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USC Catalogue 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Communication
  

  • COMM 303 Learning from Case Studies in Communication

    Units: 4
    Case study approaches to communication research; reliability, validity, generalizability, and ethics in qualitative social research; cases in communication policy and practices.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 304 Interpersonal Communication

    Units: 4
    Analysis of face-to-face interaction; role of communication in the development, maintenance and destruction of relationships; communication processes in managing interpersonal conflict.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 305 Understanding Social Science Research

    Units: 4
    Students learn to be consumers rather than creators of social science research. Examines the challenges and opportunities of communicating research through mass media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 306 Innovation, Entertainment, and the Arts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Explorations of innovation in the entertainment business. The effects of digital mobile media on TV, movies, music, advertising, social networks and art.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD-306
  

  • COMM 307 Sound Clash: Popular Music and American Culture

    Units: 4
    Music as inter-cultural communication and method for exploring race and ethnicity in the constitution of American culture and American self; role of music industry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 308 Communication and Conflict

    Units: 4
    Nature and functions of communication in human conflict; development of communication skills for managing conflict productively in interpersonal, organizational and intercultural contexts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 309 Communication and Technology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Cultural, social, political, and economic dynamics of communication technologies, including internet architecture, social media, participatory cultures, privacy, surveillance, networked journalism, big data, algorithms, online activism.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 310 Media and Society

    Units: 4
    Interplay between media and society, including family and children’s socialization, inter-group relations and community, pornography and violence, gender and race, media ethics, conduct of politics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 311 Rhetoric and the Public Sphere

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Humanistic approaches to inquiry in communication; qualitative research techniques; core theories of message production and reception in social, political, and mediated contexts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 312 The Business and Culture of Celebrity

    Units: 4
    Employs the concept of “celebrity” as an optic through which to view and assess some of the key aspects of the communication revolution.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 313 Communication and Mass Media

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Survey of mass communication research; history, content, effects, theories, and policy implications of various media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 315 Health Communication

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Behavioral approaches to health communication; communication competencies in health care settings, theories of risky behaviors and behavioral change programs.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 301Lg 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 320 Small Group and Team Communication

    Units: 4
    Group process theories relevant to communicative behavior in small group/team settings, including information exchange, decision making, leadership, and meetings; student team projects testing theoretic propositions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 321 Communication and Social Media

    Units: 4
    Social media within the broader social, political, and historical contexts; key themes include labor, Web 2.0, self-branding, celebrity, participation, privacy, online shaming, and activism.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 322 Argumentation and Advocacy

    Units: 4
    Basic argumentation theory including analysis, research and evidence, case construction, refutation; discursive and visual argument; diverse fields of advocacy including law, politics, organizations, interpersonal relations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 323 Public Deliberation

    Units: 4
    Introduction to deliberative democracy in culture and governance; examines historical and contemporary institutions of democratic discourse and emerging communication norms.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 324mw Intercultural Communication

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Cultural variables and social psychological processes that influence intercultural interaction; relationship between communication and culture in diverse settings including business, medicine, and education.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 325 Intercultural Britain: Media, History and Identity

    Units: 4
    Examines urgent social and political issues as they are shaped, represented and expressed by the institutions of media, culture and communication within the United Kingdom.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 326 Latinx Media Studies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduces students to critical analyses of media texts, industries and technologies that shape the lives of Latinx communities in the United States.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST 326
  

  • COMM 330 Rhetoric in Classical Culture

    Units: 4
    Theories of communication and persuasion in ancient Greece and Rome; cultural and social contexts of classical rhetorical theory; major historical figures and concepts.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 311 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 335 Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture

    Units: 4
    Theories of communication and persuasion in contemporary society; cultural and social contexts of contemporary rhetorical theory; major theorists, concepts and controversies.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 311 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 336 Communicating About Sex

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Communicating with partners, friends, parents and health care professionals about sexual behavior; interpersonal and mediated contexts; understanding of sexual scripts; current theory and research.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 337 The LGBTQ Revolution and the Media

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Explores the role of the media in the LGBTQ revolution that transformed the lives of sexual and gender minorities in the United States.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS 337
  

