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Corequisites

A corequisite identifies another course or courses that should be taken concurrently with the listed course. A student who enrolls in a listed course with corequisites must also enroll in those corequisite courses. A student who has previously completed a corequisite course may not need to repeat it; he or she should consult with an academic adviser before registering to determine specific requirements.

Course Credit Hours

The total semester hours of credit for each course are shown in parentheses immediately following the course title.

Prerequisites

A prerequisite identifies a course or other requirements that a student must have completed successfully before enrolling in the listed course. Any student who has not met prerequisites for a course may be administratively withdrawn from that course at the discretion of the instructor. It is the policy of some university departments to withdraw automatically any student who enrolls in a course without first meeting its prerequisites.
 

College of Nursing & Health Professions
  

  • CNHP 8080 - Teaching in Health Professions I

    1 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: The course presents fundamental principles of teaching at the collegiate level from developing the course and materials to assessment of students

  

  • CNHP 8085 - Teaching in Health Professions II

    2 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: The course will apply the fundamental principles of teaching developed in Teaching in Health Professions I and mentor and develop teaching skills during a teaching practicum experience. Students will have identified a teaching mentor and will develop at least 2 lectures to be delivered in their mentors’ class at the collegiate level. Students will also develop a set of objectives for these lectures and materials to assessment of students.

  

  • CNHP 8100 - Grant Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course offers applied grant writing techniques within the governmental, corporate, and private sectors of grant making. Students will learn how to successfully compete for funding to support academic research and community-based service projects.

  

  • CNHP 8200 - Instrument Evaluation and Construction

    3 Credit Hours
    Pre/Corequisites: One graduate level research course or permission of the instructor.
    Description
    This course presents the processes involved in designing, testing, and/or selecting instruments for measuring variables relevant to clinical and educational research and practice. Attention will be given to qualitative and quantitative approaches to measurement.

  

  • CNHP 8500 - Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Entrance into doctoral program.
    Description
    This combination of systematic review and meta-analysis, the statistical process for combining data from multiple studies, is the basis for evidence-based practice in health sciences, social sciences, and a host of other fields. Clinicians use it to determine the most effective course of treatment. Researchers use it to plan new studies, to justify these studies (in grant applications) and to put these studies in context (in the introductory section of published papers). The objective of this course is for the student to become proficient in conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis in the health sciences. Topics will include publication bias, effect size calculation, forest plots, moderator variables, and meta-regression.

  

  • CNHP 8550 - Basics of Financial Management in Health Care Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Admission to the DNP program.
    Description
    This course focuses on application of finance principles and concepts to healthcare organizations. It will provide tools to promote fiscal accountability.

  

  • CNHP 8600 - Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in the Health Sciences II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: CNHP 8500 or PT 8500 .
    Description
    The objective of this course is to provide a practical implementation of the principles and concepts learned in CNHP 8500 or PT 8500 . The desired goal is for the student to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis that can be published in a peer-reviewed research journal. Students will work on a self-determined research question in groups of two or three in conjunction with a content expert for their research question. It is desired that the research question, student group, and content expert be identified prior to the start of classes.

  

  • CNHP 8700 - Doctoral Research Seminar

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Admission to a doctoral program in the Lewis College.
    Description
    Weekly research seminar for doctoral students matriculating within a program of study in the Lewis College.

  

  • NUTR 8101 - Nutrition Research Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course provides students with an understanding of research designs/methodologies and statistical procedures commonly used in nutrition research. Students will gain experience in critiquing literature, using statistical analysis software to analyze and interpret data, and biomedical research writing skills. Doctoral students will use an existing study population and research dataset to develop a research question and study aims, conduct statistical analysis, prepare a scientific abstract and prepare/present an oral presentation.

