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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 40346
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 313
Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
Preparation, presentation, and evaluation of original speeches by each student throughout the semester; special emphasis given to selecting and researching topics, organizing evidence, analyzing audiences, sharpening style and tone, communicating ethically and listening critically.
4 Credits
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9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 40345
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305H
Preparation, presentation, and evaluation of original speeches by each student throughout the semester; special emphasis given to selecting and researching topics, organizing evidence, analyzing audiences, sharpening style and tone, communicating ethically and listening critically.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
8:00 am |
8:00 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 40347
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 203
Preparation, presentation, and evaluation of original speeches by each student throughout the semester; special emphasis given to selecting and researching topics, organizing evidence, analyzing audiences, sharpening style and tone, communicating ethically and listening critically.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41508
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 313
Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
Preparation, presentation, and evaluation of original speeches by each student throughout the semester; special emphasis given to selecting and researching topics, organizing evidence, analyzing audiences, sharpening style and tone, communicating ethically and listening critically.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41151
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 208
Preparation, presentation, and evaluation of original speeches by each student throughout the semester; special emphasis given to selecting and researching topics, organizing evidence, analyzing audiences, sharpening style and tone, communicating ethically and listening critically.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
10:55 am |
10:55 am |
10:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 40349
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 305
Introduction to basic communication theories and skills as they pertain to the business setting. Text, lecture, class discussion and exercises, and individual and group presentations will better prepare students to become more effective communicators at work. The course will focus on presentational skills, dyadic communication and interviewing, and group communication.
4 Credits
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8:00 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 40348
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 202
Online
Introduction to basic communication theories and skills as they pertain to the business setting. Text, lecture, class discussion and exercises, and individual and group presentations will better prepare students to become more effective communicators at work. The course will focus on presentational skills, dyadic communication and interviewing, and group communication.
4 Credits
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 43118
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Introduction to basic communication theories and skills as they pertain to the business setting. Text, lecture, class discussion and exercises, and individual and group presentations will better prepare students to become more effective communicators at work. The course will focus on presentational skills, dyadic communication and interviewing, and group communication.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
12:15 pm |
12:15 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41145
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305I
Online
Requirements Met:
Writing in the Discipline
This course teaches students to become more critical consumers and producers of public messages. Students will examine a mix of historical and contemporary examples of persuasive communication in order to develop an awareness of the rhetorical power of messages in everyday life. Critical tools will be covered to help the student learn how to approach a communicative act systematically, identifying crucial interactions and suggesting ways of understanding how those interactions function. The emphasis on critical consumption also enables students to become more effective creators of public messages.
4 Credits
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41129
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Family Studies Major Approved
Family Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
Theory and practice of interpersonal communication, including how self-concept, language, nonverbal communication, and relationships effect and are affected by communication. Common problems in interpersonal communication, options for managing these problems, and ethical issues in interpersonal communication are examined. Students apply theory and concepts through class exercises, simulations and individual projects.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 42186
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 305
Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Writing to learn
This course includes major current areas of interest in the field of health communication, including: interpersonal health communication issues, challenges, and complexities; communication aspects of health behaviors and conditions; organizational issues in health communication; global health communication challenges; and technology, media, and eHealth. Special attention will be given to culture and health communication and the creation of health communication campaigns.
4 Credits
| 09/04 - 10/23 | ||||||
| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41126
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 313
Requirements Met:
Sports Management Minor
Sports Studies Minor
Writing to learn
This course examines how we communicate about sport, how sport is communicated to us, what is communicated by sports, and what sport communication careers are available. This course provides a survey of the many communication approaches to sport, focusing on interpersonal, mediated, organizational, and public communication to assist us in understanding historic and contemporary sport communication. Guest presenters will provide insights into sport communication careers.
2 Credits
| 09/04 - 10/23 | ||||||
| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41127
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 203
Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
This course focuses on building a range of communication skills through improvisation activities. Students explore theatrical techniques that teach listening, collaboration, spontaneity, team building, emotional intelligence, storytelling, and confident public speaking with connections to academic, professional, and personal situations. In addition to participating in improvisation activities, students will read the works of expert theorists and practitioners of applied improvisation in corporate and professional settings. No previous improvisation experience necessary.
