Students will explore the diversity of communicative experiences, practices and processes that permeate our daily lives. Here, the focus is on the practices of everyday life, interpersonal and small group interactions, the ubiquity of our engagement with popular culture, and increasingly our documentation of the seemingly mundane aspects of daily interactions and rituals on social media platforms, quotidian discourses and practices of identity, belonging and exclusion; the performativity of race, gender, and sexuality, citizenship, friendship, and family member, individualism and community membership; the significance of oral history and personal narrative.
Pathway Starting Point Courses
COMM 113 Public Speaking (3 credits)
COMM 120 Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication (3 credits)
COMM 130 Introduction to Media Production (3 credits)
COMM 140 Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism (3 credits)
COMM 160 Introduction to Performance Studies (3 credits)
COMM 171 Argumentation and Debate (3 credits)
COMM/WGST 224 Introduction to Gender and Communication (3 credits)
COMM 249 Introduction to Communication Technology, Culture, and Society (3 credits)
COMM 260 Introduction to Performance and Social Change (3 credits)
COMM/MNGT 325 Introduction to Organizational Communication (3 credits)
Lower-Level Courses
COMM 57 First-Year Seminar: Is There Life after College?: The Meaning of Work in Contemporary Life 3
COMM 73 First-Year Seminar: Understanding Place through Rhetoric I (3 credits)
COMM 75 First-Year Seminar: Researching Society and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 85 128 First-Year Seminar: Think, Speak, Argue (3 credits)
COMM 86 First-Year Seminar: Surveillance and Society (3 credits)
COMM 89 First-Year Seminar: Special Topics (3 credits)
COMM/MNGT 223 Small Group Communication (3 credits)
COMM 262 Introduction to the Performance of Culture (3 credits)
COMM 312 Persuasion (3 credits)
COMM 318 48 Cultural Diversity (3 credits)
COMM 340 The Social Life of Things (3 credits)
COMM 348 Algorithms and Society (3 credits)
COMM 349 Technology and Social Justice (3 credits)
COMM 360 18; Social Media and Society (3 credits)
COMM 371 Argumentation (3 credits)
COMM 390 Special Topics in Communication Study (3 credits)
COMM 393 Internships (3 credits)
COMM 396 Independent Study and Directed Research (1-3 credits)
Upper-Level Courses
COMM 422 Family Communication (3 credits)
COMM 432 Visual Culture (3 credits)
COMM 435 Memory Acts (3 credits)
COMM 437 United States Black Culture and Performance (3 credits)
COMM 450 Media and Popular Culture (3 credits)
COMM 453 The History of New Media Technology in Everyday Life (3 credits)
COMM 455 Sound Studies (3 credits)
COMM 471 Rhetorics of Public Memory (3 credits)
COMM 490 Special Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
COMM 499 The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
COMM/WGST 524 Gender, Communication, and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 562 Oral History and Performance (3 credits)
СОММ 573 The American Experience in Rhetoric (3 credits)
COMM 596 Advanced Independent Study/Directed Reading (1-3 credits)
COMM 620 Theories of Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
COMM 624 Hate Speech (3 credits)
COMM 655 Television Culture (3 credits)
COMM 658 Surveillance Cultures (3 credits)
COMM 661 Race and Ethnicity (3 credits)
COMM 665 Performance, Politics, and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 690 Advanced Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
COMM 693H Honors (3 credits)
COMM 694H Honors (3 credits)
COMM 695 Field Methods (3 credits)