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Graduate Communication
Graduate Communication
2020 Fall Term
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COMMUNICATION AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
COMM 617
This course prepares students to better understand the traditional organizational frameworks and apply them in the nonprofit world. Specifically, the course will address communicating a strategic vision, stewardship, managing and understanding the relationships between boards and volunteers and staff, building and maintaining successful volunteer programs, event planning, fundraising and media and government relations through reading, lectures, case studies and a capstone project.
NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
COMM 640
This course examines the major innovations in the telecommunication industry. Students will explore alternative regulatory contexts in which these systems can develop and address the implications of these developments in a variety of social, institutional and philosophical contexts.
TECHNOLOGY, GLOBALIZATION, AND COMMUNICATION
COMM 724
This course examines the intercultural and cross cultural rewards and challenges posed by globalization as a result of new technologies shrinking the world both temporally and physically. Communication practitioners will examine how the advent of new technologies have impacted disparate communication issues including majority/minority relations, the circulation and influence of cultural products, and the structuring of information flow.
CORPORATE COMMUNICATION ADMINISTRATION
COMM 727
Seminar in communication practices within corporations. Topics include hierarchy, employees, culture, teams, and conflict. Discussions center around both theoretical and practical implications of communication within corporations.
HEALTH COMMUNICATION TOPICS
COMM 763
This course will explore in depth a field within the health communication discipline, in accordance with faculty expertise.
APPLIED COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
COMM 785
An advanced-level graduate survey of methodologies and issues relevant to the applied practice of communication research in real world settings.
APPLIED COMMUNICATION PROJECT CREDITS
COMM 789
Applied Communication Project (ACP) units allow a student to work with his/her project director and committee in further developing and completing the ACP, a capstone experience option emphasizing the application of communication theory and principles to solve a communication problem or meet a specific need relating to corporate communication or mass communication issues. ACP proposal forms available at http://academics.uww.edu/comgrads/forms.html or from the graduate coordinator. Note, Comm/Journlsm 799 Thesis credits and Comm/Journlsm 789 ACP credits may not be taken concurrently with Comm/Journlsm 798 Independent Study credits.
INDIVIDUAL STUDIES
COMM 798
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Students must complete the Independent Studies Form located at http://www.uww.edu/commgrads/forms.html or available from the Communication Department office prior to registering for this course. The form requires signatures from the instructor supervising the independent study and from the graduate coordinator. Note: Comm 799/Journlsm 799 Thesis credits and Comm 789/Journlsm 789 ACP credits may not be taken concurrently with Comm 798/Journlsm 798 Independent Study credits.