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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41268
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Sustainability (SUST)
Writing to learn
| 09/09 - 12/22 | ||||||
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8:00 am |
8:00 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41269
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 211
Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41270
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Instructor: TBD
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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8:15 am |
8:15 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41271
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 201
Online
Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
| 09/09 - 12/22 | ||||||
| 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: 41272
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 310
Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
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9:35 am |
9:35 am |
9:35 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41274
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 246
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
| 09/09 - 12/22 | ||||||
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10:55 am |
10:55 am |
10:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41275
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 312
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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8:15 am |
8:15 am |
8:15 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41276
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 206
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: 41277
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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9:35 am |
9:35 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41278
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 126
Online
Requirements Met:
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing Intensive
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: 41279
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
WGSS Major Approved
WGSS Minor Approved
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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8:15 am |
8:15 am |
8:15 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41280
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 246
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
| 09/09 - 10/28 | ||||||
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41281
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
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
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41282
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 211
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other 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
| 10/29 - 12/22 | ||||||
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41283
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 211
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
OR
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other 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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9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41284
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 211
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Comm Studies Major Approved
Comm Studies Minor Approved
Writing to learn
This is a course for anyone wishing to thrive in public and professional life. Business, science, engineering, and health professionals have always used stories to improve their communication with a variety of audiences such as employees, patients, investors, clients, consumers, and other key stakeholders. However, in recent years, the role of storytelling in professional settings has become even more critical. Today it is one of the most important tools at the disposal of people working in business, science, engineering, and health professions. This course invites students to explore, illustrate, and apply narrative theory to inform practice. Students will learn how stories can enhance clarity and optimize persuasion, how they can foster synergy and motivation, and how they may build healthy organizational cultures. Students also will explore, illustrate, and apply how stories can design brand identity, attract investors, allay concerns, and help resolve crises. Equipped with the practical power of storytelling, students will develop skills that will help their careers and enable them to effectively advance the common good.
2 Credits
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12:15 pm |
12:15 pm |
12:15 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41285
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 305
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
| 10/29 - 12/22 | ||||||
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41286
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
Requirements Met:
Sports Studies Minor
From Caitlin Clark to Lebron James, we are living in a rich era for witnessing how gender informs the way sports are structured, experienced, and portrayed. Using communication theories, the paradox of how gendered norms are both challenged and reinforced in every aspect of sport, from the locker room to the cheering section, will be explored. Using historical and modern examples, class readings and activities will change students to ponder the discursive relationship between gender and the complexities of sport in our society. This class allows students to assess their own experiences and views of sport, gender, and society. We will engage in critical reflection on how gender ideas are manifested in sport communication, and examine the social and cultural contexts affecting sport communication. The ultimate goal is for students to be more informed, critical consumer of, and participants in, sport. This course counts toward a Communication Studies major/minor, a Sports Studies minor, and it is an elective course for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS).
2 Credits
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9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41287
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 211
Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
This course is designed to empower you to become a more conscious and intentional architect of your own life, fostering greater inner peace, clarity, and overall well-being. We will explore concepts from communication, mindfulness, and goal-setting methodologies, encouraging you to integrate these insights into your daily life. This is not simply a theoretical exploration, but a practical journey of self-discovery and personal growth. We will delve into the art and science of understanding our inner landscape, fostering constructive self-dialogue, and aligning our actions with our values. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, practical exercises, and reflective practices, you will learn to: *Enhance Self-Awareness: Develop a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, and behavioral patterns. *Improve Self-Communication: Learn techniques for effective internal dialogue, including managing negative self-talk and cultivating self-compassion. *Establish Meaningful Goals: Discover strategies for setting realistic, achievable, and value-driven goals that contribute to a fulfilling life. *Integrate Theory and Practice: Apply theoretical concepts to real-life situations through experiential exercises, journaling, and group discussions. *Develop Personal Action Plans: Create a personalized plan for ongoing self-development and well-being management.
2 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41288
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 209
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
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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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41289
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center
Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
Writing to learn
This course provides an overview of documentary television and film as part of American culture. Class sessions will focus on how to analyze and interpret claims particular documentaries make, while providing a foundation for understanding aesthetic, rhetorical, and political economic conventions that help shape the meaning of each documentary. To this end, this course will center on current theoretical dilemmas and debates in documentary filmmaking, including questions of how to define documentary, what constitutes the ethical treatment of documentary subjects and subject matter, and how documentaries construct and position audiences. We will explore the concepts of reality, truth and authority, through a variety of readings and viewings.
4 Credits
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41290
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
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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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41291
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Diversity/Soc Just
Other Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
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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10:55 am |
10:55 am |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41292
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 246
Online
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 |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41293
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 310
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing to learn
WGSS Major 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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1:35 pm |
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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41294
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 247
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Narrative Medicine Minor Appr
Faith and Praxis Minor or Cert
Writing to learn
WGSS Major 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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Subject: Communication Studies (COMM)
CRN: 41295
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
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Subject: Family Studies (FAST)
CRN: 41464
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
As a foundation of the Family Studies major and minor, this course provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the discipline and profession of Family Studies. Students will be introduced to primary family theories and the practical nature of theorizing for understanding, explaining and strengthening all families; read original and translated/applied research on family topics; explore substantive topics of the field; examine the current state of Family Studies and its multidisciplinary roots; become familiar with family studies’ occupations and professional organizations; review ethical principles of working with and studying families; and examine a range of contemporary issues for families in the 21st century.
4 Credits
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41489
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 110
Requirements Met:
Amer Culture & Diff Minor Appr
[Core] Signature Work
Writing to learn
Contemporary Issues in Film surveys a topic of particular relevance for students near the culmination of their coursework in Film Studies. The course focuses on issues of diversity, creative expression, and unique perspectives in Film Studies and how these unique voices contribute to our understanding of The Common Good. Students will expand their knowledge of Film Studies and they will incorporate disciplinary tools from Film Studies and at least one other academic. discipline, which they will apply to the study of creative production in film. Students will apply knowledge from coursework in multiple disciplines, they will expand their analytical abilities by learning about new films and writing about them, and they will create a portfolio of work that is representative of their learning. Contemporary Issues that will serve as the focus of each course offering may include American Independent Cinema; Masters of Style: Great Directors; and Diverse Perspectives in Film. Prerequisites: FILM 200 or permission of instructor.
4 Credits