May 11, 2024

OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22

OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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	COMS 6340 - Religious Rhetoric Pulpit oratory examined through analyses of selected clerics including Luther, Wesley, Whitefield, Beecher, Brooks, Fosdick, Sunday, Graham, and others. Rhetorical analysis of revivalism, camp meetings, social gospel, and ecclesiastical and polemic debates. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Understand the rhetorical contributions to the understanding of religious thought, language and activity. What is the relationship between rhetoric and religion-a review of the multiple ways in which the two intersect. Write a critical analysis of a contemporary religious text (broadly defined).
	COMS 6341 - The Rhetoric of Protest and Reform Rhetorical analysis and criticism of speaking during reform and revolutionary protest movements. Selected areas include American Revolution, antislavery debates, Populists, Progressives, labor unrest, women’s rights, and civil rights agitation. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Conduct research in the area of rhetorics of protest and reform. Define and articulate the assumptions of social movement rhetoric and action. Develop a personal code of ethics for enacting and/or preventing social change. Distinguish between and evaluate the merits of ‘old’ social movements as compared to ‘bridge’ and ‘new’ social movements.
	COMS 6342 - The Rhetoric of the World Wars Analysis and criticism of wartime communication, its principal modes, techiques, media, and effects. Theory and practice as reflected in WWI and II. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Articulate the divergent justifications for pre-imperialist, imperialist, and post-imperialist wars. Conduct research in this area through rhetorical and critical lenses. Distinguish between and evaluate the arguments made to justify, protest, and debate US military involvement.
	COMS 6343 - Analysis and Criticism of Legal Rhetoric Analysis and criticism of principal modes, types, and styles of western legal rhetorical communication as mirrored in selected cases, jurists, attorneys, decisions, and arguments, with western legal communication studies as unique mode of rhetoric focusing upon English-American jurisprudence and courtroom advocacy. Case study method employed. Critical analysis accomplished. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Apply narrative and exposition theory as they pertain to opening and closing statements. Demonstrate how verbal and nonverbal communication is influenced by and influences the legal process, legal negotiations, the jury selection process, jury deliberations, and witness examinations. Demonstrate knowledge of communication theory as applied to the legal field. Explain the role of communication in the legal system and general trial procedures. Exploit the judicial system’s constraints and opportunities that guide the flow of communication. Perform methods of gathering evidence and building a case through oral and written legal argumentation.
	COMS 6344 - Analysis and Criticism of Political Rhetoric Analysis and criticism of principal modes, media techniques, and effects of western political rhetorical communication. Theory and practice as reflected in major campaigns, administrations, and movements in both open and closed societies. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Apply the forms of rhetorical analysis and the history of rhetoric in written and oral communication. Demonstrate specific skills in the areas of: reasoning, organization of ideas and materials, researching a topic in depth, and the use of supporting materials in analysis of political speech. Develop an understanding of the role of rhetoric in shaping the modern presidency. Understand and explain why presidential rhetoric falls into well-recognized forms of speaking.
	COMS 6350 - Foucault, Discourse, and Social Change The overarching goal of this seminar is to develop a clearer sense of what it means to have rhetorical agency in a postmodern world. In moving toward that goal, we will interrogate Foucault’s work that bears on the themes of discourse, knowledge/power, subject, and space. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Apply Foucault’s concepts in a critical analysis of public discourse. Critically appraise Foucault’s relationship to rhetoric. Define and explain Foucault’s sense of power as productive. Define and explain key terms in Foucault’s perspective.
	COMS 6900 - Special Topics in Communication Studies Specific course content will vary with offering. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 15 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will increase their knowledge in Communication Studies.
	COMS 6910 - Internship Experience in communication-related activities in organizational environments. Written proposal required. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 12 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 15.0 field experience/internship Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to utilize knowledge and skills obtained from previous coursework while gaining practical experience in communication studies or a related area of study.
	COMS 6930 - Independent Study Readings on special problems under planned program approved by advisor. Projects must be approved prior to registration. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 8 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 independent study Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to engage in independent study to achieve a depth of understanding about a theorist, body of literature, or research method under the supervision of a faculty member in COMS.
	COMS 6940 - Research Individual research on special problems. Projects must be approved prior to registration. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 12 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to engage in independent study to achieve a depth of understanding about a theorist, body of literature, or research method.
	COMS 6950 - Thesis Independent research as part of completion of master’s degree. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 12 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 36.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 thesis/dissertation Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To engage in independent research to achieve a depth of understanding about a theorist, body of literature, or research method under the supervision of a faculty member in COMS.
	COMS 6960 - Master’s Capstone Course COMS 6960, the Master’s Capstone Course, enables students to demonstrate mastery of theoretical, methodological, conceptual, and pragmatic material from this course. In consultation with an adviser, students will select a capstone experience that fits with his/her professional and academic goals: comprehensive exams, applied project, thesis, or e-Portfolio. Requisites: Permission required Credit Hours: 6 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 6.0 thesis/dissertation Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the MA program by articulating connections within and across curriculum. Students will be able to identify underlying assumptions about organizing and communication. Students will be able to articulate how communication processes influence organizational dynamics. Students will be able to identify and analyze communication problems and/or concepts in a variety of organizational contexts. Students will be able to identify their role in enacting and influencing organizational communication dynamics. Students will be able to demonstrate ability to research, write, and advance arguments at a graduate level.
	COMS 7000 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Pedagogy The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner. Requisites: COMS major Credit Hours: 1 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to articulate a teaching philosophy for the basic course recognizing students’ developmental needs and curricular requirements of the course. Students will be able to demonstrate effective teaching skills. Students will be able to recall an informed account of contemporary communication pedagogy in the basic communication course based on an understanding of various principles underlying the learning process.
	COMS 7001 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Scholarly Writing The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner. Requisites: COMS major Credit Hours: 1 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize and craft compelling arguments in a variety of scholarly writing forms. Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate writing styles. Students will be able to demonstrate professionalism in writing for (and to) editors and reviewers.
	COMS 7002 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Service The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner. Requisites: COMS major Credit Hours: 1 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to analyze various ways in which service obligations can be enacted. Students will be able to develop and articulate a philosophy for how service can be meaningfully integrated into a career. Students will be able to recognize the role of service obligations in the professoriate. Students will be able to recognize ways in which service can be beneficial to teaching and research activities.
	COMS 7003 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Advanced Pedagogy The professional seminar serves to orient students to graduate school and provide forums to discuss what it means to be a scholar, teacher, citizen, and/or communication practitioner. All iterations of the course will instruct graduate students on approaches for teaching particular undergraduate courses in communication including but not limited to: Communication Theory, Small Group, Interviewing, Argumentation, Interpersonal, Health Communication, Rhetoric, or Organizational Communication. Students may repeat the course as new topics are offered. Requisites: COMS major Credit Hours: 1 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 5.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate skills and knowledge required to develop lesson plans and activities for advanced undergraduate courses in Communication Studies.
	COMS 7005 - Introduction to Graduate Study in Communication In this course, students explore the discipline of Communication and prepare for graduate work in this area as well as their future roles within it. Students learn about how the field of communication is defined, methods of structuring the field, and the roles of research, teaching, and service for academic and alternative-academic careers. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to explain the ways that communication field is defined. Students will be able to explain the multiple ways that the field of communication is structured. Students will be able to describe the roles of teaching, research, and service in academic and alternative careers. Students will be able to identify and create compelling arguments in a variety of scholarly writing forms. Students will be able to apply reference styles appropriately. Students will be able to identify components of effective research, service, and teaching philosophies. Students will be able to describe how research, teaching, and service inform and are integrated with each other.
	COMS 7010 - Research Designs in Communication Nature and selection of communicative research problems; development of strategies, techniques, and appropriate designs, critical evaluation and development of experimental and descriptive procedures. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to articulate the assumptions and requirements of major research designs in the communication discipline. Students will be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages associated with these research designs. Students will be able to make sound choices about which research designs are best for answering theoretical and practical questions. Students will be able to prepare a proposal for an empirical study that employs one of the research designs addressed in the course.
	COMS 7020 - Communication Inquiry I COMS 7020 (and its companion course, 7030) provides students with a broad-based introduction to, and critical examination of, communication theory. Students read primary source materials coupled with contemporary texts that develop, apply, and/or test communication theory. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to explain the philosophical commitments of humanistic and interpretive thinking. Students will be able to describe the historical context in which humanistic and interpretive thought arose. Students will be able to analyze, compare and contrast, and critique key issues and concepts of communication theory. Students will be able to explain the relevance of humanistic and interpretive communication theories for contemporary scholarship. Students will be able to appraise scholarship related to communication theory. Students will be able to develop original hypotheses related to communication theory.
	COMS 7030 - Communication Inquiry II COMS 7030 (and its companion course, 7020) provides students with a broad-based introduction to, and critical examination of, communication theory. The course also examines contemporary texts that develop, apply, and/or test communication theory. Requisites: COMS 7020 Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to explain the philosophical commitments of social-scientific thinking. Students will be able to describe the historical context in which social scientific thought arose. Students will be able to compare the tenets of social-science philosophy and contemporary theories of communication. Students will be able to summarize, explain, and critique social scientific communication theories. Students will be able to explain how social scientific theories are developed, applied, or tested in contemporary communication research.
