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Examines serious game theory and design principles in training simulations, persuasive games, and news games. Using these theories and principles, students will research, develop, test, and evaluate their own serious game.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Examines advanced aspects of songwriting composition and production. Topics include production-oriented songwriting analysis and composition and lead sheet design.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Music (BA) | Music Industry (BS)

Focused on guiding students through the final steps in their major including career preparation, networking, interviewing, and the job or graduate school application process.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Media (BS)

Discussion and hands-on experience involving mass media activities. Topic varies.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Film and Media Studies (BA) | Media Studies (BA)

Students synthesize research and learning and/or prepare portfolios and job application materials. Course must be taken in the last semester in the major.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

First-hand experience in the classroom assisting a faculty member.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Public Relations (BS)

Directed research on a mass media topic chosen by the student.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

A focus on the theory and practice of developing advocacy campaigns. Topics include audience research, message creation, message distribution, network analysis, and campaign effectiveness.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

This course is an overview of key performance studies concepts, including cultural performance, performance of everyday life, theories of play, social influence, and identity performance. Students will develop and present performance as a means to understand theoretical concepts.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS) | Forensics and Communication (MFA)

Special interest courses devoted to specific topics within relationship communication. Topics vary, and course may be retaken for credit under different topic headings.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

This course is designed to develop an understanding of speech communication in the organizational context. The course will aid each individual in working more effectively within any type of organization through exposure to major theories and works in the area of organizational communication.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

Special interest courses devoted to specific topics within the intersecting fields of rhetoric and culture. Topics vary, and course may be retaken for credit under different topic headings.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS) | Forensics and Communication (MFA)

Special interest courses devoted to specific topics within field of American Public Address. Topics vary, and course may be retaken for credit under different topic headings.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

This is a special interest course devoted to the development of students¿ understanding of the strategies and practices of communication in cultural contexts. The course is an experiential course involving travel, typically outside the United States.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

This course interrogates difference as a communicative production. Students will examine social identities¿in the form of race, social class, sex/gender/sexuality, age, and ability¿as socially constructed communication phenomena used to understand the self and others. The course will involve both historical and contemporary investigations of how social identities have been produced through time, and how they continue to affect¿and be affected by¿everyday communication practices. In short, this course will investigate the dynamic relationship between culture and identity, and how communication facilitates that relationship.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

This class uses a critical and cultural approach to explore the intersections of gender, race, and media across multiple media platforms, including film, television, news, social media, and other emerging media. The course emphasizes evaluation and critique of research design and implementation of original research.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

The course provides explanations and analysis of the historical evolution of American mass communication from the colonial period of the 1600s to the present. Students will study media history within the broader contexts of American social and cultural history. Developing a deeper understanding of how mass media evolved will lead to a deeper and more effective comprehension of the roles and effects of mass communication in today's society. Students will also examine and apply historical research methods, theory and historiography to investigate aspects of American mass communication history.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

The course fulfills secondary licensure requirements for Communication Arts and Literature. First, the course covers teaching methods and materials needed to develop units for communication courses in grades 5-12. Second, the course covers methods and techniques in the development of competitive speech programs in grades 5-12.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

A crisis communication strategy is critical for organizations. Students learn a thorough examination of crisis typologies, theoretical approaches, applications, crisis management, and communication strategies. The course addresses the crisis management process including mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Focus is on practical application of crisis communication theories using case studies.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Examines a broad grouping of musicians, companies, and arts organizations to better understand their growth and development. By understanding the relative value propositions of these current and legacy organizations, students gain an understanding of how to place themselves within a larger cultural context.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

A critical analysis of contemporary social movement discourse and the means for advocacy by a movement. We examine communication theories, issues, trends, social movement processes, advocacy strategies, and how it all ties back into the field of contemporary communication studies.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS) | Forensics and Communication (MFA)

Grassroots campaigning is a proven strategy of civic discourse, engagement, and advocacy. Grassroots organizing works from the bottom up and is uniquely suited to engage historically marginalized constituencies and to amplify the voiced of traditionally excluded populations. This course emphasizes a practical, skills-based approach grassroots advocacy using communication strategies and tactics.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Communication and Composition (MS)

Course is designed to give students a theoretical understanding of competitive speech and debate.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

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Forensics and Communication (MFA)

In this advanced nonfiction writing course, students will analyze examples of short-form and long-form professional media writing and provide analysis. Students will employ techniques to create a portfolio of short-form and long-form persuasive, informative, and personal writing for a variety of media markets.

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Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications