken three times for credit. Two lecture hours and eight laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Restrictions: Open to all University students.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: Yes (03 times)
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 310K Team-Based Communication 3 Hours
(TCCN: SPCH 2333)
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analysis of small-group communication: cohesiveness, social climate, role structure, leadership, conformity, dynamics of interaction; participation in small-group communication situations. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 313M Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Communication processes within government, private, and volunteer organizations. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 314L Language, Communication, and Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The role of language in communication. Analysis of the complexity of human languages, languages in contact, language modality, and communication interaction. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 315M Interpersonal Communication Theory 3 Hours
(TCCN: SPCH 1318)
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the study of communication in relationships; topics include self-disclosure, conflict, long-distance relationships, stereotyping, and persuasion. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 316L Interviewing Principles and Practices 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to interviewing theory, emphasizing the acquisition and application of interviewing skills. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 317C Speech in American Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The impact of public discourse on the ideas and issues of culture and history in the United States. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 318L Strategic and Risk Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the closely related areas of strategic communication, being purposeful and goal driven in messaging across various contexts, and risk communication, exchanging/assessing risk information to manage decisions across various contexts. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
CMS 119S, 219S, 319S, 419S, 519S, 619S, 719S, 819S, 919S Topics in Communication Studies 1-9 Hours
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the appropriate College of Communication department. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
CMS 320 Advanced Presentation Skills 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Designed to help students develop skills in delivering informative and persuasive presentations and speeches. Study of major theories related to oral presentations. Focus on audience analysis and adaptation, building strong arguments, speech organization, and use of new technologies. Communication Studies 320 and 367 (Topic: Advanced Presentation Skills) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Communication Studies 306M with a grade of at least C-.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 321D Communicating for Development and Philanthropy 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An exploration of the special communicative dimensions of the development and philanthropy fields, including how to apply theories of building relationships and persuasion to the context of development and philanthropy for nonprofit organizations. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 322E Communication Ethics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examination of the ethical issues involved in communication. Subjects addressed include our role in interactions we are party to; media coverage of issues of a sensitive or potentially harmful nature; and how our interactions with others reflect and shape who we are. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 323R Rhetoric: East and West 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examination of the ways people from different cultures communicate and argue, and how cultures use logic, stories, myth, images, and the spoken word to make their points. Communication Studies 323R and 367 (Topic: Rhetoric East and West) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 327 Urban Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines communication between and within cultures in urban communities, especially immigrants and marginalized groups. Special focus on understanding the role cross-cultural relations play in shaping the identity of community members. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Restrictions: Restricted to students admitted to the Semester in New York Program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 129S, 229S, 329S, 429S, 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S Topics in Communication Studies 1-9 Hours
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Communication Studies. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
CMS 330 Interpersonal Health Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The fundamental interpersonal communication processes that are involved in managing physical and mental health. Includes stigma and illness identity, social support, patient-provider communication, end-of-life care, and health education. Communication Studies 330 and 367 (Topic: Interpersonal Health Communication) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 330D Health Decision Making 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the connection between evidence-based health communication practices and evidence-based health decision making. Practice making sense of complicated and ambiguous health information, and examine theoretical concepts that describe and explain how people interact with such health information. Communication Studies 330D and 367 (Topic: Health Decision Making) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 330P Communicating with Patients 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze the communicative work done by healthcare providers. Examine the provider-patient encounter and the ecology of related communication processes. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 331K Speech Writing and Criticism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Composition and analysis of oral messages; emphasis on creating and arranging ideas, style, delivery, critical method. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 332 Argumentation and Advocacy 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Nature of argumentative controversy; variables of form, method, and ethics; analysis of argumentative rhetorical works. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 332D Digital Ethics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the ethical issues inherent in the use of digital and online media. Discusses a range of current issues and subjects through the application of important moral theories, attending to how new technologies often challenge knowledge of morality, virtue, and the good life. Analyze case studies to encourage reflection and discussion over contemporary issues in digital ethics. Subjects include the ethics of hacking, Anonymous operations, online privacy, blogging ethics, online shaming and activism, revenge pornography, online free speech, social media and virtue, as well as other contemporary topics. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 332K Theories of Persuasion 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A study of motivational factors involved in persuasive speaking to secure belief and action. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 333 Case Studies in Argumentation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Study of argumentation theories. Includes analysis of case studies taken from areas of law, public policy, popular culture, and history. Communication Studies 333 and 367 (Topic: Case Studies in Argumentation) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 334F Fake News 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the interplay of journalism, satire, and propaganda in their current and historic forms - from comedians on late-night television to active measures in international espionage. Consider the social and political forces that draw us to this type of information, how to deal with it when we encounter it, and what its implications are for geopolitics in the twenty-first century and within our own participatory democracy. Communication Studies 334F and Communication Studies 367 (Topic: Fake News) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 334K Nonverbal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of the effects of space, physical appearance, movement, eye behavior, and vocal behavior on interpersonal communication. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 335 Strategic Sales and Event Planning 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Theory and practice related to the preparation of large-scale sales events and conferences. Designed to develop communication skills and planning techniques. May include client research, investigation of potential venues, telephone-based information interviews, individual or group sales presentations, and event overviews. Communication Studies 335 and 367 (Topic: Strategic Sales and Event Planning) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 337 Building Sales Relationships 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the theoretical and practical role of communication in the development of long-term client relationships. Explores the consultative sales process, including prospecting, assessing needs, handling objections, presenting, closing, and following up with clients. Focuses on how technology can help or hinder communication. Communication Studies 337 and 367 (Topic: Communication to Build Sales Relationships) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 137C Selling in Healthcare Industries 1 Hour
1 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine opportunities related to professional sales and business development in the healthcare industry. Explore the theoretical and practical role of communication in the development of long-term client relationships. Investigate the consultative sales process, including prospecting, assessing needs, handling objections, presenting, closing, and following up with clients. One lecture hour a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 338 Leadership Stories 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Uses fictional and nonfictional stories, as well as examples taken from virtual reality, to explore the meaning of leadership. Designed to help students develop a conceptual, practical, and personal understanding of the meaning of leadership. Communication Studies 338 and 367 (Topic: Stories of Leadership) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 338L Leadership and Public Memory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines how public memory is created, shaped, and shared through processes and forms like commemorations, museum exhibits, historic sites, and monuments. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 339K Working Virtually 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the dynamics of new work arrangements and the factors that shape communication when working in dispersed work arrangements. Examine important skills for navigating these new ways of working. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 339L Social Interaction in Virtual Environments 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines fundamental principles connected to the uses and effects of new technologies. Covers social networking sites, online dating, and virtual group collaboration. Communication Studies 339L and Communication Studies 367 (Topic: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 340D Expertise and Power in the Digital Commons 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore what it means to produce and/or possess knowledge in the digital era. Examine how the World Wide Web functions as an archive of information; how science enters public conversations in digital forums; how networked infrastructure facilitates the production of digital information; and how big data may be the future of expertise. Approach digital culture through the idea of the commons, assuming an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing insight from various literatures and methodologies. Communication Studies 340D and 367 (Topic: Digital Commons) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 340K Communication and Social Change 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analysis of how persuasion is used in mass movements: civil rights, consumerism, feminism, pacifism, religious sects. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 340M Social Media and Social Movement: Then and Now 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the role media plays in documenting and shaping the successes and failures of contemporary causes. Considers how these movements use social media to their advantage and the responses from government and other institutions. Communication Studies 340M and Communication Studies 367 (Topic: Social Media/Social Movement: Then/Now) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 341 Digital Communications 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Uses communication and interdisciplinary perspectives to explore interactions involving technology. May include the study of impression formation, identity, surveillance, privacy, distributed teams, trust and deception, online gaming, social support, and uses and impacts of new information and communication technology. Communication Studies 341 and 367 (Topic: Computer-Mediated Communication) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 342C Communication and Civic Participation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An exploration of the status of American democracy, particularly as it pertains to those born between 1960 and 1990. Subjects include the meaning of citizenship and democratic participation, and the strengths and limitations of marketing efforts targeted at getting youth involved in the democratic system. Communication Studies 342C and 367 (Topic: Communication and Civic Participation) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 342K Political Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A study of the role of symbols in political communication and the techniques and strategies employed by politicians; special attention is given to recent election campaigns. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 344K Lying and Deception 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines lying and deception as civil, strategic, and manipulative behavior. Secrets, privacy, disclosures, and confidentiality are examined in a variety of familiar contexts. Communication Studies 344K and 367 (Topic: Lying and Deception) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 345 Media Effects and Politics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The theoretical models and research methods used to study media effects. Emphasis on the political implications of media-effects research and on how media-effects theories can help clarify political issues. May include television violence, the political impact of the news, and the use of media for educational purposes. Communication Studies 345 and 367 (Topic: Media Effects and Politics) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 345G Communicating to Government 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze confident, effective, and ethical communication in regards to policy makers, elected officials, legislative and governmental agencies. Discussion of legal and ethical considerations introduced by governmental communications, as well as strategies and materials for effective communication. Includes guest speakers, and interactive opportunities around the Texas legislature and/or local governmental bodies. Communication Studies 345G and 367 (Topic: Communicating to Government) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 345K Perspectives on Rhetoric 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Four different meanings of rhetoric; how these meanings contribute to the current understanding of communication studies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 345N Political Narratives 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines stories and how they are told during political rituals, under campaign pressures, on the nightly news, and in the daily newspaper: visually, verbally, online, and in person. Communication Studies 345N and Communication Studies 367 (Topic: Political Narratives) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 345P Communication and Public Opinion 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An investigation of the definition and measurement of public opinion. Explores the relationship between communication and public opinion, how changes to public opinion are affected, and the influence of perception of public opinion on personal opinion. Communication Studies 345P and 367 (Topic: Communication and Public Opinion) may not both be counted.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 345V American Voices 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines what is most distinctive about American speech, American film, American advertising, American politics, the American press. Communication 370 (Topic: American Voices) and Communication Studies 345V may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 346 Using Communication Technology at Work 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines how communication technologies affect workplace communication. Considers case studies involving the use of social networking, handheld devices, and e-mail by for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Communication Studies 346 and 367 (Topic: Using Communication Technology at Work) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 346C The Cutural Impact of Innovation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the fundamentals of humanistic thought for both critiquing and creating innovation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 347E Arguing the End of the World 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discussion of apocalyptic, millenarian, or millenialism way of thinking and how it affects religious, social, and other personal beliefs. Communication Studies 347E and 367 (Topic: Arguing the End of the World) may not both be counted. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 347K Rhetoric of Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The ways that film, television, music, fashion, the Internet, and other discourses of popular culture influence public attitudes, perceptions, and social relations. Communication Studies 347K and 367 (Topic: Rhetoric of Popular Culture) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 347S Communicating with Stuff 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how we use material objects and actions as a means of communication, especially objects found in popular culture. Communication Studies 347S and 367 (Topic: Communicating with Stuff) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 348 Communication Research Methods 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A practical introduction to research methods, focusing on designing a study, conducting research, analyzing data, and presenting results. Studies survey design, interviews, focus groups, and experiments. Communication Studies 348 and 367 (Topic: Communication Research Methods) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 348K Visual Media and Interaction 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The role of visual resources and symbols in social interaction and public life; the representation of interaction and human relationships in visual media (photography, advertising, fine arts, and film). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 349M Advanced Analysis of Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Advanced critique and analysis of rhetorical dimensions in texts of popular culture. Readings in theory and methods for understanding persuasive influence in television, film, music videos, and the Internet. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 350C Crowds, Clouds, and Community 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the use of social network theory and analysis to understand the connectivity and complexity of teams, families, organizations, and communities. Consider examples of network analytic approaches to theorize, visualize, analyze, and understand, for example, criminal networks, professional service firms, government contracting, social media platforms, virtual worlds, interorganizational dynamics, post disaster recovery, and ad hoc organizational forms. Communication Studies 350C and 367 (Topic: Crowds/Clouds/Community) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 350M Field Study in Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Students acquire information through interviews and observation, devise appropriate coding schemes, and compose synoptic reports of their findings and recommendations. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 351 Communication for Cooperation and Competition 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Theoretical perspectives and experiential learning on the ways people reconcile the need to be individualistic (competitive) with the need to be community members (cooperative). Individual aggression and submission; the rewards of competition and cooperation; and organizational structures that lead to cooperation and competition. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 352 Organizational Leadership 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Theories, styles, and components of organizational leadership; communication behaviors of leaders in organizations. History of the study of leadership; new theories and concepts related to leaders as managers of organizational culture and change. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 352D The Dark Side of Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine key organizational processes that often operate in the shadows through a communication-based approach. Assess how individuals and organizations respond ethically to these processes. Survey hidden organizations and the ethical response to dark collectives in society. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 353C Communication for Innovation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the critical role that communication and communicative processes play in developing innovative ideas, products, and ways of approaching problems. Analyze behavioral theories and empirical studies to understand the challenges associated with facilitating innovation in organizations and learn strategies for improving work effectiveness. Subjects include motivation, decision making, organizational culture, information sharing, and idea generation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 353S Social Media and Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the relationship between social media use and organizational communication. Subjects include how organizations use social media for communication with external stakeholders and to facilitate internal communications processes. Communication Studies 353S and 367 (Topic: Social Media and Organizations) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 354 Conflict Resolution 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Systematic analysis of conflict and communication to examine some of the effects of communication on conflict and of conflict on communication. Readings, analysis of conflicts, and practice with and evaluation of communication behaviors thought to be effective in conflict talk. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 355K Intercultural Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Theories of speech and language that concern interaction between persons from different cultures who speak different languages or dialects. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 355S Communicating with Animals 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to research and writing about communication among animals and between animals and their human caretakers. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 355T Communication and Thought 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Integrates the emergence of collaborative thought from human communication. Analysis of language and communicative development, conversational pragmatics, perspective-taking, and social network analysis. Communication Studies 355T and 367 (Topic: Communication and Thought) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 356C Collective Action 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how globalization and technology have impacted how people organize and communicate to achieve better collective outcomes about public good. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication 370H (Topic: Collective Action), Communication Studies 356C, 367 (Topic: Collective Action). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 356T Organizational Transparency 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine fundamental dynamics of transparency as a form of communication. Explore a range of problems related to organizational transparency and critically assess organizational transparency as an ethical practice. Communication Studies 356T and 367 (Topic: Organizational Transparency) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 357 Family Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Some of the common issues that face those who live in, counsel, and conduct research with families. The development of traditional families in the United States, different family structures that make up modern society, current issues that affect families, and the impact of communication on family experiences. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 358 Communication and Personal Relationships 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The nature of human interaction in various types of relationships (friends, dates, spouses, roommates), the nature of communication at different stages in a relationship, and the nature of communication at different life stages. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 358C Identity In Relationships 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the influence of the unique combination of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, education, income, ability, and more as they relate to relationships with friends, families, partners, and selves. Communication Studies 358C and 367 (Topic: Identity in Relationships) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 359 Language, Culture, and Communication of Hip-Hop 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Uses hip-hop music as a model for understanding a speech community. Focuses on language innovation and the creation of new social networks, forms of communication, and cultural meaning and values. Communication Studies 359 and 367 (Topic: Language, Culture, and Communication in the Hip-Hop Nation) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 359C Inside the American Conversation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A look at a handful of conversations in America, from phone calls between family members and dating couples in the 1980s, contemporary 'hybrid' face-to-face/cell-phone conversations to interviews with Donald Trump and 'The Wire'. Explores what these conversations tell us about social life and how it changes, about people's concerns, cultural difference, and the diversity of ways of using language that is a hallmark of American society. Communication Studies 359C and 367 (Topic: Inside the American Conversation) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 359H Honors Tutorial Course: Reading 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Intensive reading and research as planned by the departmental honors committee. Individual instruction.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and admission to the Communication Studies Honors Program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 359T How People Talk 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how people creatively use, manipulate, and re-invent language when they talk to each other. Examine qualitative research methods, including conversation and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of speaking, and microethnography. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 360 Analyzing Social Interaction 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to concepts and research methods related to the study of how verbal and nonverbal communication is used in everyday situations. Includes collecting and analyzing sound and video data. Designed to help students develop skills in interpreting human social interactions. Communication Studies 360 and 367 (Topic: Language and the Body in Social Interaction) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 360P Expertise and Public Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the various functions that scientists and other experts serve in public discourse. Explore how scientists and experts influence public opinion, policy, and cultural attitudes. Examine how new media habits and digital networks offer platforms for experts and laypersons to communicate. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 360R Virtual Rhetoric 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how the universal presence of visual imagery makes it difficult to critically evaluate the images we see. Practice evaluating visual arguments to become a more critical consumer of visual communication. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 362D Decolonizing Communication Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the intersections of race, ethnicity, nationality, language, gender, and other aspects of identity marginalization related to communication theories and practices. Survey theories of decolonization and how to apply those in communication studies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 362E Environmental Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore various environmental philosophies as they relate to communication contexts. Assess how communication plays a role in environmental issues such as journalism and news reporting, sustainability, consumerism, politics, environmental organizations, and ecotourism. Examine how environmental theories and communication contexts play out in local, national, and international debates and contexts. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 363C Communication and Sports 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore interpersonal, mediated, organizational, and public communication in sports. Examine foundational myths and metaphors that demonstrate the various ways in which sport is used to communicate in public life. Communication Studies 363C and 367 (Topic: Communication and Sports) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 363P Politics and Protest in Sports 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine history to understand how and why sports can be powerful for contemporary political communication and symbolism. Communication Studies 363P and 367 (Topic: Politics/Protest in Sports) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 364K Gender and Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focuses on how communication influences ideas about sex, gender, and identity, from interpersonal relationships to the mass media, and from legislative debates to social movements. Communication Studies 364K and 367 (Topic: Gender and Communication) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 164M, 264M, 364M Pre-Graduate School Mentorship 1-3 Hours
1,2,3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction for undergraduates to graduate study in a discipline of their choosing. With consent of the department chair, may be repeated for credit, but no more than three hours may be taken. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of instructor.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 365K Male-Female Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Studies of speech patterns related to the concepts of male and female, including sexism in speaking, patterns of male and female speaking, patterns of listening to males and females, speech in courtship and family, speech and sexual discrimination in careers. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: WGS 345.21
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 365L Communication, Controversy, and Citizenship 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Designed to help students develop the listening, speaking, and argumentation skills used to deliberate over controversial and sensitive subjects. Deliberations focus primarily on the meaning of citizenship. Communication Studies 365L and 367 (Topic: Communication, Controversy, and Citizenship) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366 Rhetoric, Love, and Democracy 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Covers ideas about human symbolism and discourse; focuses on the effects of rhetorical perspectives on how people make meaning of the world. Communication Studies 366 and 367 (Topic: Love, Democracy, and Rhetoric) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366C Celebrity Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the importance of fame and celebrity throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, in relation to education, entertainment, and politics. Communication Studies 366C and 367 (Topic: Celebrity Culture) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366D Rhetoric of Horror 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A survey of horror studies keyed specifically to rhetorical issues, or the ways in which horror literature, cinema, and television influence people by rehearsing social problems in disguise. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366F Rhetoric of Film 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Film theory and history taught from a rhetorical perspective. Covers the film industry, technology, and the elements of narrative, image, and sound. Emphasis on theory about film and film criticism. Communication Studies 366F and 367 (Topic: Rhetoric of Film) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366M Rhetoric and Popular Music 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores music and its relation to identity; how gender, race, and sexual identity are constructed with and within musical texts; meanings and importance of authenticity; and the effectiveness of music as a political tool. Communication Studies 366M and 367 (Topic: Rhetoric and Popular Music) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366R Religious Communication and Paranormalism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores secular and religious instances of ambivalence, and its uses and effects. Communication Studies 366R and 367 (Topic: Rhetoric and Religion) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 366S Science Fiction and Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine major concepts in science fiction, with an emphasis on science fiction film adaptation (from novel to screen). Explore theories of communication implied by science fiction. Communication Studies 366S and 367 (Topic: Comm & Science Fiction) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367 Topics in Communication Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework; additional prerequisites vary by topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Applied Interpersonal Communication.