	COMS 7040 - Research Design and Analysis I COMS7040 (and its companion course COMS 7050) introduces students to fundamental principles of research design and analysis and serves as a foundation for other courses in the program. Students will learn theoretical principles and research skills associated with four content areas: (a) metatheoretical assumptions, (b) quantitative design and analysis, (c) qualitative design and analysis, and (d) mixed-method design. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to articulate the rationale for various mode of scholarly inquiry and the philosophical bases for these different modes. Students will be able to describe and argue in support of the history and development of Communication Studies as a field has led to the present modes of scholarship within the field. Students will be able to construct and analyze coherent and defensible rationales for scholarly investigations. Students will be able to identify the fundamental assumptions and basic methods and tools of qualitative inquiry.
	COMS 7050 - Research and Design and Analysis II COMS 7050 (and its companion course COMS 7040) introduces students to fundamental principles of research design and analysis and serves as a foundation for other courses in the program. Students will learn theoretical principles and research skills associated with four content areas: (a) metatheoretical assumptions, (b) quantitative design and analysis, (c) qualitative design and analysis, and (d) mixed-method design. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to apply communication studies concepts and materials to prepare a research proposal. Students will be able to use fundamental principles and methods of inferential statistics. Students will be able to apply basic principles and forms of measurement, including assessment of reliability and validity. Students will be able to defend the role of scientific designs and statistical systems in communication research. Students will be able to describe the structures and functions of correlational, experimental, ex post facto, and quasi-experimental research designs, including issues of internal and external validity.
	COMS 7100 - Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Communication Students learn fundamental principles of research design and analysis pertaining to qualitative research methods. Students learn metatheoretical assumptions that frame qualitative research projects as well as introductory strategies of collecting and analyzing qualitative data. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Critique various modes of scholarly inquiry and the philosophical bases for these different modes. Explain how the history and development of Communication Studies as a field has led to the present modes of scholarship within the field. Appraise and develop rationales for scholarly investigations. Describe the fundamental assumptions and basic methods and tools of qualitative inquiry.
	COMS 7110 - Communication Historiography I Bibliographic, analytical, and interpretive skills for dealing with published primary source materials, including letters, speech texts, and audiovisual recordings in their historical contexts. Designed to help students become skillful library users, situate a research problem in context, and analyze primary historical materials. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to apply professional standards for research, writing, documentation, oral presentation, and peer evaluation of communication history. Students will be able to become skilled at finding and using published primary-source materials for historical research on communication or its artifacts. Students will be able to write a research paper aiming at specified standards.
	COMS 7120 - Communication Historiography II Techniques for research using archival material: transcripts, unpublished speeches, letters, diaries, artifacts (e.g., scrapbooks, museum exhibits), memoirs, manuscripts. Readings exemplify a variety of historical philosophies. Students research an original problem of their own definition within the theme of the semester; the writing of conference papers is encouraged. Course builds on the pedagogical skills introduced in 7110 by developing the ability to critique bibliographies, argumentation, and prose style. Requisites: COMS 7110 Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To adapt scholarly research projects in communication history to the undergraduate classroom. To become skilled at finding and using archival primary-source materials (unpublished or one-of-a-kind items or institutional records) for qualitative research on communication or its artifacts. To learn professional standards for historical research, writing, documentation, oral presentation, and peer evaluation involving archival materials. To write a research paper aiming at these standards.
	COMS 7130 - Language and Social Interaction Research Methods in Communication Provides students with an understanding of how to conduct communication research projects using two qualitative research methodologies from a language and social interaction tradition that stress the collection and analysis of naturalistic data, including, but not limited to ethnography of communication, conversation analysis, and discourse analysis. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to describe the theoretical underpinnings of Language and Social Interaction approaches to qualitative communication research. Students will be able to recognize different methodological traditions within the Language and Social Interaction research. Students will be able to evaluate different methodological traditions within the Language and Social Interaction research. Students will be able to employ Language and Social Interaction methods of discourse collection and analysis. Students will be able to evaluate critically Language and Social Interaction scholarship. Students will be able to discuss critically Language and Social Interaction scholarship. Students will be able to apply knowledge by designing and conducting a study using one of the Language and Social Interaction methodological approaches.
	COMS 7140 - Qualitative Analysis in Communication This class engages students in the practice of doing qualitative data analysis. Students use their own collection of qualitative data and learn techniques for analyzing and interpreting this data. The course covers many different approaches to coding ranging from the general (e.g., descriptive coding) to the specific (e.g., grounded theory, narrative, etc.). Students code data, engage in analytic memoing, create a codebook, and craft a methods section based on the knowledge gained in class. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to critically analyze interpretive methods and analysis. Students will be able to critique and defend different approaches to coding. Students will be able to apply various approaches to coding. Students will be able to describe and use the necessary components for an accurate methods sections. Students will be able to describe the necessary components of a codebook. Students will be able to critique three different analysis processes and apply those processes to a particular context.
	COMS 7170 - Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Ethnographic Methods An advanced qualitative methods seminar focusing on critical and contemporary ethnographic research. Students understand the history, meaning, and evolution of ethnographic fieldwork by learning about mainstream, marginalized, de-colonial, indigenous, transnational, and feminist approaches to ethnographic practices. Students explore the crucial relationship between researchers and participants, researcher subjectivity and positionality, cultural translation, the crises of representation, and ethnographic claims to knowledge. Students are exposed to critical writing epistemologies such as experimental and performative writing, ethnopoetics, and autoethnography The course is both conceptual and practical, with theoretical discussions and hands-on training in participant observation, interviewing, analysis, and writing. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to discuss critically ethnographic research exemplars rooted in contemporary and critical discussions. Students will be able to critique the theoretical ideas that inform critical ethnographic research. Students will be able to identify the criteria for evaluation of critical ethnographic studies. Students will be able to employ a critical lens in developing a research proposal. Students will be able to describe and use appropriate participant observation methods in a chosen field site. Students will be able to describe and use an appropriate interview protocol for conducting field interviews. Students will be able to identify the criteria for high quality critical ethnographic research.
	COMS 7190 - Advanced Topics in Qualitative Communication Research Advanced seminar focusing on qualitative research in communication studies. Topic varies with instructor. Students may repeat course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits. Students should have some background in qualitative research prior to taking this course. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to summarize the theoretical foundations of the specialized topic of the seminar. Students will be able to analyze empirical research done in the tradition of the specialized topic of the seminar. Students will be able to explain the key features of the qualitative research method that is the specialized topic of the seminar. Students will be able to differentiate qualitative communication research using the method that is the specialized topic of the seminar from other approaches to qualitative communication research. Students will be able to employ research practices (such as collection and analysis of data/discourse) that are used in the specialized topic of the seminar.
	COMS 7200 - Introduction to Relating and Organizing This course is the first in a series of courses designed to introduce graduate students to the interconnections between micro practices and macro organizational and societal structures and influences. Particular attention will be paid to how individuals and collectives experience and enact fundamental tensions in their efforts to relate and organize. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to compare and contrast various theoretical and methodological standpoints for what they reveal and conceal about relating and organizing. Students will be able to summarize, synthesize, and critique classic and contemporary scholarship in relating and organizing. Students will be able to identify and explain connections and differences in the study of relating and organizing. Students will be able to identify and explain the historical and conceptual foundations of interpersonal communication (i.e., relating) and organizational communication (i.e., organizing). Students will be able to synthesize existing theory and research to propose a study of an interpersonal and/or organizational ‘problem’ that, if completed, would reveal theoretically and socially useful knowledge about communication.
	COMS 7210 - Communication Process in Small Groups Theory and research in group social system, group modification of individual judgment, leadership styles, group vs. individual goals, and intragroup lines of communication in small problem-solving and learning groups. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Apply knowledge of group communication concepts through both theoretical and pedagogical writing assignments. Demonstrate understanding of the primary theoretical traditions in the field of group communication. Explain the different methodological challenges involved in doing group communication research. Make theoretically-informed inferences of group processes and use data to support those inferences.
	COMS 7220 - Communicative Process in Organizations Interaction between organizational structure and communication within organizations. Emphasis on theoretical and methodological analysis. Primary focus on conducting major research project. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to compare and contrast various research paradigms for what they both reveal and conceal about organizational communication. Students will be able to summarize and critique classic and contemporary scholarship in organizational communication. Students will be able to identify and explain the historical roots of organizational communication. Students will be able to identify and explain the philosophical issues involving theory, research, and practice in organizational communication. Students will be able to use existing theory and research to propose a study of an organizational communication ‘problem’ that, if completed, would reveal theoretically and socially useful knowledge about organizational communication.
	COMS 7230 - Communication and Information Diffusion Analysis of major approaches to data and information diffusion systems on local, regional, national, and international levels. Emphasis on acquisition analysis and dissemination of data as information, including critical points of interface and interaction between a system and its uses. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To plan and enact an original research project using Diffusion Theory. To recognize contemporary uses of Diffusion Theory to analyze communciation processes. To recognize criticisms of Diffusion Theory. To understand historical trends leading to the development of Diffusion Theory.
	COMS 7250 - Organization Communication Consulting: Foundational Perspectives A focus on theoretical perspectives to organizational communication consulting and organizational development. Review of theory and research on communication training, consulting practices, communication variables involved in the client/consultant relationship, as well as intervention techniques. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to develop a training proposal from pre-assessment to engagement. Students will be able to distinguish between training and development and provide specific examples unique to each. Students will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of a training exercise. Students will be able to list 5-7 best practices and identify the circumstances for optimum use. Students will be able to list advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to training.
