Communication Culture And Media Studies

Classes

CCMS-700 : Pro Seminar in Communication Theory and Research

Descriptive and critical overview of the field of communication. Orients doctoral students to the nature, resources, challenges, expectations and procedural aspects of graduate study. Opportunity to frame higher education experience to project success.

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Credits 3

CCMS-701 : Quantitative Research Methodology

Quantitative research methods and design in communication. Includes the use of statistics in experiments, surveys, and content analysis. Relationship between theory and research will be examined. Assumes knowledge of intermediate statistics.

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Credits 3

CCMS-702 : Qualitative Research Methodology

Qualitative research methods and design in communication. Includes the treatment of historical-critical, interpretive, ethnographic, and textual data. Relationship between theory and research will be examined.

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Credits 3

CCMS-703 : Critical Studies Research Methodology

Develops skills in conducting inquiry using social critique, political economy and other procedures associated with the critical research tradition, which has the goal of enabling social change.

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Credits 3

CCMS-706 : Field Research in Communication

Develops skill in researching, analyzing and solving a current issue/problem in communication research related to the student's dissertation. May involve fieldwork in the communications industry.

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Credits 3

CCMS-708 : Race, Culture and Social Justice

This course examines the complex inter-relationships among race, culture and the society within America's political and social context. Students will build the critical analytical skills to pursue inquiry within the course's framework.

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Credits 3

CCMS-709 : Community and Public Health

An interdisciplinary course addressing the role of communication in population-based approaches to community health improvement. Features problem-based learning.

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Credits 3

CCMS-712 : Seminar in Social Media, Culture and Communication

Explores the history, practices, tools, legal and ethical issues related to social media. Emphasis on students' exploration of theories - public relations, communication and business - to help better understand and develop social media.

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Credits 3

CCMS-714 : Communication & the Black Diaspora

This course takes a historical approach to studying how various communities of the African Diaspora communicate and define identity, culture and social position. Communication will include language, music, the arts, mediated communication, and other cultural forms. Attention will be paid to gender, nationality, sexuality and social class as they construct and are constructed around the world.

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Credits 3

CCMS-716 : Advanced Quantitative Design

class provides hands-on experience organizing and planning studies that involve statistical methods, particularly those with large data sets. Covers content analysis as well as research involving survey research and other field work.

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Credits 3

CCMS-718 : Health Communication & Culture

Focus on the social, economic, and political factors influencing African, Latino, Asian, and Native Americans' beliefs and attitudes related to health and illness.

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Credits 3

CCMS-725 : Historical Methods in Communication

This hands-on methods class covers ways of approaching communication studies, beginning with identifying historical problems in communication, locating documents, records and texts through archival and other research; authenticating sources, determining the originality, author(s), and learning the genealogy of a document; interpreting documents' meanings; and other issues.

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Credits 3

CCMS-726 : Intercultural Communication

Considers rules, meaning, uncertainty reduction, development communication, and comparative approaches to intercultural communication. Examines methodological issues.

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Credits 3

CCMS-727 : Technology in Health Communication

The seminar examines the uses of technology in health communication with an emphasis on technology in both patient-provider relationships and health campaigns. This course provides an overview of theory and research related to the role of new media in promoting advances in public health.

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Credits 3

CCMS-728 : Health Communication in the African American Community

Health Communication in the African American Community. 3crs.This course examines health and the role of health communication in the African American community. Focus will be on theories and strategies in the prevention and elimination of health disparities.

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Credits 3

CCMS-730 (advanced) : Health Communication

Focuses on the social, economic and political factors influencing African, Latino, Asian, and Native Americans' beliefs and attitudes related to health and illness. Explores how topics such as folk illness, "personalismo", face maintenance, home remedies and alternative medicine are related to health communication.

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Credits 3

CCMS-731 : Inequality in the Information Society

The seminar examines information inequality in contemporary global societies in relation to advances in technology, and to concerns about race, gender, sexuality, social class, and multiculturalism. The class considers history, theories and practices related to various facets of inequalities, with a critical eye on the roles of media and technologies, and with questions about whether and how governments exacerbate or remediate information inequality.