Topic 2: Campaign Communication.
Topic 3: Communication and Thought. Investigates the emergence of collaborative thought from human communication.
Topic 4: Communication Ethics.
Topic 5: Ethnography of Live Music in Austin. Explores music and musicians in Austin, with a focus on ethnographic research through observation, interviews, analysis, and writing.
Topic 6: Pragmatism and Group Dynamics. Explores how individual beliefs and expectations determine the quality of group communication.
Topic 10: Global Communication. Explore a broad history of global connections, global policies, and legal frameworks. Develop global communication strategies and tactics. Examine intercultural communication, cultural humility, and cultural competence.
CMS 367.1 Applied Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367.10 Global Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore a broad history of global connections, global policies, and legal frameworks. Develop global communication strategies and tactics. Examine intercultural communication, cultural humility, and cultural competence.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367.2 Campaign Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367.3 Communication and Thought 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigates the emergence of collaborative thought from human communication.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367.5 Ethnography of Live Music in Austin 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores music and musicians in Austin, with a focus on ethnographic research through observation, interviews, analysis, and writing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367.6 Pragmatism and Group Dynamics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores how individual beliefs and expectations determine the quality of group communication.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367C Topics in Corporate Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework; additional prerequisites vary by topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Corporate Identity, Image, and Reputation. Examine the fundamental role that communication plays in corporate identity development, image creation, and reputation management, and how those interrelated constructs relate to various other organizational processes. Communication Studies 367C (Topic: Corp Identity/Image/Reputation) and 367C (Topic 1) may not both be counted.
Topic 2: Crafting Corporate Communication Messages. Practice crafting a variety of professional messages that are clear, concise, audience-specific, and that effectively achieve their goal.
Topic 3: Disaster and Crisis Communication. Demonstrate how communicating and using appropriate technology make the difference in how people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters as well as how organizations manage crises.
Topic 4: The Art of Meetings. Discover how to participate in, plan, execute, and follow up to virtual and in-person meetings as a leader.
CMS 367C.1 Corporate Identity, Image, and Reputation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the fundamental role that communication plays in corporate identity development, image creation, and reputation management, and how those interrelated constructs relate to various other organizational processes. Communication Studies 367C (Topic: Corp Identity/Image/Reputation) and 367C (Topic 1) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367C.2 Crafting Corporate Communication Messages 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Practice crafting a variety of professional messages that are clear, concise, audience-specific, and that effectively achieve their goal.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367C.3 Disaster and Crisis Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Demonstrate how communicating and using appropriate technology make the difference in how people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters as well as how organizations manage crises.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367C.4 The Art of Meetings 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discover how to participate in, plan, execute, and follow up to virtual and in-person meetings as a leader.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367G Topics in Global Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework; additional prerquisites vary by topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367I Topics in Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework; additional prerequisites vary by topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Immigration and Communication. Explore a range of immigration subjects and analyze literature from a social ecological framework to uncover the theoretical and practical implications of research on communication and immigration.
Topic 2: Risk Communication. Analyze areas such as risk assessment, risk perception, message design, media options, and barriers to effective risk communication. Consider how access to risk information, perceptions of risk, and reactions to risk messages vary depending on the audience. Communication Studies 367I (Topic 2) and 367I (Topic: Risk Communication) may not both be counted.
Topic 3: Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. Examine recent and noteworthy scholarship in the social scientific literature regarding the often-stigmatized processes of interpersonal/relational communication. Distinguish aspects of communication that are typically seen as dysfunctional, problematic, and destructive; aspects of communication that appear to be negative but also serve a function or produce desirable outcomes; and aspects of communication that are poorly understood or hidden in the shadows of other scholarly work. Communication Studies 367I (Topic: Dark Side of Interpersonal) and 367I (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
CMS 367I.1 Immigration and Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore a range of immigration subjects and analyze literature from a social ecological framework to uncover the theoretical and practical implications of research on communication and immigration.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367I.2 Risk Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze areas such as risk assessment, risk perception, message design, media options, and barriers to effective risk communication. Consider how access to risk information, perceptions of risk, and reactions to risk messages vary depending on the audience. Communication Studies 367I (Topic 2) and 367I (Topic: Risk Communication) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367I.3 Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine recent and noteworthy scholarship in the social scientific literature regarding the often-stigmatized processes of interpersonal/relational communication. Distinguish aspects of communication that are typically seen as dysfunctional, problematic, and destructive; aspects of communication that appear to be negative but also serve a function or produce desirable outcomes; and aspects of communication that are poorly understood or hidden in the shadows of other scholarly work. Communication Studies 367I (Topic: Dark Side of Interpersonal) and 367I (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367P Topics in Political Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework; additional prerequisites vary by topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Social Media and Politics. Explore how ordinary citizens, politicians, and activists engage with politics on social media platforms. Trace the effects such political engagement has on both the political landscape and the platforms themselves. Analyze how communication theories around self presentation, imagined audience, affordances, and identity shape political communication on social media. Communication Studies 367P (Topic 1) and 367P (Topic: Social Media and Politics) may not both be counted.
Topic 2: Social Media Analysis. Analyze content on social media platforms using computational methods. Use the Python programming language to understand how individuals, companies, political campaigns, and social movements communicate using social media to advance their goals. Combine data collection, analysis, and visualization to develop insights using social media data.
Topic 3: Dark Side of Political Rhetoric. Survey the ways in which the figure of the devil has been invoked in cultural politics, beginning with Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and concluding with the influence of QAnon conspiracy theory in present-day electoral politics.
CMS 367P.1 Social Media and Politics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how ordinary citizens, politicians, and activists engage with politics on social media platforms. Trace the effects such political engagement has on both the political landscape and the platforms themselves. Analyze how communication theories around self presentation, imagined audience, affordances, and identity shape political communication on social media. Communication Studies 367P (Topic 1) and 367P (Topic: Social Media and Politics) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367P.2 Social Media Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze content on social media platforms using computational methods. Use the Python programming language to understand how individuals, companies, political campaigns, and social movements communicate using social media to advance their goals. Combine data collection, analysis, and visualization to develop insights using social media data.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367P.3 Dark Side of Political Rhetoric 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey the ways in which the figure of the devil has been invoked in cultural politics, beginning with Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and concluding with the influence of QAnon conspiracy theory in present-day electoral politics.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367S Topics in Strategic and Risk Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework; additional prerequisites vary by topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: AI in Strategic Contexts. Analyze the dynamic synergy between artificial intelligence (AI) and strategic communication; learn to harness AI technologies for more effective, forward-thinking messaging and story-telling initiatives.
Topic 2: Sales Leadership and Technology. Explore the core principles of sales leadership strategies and the vital role technology plays in driving sales success. Communication Studies 367S (Topic: Sales Leadership and Tech) and 367S (Topic 2) may not both be counted.
Topic 3: Communicating Brands. Introduce, advocate for, and build personal and professional brands. Communication Studies 367S (Topic: Communicating Brands) and 367S (Topic 3) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
CMS 367S.1 AI in Strategic Contexts 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze the dynamic synergy between artificial intelligence (AI) and strategic communication; learn to harness AI technologies for more effective, forward-thinking messaging and story-telling initiatives.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367S.2 Sales Leadership and Technology 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the core principles of sales leadership strategies and the vital role technology plays in driving sales success. Communication Studies 367S (Topic: Sales Leadership and Tech) and 367S (Topic 2) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367S.3 Communicating Brands 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduce, advocate for, and build personal and professional brands. Communication Studies 367S (Topic: Communicating Brands) and 367S (Topic 3) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 367T Topics in Sports Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine sports communication through a focus on a specific athlete, case, era, issue, or problem. Three lecture hours per week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 370K, 670K Internship in Communication Studies 3,6 Hours
10,20 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Internships to be arranged by student and approved by instructor. Focuses on career goals of students in communication positions with public and private organizations. For 370K, an average of 10 hours of work a week, for a total of at least 150 hours a semester; for 670K, an average of 20 hours of work a week, for a total of at least 300 hours a semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; twelve semester hours of communication studies with a grade of at least C-; and a University grade point average of at least 2.25.
