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  • COMM 335: The Rhetoric of Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Cooperative investigation of the relationships between literature and rhetoric. Selected works of major literary figures will be examined with reference to their persuasive power and their ability to produce attitude change.
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  • COMM 336: Public Relations Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Students in this course will develop a comprehensive public relations and/or promotional program for a client of their choosing, which can include, but is not limited to campus organizations, non-profit philanthropies, and for-profit businesses. Student work with clients will center on public relations research, planning, and execution activities.
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  • COMM 337: Environmental Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course explores the field of environmental communication, particularly but not exclusively from a rhetorical perspective. Our communication about the natural world both interprets and defines it. We experience and understand the natural world through communication, through different channels, and through discourses that have evolved over time. We will explore communication about the environment, focusing on ways that corporations, governments, scientists, citizens, and others describe, persuade, and shape human interactions with the environment. This course interrogates this communication as well as the underlying assumptions that ground such communication. We will study how communication processes and perspectives influence attitudes and actions toward the social and natural world.
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  • COMM 340: Communication Research and Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course explores the study and analysis of the various processes available for conducting a systematic investigation of a topic of interest to the communication discipline and helps the student determine the appropriate tool(s) for a particular kind of inquiry, verify data, compose the results in an organized and systematic manner, and recognize the limitations of study samples and research questions. Whether testing hypotheses or exploring, describing, or solving problems, the course in communication research methods helps students understand how research is conducted and the significance of a particular project's results. It introduces students to the methods used in the field of communication studies, including qualitative, quantitative, rhetorical, performance, and mixed-methods approaches. Students will learn key terms, ethical considerations, and the principles of data collection and analysis while applying research principles in class projects.
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  • COMM 345: Relational Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course explores communication in a variety of personal relationship types across the lifespan. Communication is situated within specific relationships, including, but not limited to dating, friendship, marriage, parent-child and other family relationships. Those relationships are situated within larger cultural contexts. Building upon core concepts in interpersonal communication, this course explores theory and research on communication in various types of close relationships and how cultural variables affect those different types of relationships.
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  • COMM 350: Leadership: A Communication Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course serves as an introduction to the study and practice of leadership from a communication perspective. To this end it explores communication variables involved when leaders attempt to influence members to achieve a goal. Particular focus will be on the relationship between communicating and leading. Topics include power, credibility, motivation, research on leadership traits, styles and situations, global leadership, ethics, and current models of leadership such as transformational, charismatic, and functional approaches.
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  • COMM 353: Communication and the Art of Happiness

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Communication scholarship regarding emotion indicates that there is a strong connection between our communication behaviors and our happiness, which in turn affects all areas of our lives. This course will help students to recognize and cultivate communication practices which enhance well-being, which will benefit students both personally and professionally. In this advanced seminar, students will examine and practice how communication behaviors relate to constructing happiness and wellbeing. Topics and activities are related to gratitude, forgiveness, empathy, social support, resilience, appreciation, social networks, and communicative contagion of moodintersecting with issues of relational and organizational communication. Auxiliary readings come from a variety of disciplines, including communication, psychology, management, sociology, positive organizational scholarship, and appreciative inquiry.
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  • COMM 360: The Digital Self

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course focuses on the ways in which people create, maintain, perform, and broadcast the self with and through digital media technologies. It examines media such as: social networking platforms, video games, augmented reality software, and wearables.
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  • COMM 370: Selected Topics in Communication Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course will encompass extensive readings, critical evaluations and papers on selected research and theory relating to issues in Communication Studies. Selection of topics will vary depending upon the needs of eligible students. This course may be repeated for credit providing that the same topic is not repeated.
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  • COMM 375: Communication Training and Development

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course will focus on the logistics of creating, developing, and implementing communication based training programs. Specifically included will be areas of assessing training needs, developing training need surveys and related assessments, creating and developing training materials, techniques of presentation, program evaluation, and communication consultation strategies and techniques.
    ShareCOMM 375 - Communication Training and Development
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