  • COMM 339 Communication Technology and Culture

    Units: 4
    Examination of philosophies and popular representations of technology from the origins of western culture to the present and identifies the complex attitudes toward technology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 340 The Cultures of New Media

    Units: 4
    Cultural implications of computer-mediated communication and related media. Ideological responses to media innovation; debates over artificial intelligence, virtual communities, and virtual reality.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 339 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 345 Social and Economic Implications of Communication Technologies

    Units: 4
    Social and economic impacts of information and communication technologies; social factors that shape technological change; issues include access, privacy, freedom of expression, productivity, democratic control.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 350 Video Games: Content, Industry, and Policy

    Units: 4
    Introduction to the medium; history of video games; video games as aesthetic products, cultural products, economic outputs; policy issues, effects, and sites of community.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 355 Advertising and Communication

    Units: 4
    Advertising as a mode of communication; U.S. advertising history and institutions; economic and policy contexts (domestic and global); critical analysis of advertising texts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 360 Los Angeles: Communication and Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Representations of Los Angeles communicated in diverse media; the city as a rhetorical text; analysis of cultural identities, art, architecture and representations in popular culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 362 Engaging Media in the UK

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Engage with Communication professionals; visit, analyze and evaluate the working practices of media organizations in the UK.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Communication, Journalism and Public Relations majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 363 Media Consumption

    Units: 4
    Theoretical approaches to the study of media consumption and audiences; examines international media and consumption practices; explores new media’s impact on consumption.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 364 Comparative Media: United States and the United Kingdom

    Units: 4
    Cross-national approaches to the study of U.S. and U.K. media; focuses on news and entertainment media products; examines content, industries, technologies and audiences.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 365 The Rhetoric of London

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of the modern city as a communicative text with London as the case study.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 366 Designing Media and Communication Projects for Social Change

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Students explore the theoretical and practical issues involved in designing effective media and communication projects for social change in international contexts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD-366
  

  • COMM 367 Community Engagement and Service Learning

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 04
    Students engage with a community partner, bridging classroom learning with “real world” experiences by working within the diverse community surrounding USC.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 369w Public Diplomacy and Global Citizenship

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in PUBD 369w )
  

  • COMM 371 Media Censorship and the Law

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The study of current and historical battles over the limits of free expression from press and public parks to television, movies, music, online and social media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as JOUR 371
  

  • COMM 372 The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 375 )
  

  • COMM 373 Media Technologies and Free Speech

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exploration of how freedom of speech has been adapted and applied to “new media” from film to computer algorithms and video games.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 375 Business and Professional Communication

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Oral and written communication skills demanded in the workplace including informative and persuasive speeches; interviewing; team communication; and training material preparation.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 204 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD-375
  

  • COMM 380 Forensics Laboratory

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Directed individual research studies of contemporary problems. Supervised laboratory experience.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to members of the University debate squad.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 381 Issues in Contemporary Sport

    Units: 4
    Explores social, political and ethical issues in elite sports and how issues are addressed through popular media; examination includes the relationship between sports and politics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 382 Sports, Business and Media in Today’s Society

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 380 )
  

  • COMM 383m Sports, Communication and Culture

    Units: 4
    Rhetorical and critical approaches to sports and public discourse; application to sports organizations, the news and popular media; representations of gender and race in sports.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 384 Interpreting Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Popular culture as an indicator of cultural values, a producer and reflection of cultural meaning, and a means of communication; theory and case studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 385 Organizational Communication

    Units: 4
    How communication processes both create organizations and are constrained by them. Theory and research into topics such as culture, technology, power, leadership and decision-making in a variety of organizational contexts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 387 Sports and Social Change

    Units: 4
    Application of critical, sociological and rhetorical theories to sports events and sport media; examination of the role of sports in enacting social change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 388 Ethics in Human Communication

    Units: 4
    Value perspectives on communication in varied settings: interpersonal, organizational, and public. Issues of truth and responsibility in family and social interactions, advertising, and governmental communication.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 391 Made in Italy: The Marketing of an Ideal

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examines case studies on important Italian companies, ranging from the transportation to the luxury goods industries from both an economical and business point of view.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Communication, Journalism and Public Relations majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PR 391
  