Restrictions: Restricted to communication studies majors.
Grading: Pass/Fail
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 371D Difficult Conversations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores the interpersonal, social, and language factors that impact difficult conversations. Communication Studies 367 (Topic: Difficult Conversations) and 371D may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 371K Practicum in Conflict Mediation 3 Hours
5 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Provides hand on training and practice in conflict intervention techniques, including various forms of mediation, facilitation and dialogue. Two lecture hours and three discussion hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 171M Communication Studies Internship 1 Hour
1 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Internship and discussion hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Communication Studies 370K; consent of departmental internship coordinator; and completion of departmental requirements for enrollment in an internship course.
Grading: Pass/Fail
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 372D The Politics of National Memory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores issues of power in our nation's capital. Students study Washington, DC via visits to sites around the city. Communication Studies 372D and 374D may not both be counted. One three-hour field trip a week for one semester. Taught in Washington, DC.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of the department.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 372K Advanced Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
In-depth discussion and treatment of advanced organizational communication topics, including socialization and role development, workplace attachments, organizational culture, ethics, structure, conflict, power, decision making and empowerment, technology, and various forms of external communication with relevant organizational stakeholders. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework, and Communication Studies 313M with a grade of at least C-.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 372T Time Matters 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century time management issues resulting from the development of communication technologies. Subjects include the concept of twenty-four-hour, seven-day-a-week availability; information overload; increased work hours; sleep deprivation; hurry sickness; multitasking; the human experience of time across diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts; and other time-related issues that shape, and are shaped by, communication behaviors. Communication Studies 367 (Topic: Time Matters) and 372T may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Forty-five semester hours of college coursework.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 373D Advocacy and Politics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An introduction to the issues faced when advocating for an issue, idea, or one's self. The course aims to have students grasp concepts they will see and experience during their internship in Washington, DC. Eight conference hours a day for six days, for the equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester. Taught in Washington, DC.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of the department.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 177K, 377K, 477K Faculty-Initiated Research 1,3,4 Hours
1,3,4 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Supervised research on a project designed by a faculty member. No more than six semester hours in the following courses may be counted: Communication Studies 177K, 377K, 477K, 178K, 278K, 378K, 478K, 578K, 678K. Individual instruction.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing, twelve semester hours of coursework in communication studies, a University grade point average of at least 2.50, and consent of instructor and the department.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
CMS 178K, 278K, 378K, 478K, 578K, 678K Student-Initiated Research 1-6 Hours
1,2,3,4,5,6 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Supervised independent research on a project initiated, designed, and implemented by the student. Student secures consent of a faculty member willing to supervise the project prior to registering. No more than six semester hours in the following courses may be counted: Communication Studies 177K, 377K, 477K, 178K, 278K, 378K, 478K, 578K, 678K. Individual instruction.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing, twelve semester hours of coursework in communication studies, a University grade point average of at least 2.50, and consent of instructor and the department; Communication Studies 177K, 377K, 477K is recommended.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 379H Honors Tutorial Course: Special Project 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The writing of a thesis or the presentation of a creative project; final comprehensive examination. Individual instruction.
Pre/Corequisites: Communication Studies 359H.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
CMS 180E, 280E, 380E, 480E Conference Course in Communication Studies 1-4 Hours
1,2,3,4 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Readings in the literature of communication studies designed to expand the graduate student's opportunity for individual consultation both in research and in informational aspects of the work. One, two, three, or four conference hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 081M Introduction to Graduate Studies in Human Communication 0 Hours
0 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discussion of communication research, theory, and professional development. One lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to the graduate program in communication studies.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: 0
CMS 383K Communication Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of philosophical and language-based approaches to communication; theory construction, research practices, scholarly writing. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser; these are identified in the Course Schedule.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 384K Topics in Communication and Ethnography 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Reading the Ethnography of Communication. Reading of a wide selection of ethnographies of speaking. Students conduct short individual field studies and write a review.
Topic 2: Writing the Ethnography of Communication. Intense analysis of selected studies, with emphasis on ethnographic writing. Students conduct group fieldwork and develop their writing skills.
Topic 3: Microethnography of Interaction. Introduction to the study of details of human interaction: the moment-by-moment organization of speech and embodied communication; the roles of different media of communication, such as language, gesture, and space; the construction of context; uses of the material environment; and the distribution of information in collaborative work settings.
Topic 4: Communication and Ethnography. Studies the use of language and communication in ethnographic methods, data collected, and in final reports in a broad range of approaches such as observation and participant-observation, field notes, surveys, interviews of various kinds, textual analysis, and experimental interventions.
CMS 384K.3 Microethnography of Interaction 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the study of details of human interaction: the moment-by-moment organization of speech and embodied communication; the roles of different media of communication, such as language, gesture, and space; the construction of context; uses of the material environment; and the distribution of information in collaborative work settings.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 384K.4 Communication and Ethnography 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Studies the use of language and communication in ethnographic methods, data collected, and in final reports in a broad range of approaches such as observation and participant-observation, field notes, surveys, interviews of various kinds, textual analysis, and experimental interventions.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386H Topics in Seminar in Health Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Theory and research in health communication. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections may also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Managing Health Information. Introduction to research and theories that examine why and how people exchange, conceal, and otherwise interact with health-related information. Explores the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of communicating about matters of health and illness, with a focus on implications for personal well-being, relational quality, and public health. Communication Studies 386H (Topic 1) and 386P (Topic: Managing Health Information) may not both be counted.
Topic 2: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Communication. Exploration of the interdisciplinary nature of health communication from an ecological perspective, ranging from intra-personal and interpersonal factors through the roles of populations and policies. Examination of the contributions to health communication from diverse disciplines including healthcare, public health, communication, and psychology. Explores issues related to research, practice, leadership, and partnerships. Additional prerequisite: For masters students, consent of instructor.
Topic 3: Communicating with Patients. Examine communication research, theory, and skill development relevant to health provider and patient encounters of all kinds. Additional prerequisite: Graduate standing.
CMS 386H.1 Managing Health Information 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to research and theories that examine why and how people exchange, conceal, and otherwise interact with health-related information. Explores the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of communicating about matters of health and illness, with a focus on implications for personal well-being, relational quality, and public health. Communication Studies 386H (Topic 1) and 386P (Topic: Managing Health Information) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386H.2 Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Exploration of the interdisciplinary nature of health communication from an ecological perspective, ranging from intra-personal and interpersonal factors through the roles of populations and policies. Examination of the contributions to health communication from diverse disciplines including healthcare, public health, communication, and psychology. Explores issues related to research, practice, leadership, and partnerships.
Pre/Corequisites: For masters students, consent of instructor.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386H.3 Communicating with Patients 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine communication research, theory, and skill development relevant to health provider and patient encounters of all kinds.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386K Topics in Theories of Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser; these are identified in the Course Schedule.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Interpersonal Communication Theory. Exploration of theoretical perspectives such as general systems theory; symbolic interactionism; rules theory; theories of language and nonverbal coding; theories of meaning; theories of information processing; and theories of persuasion. Theories pertinent to interpersonal, group, and mass interaction.
Topic 2: Applied Interpersonal Communication. The application of interpersonal communication theory and research in personal and professional settings and to practical problems in those settings.
Topic 3: Current Perspectives in Interpersonal Communication. Recent advances in theory and research in interpersonal communication.
Topic 4: Discourse Analysis. Examines similarities and differences in the main kinds of discourse analysis and their basic assumptions and typical questions. Designed to develop skills at examining a piece of text or lecture to produce persuasive scholarly analysis.
CMS 386K.1 Interpersonal Communication Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Exploration of theoretical perspectives such as general systems theory; symbolic interactionism; rules theory; theories of language and nonverbal coding; theories of meaning; theories of information processing; and theories of persuasion. Theories pertinent to interpersonal, group, and mass interaction.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386K.4 Discourse Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines similarities and differences in the main kinds of discourse analysis and their basic assumptions and typical questions. Designed to develop skills at examining a piece of text or lecture to produce persuasive scholarly analysis.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386L Topics in Group Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser; these are identified in the Course Schedule.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Group Communication Processes. Study of theory and research in the dynamics of small groups, with emphasis on the interaction of message variables with other variables such as leadership, affiliation, cohesiveness, and social power.
Topic 2: Communication Networks in Groups and Organizations. Theory and research on social networks in intraorganizational and interorganizational contexts. Students design and conduct a network study.
Topic 3: Communicating in Groups and Teams. Focuses on the concepts and theories of communicative processes in task-oriented groups and work teams. Readings cover theory and research related to communication problems, dynamics, and practices in group and team settings. May also include the study of team development, decision making, and trends in group communication research.
CMS 386L.1 Group Communication Processes 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Study of theory and research in the dynamics of small groups, with emphasis on the interaction of message variables with other variables such as leadership, affiliation, cohesiveness, and social power.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386L.3 Communicating in Groups and Teams 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focuses on the concepts and theories of communicative processes in task-oriented groups and work teams. Readings cover theory and research related to communication problems, dynamics, and practices in group and team settings. May also include the study of team development, decision making, and trends in group communication research.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386N Topics in Research in Communication Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Quantitative Research Methods. Broad coverage of social scientific techniques for collecting and analyzing communication data; includes measurement, design, and other areas. Some sections focus on organizational research.
Topic 2: Qualitative Research Methods. The use of observational and interviewing research techniques for studying human communication.
CMS 386N.1 Quantitative Research Methods 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Broad coverage of social scientific techniques for collecting and analyzing communication data; includes measurement, design, and other areas. Some sections focus on organizational research.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386N.2 Qualitative Research Methods 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The use of observational and interviewing research techniques for studying human communication.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P Topics in Issues in Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Nonverbal Communication. Current theory and research in such areas as involvement and intimacy, gender, touch, space, environment, nonverbal behavior in children, appearance, and lying. Various methods and measurement techniques for assessing eye gaze, body motion, facial actions, vocal signals, and multichannel events.
Topic 2: Interaction Analysis. Common methods of discourse and interaction analysis; methodological arguments and theoretical questions often asked of message analysts.
Topic 3: Analysis of Videotaped Interaction. The production and analysis of videotaped interaction in ethnographic research.
Topic 4: Conversation Analysis. Message description of naturally occurring interaction: transcription, analytic induction, field methods.
Topic 5: Negative Interpersonal Communication. An overview of negative features of communication in interpersonal relationships. Examines avoidance, secrets, conflict, relational transgressions, negative emotions, and aggression and abuse.
Topic 6: Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. Provides an overview of issues related to the "dark side" of communication in interpersonal relationships. Subjects include undesired features of interpersonal relationships, seemingly productive communication patterns that are dysfunctional, as well as seemingly destructive patterns that are functional. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication) and 386P (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Topic 7: Stereotyping and Prejudice in Interpersonal Communication. Examines problems posed by stereotyping and prejudice in interpersonal communication, and the research and theory aimed at reducing their impact. Designed to provide opportunities to seek constructive ways of defining and addressing stereotyping and prejudice; emphasis on recent research in the formation, maintenance, and application of stereotypes.
Topic 8: Metaphor in Communication. Examines the conceptual structure and expressive forms of the metaphor. Includes the study of classical and contemporary treatment of metaphor in linguistics, philosophy, and rhetoric. Also includes recent social scientific research on the use of figurative devices, such as metaphor, analogy, idiom, hyperbole, and euphemism, in strategic communication, specifically in managerial communication, political speeches, and religious discourse.
Topic 9: Perspective Taking. Examines social scientific research and theories that illuminate human ability to understand or adopt the perspective of others.
Topic 10: Stress and Coping. Exploration of how people interact with each other and with their environments during times of change and stress, including the emotions, cognitions, and behaviors that occur when people talk about upsetting or traumatic events and circumstances. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Stress & Coping) and 386P (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Topic 11: Advocacy. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Advocacy) and 386P (Topic 11) may not both be counted.
Topic 12: Language, Persuasion, and Social Influence. Examine how people employ and exploit linguistic precision, flexibility, and creativity in the service of influencing the beliefs and attitudes of others. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Lang Persuasion/Soc Influence) and 386P (Topic 12) may not be both counted.
CMS 386P.1 Nonverbal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Current theory and research in such areas as involvement and intimacy, gender, touch, space, environment, nonverbal behavior in children, appearance, and lying. Various methods and measurement techniques for assessing eye gaze, body motion, facial actions, vocal signals, and multichannel events.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.10 Stress and Coping 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Exploration of how people interact with each other and with their environments during times of change and stress, including the emotions, cognitions, and behaviors that occur when people talk about upsetting or traumatic events and circumstances. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Stress & Coping) and 386P (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.11 Advocacy 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Advocacy) and 386P (Topic 11) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.12 Language, Persuasion, and Social Influence 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how people employ and exploit linguistic precision, flexibility, and creativity in the service of influencing the beliefs and attitudes of others. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Lang Persuasion/Soc Influence) and 386P (Topic 12) may not be both counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.5 Negative Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An overview of negative features of communication in interpersonal relationships. Examines avoidance, secrets, conflict, relational transgressions, negative emotions, and aggression and abuse.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.6 Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Provides an overview of issues related to the "dark side" of communication in interpersonal relationships. Subjects include undesired features of interpersonal relationships, seemingly productive communication patterns that are dysfunctional, as well as seemingly destructive patterns that are functional. Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication) and 386P (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.7 Stereotyping and Prejudice in Interpersonal Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines problems posed by stereotyping and prejudice in interpersonal communication, and the research and theory aimed at reducing their impact. Designed to provide opportunities to seek constructive ways of defining and addressing stereotyping and prejudice; emphasis on recent research in the formation, maintenance, and application of stereotypes.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.8 Metaphor in Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the conceptual structure and expressive forms of the metaphor. Includes the study of classical and contemporary treatment of metaphor in linguistics, philosophy, and rhetoric. Also includes recent social scientific research on the use of figurative devices, such as metaphor, analogy, idiom, hyperbole, and euphemism, in strategic communication, specifically in managerial communication, political speeches, and religious discourse.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386P.9 Perspective Taking 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines social scientific research and theories that illuminate human ability to understand or adopt the perspective of others.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386R Topics in Issues in Relational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Communication in Relationships. Theories of development and change; research methods; relationship types; gender and roles; emotion; self-disclosure; secrets; lying; compliments; conflict; complaints; persuasion; dissolution processes; rejuvenating, repairing, and maintaining relationships.
Topic 2: Family Communication. Communication and attraction, courtship, marriage, the role of children in the marital relationship, sibling relationships, the effect of spouses' occupations on the family, and dysfunctional families.
CMS 386R.1 Communication in Relationships 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Theories of development and change; research methods; relationship types; gender and roles; emotion; self-disclosure; secrets; lying; compliments; conflict; complaints; persuasion; dissolution processes; rejuvenating, repairing, and maintaining relationships.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386R.2 Family Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Communication and attraction, courtship, marriage, the role of children in the marital relationship, sibling relationships, the effect of spouses' occupations on the family, and dysfunctional families.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 386S Communication, Cognition, and Emotion 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The cognitive elements involved in social interaction, such as memory, comprehension, plans, decision making, and schemas. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser; these are identified in the Course Schedule.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 388C, 688C, 988C Doctoral Comprehensive Examination Preparation 3,6,9 Hours
3,6,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Research and reading in preparation for doctoral comprehensive examinations in communication studies.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Restrictions: Restricted enrollment; contact the department for permission to register.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 389C Topics in Seminar in Peace and Conflict 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A survey of the literature and research in the communication of peace and conflict. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some topics also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Conflict and Communication. Focus on the relationships between social structures and communication as they relate to conflict. Explores research on interpersonal conflict, theory and research on intercultural/-social communication, identity, and language. Analyze how gender, race, culture, region, age, class & sexual orientation, national identities, and so on are developed & reflected in communication. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Conflict and Communication), 389C (Topic: Communication & Conflict), 389C (Topic 1).
CMS 389C.1 Conflict and Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focus on the relationships between social structures and communication as they relate to conflict. Explores research on interpersonal conflict, theory and research on intercultural/-social communication, identity, and language. Analyze how gender, race, culture, region, age, class & sexual orientation, national identities, and so on are developed & reflected in communication. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 386P (Topic: Conflict and Communication), 389C (Topic: Communication & Conflict), 389C (Topic 1).
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 090F Research Internship 0 Hours
0 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Participation in faculty-supervised research during the second full year of doctoral study. The equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and eighteen semester hours of graduate credit at the doctoral level.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: 0
CMS 390M Topics in Seminar in Language, Culture, and Interaction 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Conversation Analysis. This course provides the foundations of an interaction-based understanding of language. Texts will reflect the evolution of the conversation-analytic paradigm of interaction and language study and students will learn about the core organizations that conversation analysts have investigated: turn-taking, repair, turn-construction/action-design, recipient-design, and others. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 386P (Topic 4), 390M (Topic: Conversation Analysis), 390M (Topic 1). Course number may be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Topic 2: Intercultural Communication. A selective and critical overview of current approaches to intercultural communication in disciplines such as communication studies, sociology, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and anthropology. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 383L (Topic: Intercultural Communication), 390M (Topic: Intercultural Communication), 390M (Topic 2).
Topic 3: The Body in Communication. Exploration of embodied interaction as 'intercorporeality' and provides students with a methodology for research on bodily practices of communication and social action. Communication Studies 390M (Topic: Body in Communication) and 390M (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
Topic 4: Conversation Analysis. The foundations of an interaction-based understanding of language. Texts reflect the evolution of the conversation-analytic paradigm of interaction and language study, and students explore the core organizations that conversation analysts have investigated: turn-taking, repair, turn-construction/action-design, recipient-design, and others. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 390M (Topic: Conversation Analysis), 390M (Topic 1), 390M (Topic 4).
Topic 5: Language. Introduction to the evolution, structure, and cultural foundations of human language, grounded in advanced contemporary work in anthropology, communication studies, and linguistics.