  

  • NUTR 8104 - Advanced Normal Nutrition

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course is designed to provide an advanced level of understanding of the role of nutrients in metabolic and physiological functioning of the human body. The course will focus on the metabolic pathways of macronutrients and micronutrients. Although the main emphasis of the course is on the various metabolic processes occurring in normal healthy individuals, mechanisms leading to failure of these processes and subsequent consequences (pathophysiological conditions) will also be discussed. Throughout the course, the interactive effects of nutrients and their influence on various metabolic pathways will be emphasized. Doctoral students will identify, critically evaluate, and summarize literature related to aberrant macronutrient or micronutrient metabolism leading to compromised health.

  

  • NUTR 9200 - Nutrition & Disease

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course introduces students to the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of diseases and conditions related to the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, the renal system, and pulmonary function. Anemias, metabolic disorders, inflammation, immunological disorders, and osteoporosis are also reviewed. Doctoral students will identify a problem and intervention in a specific population, and summarize, in a manuscript, how the medical nutrition therapy applies to the disease state.

  

  • NUTR 9280 - Nutritional Genomics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course covers how nutrients affect gene expression, how nutrients and genes interact, how nutrients affect the process of select diseases, and epigenomics (alteration of gene expression without genetic change). Doctoral students will conduct a systematic review of the literature of an interaction between diet and genetics topic and prepare/provide an oral presentation of the results.

  

  • NUTR 9950 - Advanced Topics in Nutrition

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course covers the etiology of common chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and obesity. Seminal works and recent research publications will be used to examine mechanisms underlying these chronic diseases. Current topics in chronic disease management will be also discussed.

  

  • OT 8025 - Theory Development Process for OT Practice

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: OT8020 is designed to introduce doctoral students in health sciences with concentration in occupational therapy to the foundational theories and conceptual framework that form the basis of our understanding of occupational behavior and occupational therapy education, research, and practice. The purpose of the course is to provide an intermediate to advanced level understanding of individual and community patterns of occupational behaviors affecting health, and the mechanisms that drive those patterns, including global and cultural processes, social and political contexts, community resources, interpersonal relationships, and individual attitudes and beliefs. The course format will consist of a seminar-style class where students are required to make oral and written presentations.

  

  • OT 8220 - Assistive Technology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: In this course, students will examine technology for health and wellness of populations and individuals with and without disabilities. Students will explore the impact of the non-human environment on occupational performance of the individuals across the lifespan and gain the necessary knowledge and skills to provide evaluation and intervention. Through this course, students learn how to apply evidence-based practice, resource coordination, and advocacy for clients who utilize technology and environmental intervention

  

  • OT 8230 - Family Centered Care in Early Intervention

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: The purpose of this course is to illustrate the centrality of the family in the life of infants and young children (age birth to 5) with disabilities. Students explore child development theory, current research in neuroscience, social-emotional development and current policies impacting interdisciplinary practice across the early childhood years, with a special emphasis on the significant role families play in fostering healthy development. This course relies on outside readings, discussions, and completion of performance-based competencies where concepts are interpreted and applied to early childhood intervention.

  

  • OT 9000 - Applying Measurement Theory to Assessments and Interventions

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course provides graduate students in health profession and social science the foundation of measurement theory.  Specifically, this course introduces item response theory (modern test theory) and Rasch analysis. Students will learn the skills on applying Rasch analysis to evaluate, validate, and refine assessments. Students will also learn how to utilize Rasch analysis to create user friendly forms of assessment for clinical use such as keyforms and short-forms.

  

  • OT 9201 - Brain Injury

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course is designed to develop advanced, specialized knowledge about brain injury, its treatment, and rehabilitation in order to help participants provide and lead quality of care for persons with brain injuries. Current, evidence-based practice regarding neurophysiological aspects, associated consequences, and related complications of brain injury will be reviewed for up to date understanding. Specific rehabilitation philosophies, approaches, and techniques that can be used across the continuum of care and with specific populations will facilitate the ability to work in and lead rehabilitation in the recovery of brain injury. Online, interactive discussions and varied assessments of advanced knowledge for each area will enhance learning. Overall, this course will deliver a wide range of specialized, advanced information about brain injury care and prepare participants for taking the national examination to become a certified brain injury specialist. 

