Communication
COMM 203 - Communication Theories
Students identify, analyze, and apply a broad spectrum of communication theories. Includes traditional and critical perspectives, with emphasis on cultural and diversity issues, and the impact of emerging media technologies.
COMM 206 - New Media in the Digital Age
Interrogate how the social, political, and cultural landscape has changed in relationship to digital media technologies. Develop critical resources to better understand the history and future of these new media technologies and emerging communicative forms.
COMM 235 - Famous Politics: Media, Celebrity and Social Life
Examine the role of celebrity in our social/political lives. We explore electoral politics as well as cultural politics and larger global politics as they relate to the phenomenon of celebrity.
COMM 240 - Visual Communication and Culture
Students become critical readers of visual images by employing a variety of communication-based theoretical frameworks and analytical approaches to visual artifacts, texts and acts. Explore how visual images persuade. Students select examples of visual rhetoric to analyze, which culminates in an essay and creative project of their choosing.
COMM 256 - Persuasion Theory and Practice
Students identify, examine, and apply theories of persuasive communication. The course emphasizes cultural and diversity variables, media, and strategic applications.
COMM 433 - Discourses of Difference
Students analyze, critique and create forms of spoken, written and visual communication that engage concepts of “difference”. Topics may include gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexual identity, age, ability, and mental health.