Topic 6: Analyzing Embodied Communication. Exploration of embodied interaction as 'intercorporeality' and provides students with a methodology for research on bodily practices of communication and social action. Communication Studies 390M (Topic: Analyzing Embodied Communication) and 390M (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
CMS 390M.2 Intercultural Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A selective and critical overview of current approaches to intercultural communication in disciplines such as communication studies, sociology, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and anthropology. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 383L (Topic: Intercultural Communication), 390M (Topic: Intercultural Communication), 390M (Topic 2).
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390M.3 The Body in Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Exploration of embodied interaction as 'intercorporeality' and provides students with a methodology for research on bodily practices of communication and social action. Communication Studies 390M (Topic: Body in Communication) and 390M (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390M.4 Conversation Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The foundations of an interaction-based understanding of language. Texts reflect the evolution of the conversation-analytic paradigm of interaction and language study, and students explore the core organizations that conversation analysts have investigated: turn-taking, repair, turn-construction/action-design, recipient-design, and others. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 390M (Topic: Conversation Analysis), 390M (Topic 1), 390M (Topic 4).
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390M.5 Language 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the evolution, structure, and cultural foundations of human language, grounded in advanced contemporary work in anthropology, communication studies, and linguistics.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390M.6 Analyzing Embodied Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Exploration of embodied interaction as 'intercorporeality' and provides students with a methodology for research on bodily practices of communication and social action. Communication Studies 390M (Topic: Analyzing Embodied Communication) and 390M (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N Topics in Political Discourse 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Rhetoric and Political Theory. Survey of theoretical approaches to political discourse. Consideration of the ways the political penetrates public affairs, popular culture, high culture, and everyday social commerce.
Topic 2: Rhetoric of Social Movements. Philosophies, strategies, and effects of modern sociopolitical and religious movements designed to produce change.
Topic 3: Campaign Communication. An introduction to research surrounding the actors and texts of political campaigns. Covers voters, candidates, consultants, new constituencies, advertisements, debates, speeches, news coverage, party conventions, and new media environments. Focuses on how political discourse affects political life in the United States.
Topic 4: Politics, Media, and Society. Examines political life in the United States in relation to television and new media.
Topic 5: Politics, Media, and the Individual. Current research and theory in the area of media and politics with particular emphasis on individual-level effects.
Topic 6: Communication and Public Opinion. Explores questions concerning communication, the media, and public opinion. Theoretical and empirical research from sociology, political science, social psychology, and mass communication may be discussed. Communication Studies 390N (Topic: Communication & Public Opinion) and 390N (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Topic 7: Political Language. Explore an overview of political language, including questions such as: What makes political language "political?" Has such language changed in character over time? Do political styles differ from culture to culture? Do the mass media change how politicians talk? How are social media affecting citizens' patterns of political engagement? Communication Studies 390N (Topic: Political Language) and 390N (Topic 7) may not both be counted.
Topic 8: Social Media Effects. Examine the effects of social media on society, with a particular emphasis on social media's political effects, the empirical evidence, newer methodologies, and what we know and do not know.
CMS 390N.2 Rhetoric of Social Movements 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Philosophies, strategies, and effects of modern sociopolitical and religious movements designed to produce change.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N.3 Campaign Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An introduction to research surrounding the actors and texts of political campaigns. Covers voters, candidates, consultants, new constituencies, advertisements, debates, speeches, news coverage, party conventions, and new media environments. Focuses on how political discourse affects political life in the United States.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N.4 Politics, Media, and Society 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines political life in the United States in relation to television and new media.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N.5 Politics, Media, and the Individual 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Current research and theory in the area of media and politics with particular emphasis on individual-level effects.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N.6 Communication and Public Opinion 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores questions concerning communication, the media, and public opinion. Theoretical and empirical research from sociology, political science, social psychology, and mass communication may be discussed. Communication Studies 390N (Topic: Communication & Public Opinion) and 390N (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N.7 Political Language 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore an overview of political language, including questions such as: What makes political language "political?" Has such language changed in character over time? Do political styles differ from culture to culture? Do the mass media change how politicians talk? How are social media affecting citizens' patterns of political engagement? Communication Studies 390N (Topic: Political Language) and 390N (Topic 7) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390N.8 Social Media Effects 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the effects of social media on society, with a particular emphasis on social media's political effects, the empirical evidence, newer methodologies, and what we know and do not know.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P Topics in Rhetorical Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. Investigation of recent definitions, issues, and trends in rhetorical theory, with emphasis on the philosophical bases of rhetoric and the relationship of rhetoric to other disciplines.
Topic 2: Contemporary Critical Theory I. A survey of the leading schools of contemporary cultural and literary theory, such as neo-Marxism, postmodernism, and phenomenology, with special attention to their implications for rhetoric in particular and for academic work in general.
Topic 3: Contemporary Critical Theory II. The relationships among literary and rhetorical theory and literature, with special attention to the fiction and drama of Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Ibsen, Koestler, Camus, and Le Guin.
Topic 4: Burke and Symbolic Form. Covers a selection of books by rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke, as well as books and articles by recent scholars that use his ideas.
Topic 5: Foundations of Rhetorical Theory. Examines historical writings about rhetoric in the Western tradition, up through the Enlightenment. Covers various important figures in the history of rhetoric, including Plato, the sophists, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Christine de Pizan, Vico, and Ramus.
Topic 6: Rhetoric of Style. A consideration of social style, including dress, entertainment, vehicles, and living arrangements as a system of communication. Special emphasis on the expressive and practical functions of such symbolic displays.
Topic 7: Rhetoric and Ideology. Explores Marxist contributions to rhetorical theory and criticism, with emphasis on ideology and hegemony.
Topic 8: Rhetoric of Publics and Counterpublics. Investigation of the role of rhetoric in public life in capitalism in history and today. Covers the roles of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism in the production and maintenance of publics, and discusses the formation and activities of social movements.
Topic 9: Narrative, Myth, and Rhetoric. Engages two important and interrelated areas of study in rhetoric: narrative and myth. Explores the psychological foundations of myths, how mythic criticism might proceed, as well as critiques of mythic criticism from a variety of disciplines.
Topic 10: History of Communicative Inquiry. Explore the conceptual and disciplinary history of "the object" of a given academic field and the various ways in which subjects have conceived of the object, from the "reason" of philosophers to what counts as knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. Communication Studies 390P (Topic: History of Comm Inquiry) and 390P (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Topic 11: Decolonizing Communication. Explore advanced readings in rhetorical theories on decoloniality, postcolonial theory, globalization, modernity, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality.
CMS 390P.1 Contemporary Rhetorical Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigation of recent definitions, issues, and trends in rhetorical theory, with emphasis on the philosophical bases of rhetoric and the relationship of rhetoric to other disciplines.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.10 History of Communicative Inquiry 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the conceptual and disciplinary history of "the object" of a given academic field and the various ways in which subjects have conceived of the object, from the "reason" of philosophers to what counts as knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. Communication Studies 390P (Topic: History of Comm Inquiry) and 390P (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.11 Decolonizing Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore advanced readings in rhetorical theories on decoloniality, postcolonial theory, globalization, modernity, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.4 Burke and Symbolic Form 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Covers a selection of books by rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke, as well as books and articles by recent scholars that use his ideas.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.5 Foundations of Rhetorical Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines historical writings about rhetoric in the Western tradition, up through the Enlightenment. Covers various important figures in the history of rhetoric, including Plato, the sophists, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Christine de Pizan, Vico, and Ramus.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.6 Rhetoric of Style 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A consideration of social style, including dress, entertainment, vehicles, and living arrangements as a system of communication. Special emphasis on the expressive and practical functions of such symbolic displays.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.7 Rhetoric and Ideology 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores Marxist contributions to rhetorical theory and criticism, with emphasis on ideology and hegemony.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.8 Rhetoric of Publics and Counterpublics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigation of the role of rhetoric in public life in capitalism in history and today. Covers the roles of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism in the production and maintenance of publics, and discusses the formation and activities of social movements.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390P.9 Narrative, Myth, and Rhetoric 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Engages two important and interrelated areas of study in rhetoric: narrative and myth. Explores the psychological foundations of myths, how mythic criticism might proceed, as well as critiques of mythic criticism from a variety of disciplines.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R Topics in Seminar in Rhetorical Criticism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Basic Rhetorical Criticism. Elementary methods of analyzing public discourse, including the ways and the reasons that rhetorical analysis is attempted.
Topic 2: Advanced Rhetorical Criticism. Survey of six popular schools of thought, including dramatism, Marxism, and structuralism, and their implications for textual analysis.
Topic 3: Feminist Theory and Rhetorical Criticism. In-depth consideration of the premises underlying American and European feminism and the effects of such premises on critical experience. Special attention to the ways contemporary texts become gendered.
Topic 4: Rhetoric and Popular Culture. Survey of the ways film, television, popular literature, and consumer culture influence our attitudes and values. Consideration of a wide variety of contemporary theorists as well as experience in analyzing contemporary textual artifacts.
Topic 5: Rhetoric and Literature. Survey of the major genres of popular fiction--melodrama, romance, mystery, science fiction, and adventure--with special attention to the sources and strategies of their rhetorical appeal for diverse audiences.
Topic 6: The Object. Investigation of conceptual and disciplinary anxieties about the object of speech in relation to the history of communication studies, and the deliberate jettisoning of the object in relationship to the history of cultural studies.
Topic 7: The Subject. Survey of contemporary theory with attention to subjectivity. Authors may include Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jodi Dean, Gilles Deleuze, Rene Descartes, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Levinas, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Slavoj Zizek.