  

  • OT 9210 - Occupational Performance in Neurologic Population

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course addresses the role of occupational therapy in medical settings including, acute, sub-acute, rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities. Students will analyze the sensory, cognitive-perceptual, and neuromotor difficulties experienced by children, adults, and older adults with developmental, acute, and progressive conditions and apply theoretical models to explain how these challenges impact occupational performance. They will critique evidence on assessments and interventions utilized across treatment settings to inform evidence-based care and produce a case study to explicate the OT process for one client with a neurologic condition. 

  

  • PT 9010 - Adaptations in Neuromuscular Rehabilitation

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: Students in this course will discuss neuromuscular physiology and changes associated neuropathology, will analyze changes in neuromuscular physiology associated with physical therapy and rehabilitation and will explore electrophysiological techniques used to document these changes

  

  • PT 9015 - Advanced Biomechanics for Rehabilitation Science

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course is designed to train students to advanced biomechanical and movement analysis. Topics include theory of biomechanics/kinesiology analysis and the calculations associated, gait analysis, and how biomechanics can be used in rehabilitation. The purpose of this course is to provide advanced training movement science principles and the application of those principles to normal and pathological movement.

  

  • PT 9020 - Advanced Motor Control and Learning

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course is designed to train students in advanced motor control, motor learning and rehabilitation practice. Topics to be covered include principles of motor learning, motor control models, relationships between biomechanics and motor control and motor control and learning in rehabilitation practice. The purpose of this course is to provide advanced training in human movement science and the application of those motor control and learning principles to normal and pathological movement.

  

  • PT 9025 - Instrumentation in Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Medicine

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This course is designed to enable the student to recognize common biomechanics equipment and describe the functions and limitations of each equipment. Students are expected to learn and demonstrate how to use common biomechanical equipment to conduct data collection and analysis.

  

  • PT 9030 - Advanced Topics in Translational Rehabilitation Medicine

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: Students in this course will analyze and discuss current topics in rehabilitation science and generate a research questions and hypothesis. Students will analyze peer research questions and provide feedback to the peer.

  

  • RT 8950 - Directed Reading

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This is a tailored directed readings course in respiratory therapy. It is designed to provide the student the opportunity to explore a topic or area in respiratory care through reading and learning.

  

  • RT 9040 - Advanced Monitoring

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This doctoral-level course provides a study of advanced cardiopulmonary monitoring used in critical care units. Basic description of advanced monitoring equipment and key points of a therapist’s role in specialty units will be discussed.  Calculations and interpretations of hemodynamic data obtained from pulmonary artery catheters and central lines will be discussed. General care of an adult ECMO patient in the cardiovascular unit will be discussed. Advanced mechanical ventilator wave forms will be interpreted and discussed to enhance ventilator to patient synchrony.  Advanced respiratory therapy equipment and procedures such as bronchoscopy and Nitric Oxide will be discussed. Ultrasound guided arterial line insertion techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Specific focus on the recent literature on advanced bronchoscopy procedures, nitric oxide and inhaled vasodilators, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation will be discussed for doctoral students.

  

  • RT 9090 - Research Seminar

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Description: This online course will address the newer and emerging technologies specific to the cardiopulmonary system. The course will also provide students with skills needed to critically review journal articles and incorporate these articles into their dissertation research.


Communication
  

  • COMM 6000 - Introduction to On-Air Reporting

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009.
    Includes a lab fee.

    Description
    Techniques professional use to report effectively and confidently to an audience.Learning the basics to develop on-air personal brand through lecture and video/audio practice.

  

  • COMM 6007 - Specialized Reporting

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009 with a C or higher.
    Description
    Reporting and producing stories on a specialized topic chosen by the instructor that is typical of a “beat” assignment for a reporter.

  

  • COMM 6009 - Digital Journalism

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a skills-based, project course. Working in teams, students will conceive, plan and execute multimedia news projects for online delivery. Emphasis is on developing professional journalistic and public relations practices applicable to multi-platform delivery systems.