	COMS 7300 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Public Culture An introductory survey of ideas theorizing the relationships between rhetoric and public culture. Since many of these ideas offer critical and analytic perspectives, students will also learn how to engage in critical analysis of the relationships between rhetoric and public culture. Likely theories/theorists include: Kenneth Burke, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Jergen Habermas, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, feminist studies, and postmodernism. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Develop foundational research practice skills related to rhetoric and public culture. Identify critical concepts in the study of rhetoric and public culture. Increase your awareness of presence of rhetoric in our lived experiences.
	COMS 7320 - Communication Historiography Methods Students develop bibliographic, analytical, and interpretive skills for dealing with primary source materials published in print and those made available in databases or online archives, including letters, speech texts, and audiovisual recordings in their historical contexts. This course is designed to help students become skillful library users, situate a research problem in context, and analyze primary historical materials. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Use print and electronic bibliographical tools to identify and select appropriate published primary-source materials for historical research on communication concepts, practices, processes, and artifacts. Identify and select appropriate electronic primary-source materials from online archives and databases for historical research on communication concepts, practices, processes, and artifacts. Apply professional standards for analysis and interpretation of historical evidence. Describe professional standards for research, writing, documentation, oral presentation, and peer evaluation of communication history. Write a research paper meeting professional historiography standards. Design historical research projects appropriate for undergraduates in communication courses.
	COMS 7340 - Narrative Approaches to Rhetorical Criticism This rhetorical methods class explores narrative approaches to rhetorical criticism. “Narrative” is construed broadly to encompass methods that view rhetorical transactions as dramatic events or as story-telling. Examples of narrative approaches to rhetorical criticism include Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic approach, Ernest Bormann’s rhetorical vision/fantasy theme analysis, or Walter Fisher’s narrative perspective. These approaches tend to construe rhetorical discourse as involving heroes/villains (protagonist/antagonist), conflict, and events (a plot). Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to explain the basic concepts of narrative. Students will be able to explain the strengths and weaknesses (pros/cons) of narrative as a critical method. Students will be able to analyze articles/book chapters on narrative approaches to rhetorical criticism. Students will be able to accurately apply the narrative method to rhetorical texts.
	COMS 7350 - Advanced Techniques in Rhetorical Criticism The course offers an in-depth study of the theoretical underpinning and methodologies in specific techniques of rhetorical criticism. Although the specific rhetorical scholar or school of rhetorical scholars will vary by instructor, each seminar will engage the interdisciplinary dimensions of a specific technique of criticism of rhetorical interactions. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Successfully integrate an analysis of text, context, and audience in a work of rhetorical criticism using advanced, specific techniques. Identify how a work of rhetorical criticism reflects a specific, advanced paradigmatic perspective. Comprehend the elements of a compelling rhetorical criticism utilizing one or more advanced techniques. Evaluate the quality of a work of rhetorical criticism from a specific rhetorical perspective. Identify elements of a specific critical approach at work in rhetorical criticism. Explain the relationship between rhetorical theory and rhetorical criticism in a specific technique.
	COMS 7370 - Performance Methods in Communication Studies This course focuses on performance as a paradigm for the study of communication processes, broadly defined. Performance is approached as method, experience, metaphor, and subject of analysis. The course is both conceptual and practical. It introduces students to key concepts in performance theory such as ritual, identity performance, culture, play, performativity, performing, performance texts, and performance process. Students gain experiential training in performance ethnography, ethnography of performance, autobiographical performance, autoethnographic performance, social justice organizing and performance, and performative writing. This training is accomplished through exercises in textual, aural, performative, material, poetic, and other sense-based representation of performance and everyday life. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Define performance as a paradigm for communications studies. Explore the relationship between ritual, play, culture, identity, performance process, and communication. Analyze the relationship between language, performativity, and communication. Explore the relationship between social justice organizing and performance. Conduct a field study using one of these performance methods: performance ethnography, autobiographical performance, ethnography of performance, and autoethnographic performance. Create and perform a performance text/performances from the field study.
	COMS 7400 - Introduction to Health Communication Survey of the wide range of topics within the area of health communication, including cultural concepts of health, patient centered meanings of health, physician patient interaction, social support, health promotion campaigns, harm reduction campaigns, mass media constructions of health, risk communication, and health-related values and ethics. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Assess the potential for communication practices to shape and guide health-related behaviors. Describe a schema for charting the extant literature in health communication. Discuss and debate the role of health communication in the broader communication discipline. Evaluate theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of scholarly work in health communication.
	COMS 7510 - Quantitative Research Design in Communication This course focuses on practical and conceptual skills necessary for conducting high-quality quantitative research in communication. The course covers survey and experimental designs that are particularly relevant to communication studies. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Describe the goals, guiding principles, and fundamental assumptions of quantitative research in communication. Describe the types of hypotheses and research questions that quantitative research is most equipped to answer. Understand and apply ethical research practices. Develop appropriate hypotheses and research questions for quantitative studies in communication. Construct effective research designs. Develop measures and instruments which will yield reliable and valid results. Critically evaluate quantitative communication research.
	COMS 7520 - Quantitative Measurement and Preliminary Analysis in Communication This course covers measurement of quantitative data and the preliminary analyses required before conducting the substantive analysis of hypotheses and research questions. The measurement portion of the course focuses on decision making and techniques for producing and working with quantitative data, focusing in particular on conceptualizing and operationalizing quantitative variables. Students will explore statistical techniques for assessing measurement including reliability and exploratory factor analyses. The preliminary analysis portion of the course explores issues such as data cleaning, diagnosis and resolution of missing data issues, item-level analyses, forming multi-item scales, transformation, and evaluating confounds and covariates. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Construct high quality conceptual and operational definitions for quantitative concepts. Analyze the correspondence between a concept and its operation as well as the dimensionality of a concept using various statistical techniques including Cronbach’s alpha and exploratory factor analysis. Design and assess the reliability of a coding scheme. Understand measurement issues related to sensitive questions and cross-cultural research. Conduct preliminary data analyses. Defend choices made in preliminary analysis.
	COMS 7530 - Mediation and Moderation in Quantitative Methods in Communication This course provides an introduction to the quantitative research method of moderation and mediation. A moderator variable is one that influences the strength of a relationship between two other variables, and a mediator variable is one that explains the relationship between the two other variables. This course is both conceptual and analytical. Students learn how to theoretically propose moderation analyses vs. mediation analyses and how to rationalize one approach over the other. Students also practice moderation and mediation through multiple regression and simple path analyses techniques (SPSS, PROCESS, and AMOS). Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Explain the evolution of moderation and mediation analyses, including the processes followed and analytical tools (i.e., software) used Critique quantitative research that utilizes mediation and moderation Construct rationales, conceptualizations, and hypotheses/research questions for mediation and moderation analyses Analyze data using both moderation and mediation analyses Interpret findings using both moderation and mediation analyses, including both statistical and practical import
	COMS 7540 - Methods of Content Analysis in Communication Studies Students learn theory and methods of quantitative content analysis of texts. Texts include interview transcripts, letters, social media content, visual communication, and traditional mediated texts. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to identify the historical and theoretical influence of content analysis on scholarship within the communication discipline. Students will be able to pose thoughtful and appropriate research questions or hypotheses to be answered with content analytic methods. Students will be able to identify an appropriate sample of texts and units of analysis (from a population) to be analyzed using content analysis. Students will be able to write, refine and test coding instruments relevant to the text under analysis. Students will be able to explain the importance of intercoder reliability. Students will be able to evaluate and explain the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary content analytic scholarship. Students will be able to initiate, conduct, and present original research using content analytic practices.
	COMS 7590 - Topics in Quantitative Methods in Communication This course focuses on particular quantitative methods (e.g., multi-level modeling, meta-analysis, big data, longitudinal analysis, growth curve modelling, network analysis, etc.) not covered by regularly offered courses. Topics will vary and the course may be repeated three times as topics rotate. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Explain decisions and their consequences in quantitative design and analysis for the special topic. Analyze quantitative data as appropriate for the special topic. Create appropriate research designs within the special topic. Apply criteria for judging quality of quantitative design and analysis within the special topic.
	COMS 7900 - Topics in Communication Studies I Seminars focused on a special topic with a COMS faculty instructor, a visiting faculty member, or a visiting professional. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To engage in advanced study of a theorist, body of literature, research method, or other specialized topic in Communciation Studies.
	COMS 7901 - Interdisciplinary Seminar Seminar contents vary. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 20.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To explore interdisciplinary scholarship within which communication is a fundamental construct. To gain an appreciation for the challenges and rewards associated with interdisciplinary teaching, research and service. To respond to the challenges of interdisciplinary activities in a productive way.
	COMS 7940 - Research Individual research on special projects. Projects must be approved prior to registration. Requisites: Permission required Credit Hours: 1 - 12 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To engage in independent research to achieve a depth of understanding about a theorist, body of literature, or research method under the supervision of a faculty member in COMS.