Topic 8: Idiom of Haunting. Examines haunting as a central experience of modern subjectivity rooted in the ontotheological concept of communication. Explores, through the idiom of haunting and ghosts, how the arrival of postmodernity (particularly in respect to mass media technology) has altered how we think about communication and subjectivity in both popular and scholarly ways.
Topic 9: Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis. A survey of the various schools of psychoanalysis, and the ways scholars have related psychoanalysis to the object of rhetoric.
Topic 10: Theories of Subjectivity. Survey of contemporary theory with attention to subjectivity. Authors may include Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jodi Dean, Gilles Deleuze, Rene Descartes, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Levinas, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Slavoj Zizek. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 390R (Topic: The Subject), 390R (Topic 7), 390R (Topic 10).
CMS 390R.1 Basic Rhetorical Criticism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Elementary methods of analyzing public discourse, including the ways and the reasons that rhetorical analysis is attempted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.10 Theories of Subjectivity 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of contemporary theory with attention to subjectivity. Authors may include Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jodi Dean, Gilles Deleuze, Rene Descartes, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Levinas, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Slavoj Zizek. Only one of the following may be counted: Communication Studies 390R (Topic: The Subject), 390R (Topic 7), 390R (Topic 10).
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.2 Advanced Rhetorical Criticism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of six popular schools of thought, including dramatism, Marxism, and structuralism, and their implications for textual analysis.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.3 Feminist Theory and Rhetorical Criticism 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
In-depth consideration of the premises underlying American and European feminism and the effects of such premises on critical experience. Special attention to the ways contemporary texts become gendered.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.4 Rhetoric and Popular Culture 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of the ways film, television, popular literature, and consumer culture influence our attitudes and values. Consideration of a wide variety of contemporary theorists as well as experience in analyzing contemporary textual artifacts.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.6 The Object 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Investigation of conceptual and disciplinary anxieties about the object of speech in relation to the history of communication studies, and the deliberate jettisoning of the object in relationship to the history of cultural studies.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.7 The Subject 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey of contemporary theory with attention to subjectivity. Authors may include Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jodi Dean, Gilles Deleuze, Rene Descartes, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Levinas, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Slavoj Zizek.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.8 Idiom of Haunting 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines haunting as a central experience of modern subjectivity rooted in the ontotheological concept of communication. Explores, through the idiom of haunting and ghosts, how the arrival of postmodernity (particularly in respect to mass media technology) has altered how we think about communication and subjectivity in both popular and scholarly ways.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390R.9 Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A survey of the various schools of psychoanalysis, and the ways scholars have related psychoanalysis to the object of rhetoric.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S Topics in Seminar in Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Narrative Communication in Organizations. Current theories of narrative and their applications to organizations. Topics include gossip, day-to-day news, and dramatic enactments of organizational communication.
Topic 2: Power and Politics in Organizational Communication. The communication implications of sociological and managerial approaches to the study of power and politics, with emphasis on ideas about structure, culture, ideology, information, conformity, voice, and dissent.
Topic 3: Communication and Organizational Change. A survey of theory and research on organizational life cycles, focusing on organizational renewal and on the management of change in organizations through transformational leadership.
Topic 4: Research Design in Organizational Communication. Topics include determining what to study, the design of field and laboratory research with multiple research methods, ways of bridging conceptualization and operationalization of variables, methods of data analysis, and the process of drawing inferences from data.
Topic 5: Communication in Selection and Recruitment Processes. Communication-related research and theory on selection interviewing and organizational recruitment practices.
Topic 6: Social Network Analysis. Focus on quantitatively and qualitatively mapping and measuring the connections, relationships, and flows between entities, such as individuals, teams, groups, organizations, and other information sources. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Social Network Analysis) and 390S (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Topic 7: On Time. Introduction to the field of chronemics, the study of time as it is bound with communication, via a broad survey of literature across several disciplines. A range of contemporary communication challenges, as well as opportunities for positive communication and organizational scholarship will be interrogated. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Time Matters) and 390S (Topic 7) may not both be counted.
Topic 8: Communicating Knowledge. A broad range of theoretical approaches and empirical research related to the communication of knowledge, including the study of both organizations and processes of organizing among workers. Subjects include: communities of practice, boundary objects, innovation, knowledge management, transactive memory, expertise, and ICT use. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Communicating Knowledge) and 390S (Topic 8) may not both be counted.
Topic 9: Health, Safety, and Technology in Organizations. Examination of the theoretical and empirical research that bridges between organizational, health, and emergency communication with a focus on the role technology plays in these contexts. Communication Studies 390S (Topic 9) and 392P (Topic: Health, Safety, and Technology in Organizations) may not both be counted.
Topic 10: Survey of Organizational Communication. Explores contemporary issues and processes in organizational communication. Graduate students summarize research and conduct original research in an organization. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Survey of Organizational Communication) and 390S (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Topic 11: Measurement Workshop: Scale Development and Instrument Design. Provides in-depth instruction on issues related to scale development and questionnaire design, ranging from establishing validity to increasing response rate.
Topic 12: Engaged Communication Scholarship. Explore the theories and methods helpful during engaged research projects. Includes practical theory (e.g., action research, communication design, grounded practical theory) and research methods common to consulting and engaged scholarship (e.g., ethnographic interviewing, survey design, organizational shadowing, and natural experiments). Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Engaged Commnictn Scholrshp) and 390S (Topic 12) may not both be counted.
Topic 13: Disaster Communication and the Future. Examine foundational interdisciplinary theories and meaningful community involvement to reveal the pivotal role communication, organizing, and technologies play in disasters, crises, and emergencies.
CMS 390S.1 Narrative Communication in Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Current theories of narrative and their applications to organizations. Topics include gossip, day-to-day news, and dramatic enactments of organizational communication.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.10 Survey of Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explores contemporary issues and processes in organizational communication. Graduate students summarize research and conduct original research in an organization. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Survey of Organizational Communication) and 390S (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.11 Measurement Workshop: Scale Development and Instrument Design 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Provides in-depth instruction on issues related to scale development and questionnaire design, ranging from establishing validity to increasing response rate.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.12 Engaged Communication Scholarship 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the theories and methods helpful during engaged research projects. Includes practical theory (e.g., action research, communication design, grounded practical theory) and research methods common to consulting and engaged scholarship (e.g., ethnographic interviewing, survey design, organizational shadowing, and natural experiments). Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Engaged Commnictn Scholrshp) and 390S (Topic 12) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.13 Disaster Communication and the Future 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine foundational interdisciplinary theories and meaningful community involvement to reveal the pivotal role communication, organizing, and technologies play in disasters, crises, and emergencies.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.2 Power and Politics in Organizational Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The communication implications of sociological and managerial approaches to the study of power and politics, with emphasis on ideas about structure, culture, ideology, information, conformity, voice, and dissent.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.6 Social Network Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Focus on quantitatively and qualitatively mapping and measuring the connections, relationships, and flows between entities, such as individuals, teams, groups, organizations, and other information sources. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Social Network Analysis) and 390S (Topic 6) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.7 On Time 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the field of chronemics, the study of time as it is bound with communication, via a broad survey of literature across several disciplines. A range of contemporary communication challenges, as well as opportunities for positive communication and organizational scholarship will be interrogated. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Time Matters) and 390S (Topic 7) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.8 Communicating Knowledge 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A broad range of theoretical approaches and empirical research related to the communication of knowledge, including the study of both organizations and processes of organizing among workers. Subjects include: communities of practice, boundary objects, innovation, knowledge management, transactive memory, expertise, and ICT use. Communication Studies 390S (Topic: Communicating Knowledge) and 390S (Topic 8) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390S.9 Health, Safety, and Technology in Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examination of the theoretical and empirical research that bridges between organizational, health, and emergency communication with a focus on the role technology plays in these contexts. Communication Studies 390S (Topic 9) and 392P (Topic: Health, Safety, and Technology in Organizations) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390T Topics in Organizational Communication Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; some topics may require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Organizational Communication: Micro. A survey of research and theory in organizational communication, with emphasis on communication as an assimilating and role-defining experience.
Topic 2: Organizational Communication: Macro. An introduction to selected macro-level or systemic variables in organizations, such as structure, technology, and environments, and to the ways these variables relate to organizational communication processes.
Topic 3: Postmodern Organizational Communication Theory. An attempt to integrate the concern in cultural studies for structure with the stream of organizational theory that focuses on chaos. Readings include Clifford and Markus, Clifford, Deleuze and Guattari, March and Olsen, Weick.
Topic 4: Foundations of Organizational Communication Theory. Introduction to the major approaches of understanding organizational communication. Examines the theoretical background and analytic skills to navigate tensions among varied approaches at micro-and-macro-levels; explores contemporary scholarship in organizational communication research in a historical context. Communication Studies 390T (Topic: Foundations of Organizational Communication Theory) and 390T (Topic 4) may not both be counted.
Topic 5: Careers: Theory and Practice. Examination of the current interdisciplinary definitions, theories, and practices regarding careers and work in contemporary society. Addresses subjects such as employability and/or entrepreneurship, the effect of contemporary technologies, internal/subjective v external/objective success, and work/life balance. Communication Studies 390T (Topic: Careers: Theory and Practice) and 390T (Topic 5) may not both be counted.
