Graduate Courses
Graduate students also may take 100-level courses for credit, with approval of their committee.
036:200 Introduction to Research and Teaching 2 s.h.
Communication studies as a field of scholarship; selection of research problems,
major lines of research represented in the department, bibliographical tools
for scholarship in the field.
036:201 Techniques of Teaching 1 s.h.
036:210 Introduction to Rhetorics of Inquiry 2-4 s.h.
Practice in invention and arrangement of academic prose through peer criticism;
exemplary works, especially at and across disciplinary boundaries. Same as
160:200.
036:220 Rhetorical Criticism 3 s.h.
Approaches to rhetorical analysis of communicative artifacts, acts, events;
rhetorical-critical essay writing. Same as 010:230.
036:221 American Public Address: Gilded Ages Through
Vietnam 2-4 s.h.
Discourse in legislatures, law courts, public gatherings, pamphlets, newspapers.
036:222 Feminist Cultural Studies 3 s.h.
Same as 008:243, 010:243, 131:243.
036:240 Media Criticism 3 s.h.
Focus on television, video.
036:241 Theories of Mass Communication 3 s.h.
Major concepts, theories, schools of thought in media studies, mass communication.
036:242 Studies and Practices of Audio and Video Production 3
s.h.
Introduction to audio and video production; acquisition of a production tool;
critical vocabulary; teaching introductory production courses. Prerequisite:
advanced graduate standing.
036:270 Health Communication 3 s.h.
Same as 172:240.
036:299 Graduate Independent Study arr.
036:310 Classical Rhetoric 2-4 s.h.
Discourse in the ancient world. Same as 008:267, 010:301, 20E:230.
036:311 Modern Rhetoric 2-4 s.h.
Same as 008:268.
036:312 Rhetoric and Philosophy 2-4 s.h.
Contemporary philosophical approaches to the study of rhetoric.
036:313 Rhetoric and Argument Theory 2-4 s.h.
Approaches to study of argumentation, key issues at dispute in contemporary
conceptualizations of argument.
036:315 Rhetorics of Technology and Technoscience 2-4 s.h.
Survey of rhetorical sites and situations involving technology; rhetorical
criticism of technological and technoscientific discourses; evaluation and
construction of theories about technological discourses and practices. Same
as 160:307.
036:316 Foundations for Feminist Inquiry II 3 s.h.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Same as 010:201, 131:201.
036:317 Current Issues in Rhetoric 3 s.h.
Same as 008:315, 010:340, 160:340.
036:330 Reading Group 1-2 s.h.
Analysis and discussion of important texts in rhetorical theory and criticism.
Repeatable.
036:331 Studies in Language Theory 2-4 s.h.
Semiotics, speech acts, philosophy of language; emphasis on their relationship
to rhetoric. Same as 008:306.
036:332 Visual Political Rhetoric 1-4 s.h.
Theoretical and critical studies of visual political discourse.
036:334 Seminar: Comparative Disciplinary Rhetorics 2-4
s.h.
Conceptual and conventional differences between discourses in various fields
of inquiry; role of rhetoric in establishing conditions and criteria of successful
disciplinary argument. Same as 160:505.
036:335 Proseminar: Contemporary Rhetorical Studies 2-4
s.h.
Problems in contemporary rhetorical studies; may include works of Kenneth
Burke, Wayne Booth, deconstructionists, feminist theorists and critics, critics
of communication technologies.
036:336 Seminar in Rhetorical Theory 1-4 s.h.
Same as 010:600.
036:337 Seminar: Public Address 1-4 s.h.
History, criticism of discourse addressed to the public; periods, approaches.
036:338 Seminar: History of Rhetorical Theory 1-4 s.h.
036:339 Seminar: Rhetoric and Culture 1-4 s.h.
Cultural theories, their utility in accounting for communication practices.
036:340 Media and Modernity 3 s.h.
Cultural, social, existential consequences of 19th- and 20th-century media.
036:341 Topics in Mass Communication Scholarship 1-3 s.h.
Theory and research on problems in mass communication.
036:342 Communication and Community 3 s.h.
How communication and community make each other possible, limit each other;
how changing communication technologies affect community, how changing community
structures affect communication.
036:343 Rise and Fall of the American TV Networks 3 s.h.
Conditions supporting American television's 30-year domination by a commercial
broadcast network oligopoly; the oligopoly's decline; the relationship between
such institutional changes and television's cultural roles.
036:344 Studies in Popular Culture 3 s.h.
Popular culture in relationship to folklore, social structure, economic development,
and formation of mass-mediated cultures; materialism, forms of resistance,
popular historical memory.
036:346 The Public Sphere 3 s.h.
Theories, intellectual history, critics, contemporary issues of the public
sphere.
036:347 Nationalism as a Communication Process 3 s.h.
Nation building and construction of national identity as a problem in communication
history and theory; the nation as a community constructed through discourse,
role of the state and other social forces in creating and deploying nationalist
discourse.
036:350 Seminar: Mass Communication 1-4 s.h.
036:351 Global Media Seminar 3 s.h.
Theories and processes of globalization and the cultural implications of
media globalization; local responses to globalizing processes with reference
to questions of modernity and national/transnational identity.
036:352 Seminar: Media Theory 3 s.h.
036:353 Seminar: Intellectual Property 3 s.h.
Areas of cultural production that have been affected by intellectual property
law; notions of authorship and ownership that lie at the heart of intellectual
property law, how they affect varied areas of cultural production.
036:370 Quantitative Research Methods 3 s.h.
Primary methods for conducting quantitative research on interpersonal and
group communication.
036:371 Communication Theory 3 s.h.
Survey of primary theories of interpersonal, cultural, group, and organizational
communication.
036:372 Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methods 3
s.h.
Qualitative methods used by ethnographers and interpretive researchers, including
participant observation, field interviewing.
036:373 Persuasion Theory and Research 3 s.h.
Traditional social scientific approaches to research and theory; development
of a cultural perspective on persuasion.
036:374 Relational Communication Theory and Research 3 s.h.
Communication in initiation, development, maintenance, breakdown, and repair
of social and personal relationships.
036:375 Ethnography of Communication 3 s.h.
Research and theory on face-to-face communication, from ethnography of communication
perspective.
036:376 Family Communication 3 s.h.
Theory and research on communication among and between family members (parents,
children, marital partners, siblings); quantitative and qualitative research.
036:377 Organizational Communication Theory and Research 3
s.h.
036:378 Critical Ethnography 3 s.h.
Same as 010:332, 160:332.
036:379 Health Communication Campaigns 3 s.h.
Design and analysis of health campaigns blending theory, practice, and methods
to critique past, present, and future campaigns; mass media, community, organization,
and interpersonal campaigns. Same as 172:246.
036:380 Seminar: Dialogic Communication 3 s.h.
Dialogic approaches to communication, including Bakhtin and Buber.
036:381 Seminar: Topics in Communication Research 3 s.h.
Topics vary.
036:382 Seminar: Group Communication 3 s.h.
Issues in group communication.
036:383 Seminar: Constructs, Communication, and Identity 3
s.h.
Concepts of identity and sociality in George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory;
their connection to theories of rhetoric, especially Burke, and social community,
especially Mead.
036:395 Research Practicum arr.
Individual projects.
036:399 Ph.D. Dissertation arr.