	COMS 8200 - Foundations of Organizational Communication This course is designed to provide an introduction to organizational communication. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research, and practice related to organizational communication. Students in this course are exposed to multiple theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches adopted across the field. Students think critically about how past and present scholarly trends guide our field. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories within organizational communication. Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of organizational communication. Apply principles of organizational communication to pertinent situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives. Demonstrate appropriate, ethical use of organizational communication practices in research and everyday situations. Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic of organizational communication inquiry. Apply knowledge in an independent research project/proposal. Practice synthesizing research, designing research studies, and analyzing data. Recognize and articulate their own theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of organizational communication inquiry and explicate how these assumptions guide their own research and practice.
	COMS 8210 - Foundations of Interpersonal Communication This course is designed to provide an introduction to interpersonal communication. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research and practice related to interpersonal communication. The course will study multiple theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding communication in interpersonal relationships. Students will think critically about core research programs that have guided our field. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Describe the major theories within interpersonal communication. Understand the trajectory of research programs in the field of interpersonal communication. Synthesize bodies of literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory. Practice synthesizing research, designing research studies, and analyzing data. Recognize and articulate their own theoretical and methodological assumptions about interpersonal communication and how these assumptions guide their own communication and their own research.
	COMS 8220 - Public Deliberation Course addresses theoretical and practical dimensions of the public, private, civil, and technical spheres of human discourse, with an emphasis on the content, structure, suasiveness, and social cultural implications of the speech and action emerging from and contributing to those spheres. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate understanding of key issues at the heart of current deliberative practice and research. Demonstrate understanding of the primary theoretical traditions in the field of public deliberation and dialogue. Design a research project addressing a key problematic in deliberation theory or practice. Explain how the dialogue and deliberative theories are put into practice through local, national, and global public engagement initiatives.
	COMS 8230 - Integrated Research in Communication Studies This course is designed to provide advanced students with an opportunity to apply communication theory in exploring questions and/or addressing problems that connect the realms of interpersonal communication studies and organizational communication studies. The course will be open to COMS graduate students who have successfully competed their first year of graduate studies and to graduate students from other programs in the university contingent on instructor permission. The precise questions explored and methods employed in that exploration will vary according to instructor interests and background. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Design a research project investigating a topic in interpersonal or organizational communication. Gain depth of understanding about communication topics in interpersonal or organizational communication. Implement a research project. Prepare a written report of the research.
	COMS 8240 - Communication and Identity This course is designed to provide an introduction to identity and communication related specifically to interpersonal, intergroup and/or organizational communication contexts. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research and practice related to identity and identification in at least one of these substantive areas. Students study multiple theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to understanding communication and identity. The course requires students to think critically about core research programs that have guided our field. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Describe the major theories within identity and communication. Describe the trajectory of research programs in the field of communication related to identity and/or identification as it’s been applied to interpersonal, intergroup, and/or organizational contexts. Synthesize bodies of literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory. Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data related to identity and communication. Articulate their own theoretical and methodological assumptions about identity research and communication and how these assumptions guide their own communication and their own research
	COMS 8250 - Communication in Personal & Social Relationships The formation, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships comprises a large portion of our communication. These relationships may include romantic partnerships, friendships, family relationships, work relationships, and caregiver relationships, to name a few. In this class, students will investigate communication processes present in these relationships as well as relevant constructs, theories, and topics in order to gain a more complete and advanced understanding of interpersonal communication at both the abstract (theories, empirical research) and concrete (conducting their own research) levels. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Thoroughly understand and evaluate the quality of scholarly writing related to personal and social relationships. Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for relational communication. Demonstrate knowledge of theories and processes related to relational communication in a variety of relationship types. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of relational communication theories. Explain how relational processes function to establish, develop, and maintain interpersonal relationships. Apply principles of relational communication to various situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives. Appropriately apply course concepts to the design and write-up of research project that would be worthy of submission to an academic conference or scholarly journal.
	COMS 8260 - Communication, Innovation, and Organizational Change Advanced seminar in organizational communication that focuses on the ways communication enables organizing around innovation and facilitates organizational change. Specifically, this course highlights communication between individual organizational members, in groups and teams, across organizational units, and between organizations and their communities. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories of innovation and change within organizational communication. Evaluate research on group and organizational communication processes relevant to innovation and change. Analyze structural aspects of organizing that influence innovation and change. Explain innovation and change communication at individual, group, organizational, and community levels. Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic related to innovation, change, and communication. Apply knowledge in an independent research project/proposal. Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data related to communication, innovation, and organizational change.
	COMS 8270 - Dialogue, Narrative, and Communication This course is an advanced seminar focusing on dialogue and narrative communication as topics in interpersonal communication and organizational communication theory and research. This course examines in-depth dialogical communication, narrative communication, and a combination of the two in composing the practices of interpersonal or organizational communication contexts. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories within dialogical and narrative communication scholarship. Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of dialogical and narrative communication. Apply principles of dialogical and narrative communication to pertinent situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives. Demonstrate appropriate, ethical use of dialogical and narrative communication practices in research and everyday situations. Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing dialogical and narrative communication inquiry. Synthesize material and create a scholarly paper. Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data related to dialogical and narrative communication. Articulate students’ own theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of inquiry addressing dialogical and/or narrative communication and how these assumptions guide their own research.
	COMS 8280 - Topics in Advanced Interpersonal Communication This course is an advanced seminar focusing on the role and dynamics of interpersonal communication employed across a range of personal and public relationships and contexts. Topic varies with instructor. Students may repeat course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories within interpersonal communication addressing the specialized topic of the seminar. Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of interpersonal communication. Demonstrate appropriate, ethical use of interpersonal communication practices in research and everyday situations. Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic of interpersonal communication inquiry. Synthesize material and create a scholarly paper. Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data related to interpersonal communication. Recognize and articulate their own theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of interpersonal communication inquiry and how these assumptions guide their own interpersonal communication and their own research.
	COMS 8285 - Topics in Advanced Organizational Communication This course is an advanced seminar focusing on the role and dynamics of communication employed across a range of organizational contexts. Topic varies with instructor. Students may repeat course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the major theories within organizational communication addressing the specialized topic of the seminar. Students will be able to define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain. Students will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of organizational communication. Students will be able to apply principles of organizational communication to pertinent situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives. Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate, ethical use of organizational communication practices in research and everyday situations. Students will be able to synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic of organizational communication inquiry. Students will be able to apply knowledge in an independent research project/proposal. Students will be able to synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data. Students will be able to explain their theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of interpersonal communication inquiry and how these assumptions guide their own interpersonal communication and their own research.
	COMS 8290 - Topics in Relating and Organizing Advanced seminar focusing on the role and dynamics of communication employed in the processes of relating and organizing. Topic varies with instructor. Course topics will vary; may repeat course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To analyze scholalry literature to achieve a depth of understanding about a theorist, body of literature, or resaerch method under the supervision of a faculty member in COMS.
	COMS 8300 - Rhetorical Theory Covers main concepts and principal figures in the history of rhetorical theory. Begins with classical Greece and ends with postmodernity. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Explain rhetorical influences in one’s own scholarly pursuits. Identify major theorists and theories in the historical development of rhetorical theory. Identify theoretical influences in published studies that examine rhetorical phenomena. Teach rhetorical concepts in the classroom.
	COMS 8310 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture This course introduces students to major works in the study of rhetoric, popular culture, and their relationship. It assumes that forms of popular culture (e.g., popular music, advertising, television programming, popular novels, etc.) are social artifacts that serve an important persuasive function in society. Popular culture provides conceptual and practical frameworks that orient individuals to the world. Thus, this course will help graduate students to develop a set of theoretical, methodological, and analytical resources for researching and interpreting the persuasive functions of popular culture in specific historical and geographical contexts. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Evaluate the quality of published studies of popular culture phenomena. Explain the relationships among popular culture phenomena, rhetoric, and fans’ meaning-making practices. Identify the theoretical influences in published studies of popular culture phenomena. Understand the theoretical foundations of the rhetorical study of popular culture phenomena. Write a convention paper analysis of a popular culture phenomena using a rhetorical perspective.