CMS 390T.2 Organizational Communication: Macro 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An introduction to selected macro-level or systemic variables in organizations, such as structure, technology, and environments, and to the ways these variables relate to organizational communication processes.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390T.3 Postmodern Organizational Communication Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
An attempt to integrate the concern in cultural studies for structure with the stream of organizational theory that focuses on chaos. Readings include Clifford and Markus, Clifford, Deleuze and Guattari, March and Olsen, Weick.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390T.4 Foundations of Organizational Communication Theory 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to the major approaches of understanding organizational communication. Examines the theoretical background and analytic skills to navigate tensions among varied approaches at micro-and-macro-levels; explores contemporary scholarship in organizational communication research in a historical context. Communication Studies 390T (Topic: Foundations of Organizational Communication Theory) and 390T (Topic 4) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390T.5 Careers: Theory and Practice 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examination of the current interdisciplinary definitions, theories, and practices regarding careers and work in contemporary society. Addresses subjects such as employability and/or entrepreneurship, the effect of contemporary technologies, internal/subjective v external/objective success, and work/life balance. Communication Studies 390T (Topic: Careers: Theory and Practice) and 390T (Topic 5) may not both be counted.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 390U Consultation in Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
A review of social science literature and its application to problem solving and organizational development in field settings. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser; these are identified in the Course Schedule.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 392P Topics in Seminar in Communication Technology 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing. Some sections also require consent of instructor or the graduate adviser; these are identified in the Course Schedule.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Communication Technology and Behavior. Review of contemporary social and information science research into the adoption, implementation, regulation, and evaluation of communication technologies. Review of applications in topical areas of students' choice. Qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Topic 2: Research in Communication Technologies. Development of research skills through projects in the uses of communication technologies. Review of research methods and analysis strategies.
Topic 3: Communication in Virtual Groups. Examines how people think, feel, and communicate in geographically distributed groups using new technologies. Covers impression formation, impression management, anonymity and social identity, group norms, liking, conformity, trust, conflict, building common ground, and social influence processes.
Topic 4: Communication Technology Use in Organizations. Examines the theoretical and empirical work on the communicative functions of technology in the workplace.
Topic 5: Computer-Mediated Communication Models and Methods. Examines the theoretical and methodological assumptions of computer-mediated communication research. Topics include online impression formation and impression management, online romantic relationships, digital deception, online identity shift effects, and the effects of perceived anonymity when using new communication technologies.
Topic 6: Grant Writing in Communication. Discussion of the grant writing process, including reviewing actual grant proposals for analysis and critique.
CMS 392P.3 Communication in Virtual Groups 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines how people think, feel, and communicate in geographically distributed groups using new technologies. Covers impression formation, impression management, anonymity and social identity, group norms, liking, conformity, trust, conflict, building common ground, and social influence processes.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 392P.4 Communication Technology Use in Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the theoretical and empirical work on the communicative functions of technology in the workplace.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 392P.5 Computer-Mediated Communication Models and Methods 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examines the theoretical and methodological assumptions of computer-mediated communication research. Topics include online impression formation and impression management, online romantic relationships, digital deception, online identity shift effects, and the effects of perceived anonymity when using new communication technologies.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 392P.6 Grant Writing in Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discussion of the grant writing process, including reviewing actual grant proposals for analysis and critique.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 395C Topics in Strategic Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze strategic communication issues. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Master's
Topic 1: Persuasion, Advocacy, and Social Influence. Examine research and theory on interpersonal influence--what it takes to successfully persuade others in personal and organizational environments. Additional prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Topic 2: The Art and Science of Social Media. Examine how to effectively engage with social media as both a consumer and an individual producer or creator. Explore personal brand identity, theories of human behavior and media consumption, and the rapidly changing media environment.
Topic 3: Communicating for Careers. Examine the current theories and practices regarding careers in communication. Create content for a portfolio in areas of interest as a resource for future employment.
Topic 4: Team Building. Explore how to foster effective teams through communication interventions.
Topic 5: Resisting Stereotyping and Prejudice. Examine problems posed by stereotyping and prejudice in communication and evidence-based research aimed at reducing their impact. Explore opportunities to seek constructive ways of identifying, defining, and addressing stereotyping and prejudice while engaging in communities.
Topic 6: Personal Identity Branding. Examine the skills and content involved in positioning individuals as experts or leaders in their field, increasing their credibility, distinguishing them from others, and expanding their circle of influence.
Topic 7: Social Media Strategies. Examine content creation, management of followers, and critical consumption of messages on social networks.
Topic 8: Managing Change through Communication. Explore strategies for creating, controlling, and adapting to change in organizations and groups. Examine how to deal with transformations in an organization's or group's goals, processes, or members.
Topic 9: Communication and Leadership. Examine leadership styles, predictors of effective leadership, and outcomes related to leadership in different contexts. Explore how to generate clear, persuasive messages and connect with audiences.
Topic 10: Crisis Communication. Examine frameworks through which crises may be addressed by leaders and members of groups, organizations, and communities by using past crises as case studies.
Topic 11: Conflict and Negotiation. Explore conflict, negotiation, and mediation with respect to interpersonal, group, organizational, and community contexts, with a focus on political conflict, its systemic causes, and possible solutions.
Topic 12: Leadership in the Social World. Examine how to lead in the social media age. Explore creating compelling content, developing a distribution strategy, using social media to guide decision making, driving social media use, and enabling a supportive infrastructure.
Topic 13: Media, Messaging, and Perceptions. Explore how communication and media contribute to representations and assumptions about social groups. Analyze messaging, power dynamics, and identity to develop more accurate and responsible communication practices.
CMS 395C.1 Persuasion, Advocacy, and Social Influence 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine research and theory on interpersonal influence--what it takes to successfully persuade others in personal and organizational environments.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.10 Crisis Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine frameworks through which crises may be addressed by leaders and members of groups, organizations, and communities by using past crises as case studies.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.11 Conflict and Negotiation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore conflict, negotiation, and mediation with respect to interpersonal, group, organizational, and community contexts, with a focus on political conflict, its systemic causes, and possible solutions.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.12 Leadership in the Social World 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how to lead in the social media age. Explore creating compelling content, developing a distribution strategy, using social media to guide decision making, driving social media use, and enabling a supportive infrastructure.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.13 Media, Messaging, and Perceptions 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how communication and media contribute to representations and assumptions about social groups. Analyze messaging, power dynamics, and identity to develop more accurate and responsible communication practices.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.2 The Art and Science of Social Media 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine how to effectively engage with social media as both a consumer and an individual producer or creator. Explore personal brand identity, theories of human behavior and media consumption, and the rapidly changing media environment.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.3 Communicating for Careers 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the current theories and practices regarding careers in communication. Create content for a portfolio in areas of interest as a resource for future employment.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.4 Team Building 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore how to foster effective teams through communication interventions.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.5 Resisting Stereotyping and Prejudice 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine problems posed by stereotyping and prejudice in communication and evidence-based research aimed at reducing their impact. Explore opportunities to seek constructive ways of identifying, defining, and addressing stereotyping and prejudice while engaging in communities.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.6 Personal Identity Branding 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the skills and content involved in positioning individuals as experts or leaders in their field, increasing their credibility, distinguishing them from others, and expanding their circle of influence.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.7 Social Media Strategies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine content creation, management of followers, and critical consumption of messages on social networks.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.8 Managing Change through Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore strategies for creating, controlling, and adapting to change in organizations and groups. Examine how to deal with transformations in an organization's or group's goals, processes, or members.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395C.9 Communication and Leadership 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine leadership styles, predictors of effective leadership, and outcomes related to leadership in different contexts. Explore how to generate clear, persuasive messages and connect with audiences.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395M Capstone in Strategic Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Pursue the research interests and skills developed in other communication classes in-depth. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and at least 15 hours of graduate coursework.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395S Topics in Sport Communication 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze issues in sports communication. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Master's
Topic 1: Sports Audio and Video Storytelling. Examine the skills needed to produce audio and video packages used on radio, long-form podcasting, and broadcast and digital sports journalism. Explore techniques used to tell a story with an audio or video narrative.
Topic 2: Political and Crisis Communication in Sports Media. Examine frameworks through which crises may be addressed by athletes, coaches, teams, and leagues by using past crises as case studies. Explore the role of athlete activism.
Topic 3: Negotiation in Sports. Explore negotiating philosophies, strategies, and tactics while developing negotiating skills during role-playing negotiations.
CMS 395S.1 Sports Audio and Video Storytelling 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the skills needed to produce audio and video packages used on radio, long-form podcasting, and broadcast and digital sports journalism. Explore techniques used to tell a story with an audio or video narrative.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395S.2 Political and Crisis Communication in Sports Media 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine frameworks through which crises may be addressed by athletes, coaches, teams, and leagues by using past crises as case studies. Explore the role of athlete activism.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 395S.3 Negotiation in Sports 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore negotiating philosophies, strategies, and tactics while developing negotiating skills during role-playing negotiations.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 698 Thesis 6 Hours
0 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for two semesters.
Pre/Corequisites: For 698A, graduate standing in communication studies and consent of the graduate adviser; for 698B, Communication Studies 698A.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 398R Master's Report 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in communication studies and consent of the graduate adviser.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
CMS 398T Supervised Teaching in Communication Studies 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Teaching communication studies under supervision. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
CMS 399W, 699W, 999W Dissertation 3,6,9 Hours
3,6,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Doctoral