  

  • COMM 6010 - Issues and Perspectives in Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Formerly COMM 8000.) Overview of general concepts in the study of human and mass mediated communication. Comparison of commonly used terms across communication disciplines emphasized.

  

  • COMM 6030 - Research Methods in Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Formerly COMM 8020.) An introduction to the broad range of methods - historical, critical, qualitative, quantitative-used in communication research. The course is designed to equip students with the ability to read broadly and to identify methods appropriate to their own work.

  

  • COMM 6040 - Media History

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Comparative study of the origins and development of media in relation to their historical, social, political, and economic environments.

  

  • COMM 6050 - Principles of Persuasion

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Analysis of verbal and visual communication strategies intended to influence attitude and opinions.

  

  • COMM 6055 - Theories of Media Uses and Effects

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    A seminar examining media uses, processes, and effects from a social science perspective. Reviews major theories and related research, focusing on how audiences use, respond to, and are influenced by mediated messages.

  

  • COMM 6070 - Seminar in Communication Law

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Conflicting traditions in communication law. Discussion of landmark decisions affecting communication practices. Understanding of the utility of legal research in the governing of communication processes.

  

  • COMM 6080 - Strategic Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Contemporary organizations must strategically communicate to achieve goals under internal and external constraints. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the fascinating and growing body of strategic communication theory and research situated in both local and global contexts. Students will gain a thorough and comprehensive grasp of strategic communication components, processes, and outcomes.

  

  • COMM 6090 - Communication Ethics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Ethical theories and issues related to communication, with emphasis on codes of ethics of the various professions.

  

  • COMM 6109 - Advanced Practicum

    1 to 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009 with a C or higher. Student must be in second year of program.
    Description
    This course provides students with the opportunity to develop professional skill sets through the practical application of media production and editing. Students will produce quality programming to be broadcast and distributed over digital platforms by Georgia Public Broadcasting or other media partners with the university.

  

  • COMM 6120 - Feature Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    In-depth reporting and writing techniques for the development of feature writers across communication industries. Human interest writing is stressed.

  

  • COMM 6145 - Digital Editing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
    Includes a lab fee.

    Description
    An intensive exploration of the practice, technique, and aesthetics of editing the motion picture image and sound visual media. Non-linear editing software will be used in the creation of process-oriented exercises and short projects. Students are responsible for the cost of materials required for class projects. Outside class time will be required for collaborative student projects. Two lectures per week.

  

  • COMM 6156 - Media Entrepreneurship

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    Students will develop or continue to develop a media business through an intensive semester long curriculum structured as an incubator/accelerator. Students will learn how to choose a brand name, decide whether to form an LLC or not, what are tax implications of owning my own business, how to market the brand, what to charge, how to promote the services to corporate and private companies, and many other topics that will help students build a foundation towards owning their own business.

  

  • COMM 6157 - Cross-Media Design

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Comm 6155.
    Description
    Design multimedia stories from the ground up in which movies, video games, web sites, smart phone applications, comic books, and other media are equal partners and all elements of a complete story.

  

  • COMM 6158 - New Media Production

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Comm 6155.
    Description
    An exploration of the production visual and audio assets for Internet transmission and interactive media experience, using techniques and forms that best utilize the evolving aesthetics of the digital and interactive media cultures of the moment. New concepts of interactive storytelling in documentary and/or fiction, and for the visualization of characters and their settings will blend cinematic aesthetics with other aesthetic systems.

  

  • COMM 6160 - Special Topics

    3 to 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
    Description
    Graduate faculty and specific tools for this course will change according to the specialized expertise of participating faculty.

  

  • COMM 6165 - Special Production Topics

    3 to 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
    Description
    Graduate faculty and specific tools for this course will change according to the specialized expertise of participating faculty.

  

  • COMM 6185 - Editorial and Critical Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Analysis of editorials and persuasive writing; writing of editorials on national, state, and local issues. Analysis of leading critical periodicals; writing of criticism of films, television, books, plays, and other arts. This course is hybridized with both in-class and online learning components.

