COMM 6210 "Principles and
Practices of Visual Communication"
This course explores visual perception: color, design, viewer effects.
You will creating and design a project (print, Web site, PowerPoint
presentation, video, interactive CD, etc.) and analyze its social
significance in businesses and professions.
COMM 6220 "Communication,
Technology, and Society"
This course covers current issues in communication technology: policy
and strategic planning, the "information revolution," media censorship,
media ethics, Internet research, media regulation, the right to privacy,
libel, copyright, intellectual property, and the "digital divide."
COMM 6230 "Communication,
Propaganda, and Persuasion"
Persuasion is a widespread form of modern social management. This
seminar examines how persuasive techniques engineer our perception,
mobilization, and consent in organizations.
COMM 6240 "Communication,
Ethics, and the Workplace"
This course evaluates how ethics affect job performance, public perception
of your firm, and workers' job satisfaction. Students will examine
case studies of firms displaying honorable or dishonorable conduct.
COMM 6250 "Correcting
Conflict Communication in Organizations"
Students will explore the role of communication in organizational
conflict management, assess conflict scenes, design correction plans
of action for those scenes, and present their solutions. Participants
will observe record, describe and analyze conflict episodes in their
own work contexts using qualitative analysis methods.
COMM 6260 "Business,
Communication and Technology"
The course explains the ways organizations use media and communication
strategies: face-to-face interaction, dissemination of information
via the mass media, connecting by means of computers and the influence
of the telephone.
COMM 6270 "Special
Topics in Communication Studies"
This is a topics course that examines of emerging issues and topics
in the field of communication: National security, RFID technology,
HIPAA requirements, VOIP regulation, media management, etc.