	COMS 8320 - Rhetorical and Communicative Functions of Technology This course examines the creation of meaning in verbal and graphic texts in speech, print, and electronic environments, with emphasis on the cultural significance of various communication technologies. In addition to discussions of theory, the course includes hands-on explorations of electronic examples (including radio, cell phones, games, and Internet applications), especially in contrast to print and speech, and consideration of social, economic, and technical dimensions of mediated culture. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Apply those theories to examples of various mechanical, and electronic media (from print to DVDs and the WWW), including a research project of your own choice and development. Describe the body of theory on the relation of communication technologies to meaning-making. Evaluate the utility and relevance of existing knowledge on meaning making in electronic environments, and express those judgments orally and in writing. Expand that body of knowledge in a direction relevant to your own professional or scholarly interests with a research paper suitable for delivery at an academic conference.
	COMS 8330 - Feminist Rhetorical Theory This course will begin with an examination of what it means to ‘write women into the history of rhetoric’. This examination will provide the backdrop for an initial historiographical approach to women’s contributions to rhetorical theory. Beyond this initial focus, the course will examine recent developments in feminist theory that impinge on or work from an understanding of rhetoric. As such, the course cuts across both historical and theoretical boundaries mapping the space for a feminist rhetoric. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Define and explain differences between feminist waves, especially in reference to 2nd and 3rd wave feminism. Define and explain poststructural feminism and differentiate from standpoint theory. Define and explain what is meant by “feminisms.” Demonstrate an ability to critically assess strengths and weaknesses of different feminist theoretical positions. Distinguish between and among rhetorical feminists, such as Kramerae, hooks, Starhawk, Daly, Minh Ha.
	COMS 8340 - Rhetorical Criticism Theories and methodologies of selected modern critics. Exploration of interdisciplinary dimensions in criticism of rhetorical interactions. Class and individual projects. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Comprehend the elements of a compelling rhetorical criticism. Evaluate the quality of a work of rhetorical criticism . Explain the relationship between rhetorical theory and rhetorical criticism. Identify how a work of rhetorical criticism reflects a particular paradigmatic perspective. Identify specific critical approaches at work in rhetorical criticism. Successfully integrate an analysis of text, context, and audience in a work of rhetorical criticism.
	COMS 8350 - Studies in American Rhetoric This course surveys examples of American rhetoric, broadly construed to include rhetorical traditions of native peoples before European contact as well as genres of public address and other rhetorical forms in many media across the political, social, and media history of the United States. The communication discipline’s critical approaches to the various ideological, regional, and demographic traditions of American rhetoric are central to the course. Students gain a foundation for research in both historical and contemporary American rhetoric, especially as manifestations of the ancient rhetorical principle of kairos–appropriateness to time, place, and circumstances. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to describe and compare rhetorical and ideological features of major American traditions of public address and other expression, both discursive and imaginative, in various media from eras before European contact to the present. Students will be able to explain, compare, and apply appropriate critical approaches for analyzing American rhetorical practices across historical and demographic traditions. Students will be able to research, analyze, and evaluate at least one major example for its historical and contemporary relevance to American rhetorical traditions.
	COMS 8360 - Topics in Communication and Cultural Critique This course addresses the convergent aims of rhetoric and cultural studies, viewing both traditions as theoretical invitations to political and cultural critique. It acknowledges the rich and contested histories of both intellectual traditions and engages modes of inquiry that attend to matters of culture, identity, representation, power, ideology, and democracy as they implicate and intersect with our understandings of communicative practices and behaviors. Through the course, students become familiar with the common influences and divergent histories of rhetoric and cultural studies so that they may more productively engage in scholarship that contributes to the critique of public culture. Topics vary. Students may repeat the course for a total of 12 credits. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Define key concepts and terms that reflect the intersection of rhetoric and cultural studies. Identify common sites of ideology and cultural production. Critique common uses of identity, representation, and power. Use critical and cultural theory to ask questions about communication practices. Compare and contrast different intellectual and theoretical approaches to cultural critique. Describe and apply the necessary components of a cultural critique research paper.
	COMS 8390 - Topics in Rhetoric and Culture This course provides a specific focus in a topic area related to Rhetoric and Culture. Topics will vary and the course may be repeated three times. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Define key concepts and terms that reflect the specific topic of study Identify common artifacts, texts, and discourses that characterize the topic of study Compare and contrast common theories and methods used to explore the topic of study Identify exemplary scholarship in the topic of study Synthesize material and create a scholarly paper that addresses the topic of study
	COMS 8400 - Health Communication in Organizing This course introduces students to research on health communication issues in organizing and provides a forum for developing a research agenda in this area. Underscoring course reading and assignments is the assumption that health, wellness, illness, and healing acquire meaning through symbolic interactions located within social, political, economic, and cultural structures. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Articulating a discursive orientation to understanding the organizing of health and health care resources. Articulating, enlarging, and in some cases transforming, our personal and professional goals. Identify connections between health communication in organizing literature and student scholarly interests. Thinking critically about the political, cultural, historical, and social aspects of institutional discourses. Tracing connections between primary theorists and contemporary theorizing about discourses, organizing, and health.
	COMS 8420 - Health Communication and Culture The purpose of this course is to examine the influence of culture on communicative aspects of patient and public health. The course explores theories of communication medical anthropology, and health education to understand the conceptual foundations of intercultural health. The course analyzes how peoples’ health beliefs play out in interactions with patients and providers, and examines how public health strategies can be designed for specific cultural contexts. The larger purpose of this course is to train graduate students to communicate more effectively with patients, providers, and the public in multicultural health care settings. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Define and classify the relationships between and among culture, health and communication. Develop a plan / solution of a health care challenge, applying social and cultural approaches. Explain and compare indigenous systems of healing. Explain how socio-cultural factors inform design, delivery and evaluation of US and other country health programs. Explain the body as a construct of culture, with an emphasis on Euro-American, African, and Southeast Asian constructs. Practice writing for community and public audiences.
	COMS 8430 - Relational Issues in Health Communication This course provides an overview of theory and research within the broad scope of relationships and health communication. Specifically, students gain an understanding of health communication in personal, peer, and provider/caregiver relationships, including research on how health conditions shape communication in these relationships, as well as how every day communication in these relationships influences health. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Summarize, explain, and critique empirical relational health communication research. Describe the major theories foundational to relational health communication and apply them to interactions in various health contexts. Identify the major areas of emphasis/study in the field of relational health communication as well as current trends. Articulate how their research interests intersect, extend, and contribute to current relational health communication literature. Derive practical implications for individuals with health conditions and their support systems (both personal and professional) from the literature read.
	COMS 8440 - Health Communication and Society Seminar exploring the relationships among communication, public culture, and public perceptions of health and wellness. Surveys theoretical approaches (i.e., cultural studies, rhetorical analysis) and emphasizes the application of theory through writing and criticism. There is a strong emphasis on exploring current issues and challenges facing the health care industry and the public’s understanding of health and wellness. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Explain the relationship between communication theory and public understanding of health and wellness. Describe and apply the elements of a compelling analysis of social messages about health and wellness. Identify specific critical approaches to social and communicative analysis of discourses of health and wellness. Successfully integrate analysis of text, context, and audience in a paper and presentation regarding one or more social messages about health and wellness.
	COMS 8450 - Health Communication Campaigns This course explores the theory and practice of communication campaigns that attempt to influence awareness, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to health. Students examine theories and research that inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of campaigns with an emphasis on practical implications. The course also focuses on values and ethical dilemmas in the design and conduct of campaigns. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Evaluate theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of scholarly work in health campaigns. Articulate and evaluate the ethical choices made in a campaign. Defend choices about campaign goals, design, and evaluation. Assess the potential of health campaigns to shape and guide health-related outcomes. Articulate connections between course materials and scholarly interests.
	COMS 8460 - Persuasion and Social Influence in Communication This course focuses on the processes through which attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are shaped, reinforced, and changed via communication. The course provides a survey of theories and research in persuasion as well as analysis of contemporary examples of persuasive communication. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Derive practical implications for individuals with health conditions and their support systems (both personal and professional) from the literature read. Understand, analyze, and compare key persuasion theories. Evaluate theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of contemporary persuasion research. Articulate how their research interests intersect, extend, and contribute to current persuasion and social influence literature. Derive practical implications for the practice of persuasion and social influence from the literature read.
	COMS 8470 - Communication and Uncertainty in Health and Illness Uncertainty is common in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment for many illnesses, and in relationships among patients, care providers, and family members, where illnesses experiences are addressed. Communication is a source of illness-related uncertainty, a resource for dealing with such uncertainty, and most generally the medium through which the presence and meanings of uncertainty are constructed. This course examines the nature of illness-related uncertainty, and theory and research on communication and uncertainty related to instrumental, identity, relational, and affect management; it examines these issues in contexts such as health information seeking, health screening and genetic testing, diagnosis and medically unexplained symptoms, treatment decisions, including end-of-life care, and social support. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to define and differentiate various forms of uncertainty Students will be able to analyze discourse to identify forms of uncertainty represented in patient, care provider, family member, and others¿ illness-related discourse Students will be able to be able to apply the concept of form-specific adaptation of communication about uncertainty Students will be able to compare, contrast, and evaluate different theories of uncertainty and health communication Students will be able to plan and be able to conduct research on communication and uncertainty in illness Students will be able to evaluate practices that have been developed for enhancing communication about uncertainty in illness