  • COMM 392 Media and Migration in Times of European Crisis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigates the implications of the perceptual process of mass media generated immigration discourse in Europe
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as JOUR 392, PR 392
  

  • COMM 393 The Rhetoric of Rome

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of the modern city as a communicative text with Rome as the case study.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 395m Gender, Media and Communication

    Units: 4
    Issues of gender in communication, including: media representations of femininity and masculinity; and gender’s role in communication at the interpersonal, public, and cultural levels.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS 395
  

  • COMM 396g Fashion, Media and Culture

    Units: 4
    Fashion as a form of communication and culture; fashion’s role in identity, body politics, art, nationhood, celebrity and Hollywood culture, youth cultures and subversive practices.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category A: The Arts
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 400 Seminar in Communication

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Advanced readings in communication theory and research (broadly defined); specialized interest areas of individual faculty on the frontiers of knowledge; seminar topics change each semester.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 401 Audience Analysis

    Units: 4
    Examines audience analysis methodologies including focus groups, shadow juries, surveys, test marketing and content analysis; application of statistical sampling procedures, data analysis, interpretation and presentation.
    Prerequisite: COMM 301Lg .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 402 Public Communication Campaigns

    Units: 4
    Theory and research in public health communication campaigns; design, implementation, and evaluation; extensive discussion of historical case studies and reasons for success or failure.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 405 From the Ground Up: Communicating About Food

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Explores food communication as a facilitator of human interaction and cultural diplomacy; controversies regarding food production/consumption; and evolution of food entertainment programming.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 411 Communication Criticism

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Methods and functions of criticism in forms of public communication; historical-contextual, textual and interpretive procedures; diverse theoretical approaches including formalism, dramatism, genre and ideology.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 311 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 412 Communication and Social Movements

    Units: 4
    Social and political movements as rhetorical phenomena; ideology, organization, and influence of such movements as civil rights, “New Left,” feminism, “New Right,” environmentalism.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 413 Propaganda, Ideology and Public Controversy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Seminar examining the relationship between propaganda, ideology, critical thinking and rhetoric; application to contemporary controversies, both domestic and global; role of public argument.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 414 Communication and Social Change in China

    Units: 4
    Examines social, political, and cultural implications of media and communication on Chinese society; regulations relevant to Chinese communication; market reforms, telecommunication, Internet and creative industries.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 415m African American Rhetoric and Image

    Units: 4
    Interactive course addresses how people of color use symbols to construct identities and communities and disrupt networks through media, politics, entertainment and technology.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 311  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 417 Global Engagement: Designing Public Diplomacy Strategies

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in PUBD 417 )
  

  • COMM 418 International Exchanges and Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in PUBD 418 )
  

  • COMM 419 Public Diplomacy in Los Angeles

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in PUBD 419 )
  

  • COMM 420 Regional Studies in Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 08
    (Enroll in PUBD 420 )
  

  • COMM 421 Legal Communication

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    How lawyers and judges communicate in the courtroom; how legal issues are discussed by lay people; how lawyers and judges are viewed in popular culture.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 322 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 422 Legal Issues and New Media

    Units: 4
    Examines laws and regulatory policies shaping new media, especially the Internet; impact of regulation on development and use of communication technology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 425 Communicating Religion

    Units: 4
    Genres of religious communication, including sermon, prayer, ritual, polemic, and revival. Impact of technological and cultural change on religious advocacy, beliefs, and practices.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as REL-425
  

  • COMM 426 Religion, Media and Hollywood: Faith in TV

    Units: 4
    How religion, ethics and spirituality are embedded, embodied and emplotted in television drama; how secular texts represent “lived religion” to increasingly diverse audiences.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as REL-426
  

  • COMM 427 Topics in Media Economics, Law and Policy

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8
    Selected current topics in the overlapping areas of media economics, law, and policy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 429 The Internet, Economy, and Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines the effects of the Internet on communication industries, the economy, economic policy, and on social, political, and cultural practices.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 430 Global Entertainment

    Units: 4
    Survey of economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the global entertainment marketplace; focuses on the international production and distribution of media products and services.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 431 Global Strategy for the Communications Industry

    Units: 4
    Addresses the practical and theoretical aspects of the international economy that are most relevant to management strategy in the communications industry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 432 American Media and Entertainment Industries

