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COMM 461--Voice of Public Leadership
in the Twentieth Century
Instructor: Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Time: Monday/Wednesday, 2:00-3:15
Study of the use of speaking in
the power struggles of the twentieth century. Focus is on important
speakers of the century, their social and policy influence, and
the struggle to expand the diversity of voices with power in the
public sphere.
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COMM 600--Empirical Research in
Communication
Instructor: Monique Turner
Time: Tuesday, 3:30-6:30
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COMM 602--CommunicationTheory
Instructors: Deborah Cai and Edward
Fink
Time: Monday, 6:30-9:30
Fundamental concepts, approaches,
and problems in communication theory.
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COMM 631--Seminar in Public Relations
Publics
Instructor: Elizabeth Toth
Time: Thursday, 6:30-9:30
Analysis of public relations programs
aimed at organizational publics. Media, issue-related, community,
employee, governmental, consumer, financial, and student/educator
publics. Theories of the nature of publics, communication behavior
of publics, and effects of public relations programs aimed at different
publics.
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COMM 634--Seminar in Ethics and
Philosophy of Public Relations
Instructor: Shannon Bowen
Time: Tuesday, 6:30-9:30
Study and application of moral philosophy
to ethical decision making in
an organization. Review of research on how ethical communication
impacts
the organization, publics, and society. Analysis of complex ethical
issues and cases in public relations; autonomy, duty, good will,
public
interest and other philosophical concepts applied to communication.
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COMM 652--Contemporary Rhetorical
Theory
Instructor: James
Klumpp
Time: Wednesday, 6:30-9:30
A study of twentieth century theories
of rhetoric. Special attention will be devoted to Richard Weaver,
Kenneth Burke, Lloyd Bitzer, Ernest Bormann, Walter Fisher, and
the continental theorists of communication such as Chaim Perelman
and Jurgen Habermas.
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COMM 703--Advanced Quantitative
Data Analysis in Communication Research: Structural Equation Models
Instructor: Edward Fink
Time: Wednesday, 3:30-6:30
Model evaluation and theory construction
in communication research. Causal systems in current communication
research: recursive, nonrecursive, and unobserved variable models.
Students must have a dissertation research project requiring quantitative
methods.
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COMM 715--Advanced Qualitative Methods
in Communication Research
Instructor: Elizabeth Toth
Time: Wednesday, 3:30-6:30
Advanced data analysis of qualitative
data in Communication research. In-field research and techniques
for analysis of data from in-field work.
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COMM 758C--Seminar in Rhetorical
Theory: Cicero's Rhetorical Corpus
Instructor: Robert
Gaines
Time: Thursday, 3:30-6:30
An examination of the rhetorical
works of Cicero.
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COMM 762--The Rhetoric of Political
Institutions: Popular Culture and U.S. Politics
Instructor: Trevor
Parry-Giles
Time: Tuesday, 3:30-6:30
The role of discourse in major political
institutions is examined. The specific institutional focus may change
from instructor to instructor. Examples include Congress, the courts,
or the state legislatures.
Click here for more information about
this seminar (.doc) (.pdf)
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COMM 783--Seminar in Intercultural
Communication
Instructor: Deborah Cai
Time: Monday, 3:30-6:30
Concentrates on theoretical and methodological
issues in intercultural communication research.
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