	COMS 8480 - Environmental Communication This course focuses on how we communicatively construct and affect the environment. Students analyze and critique a wide range of voices (e.g., citizen and community groups, Greens, corporations and lobbyists, scientists, anti-environmentalists, public officials and regulators, journalists) on a variety of environmental disputes. Students learn about environmental decision making and conflict resolution, advocacy, climate and environmental justice movements, science communication, and risk communication in the context of current environmental issues. The course is designed to accommodate primarily communication studies doctoral students, but it reviews foundational theories in sufficient detail to equip students from other programs to participate effectively. The course equips students to conduct original research on environmental communication and to engage in activism as appropriate to interests and exigencies. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to explain the ways that communication constructs the natural environment. Students will be able to describe and analyze the nature of the public sphere in which the environment is communicatively constructed and the various voices that contribute to this sphere. Students will be able to explain the processes by which environmental problems are surfaced, disputed, and resolved or otherwise slip off the agenda of public discussion. Students will be able to understand, analyze, and be able to participate in environmental decision-making. Students will be able to describe, analyze, and evaluate journalistic and documentary practices related to environmental issues. Students will be able to describe, analyze, evaluate, and formulate the outlines of environmental campaigns. Students will be able to describe, analyze, and evaluate corporate messaging about the environment, including lobbying. Students will be able to describe, analyze, and evaluate scientific messaging about the environment. Students will be able to explain how communication theories play out in a variety of environmental contexts. Students will be able to analyze and explain the effects of risk perceptions on responses to environmental communication. Students will be able to create appropriate environmental messages based on risk communication theory and practice.
	COMS 8490 - Special Topics in Health Communication Advanced seminar focusing on the role and dynamics of communication employed across a range of health contexts. Topic varies with instructor. Students may repeat the course as topics rotate for a total of 12 credits. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Explain the major theories within health communication addressing the specialized topic of the seminar. Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of health communication. Apply principles of health communication to pertinent situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives. Appropriately and ethically use health communication practices in research and everyday situations. Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic of health communication inquiry. Apply knowledge in an independent research project/proposal. Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data on the specialized topic of the seminar. Articulate their own theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of health communication inquiry and how these assumptions guide their own health communication and their own research.
	COMS 8900 - Special Topics in Communication Studies II Seminars focused on a special topic with a COMS faculty instructor, a visiting faculty member, or a visiting professional. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will increase their knowledge in Communication Studies.
	COMS 8950 - Dissertation Independent research leading to the completion of the doctoral degree. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 12 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 48.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 thesis/dissertation Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: To engage in independent research to achieve a depth of understanding about a theorist, body of literature, or research method under the supervision of a faculty member in COMS.
	CONS 5900 - Special Topics in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General Specific course content will vary with offering. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 15 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will increase their knowledge in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General.
	CONS 5952 - Workshop in Family and Consumer Sciences Education An opportunity to explore skills and knowledge through extended and experiential activities related to Family and Consumer Sciences. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 6 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated. Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to critique professional growth, performance and involvement in the Family and Consumer Sciences profession. Students will be able to effectively communicate and advocate for the profession by evaluating and responding to evolving industry and learning environments. Students will be able to respond, provide and reflect upon constructive feedback to achieve continuous improvement in personal and professional endeavors.
	CONS 5954 - Resource and Financial Management Workshop in Resource and Financial Management Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 6 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Investigate special problems in resource and financial management.
	CONS 5961 - Seminar in Family and Consumer Sciences Education Offers an opportunity to gain leadership and organizational skills for special projects in Family and Consumer Sciences Education Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 6 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to create a plan for professional growth, performance and involvement in the family and consumer sciences profession, school and community organizations. Students will be able to reflect on the understanding of the synergistic, integrative nature of the family and consumer sciences profession with its focus on the interrelationships among individuals, families, consumers, and communities. Students will be able to evaluate implemented plans and demonstrate leadership growth within the profession, including contributions to community. Students will be able to identify individual strengths and reflect on perspectives outside their own previous experiences.
	CONS 5965 - Human and Consumer Sciences Seminar in International Service Special seminar or workshop for human and consumer sciences majors prepare for and participating in international service. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 6 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Complete international service experience commensurate with individual student goals and opportunities. Identify opportunities for international service commensurate with the specific topic at time of course offering.
	CONS 5966 - Seminar or Short Course in Human and Consumer Sciences - Research Advanced studies of research and recent developments in human and consumer sciences disciplines. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 6 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Develop understanding of the role of research in human and consumer sciences content and professional application. Explore research methods and developments in human and consumer sciences.
	CONS 6000 - Seminar in Human and Consumer Sciences Prepares graduate students to develop research topics and proposals in anticipation of thesis work. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate skills for critical assessment of self and others with respect to research plans and execution. Students will be able to effectively explore via scholarly search methods, and document through written and oral proposals, the interdisciplinary nature of human and consumer sciences research. Students will be able to demonstrate effective professional scholarly presentation skills. Students will be able to execute various research techniques for the field of human and consumer sciences via preparation of research proposals.
	CONS 6500 - Consumption Theories This course provides an overview of theories and research in consumer behavior. The class focuses on how and why people engage in choosing, buying, using, and disposing of goods and services in the apparel, textile, hospitality, and tourism industries. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to identify and evaluate key substantive and methodological issues in the area of consumer behavior research. Students will be able to describe key research findings in their area of study. Students will be able to conceptualize, design and implement original consumer behavior research. Students will be able to identify opportunities to advance theories and innovate methodologies in consumer behavior.
	CONS 6900 - Special Topics in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General Specific course content will vary with offering. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 15 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will increase their knowledge in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General.
	CONS 6940 - Research Independent investigation in major area of Human and Consumer Sciences. Requisites: Permission required Credit Hours: 1 - 5 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 20.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 research Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Collect data for master’s thesis. Conduct research according to an approved and sound method.
	CONS 6950 - Thesis Thesis writing in one specialized area of Human and Consumer Sciences. Requisites: Credit Hours: 1 - 12 Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours. Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 thesis/dissertation Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Complete master’s thesis.
	CS 5000D - Introduction to Discrete Structures Discrete mathematics and its application to computer science explored. Foundational mathematical techniques used in computer science are explored in depth: propositional logic, number theory and proofs, sequences and mathematical induction, set theory, counting and combinatorics, discrete probability, functions, recursion, simple analysis of algorithms, and orderings and relations. Applications of these structures to various areas of computer science also covered. Requisites: Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 recitation Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to express an understanding of the classical facts of elementary number theories. Students will be able to analyze sequences and to employ mathematical induction to demonstrate their correctness. Students will be able to express their understanding of basic set theory through both element and algebraic proofs. Students will be able to apply their understanding of the logic of quantified statements to construct a proof of the logical truthfulness of a statement. Students will be able to analyze the probability of certain outcomes with an understanding of combinatorics.
	CS 5040 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms Introduces modern study of computer algorithms. Topics include correctness of algorithms, analysis of iterative and recursive algorithms, worst-case, best-case, average-case, and amortized behavior, design of algorithms, divide and conquer algorithms, the greedy method, graph searching, and dynamic programming techniques. Selected additional topics may include computational geometry or NP-completeness. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to analyze and solve computational problems using dynamic programming. Students will be able to analyze the complexity of divide and conquer algorithms. Students will be able to infer lower bounds for comparison based computational problems. Students will be able to design linear time algorithms for finding the kth element in an unsorted list. Students will be able to apply NP-completeness theory and produce a proof of NP-completeness for computational problems. Students will be able to compare complexity lower bounds of computational problems. Students will be able to design algorithms using greedy techniques. Students will be able to apply and analyze complexity notions, recurrence relations, and fundamental techniques in algorithm analysis.
	CS 5060 - Computation Theory Explores fundamentals concerning formal language theory and the theory of computation. Topics include basic models of computation, the Church-Turing thesis, Turing machines, decidability and undecidability, computational complexity, NP-completeness, and diagonalization. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the ability to prove that some languages are undecidable using the techniques mentioned in class. Students will develop the ability to show that a problem is computable in polynomial-time or NP-time. Students will develop the ability to show that certain numbers, such as the square root of 2, are computable real numbers. Students will develop the ability to show that certain problems are NP-complete. Students will develop the ability to show that various languages are decidable or recursively enumerable. Students will gain an understanding of precision issues in arithmetic computations. Students will gain an understanding of the Recursion Theorem, and Rice’s Theorem, and the ability to use these results to prove that certain problems are undecidable. Students will gain an understanding of the basic Turing machine model, and an ability to use the definition to solve tasks such as integer multiplication. Students will gain an understanding of the basic definition of a universal Turing machine and its construction. Students will gain an understanding of the basic definitions concerning computable real numbers. Students will gain an understanding of the basic definitions concerning polynomial-time reducibility and completeness. Students will gain an understanding of the basic definitions concerning polynomial-time, polynomial space, and nondeterministic polynomial-time computations. Students will gain an understanding of the basic definitions of decidable (recursive) and recursively enumerable. Students will gain an understanding of the basic nondeterministic model of computation, and how it differs from the deterministic model. Students will gain an understanding of the basic techniques that can be used to show that a language is undecidable. Students will gain an understanding of, and the ability to state, the Church-Turing thesis. Students will gain an understanding, and ability to use, the basic definitions concerning automata and grammars. Students will gain an understanding, and an ability, to use the basic mathematical notation concerning strings, languages, and functions.