2 Credits
| 10/24 - 12/20 | ||||||
| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41401
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 203
Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
Building Communication Skills through Improvisation II is the second of the two-course sequence that introduces you to the world of applied improvisation. It is a cutting-edge course designed to help you continue building on the communication skills acquired and developed in COMM 246: Building Communication Skills through Improvisation. Unlike its predecessor, COMM 248:Building Communication Skills through Improvisation II is tailored more specifically for the professional world, training students to use improvisation as a tool for human communication, business, and organizational development. It uses different readings, higher-level assignments, and more complex improvisational techniques while maintaining its core focus on teamwork, creative problem-solving, oral communication, nonverbal communication, audience analysis, clarity, and adaptability.
2 Credits
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10:55 am |
10:55 am |
10:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 42188
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 208
The components and requirements of effective media performance are addressed. Development of critical assessment skills is emphasized via the evaluation of news, commercial and informational broadcasts in both the audio and video media. Particular attention is given to students’ development of performance techniques, emphasizing the use of voice, interviewing, ad-libbing and TelePrompTer use. Application and evaluation of performance choices are achieved through the production of video and audio projects.
4 Credits
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1:35 pm |
1:35 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41128
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305I
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing Intensive
This course focuses on the creation and use of rhetoric in public persuasion settings, including social movements and political campaigns. The diversity of rhetorical acts examined may include campaign ads, speeches, films, advertisements, music, memorials, architecture and other nonverbal strategies. Topics of study may include: The rhetoric of domination and resistance, national identity formation, and the rhetoric of public memory.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41125
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 313
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Writing in the Discipline
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
This course focuses on theories and research of the historical and contemporary correlation between gender, race, class, and communicative practices, including rhetorical practice and mass communication content. It includes the influence of gender and racial stereotypes on public speech and debate, political campaigns and communication, organizational leadership, news coverage and advertising. Topics include: gendered perceptions of credibility; who is allowed to communicate and who is silenced due to class and racial privilege; and the impact of gender, race and class stereotypes about human nature, expertise, and abilities on individuals and groups that want to participate in public culture and communication. Students analyze and evaluate their own communicative styles in light of course readings and activities.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41409
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
This course will provide students with the opportunity to understand television as a text situation in a cultural context. It will examine television from a critical perspective, review a wide variety of program genres and incorporate several theoretical orientations to the qualitative analysis of TV. Students, along with reading about and discussion of critical perspectives, watch programs such as comedies, dramas, news, advertisements, miniseries, etc., and write several critical analyses of the programs.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 42231
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
This course will provide students with the opportunity to understand television as a text situation in a cultural context. It will examine television from a critical perspective, review a wide variety of program genres and incorporate several theoretical orientations to the qualitative analysis of TV. Students, along with reading about and discussion of critical perspectives, watch programs such as comedies, dramas, news, advertisements, miniseries, etc., and write several critical analyses of the programs.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41424
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 203
Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
Study of the various strategies used to influence choice in modern society, including sources, content (such as evidence and argumentation) and audience factors (such as beliefs, attitudes, and values) that influence the persuasive process. Ethical consideration of persuasive tactics will be discussed. Students apply theory through analysis of, and practice in, written, mediated and oral forms of persuasion. A final project in applied persuasion is developed in the course.
4 Credits
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1:35 pm |
1:35 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41130
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 305
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
CommGood/Community-Engaged
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
This course examines the influence of culture on our own and others’ communication. Students will be introduced to different aspects and levels of culture, including basic principles and theories that explain cultural differences on the group level, and challenges in intercultural communication, such as stereotypes, ethnocentrism, conflicting ethical standards, and racial disparities. Through lectures, discussions and first-hand practice, students are expected to form global perspectives and become more competent in intercultural communication. Students are advised to take the course either during or after the sophomore year.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 42191
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
This course examines the influence of culture on our own and others’ communication. Students will be introduced to different aspects and levels of culture, including basic principles and theories that explain cultural differences on the group level, and challenges in intercultural communication, such as stereotypes, ethnocentrism, conflicting ethical standards, and racial disparities. Through lectures, discussions and first-hand practice, students are expected to form global perspectives and become more competent in intercultural communication. Students are advised to take the course either during or after the sophomore year.
4 Credits
| 09/04 - 12/20 | ||||||
| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
| + asynchronous coursework | ||||||
Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41131
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Requirements Met:
Family Studies Major Approved
Family Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
Examination of communication dynamics within the family system. Patterns of interaction, message exchange, developmental stages, and satisfaction and stability will be explored in light of today's ever-changing family structure. Focus will include traditional (nuclear) and non- traditional family types.
4 Credits