    Units: 4
    Examines the history, technology, regulations and business practices of American broadcast and entertainment industries.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 433 Home Entertainment: From Networks to Streaming

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    History and impact of television and ancillary home entertainment (pay television, cable television, home video, DVD, DVR, video-on-demand, games, streaming, etc.) on media industries, devices and consumer experience.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 434 Italian Media: Popes, Politicians, and Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Provides an overview of 2,000 years of Italian-style communications, from Julius Caesar to Machiavelli, Mussolini and the Mafia.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 440 Music as Communication

    Units: 4
    Examines music’s unique characteristics as a communicative form and the cultural, economic, political and social influences in music interpretation and production.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 443 Communicating Better Health: What Works and Why

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    How communication – interpersonal, mass media, information technologies – shapes health behavior. Topics: doctor-patient consults; marketing campaigns; health in entertainment, news; internet; social media; mobile devices.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HP 443
  

  • COMM 444 Critical Theories of Sport

    Units: 4
    Focuses on critical theories that examine social and political roles of sport in society and how these roles play out in media and broadcast platforms.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 445 Global Networks of Sport

    Units: 4
    Focuses on global technologies, media, money, and labor in the sport sector. Investigates both deviant and regulatory networks of sport in the context of globalization.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 449 Perspectives on the Networked Press

    Units: 4
    Critical survey of the forces defining today’s networked press, examining the people, technologies, and institutions that produce news in today’s online environments.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 309 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 450 Visual Culture and Communication

    Units: 4
    Examines issues of visual images in communication related to history, modernity, cityscapes, news media, advertising, evidence, science, digital technology, and globalization.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 451 Visual Communication and Social Change

    Units: 4
    Analysis of photography’s evolution; new strategies for the photographic image, photo documentary work and global social issues; analysis of images on blogs and Websites.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 454 Media, Money, and Society

    Units: 4
    Money as communication; social scientific analysis of money and financial markets; money and popular culture; the business press; representations of Wall Street in Hollywood cinema.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 456 Entertainment, Marketing and Culture

    Units: 4
    Explores blurring of entertainment, marketing and culture in advanced information economies; intersections of culture and media and their social ramifications.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 457 Youth and Media

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exploration of youth media and culture, including television, movies, video games, toys, magazines, music, social media. Examines representations of youth and youth as audience.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 458m Race and Ethnicity in Entertainment and the Arts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examines how race and ethnicity as social categories are shaped by communication media; focuses on how race and ethnicity sustain entertainment and media industries.
    Recommended Preparation: COMM 206 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST 458
  

  • COMM 459 Fact and Fiction: From Journalism to the Docudrama

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 459 )
  

  • COMM 460 Collaboration and Group Decision Making

    Units: 4
    Advanced seminar examining the theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of human and technological communication in group processes; experiential and/or field experiences in group observation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 464 Social Responsibility of the News Media

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 460 )
  

  • COMM 465m Gender in Media Industries and Products

    Units: 4
    Examination of the effect of gender stratification in media industries upon the cultural products they create, especially gender and gender/race role portrayals.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 466m People of Color and the News Media

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 466m )
  

  • COMM 467 Gender and the News Media

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 467 )
  

  • COMM 468 Cross-Cultural Negotiations: Communication and Strategy

    Units: 4
    Application of intercultural communication theories and negotiation theories in the preparation and execution of global negotiations; strategies for creating mutual gains and sustained partnerships.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as MOR-468, PPD-468
  

  • COMM 473 Advanced Issues in Communication and Technology

    Units: 4
    Advanced level readings into human-computer interfaces; social interaction with artifacts; concept of presence, and emerging social and psychological issues of new communication and computer technologies.
    Prerequisite: COMM 301  .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 475 Environmental Communication

    Units: 4
    Communication about environmental controversies in the public sphere: history of environmentalism; forms of citizen participation; media coverage; advocacy campaigns and movements; scientific and industrial discourses.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 480 Nonverbal Communication

    Units: 4
    Theory and research; examination of the influence of environmental factors, physical behavior, and vocal cues on human communication.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • COMM 482 Comparative Media in Europe

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    (Enroll in JOUR 482 )
 

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