Introduction to Communication Studies (Honors)
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Overview
Subject area
COM
Catalog Number
100H
Course Title
Introduction to Communication Studies (Honors)
Department(s)
Description
Introduction to Communication Studies is a survey course that examines major research areas, perspectives, and theories within the field of communication studies. The course will introduce and review key approaches to the study of human interaction, rhetoric, language, persuasion, and cultural processes across diverse contexts. Specifically, the course provides an interdisciplinary framework from which students will think seriously about how culture and society are constructed in our communicative practices, explore how language and meaning structure our reality, as well as examine the social, cultural, and political impacts of human communication as it unfolds in varied fields including interpersonal communication and conflict resolution, intercultural communication, rhetoric, media studies, as well as organizational and small-group communication.
Typically Offered
Offer as needed
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Requirement Designation
FIS - Flexible Core - Individual and Society
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
013262
Course Schedule
Schedule
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