	CS 5100 - Introduction to Formal Languages and Compilers A course on formal languages theory and compilers. Topics may include, but are not limited to: regular expressions; finite automata; context-free grammars; predictive parsing; LR parsing; abstract syntax; type systems and type-checking; stack layout and activation records; intermediate representations; control-flow graphs; static-single assignment (SSA) form; dataflow/liveness analysis; register allocation; garbage collection/runtimes; the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Over the course of the semester, students will implement a compiler for a small imperative programming language, targeting an intermediate representation such as LLVM. This course involves a significant amount of programming. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to determine whether a given language is recognizable (e.g., by a regular expression, deterministic finite automaton, or context-free grammar). Students will be able to construct a finite state machine to recognize a given language. Students will be able to apply computer science theory to determine whether a given grammar is parseable by recursive descent. Students will be able to appraise the tradeoffs, in terms of asymptotic complexity and precision, of distinct algorithms used in compiler construction (e.g., for garbage collection). Students will be able to construct a compiler, over the course of a series of course assignments, for a small programming language.
	CS 5120 - Parallel Computing I Studies different parallel structures to familiarize students with variety of approaches to parallel computing and the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Concentrates on understanding methods for developing parallel algorithms and analyzing their performance. Advantages and disadvantages of different methods for mapping algorithms onto several different paralllel architecture studied. Algorithms discussed include sorting, searching, matrix operations, and others. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Student will become familiarized with common parallel performance measures, including the granularity of parallel processing, speed-up, scalability, and efficiency Student will become familiarized with common shared memory programming API¿s and environments. Student will become familiarized with different parallel computing taxonomies Students will gain an understanding of distributed message passing libraries and inter-process communication technologies. Students will gain an understanding of solutions to common shared memory programming problems. Students will gain an understanding of the basic concepts of different forms of parallel computing, including instruction level parallelism, shared memory multiprocessing, distributed memory multiprocessing, clusters and grid computing Students will gain an understanding of the concepts of concurrency, parallelism and speedup Students will gain an understanding of the concepts of distributed memory programming. Students will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of shared memory programming Students will gain the ability to develop and analyze solutions to specific computational problems in distributed memory multiprocessor systems. Students will gain the ability to develop and analyze solutions to specific computational problems on shared memory multiprocessor systems.
	CS 5160 - Problem Solving with Bioinformatics Tools Focuses on bioinformatics tools and biological databases; utilizing them to solve problems designed from current issues in biological, biotechnological, and biomedical research. Requisites: WARNING: No credit for this course if taken after the following: PBIO 5160 Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will become familiar with the capabilities of popular bioinformatics tools, and with the kind of information contained in popular biological databases. Students will develop the ability to employ state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools to collaboratively solve a set of biological research problems. Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics to analyze data from an expression profiling (microarray) experiment. Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics to determine the phylogenetic relationships among a set of species, given DNA sequence data from each species. Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics to determine the structure and function of a gene and the proteins that it encodes, given the DNA sequence of the gene. Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics tools to perform searches for regulatory motifs, which control gene expression. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the course concepts is acquired by solving problems with a team. Students will gain insight into how bioinformatics tools and biological databases are used in multidisciplinary biological research and experimentation processes. Students will gain introductory knowledge about bioinformatics as a discipline and the genomic age. This includes the following specific topics: genome sequencing, genome annotation, types of genomic elements, sequenced genomes, etc.
	CS 5170 - Data Mining With Applications in the Life Sciences Uses Perl Programming language to develop custom software tools that solve problems in the life sciences. Topics covered include the Perl programming language, processing DNA sequences and protein sequences, restriction maps, GenBank, protein data bank, parsing BLAST output, Bioperl, data pipelines, and the Entrez programming utilities. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will gain the ability to develop Perl programs that combine third party tools to form customized data analysis pipelines Students will gain the ability to develop Perl programs that perform processing of biological sequence data Students will gain the ability to develop Perl programs to parse GenBank files and libraries, protein data bank files, and BLAST output files Students will gain the ability to use the Perl programming language to architect and construct software packages that solve computational biology problems Students will learn about features of the Bioperl libraries Students will learn basic concepts of database management
	CS 5180 - Statistical Foundation for Bioinformatics Introduces statistics and stochastic process theory, and makes applications in the field Bioinformatics, i.e., the study and analysis of biological, and in particular genetic, data. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an ability to solve problems involving probablity and genomic sequences. Students will demonstrate the ability to solve problems involving finite Markov chain probabilities. Students will demonstrate the ability to solve problems involving random walks, estimation, and alignment.
	CS 5200D - Organization of Programming Languages A hands-on introduction to the science of programming and programming languages, including topics such as: structured data and pattern-matching, recursive and polymorphic data, recursion and higher-order functions, lazy evaluation and streams, automated and equational reasoning about programs, concrete and abstract syntax, grammars, interpreters, desugaring, types and type-checking, type safety, mutable state, references, and objects. Over the course of the semester, students build interpreters and type checkers for a series of increasingly complex languages. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to design, implement, and analyze structured data types to solve computational problems. Students will be able to analyze and reason equationally about the correctness of small functional programs. Students will be able to apply understanding of grammars and syntax trees to implement a parser for an extended arithmetic expression language. Students will be able to apply understanding of structured data types, pattern-matching, recursion, and programming language semantics to implement an interpreter for an extended arithmetic expression language. Students will be able to apply understanding of type systems, type judgments, and inductively defined typing rules to implement a type checker for an extended arithmetic expression language.
	CS 5201 - Software Verification A course on programming languages and software verification, with hands-on exercise in an interactive theorem prover such as Coq. Topics may include, but are not limited to: logic; functional programming; inductive datatypes, recursion, and structural induction; operational, denotational, and axiomatic semantics; simply typed lambda calculus; polymorphic lambda calculus; type systems and type-checking. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to apply principles of mathematics and computing such as induction to prove properties of programs written in a functional programming language. Students will be able to analyze the type system and operational semantics of a small imperative language to prove metatheoretic properties like type soundness. Students will be able to analyze a program to identify specifications such as Hoare-logic pre- and post-conditions that capture the program’s expected behavior. Students will be able to use an interactive theorem prover to construct a computer-checked proof of type soundness for a small arithmetic expression language. Students will be able to use an interactive theorem prover or some other formal methods tool to reason about a software system of their choosing, in the context of an open-ended final project.
	CS 5420 - Operating Systems In-depth coverage of computer operating systems and related computer architecture issues. Coverage of physical devices, interrupts, and communication between the computer and external hardware. Interfaces between user programs and the operating system, system calls, software interrupts, and protection issues. Context switching, process address spaces, and process scheduling. Process synchronization, interprocess communications, critical sections, and deadlock detection and recovery. Memory mapping, swapping, paging, and virtual memory. Requisites: Credit Hours: 3 Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken. Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I Learning Outcomes: Students will develop the ability to design and implement a distributed program. Such designs often involve deadlock and critical section issues. Students will develop the ability to design and implement a simplified UNIX command interpreter. Students will develop the ability to represent Boolean expressions in SOP and POS formats. Students will gain a detailed understanding of demand paging. Students will gain a detailed understanding of dual-mode operation of modern hardware. Students will gain a detailed understanding of frame allocation. Students will gain a detailed understanding of how processes are created, managed, and destroyed under UNIX. Students will gain a detailed understanding of how to interact with generic memory, disk drives, and serial devices. Students will gain a detailed understanding of how to protect hardware on particular platforms such as SPARC and Intel hardware. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the Unix command interpreter. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the components of a process: CPU registers, memory, etc. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the mechanisms for switching between modes on various kinds of hardware. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the relationship between virtual memory and memory management. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the three basic classes of critical section problems: bounded buffer, reader/writer, and the dining philosophers. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the various mechanisms used to provide synchronization: disabling interrupts, software algorithms, semaphores, monitors. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the various page replacement algorithms. Students will gain a general understanding of how to protect time, memory, and devices on a general platform. Students will gain a thorough understanding of the principle of virtual memory. Students will gain an understanding of major computing components: CPU, bus, memory, cache, hardware controllers, serial devices. Students will gain an understanding of the causes of deadlock. Students will gain an understanding of the distinction between the personal computer model and the model of a real operating system: multiple users and multiple copies of a program. Students will gain an understanding of the evolution of operating system software. Students will gain an understanding of the fundamental pieces of a modern operating system: memory model, process model, protection model, and device abstraction. Students will gain an understanding of the general problem of race conditions and the critical section. Students will gain an understanding of the general solutions to deadlock: avoidance, prevention, detection. Students will gain an understanding of the implications of the security features of an operating system. Students will gain an understanding of the mechanisms that can be used to detect deadlock in a program. Students will gain an understanding of the most fundamental concept in operating systems: the division between user-level programs and the OS code itself. Students will gain an understanding of the purpose of command interpreters. Students will gain an understanding of the reasons why operating systems behave the way they do based on the evolution of software over the last 50 years Students will gain an understanding of why hardware protection is fundamental.