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Credits 3

CCMS-740 : Global Health Communication

Interdisciplinary seminar emphasizes transnational health communication issues, determinants, and solutions. Includes individual-level health care communication as well as societal and global level.

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Credits 3

CCMS-752 : Mass Communication Effects

Studies the significance and impact of mass communication in contemporary society; critical review of the models and paradigms of media influence and influence processes.

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Credits 3

CCMS-755 : Communication & Popular Culture

Studies mass media as popular cultural institutions. Emphasis on communication as a system of public language or symbols, its relationship to the information society and to changes in folk and elite culture genres.

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Credits 3

CCMS-759 : Internet & Society

Places new communication technology into historical, cultural, and theoretical perspective. Intended primarily to study the "people" side of electronic communication in general and the Internet in particular.

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Credits 3

CCMS-770 : Dissertation Proposal Writing

The purpose of this course is for the design and performance of research leading to a Ph.D. A Maximum of 9 credits for this course may be counted toward the 72 needed for program completion See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

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Credits 3

CCMS-771 : Dissertation Proposal Writing

The purpose of this course is for the design and performance of research leading to a Ph.D. A Maximum of 9 credits for this course may be counted toward the 72 needed for program completion

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Credits 3

CCMS-772 : Dissertation Proposal Writing

The purpose of this course is for the design and performance of research leading to a Ph.D. A Maximum of 9 credits for this course may be counted toward the 72 needed for program completion

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Credits 3

CCMS-773 : Gender & Media

Explores gender and communication issues through a range of feminist and cultural perspectives in U.S. and global contexts. Considers how the academic study of gender relates to real-life situations going on in the nation and world.

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Credits 3

CCMS-787 : Topical Seminar

Comprehensive study of the literature on selected topics of contemporary interest and importance in communication studies. See note on page 577 related to Special Topics courses.

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Credits 3

CCMS-790 : Independent Study

Requires faculty sponsor, written plan and a specific project with a work product at the end.

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Credits 3

Prerequisites

Approval of study outline by faculty sponsor and department chair.

CCMS-791 : Independent Study

Requires faculty sponsor, written plan and a specific project with a work product at the end.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Approval of study outline by faculty sponsor and department chair.

CCMS-792 : Independent Study

Requires faculty sponsor, written plan and a specific project with a work product at the end.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Approval of study outline by faculty sponsor and department chair.

CCMS-795 : Dissertation

Supervised execution of the doctoral dissertation. A maximum of 12 dissertation credits may be counted toward the 72 required for program completion

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Successful completion of doctoral qualifying examination and admission to candidacy. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

CCMS-796 : Dissertation

Supervised execution of the doctoral dissertation. A maximum of 12 dissertation credits may be counted toward the 72 required for program completion

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Successful completion of doctoral qualifying examination and admission to candidacy. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

CCMS-797 : Dissertation

Supervised execution of the doctoral dissertation. A maximum of 12 dissertation credits may be counted toward the 72 required for program completion

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Successful completion of doctoral qualifying examination and admission to candidacy. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

CCMS-798 : Dissertation

Supervised execution of the doctoral dissertation. A maximum of 12 dissertation c redits may be counted toward the 72 required for program completion

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Successful completion of doctoral qualifying examination and admission to candidacy. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

CCMS-799 : Dissertation

Supervised execution of the doctoral dissertation. A maximum of 12 dissertation credits may be counted toward the 72 required for program completion

Credits

Credits 1

Prerequisites

Successful completion of doctoral qualifying examination and admission to candidacy. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

CCMS 717 : Seminar in Media Psychology

Provides an overview of major research on media psychology and explores current debates about the psychological significance of media. Both traditional and new media genres are covered with respect to the ways that media shape cognitive processing, engagement, and behavior. Some attention will also be given to media and the shaping of social reality.

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Credits 3

COSD-467 : Test and Measurements

Introduces the basics of psychometric aspects of standardized testing and methods of collecting parametric and nonparametric data to measure aspects of speech, language, swallowing, and cognitive communication for diagnostic purposes in the profession of speech language pathology.

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Credits 3