  

  • COMM 6240 - Documentary Film

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The history of non-fiction film and production.

  

  • COMM 6250 - Producing for Television and Film

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Role of the producer in film, broadcasting, and theatre. Refinement of skills in developing program ideas, supervising, and financing productions.

  

  • COMM 6361 - Sound Design

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Comm 6155.
    Description
    The expressive aesthetics of motion picture sound, its technology and methods of production will provide students the foundations for creating soundtracks for their own films in progress, or for films already completed. Extensive lab time is required. Students must be able to work collaboratively to produce studio and field recordings.

  

  • COMM 6400 - Development of Communication and Language Across the Lifespan

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Theories, nature, basic behavioral aspects and constraints of typical communication and language development across the lifespan.

  

  • COMM 6430 - Media Industries

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examines the historical, technological, economic, political, and social forces shaping the media industries and explores the range of established and emerging theoretical and methodological approaches employed in media industry analysis. 3.0 credit hours.

  

  • COMM 6450 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Development of critical skills useful for evaluating public discourse, with an emphasis on classical and modern theories of rhetoric.

  

  • COMM 6470 - Nonverbal Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Analysis of nonverbal behaviors as human communication messages.Topics include contexts and channels of nonverbal communication, such as physical appearance, time, space, and vocalics.

  

  • COMM 6475 - Communication and Aging

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as GERO 6475 A broad overview of the ways in which communication affects, and is affected by, the aging process. Lifespan development and the theory and research in the area of communication and aging.

  

  • COMM 6480 - Political Campaign Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Principles, theories and practices of communication in political campaign contexts.

  

  • COMM 6485 - Health Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Provides a comprehensive overview of the major issues, topics, theories and research prevalent in the field of health communication. Topics include interpersonal influence (social support and social network), persuasive message design, and the role of organizations, media, and new communication technology in influencing health attitudes, behaviors, and policy.

  

  • COMM 6490 - Communication and Gender

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The influence of gender (social definitions of maleness and femaleness) on public, interpersonal, and mass communication.

  

  • COMM 6500 - Visual Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examination of communication theories that help explain how visual images symbolically interact with audiences. The manifest and latent persuasive functions of visual messages will be explored in a variety of contexts, from the mass media to human interactions.

  

  • COMM 6510 - Media and Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examination of the symbiotic relationship among the media, the political process and the public. Emphasis on how the media’s structures and conventions help identify and frame issues and provide interpretative frameworks for analyzing political messages.

  

  • COMM 6515 - Entertainment-Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Entertainment-Education is the use of drama, suspense, humor, music, etc. to teach viewers about topics such as health, environment, safety, human rights, and social and work skills. This course provides an overview of the major issues, topics, theories and research prevalent in entertainment. This course is repeatable when topics vary.

  

  • COMM 6520 - Speechwriting

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Formerly COMM 8500.) Principles and practices in writing manuscript speeches for a variety of contexts, including corporate, organizational, and political. Emphasis on exposition, argumentation, persuasion, and special occasions.

  

  • COMM 6570 - Social Media Strategies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Covers a variety of topics related to social media theories, strategies and platforms while exposing students to the current best practices within the industry. Authentic learning experiences provide students with multiple opportunities to create content for a variety of audiences and reinforce multiplatform communication skills.

  

  • COMM 6610 - Applied Graphic Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Includes a lab fee.

    Description
    Introduction to the principles and techniques of visual journalism with focus on writing, designing and producing a variety of printed collateral and web graphics for target audiences.

  

  • COMM 6620 - Problems in Public Relations

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Explores, critically assesses, and applies theory and research in the analysis of recurring problems in public relations practice, including theories that dominate the field, formative research as applied to planning and implementing campaigns and programs, and evaluative research as applied to measuring public relations effectiveness.

  

  • COMM 6630 - Public Relations Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Formerly COMM 8670.) Experience in constructing and/or analyzing such materials as annual reports, brochures, news releases, position papers, employee publications, and special purpose letters.

