Communication and Digital Media

Provides a rigorous introduction to scholarly writing, research, methodologies in communication studies.

Examines communication or communication in a global workplace emphasizing intercultural and multi-generational differences. Cross-listed with: MAPS 703.

Provides opportunity for research experience in interviewing, survey creation, and analysis.

Introduces a number of theoretical backgrounds and methodological processes involved in doing media scholarship, such as analyses of industries, audiences, texts, and discourses.

Investigates the roles gender plays in defining work, and in determining access to leadership and power in the U.S. workplace. Explores women, men and non-binary genders across the corporate, political and non-profit sectors.

Investigates communication theories and their implications. Explores how they challenge certain philosophical ideas, such as reality, materiality, and social construction.

Examines the connections between communication, conflict, and personal/social transformation.

Develops skills necessary for writing successful grant proposals. Covers different types of grants, identifying funding agencies, interpreting call for grant proposals, and creating persuasive narratives.

Examines autoethnographic writing as a mode of qualitative research, art form, and transformative process of understanding human behavior and lived experience.

Explores how human and machines effectively engage in decision-making processes by aligning values, ethics, and cognition, and how the design of interfaces affects the social and cultural factors. Cross-listed: MAPS 744.

Introduces digital production techniques and technologies appropriate to achieve success in multiplatform workplaces. Develops skills in audio and video production and integrating multimedia projects on social networking platforms.

Explores rhetorical perspectives and practices of leadership, critical followership, and ethics.

Considers argument in the context of theory and practice through a community-based project. Analyzes theoretical foundations for how the exchange of reason influences individuals and collectives in private and public life.

Introduces crisis communication and management from a strategic, theory-based approach steeped in case research from historical cases and business case studies.

Examines the theory and practice of dialogue as a form of communication. Analyzes a range of perspectives and strategies to gain proficiency as facilitators of the dialogue process.

Examines selected advanced topics in professional communication. May be repeated for credit with a different topic.

Combines field experience with a guided, systematic and structured application of communication concepts. Consult graduate director for procedures.

Provides opportunity to read and organize material in preparation for the required essays.

Provides opportunity to complete two essay exams and participate in oral defense that require reflection and synthesis of the knowledge gained throughout the program and additional research in relevant sub-fields.

Provides an opportunity for investigation of selected topics in communication.