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COMS 6340 - Religious Rhetoric

COMS 6341 - The Rhetoric of Protest and Reform

COMS 6342 - The Rhetoric of the World Wars

COMS 6343 - Analysis and Criticism of Legal Rhetoric

COMS 6344 - Analysis and Criticism of Political Rhetoric

COMS 6350 - Foucault, Discourse, and Social Change

COMS 6900 - Special Topics in Communication Studies

COMS 6910 - Internship

COMS 6930 - Independent Study

COMS 6940 - Research

COMS 6950 - Thesis

COMS 6960 - Master’s Capstone Course

COMS 7000 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Pedagogy

COMS 7001 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Scholarly Writing

COMS 7002 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Service

COMS 7003 - Professional Seminar in Communication Studies: Advanced Pedagogy

COMS 7005 - Introduction to Graduate Study in Communication

COMS 7010 - Research Designs in Communication

COMS 7020 - Communication Inquiry I

COMS 7030 - Communication Inquiry II

COMS 7040 - Research Design and Analysis I

COMS 7050 - Research and Design and Analysis II

COMS 7100 - Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Communication

COMS 7110 - Communication Historiography I

COMS 7120 - Communication Historiography II

COMS 7130 - Language and Social Interaction Research Methods in Communication

COMS 7140 - Qualitative Analysis in Communication

COMS 7170 - Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Ethnographic Methods

COMS 7190 - Advanced Topics in Qualitative Communication Research

COMS 7200 - Introduction to Relating and Organizing

COMS 7210 - Communication Process in Small Groups

COMS 7220 - Communicative Process in Organizations

COMS 7230 - Communication and Information Diffusion

COMS 7250 - Organization Communication Consulting: Foundational Perspectives

COMS 7300 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Public Culture

COMS 7320 - Communication Historiography Methods

COMS 7340 - Narrative Approaches to Rhetorical Criticism

COMS 7350 - Advanced Techniques in Rhetorical Criticism

COMS 7370 - Performance Methods in Communication Studies

COMS 7400 - Introduction to Health Communication

COMS 7510 - Quantitative Research Design in Communication

COMS 7520 - Quantitative Measurement and Preliminary Analysis in Communication

COMS 7530 - Mediation and Moderation in Quantitative Methods in Communication

COMS 7540 - Methods of Content Analysis in Communication Studies

COMS 7590 - Topics in Quantitative Methods in Communication

COMS 7900 - Topics in Communication Studies I

COMS 7901 - Interdisciplinary Seminar

COMS 7940 - Research

COMS 8200 - Foundations of Organizational Communication

COMS 8210 - Foundations of Interpersonal Communication

COMS 8220 - Public Deliberation

COMS 8230 - Integrated Research in Communication Studies

COMS 8240 - Communication and Identity

COMS 8250 - Communication in Personal & Social Relationships

COMS 8260 - Communication, Innovation, and Organizational Change

COMS 8270 - Dialogue, Narrative, and Communication

COMS 8280 - Topics in Advanced Interpersonal Communication

COMS 8285 - Topics in Advanced Organizational Communication

COMS 8290 - Topics in Relating and Organizing

COMS 8300 - Rhetorical Theory

COMS 8310 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture

COMS 8320 - Rhetorical and Communicative Functions of Technology

COMS 8330 - Feminist Rhetorical Theory

COMS 8340 - Rhetorical Criticism

COMS 8350 - Studies in American Rhetoric

COMS 8360 - Topics in Communication and Cultural Critique

COMS 8390 - Topics in Rhetoric and Culture

COMS 8400 - Health Communication in Organizing

COMS 8420 - Health Communication and Culture

COMS 8430 - Relational Issues in Health Communication

COMS 8440 - Health Communication and Society

COMS 8450 - Health Communication Campaigns

COMS 8460 - Persuasion and Social Influence in Communication

COMS 8470 - Communication and Uncertainty in Health and Illness

COMS 8480 - Environmental Communication

COMS 8490 - Special Topics in Health Communication

COMS 8900 - Special Topics in Communication Studies II

COMS 8950 - Dissertation

CONS 5900 - Special Topics in Human and Consumer Sciences Education General