  

  • COMM 6650 - International Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Critical and comparative approaches to the study of communication systems and journalism at the national, regional, and global levels. Analysis of issues and implications of the globalization of mass media, information systems, and culture. Strategies for international communication research.

  

  • COMM 6660 - Corporate Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Structures, functions and outcomes of corporate communication policies and behaviors; corporate missions, business plans and the design of strategic communication plans to accomplish goals in contexts of corporate cultures, budget audiences, and environmental issues.

  

  • COMM 6670 - Communication Consulting

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Formerly COMM 8110.) Methods utilized in providing individuals and organizations with assistance in developing communication skills. Assessment of client needs and implementation of various programs.

  

  • COMM 6710 - TV News Magazine

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009.
    Description
    This is a skills-based, project course. Working in teams, students will conceive, plan and execute multimedia news projects for online delivery. Emphasis is on developing professional journalistic and public relations practices applicable to multi-platform delivery systems.

  

  • COMM 6720 - Radio News and Podcasting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009.
    Description
    Reporting, writing and producing stories and newscasts appropriate for radio stations, networks and their web sites. Reporting and producing audio programming suitable for podcasts. This is a lecture/lab course which has students using audio and editing equipment.

  

  • COMM 6740 - TV Newscast

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009.
    Description
    Reporting, writing, and producing stories appropriate for a newscast on a TV station or a local cable TV channel.

  

  • COMM 6750 - e-Health

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    e-Health refers to the use of advanced communication technologies (e.g., internet, SMS, online gaming) to improve people’s health decisions and health care services. This seminar discusses some of the major issues, topics, theories, and relevant literature of e-Health.

  

  • COMM 6850 - TV Reporting-Downtown Atlanta

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6009.
    Description
    Advanced reporting, writing, producing, and on camera skills to create video for TV news and online digital multimedia platform. This is a lecture/lab course which has students using video and editing equipment.

  

  • COMM 6910 - Special Project

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: consent of the instructor.
    Description
    Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities.

  

  • COMM 6915 - Special Production Project

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
    Includes a lab fee.

    Description
    Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. There is a fee associated with this course that must be paid on enrollment in the course.

  

  • COMM 6970 - Internship

    1 to 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Eligibility criteria may be obtained from the Department of Communication Internship Coordinator.
    Description
    Professional field experience with an organization in the student’s area of concentration. Only M.A. students in Communication may enroll.

  

  • COMM 6990 - Thesis Research

    1 to 20 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Formerly COMM 8999.)

  

  • COMM 6999 - Directed Readings

    1 to 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Permission of department.
    Description
    Supervised independent study course to focus on specific topics developed by student and graduate faculty member. Proposals must be approved by the department chair before a student will be authorized to register for this course.

  

  • COMM 8000 - Feminist Media Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    A seminar providing a transdisciplinary, transnational exploration of the various feminist theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of media studies, with attention to its historical, cultural, social, political and economic dimensions.

  

  • COMM 8015 - Quantitative Research Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An advanced seminar examining social science methodology and statistical analysis used in communication research. Topics include measurement and design issues, basic research methods (e.g., experiments, surveys, observational research, content analysis), and conceptual and practical issues in quantitative data analysis.

  

  • COMM 8025 - Content Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: COMM 6030, or equivalent course work.
    Description
    Research methods for text and image analysis. Examination of theoretical, methodological, and computing issues relevant in analyzing human discourse and media artifacts (including television, film, and new media content).

  

  • COMM 8035 - Doctoral Colloquium in Communication Pedagogy

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Techniques and approaches to pedagogy in the communication field. Includes a supervised teaching presentation before members of the graduate faculty and graduate students.

  

  • COMM 8045 - Health Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Provides a comprehensive overview of the major issues, topics, theories and research prevalent in the field of health communication. Topics include interpersonal influence (social support and social network), persuasive message design, and the role of organizations, media, and new communication technology in influencing health attitudes, behaviors, and policy.

  

  • COMM 8050 - Principles of Persuasion

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Analysis of verbal and visual communication strategies intended to influence attitude and opinions.

