Graduate Courses

019:220 Masters Seminar 1 s.h.

Theoretical or methodological problems in mass communication for media communication thesis students. Repeatable.

019:225 Contemporary Problems in Journalism 3 s.h.

Current issues in journalism and mass communication in the United States and the world.

019:226 Master's Advanced Reporting and Writing 3 s.h.

Writing workshop for all new M.A. professional students.

019:227 Master's Journalism Workshop 3 s.h.

Advanced work in the student's visual or broadcast area of interest. Repeatable. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:228 Master's Journalism Laboratory 3 s.h.

Advanced writing; topics from student's focus area, approaches, or techniques of inquiry. Repeatable. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:229 Master's Media Project 3 s.h.

Group project on topic chosen by students and instructor. Students research, investigate, and disseminate their findings in several media formats. Project will represent advanced work in the student's writing, visual, broadcast or multimedia area of interest.

019:231 Media Communication Theory I 3 s.h.

Introduction to the breadth of theory used by communication scholars.

019:232 Media Communication Theory II 3 s.h.

Continuation of study of range of communication theories.

019:235 Media Communication Research Methods I 3 s.h.

Interpretive research methods for media studies that involve field observation, interviews, textual analysis; contemporary, historical and legal resources.

019:236 Media Communication Research Methods II 3 s.h.

Journalism and media communication research methods that involve collecting quantifiable data, including surveys, content analyses, experiments.

019:249 Graduate Media Workshop 3 s.h.

019:252 Social Meanings of News 3 s.h.

How concept of news and news work has been studied in occupational, organizational, social, cultural contexts.

019:254 Communication and Change 3 s.h.

Functional and critical perspectives on changing communication forms and their implications; theoretical and methodological approaches to research involving innovation.

019:255 Problems in International Communication 3 s.h.

Representative topics: communication systems in national development and globalization; international and cross-cultural communication structure and theory; human rights; images, values; mass persuasion; laws, agreements; information channels, content, flow, effects; censorship, language, literacy.

019:256 Gender and Mass Communication 3 s.h.

Approaches to the study of gender and communication; topics vary.

019:257 Communication and Social Theory 3 s.h.

Social theorists who emphasize communication processes in their analyses of social interaction, society.

019:259 Theory of Popular Culture 3 s.h.

Major theoretical notions about popular culture and its intersection with the mass media.

019:265 Approaches to Teaching 3 s.h.

Institutional and disciplinary issues that influence the journalism/media communication classroom, philosophies of teaching, and use of teaching strategies, techniques, and classroom technologies; for students planning to work in academia.

019:275 Contemporary Problems in Law and Journalism 3 s.h.

Interdisciplinary approach; impact of new technologies on journalism, its treatment in law. Same as 091:613.

019:279 Mass Communication Seminar 3 s.h.

Readings, research.

019:280 Master's Tutorial arr.

019:279 Mass Communication Seminar 3 s.h.

Readings, research.

019:280 Master's Tutorial arr.

Topics in communication and mass communication inquiry. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:281 Master's Practicum arr.

Research, readings, projects to fit needs, interests of students. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:299 Master's Research arr.

Independent research for projects, theses. Repeatable. Prerequisites: consent of sponsoring faculty member, director of graduate studies, and instructor.

019:331 Advanced Communication Theory 3 s.h.

Topics vary. Repeatable.

019:332 Advanced Research Methods 3 s.h.

Topics vary. Repeatable.

019:333 Seminar in Media Communication 3 s.h.

Topics vary. Repeatable.

019:334 Proseminar in Media Communication 3 s.h.

Topics vary. Repeatable.

019:320 Ph.D. Seminar 1 s.h.

Forum on theoretical or methodological problems in mass communication. Repeatable. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:341 Mass Communication and Cultural Theory 3 s.h.

Basic theoretical approaches to mass communication; emphasis on role of cultural traditions in shaping mass media; attention to contemporary British, and continental scholarship.

019:380 Ph.D. Tutorial arr.

Communication and mass communication inquiry. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:381 Ph.D. Research Practicum arr.

Conceptualization and execution of research projects. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

019:399 Dissertation arr.

Repeatable.