  

  • COMM 8055 - Theories of Media Uses and Effects

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    A seminar examining media uses, processes, and effects from a social science perspective. Reviews major theories and related research, focusing on how audiences use, respond to, and are influenced by mediated messages.

  

  • COMM 8080 - Strategic Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Contemporary organizations must strategically communicate to achieve goals under internal and external constraints. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the fascinating and growing body of strategic communication theory and research situated in both local and global contexts. Students will gain a thorough and comprehensive grasp of strategic communication components, processes, and outcomes.

  

  • COMM 8090 - Communication Ethics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Ethical theories and issues related to communication, with emphasis on codes of ethics of the various professions.

  

  • COMM 8100 - Publics and Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Many terms try to clarify agents of collective action, including publics, movements, parties, classes, crowds, swarms, and others. How do these terms explain social and historical change? How do mediating technologies alter political possibilities and constraints? The course explores accounts of publicity, including the rhetorical and mass communication traditions, American pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, post-Marxism, and others.

  

  • COMM 8111 - Introduction to Graduate Studies

    2 Credit Hours
    Description
    Introduction to the academic processes, the requirements of the doctoral prospectus and dissertation, and professional opportunities and expectations of the communication discipline.

  

  • COMM 8120 - Media, Individuals and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    A doctoral seminar on theoretical foundations and new developments that address the linkages among mediated communication, individuals, and society. Examines media-related issues at the individual and interpersonal/intergroup levels. Begins with a historical overview and introduction to key issues in the field. Focuses on three broad approaches: media uses and effects, public campaigns and persuasion, and cultural studies.

  

  • COMM 8130 - Communication in a Global Context

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
    Description
    Examination of theoretical debates, communication processes and practices, regulatory mechanisms, conflict, cultural identities in the global space, and the consequent relation of our social environment and self-perceptions to a global scale. Three lecture hours per week.

  

  • COMM 8140 - Communication Campaigns

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Discussed major theories and principles of persuasion and attitude change, message design and dissemination strategies as they relate to communication campaigns. Provides knowledge and skills required to create and evaluate persuasive campaigns in many domains, such as health, politics, social issues, and the environment.

  

  • COMM 8160 - Style and Narrative Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Methods of qualitative analysis for studying the style and narration of film, television, and/or new media texts. An emphasis on close readings of the formal properties of texts. May be repeated once if content varies.

  

  • COMM 8385 - Critical Visual Culture Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examines some of the major strands in Critical Theory that have contributed to institute the interdisciplinary field of Visual Culture Studies and the various theories of the image emerging from this field.

  

  • COMM 8410 - Qualitative Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Philosophy and practice of qualitative methods in communication, including those derived from social scientific approaches as well as more humanistic and critical/cultural studies approaches. This includes methods, such as, discourse or textual analysis; rhetorical analysis; in-depth interviewing; focus groups; and ethnography/participant observation.

  

  • COMM 8420 - Media Historiography

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examination of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching media history.

  

  • COMM 8515 - Entertainment-Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Entertainment-Education is the use of drama, suspense, humor, music, etc. to teach viewers about topics such as health, environment, safety, human rights, and social and work skills. This course provides an overview of the major issues, topics, theories and research prevalent in entertainment-education.

  

  • COMM 8530 - Advanced Rhetorical Theory: From the Ancients to the Enlightenment

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The mechanisms of persuasion and the relationship between public speech and politics attracted interest from a range of thinkers from antiquity to the Enlightenment. The course seeks to better understand these historical resources of rhetorical invention and recovery to build interpretive tools for analyzing contemporary phenomena.

  

  • COMM 8535 - Advanced Rhetorical Theory II: Contemporary Rhetorical Turns

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Influential twentieth century thinkers repeatedly turned to the rhetorical tradition as a resource to understand the relationship between speech, power, violence and identity by studying the representative functions of language and the limits of language and logic. The course focuses on the way these thinkers understood rhetoric’s connection to social change, subject formation, and performance.

 

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