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CHEM 493 - Cooperative Education
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
Cooperative education courses may be taken before a student’s major, minor and General Education requirements are completed, but they are not counted as part of those requirements.
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 496 - Independent Study
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 497 - Special Studies
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 498 - Advanced Topics Seminar
Credits: Two (2)
The advanced topics seminar provides students an opportunity for
advanced inquiry into topics of interest and importance in
chemistry, and development of skills in technical and professional
reading.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Cross-listed: BIOL-498, ENV-498, SCI-498
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CHEM 499 - Chemistry Internship
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
Students are supervised in fieldwork dealing with chemical problems
and processes in public or private laboratory or industrial
settings.
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CMSD 100 - Introduction to Communication Disorders
Credits: Three (3)
This course will provide students with an overview of normal speech, language, hearing, and feeding/swallowing development. The etiology and characteristics of developmental and acquired disorders of speech, language, hearing, and feeding/swallowing across the lifespan will be introduced; the functional, academic, vocational, social, and emotional impacts of these disorders will be discussed. Assessment and treatment of speech, language, hearing, and feeding/swallowing disorders, with an emphasis on evidence-based practice, will be introduced. This course is required for CMSD majors.
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CMSD 210 - Phonetics
Credits: Three (3)
Phonetics is designed to introduce students to the study and application of phonetic science. Students will be introduced to the anatomy and physiology of speech production with an emphasis on the production of American English speech sounds. Students will learn to classify American English consonant and vowel sounds and to transcribe utterances via the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Broad and narrow transcription will be addressed. The application of phonetic science to assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders will be introduced. American English and dialectical variations of such will be discussed. This course is required for CMSD majors.
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CMSD 220 - Speech and Hearing Science
Credits: Three (3)
This course will address the science behind assessment and treatment in the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. Participants will apply the basic concepts underlying the production and analysis of speech sounds to clinical practice. This course is required for CMSD majors.
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CMSD 310 - Anatomy & Physiology of Speech
Credits: Three (3)
This course will address anatomy, neuroanatomy, and physiology of the human speech mechanism. Course content includes upper body skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and nervous systems. The focus of the speech mechanism in relation to respiration, phonation, resonation, and articulation will be examined in depth as it relates to the field of communication sciences and disorders. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: BIOL 101, BIOL 102
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CMSD 330 - Language and Speech Acquisition
Credits: Three (3)
This course is designed to provide an overview of typical American English language development, including major American dialects. Child language is placed in the context of social, motor, and cognitive development from birth through adolescence. Emphasis is placed on the crucial relationship between language development and literacy acquisition. Participants use basic language observation and analysis techniques to explore phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics and pragmatics. This course is required for CMSD majors.
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CMSD 350 - Speech Development and Disorders
Credits: Three (3)
This course will provide participants with a scientific understanding of the nature of phonological and articulatory disorders. Assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders will be addressed to help participants apply this knowledge to clinical situations. The course will provide participants with the knowledge of the normal aspects of articulatory and phonological development and theories of phonological development. Identification of articulation and phonological disorders, how to interpret assessment findings, intervention approaches and facilitative strategies will be included as they relate to clinical practice. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-210
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CMSD 360 - Language Development and Disorders
Credits: Three (3)
This course addresses the differentiation between normal language development and disordered language. Disorders in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics will be discussed. Participants will apply theoretical principles of language development to the assessment and treatment of language disorders. The connection between language and literacy including the role of the speech-language pathologist will be discussed. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-330
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CMSD 410 - Clinical Methods and Management
Credits: Three (3)
This course will address assessment and treatment principles, methods and procedures relating to speech, language and hearing disorders. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-210, CMSD-220, CMSD-330
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CMSD 440 - Audiology
Credits: Three (3)
This course will address the anatomy and physiology of the human ear and the process of hearing. The basic principles of hearing assessment and characteristics of hearing disorders across the lifespan will be discussed. Participants will develop familiarity with the procedures and instrumentation used to measure human hearing and speech perception. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-220, CMSD-310
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CMSD 470 - Aural Rehabilitation
Credits: Three (3)
This course will introduce approaches to assisting persons with hearing impairment to maximize their communication interactions. Strategies such as speech-reading, speech auditory training, characteristics of Deaf culture and current issues in hearing impairment intervention will also be discussed. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-440
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CMSD 480 - Neurological Basis of Communication Disorders
Credits: Three (3)
Study of the nervous system and its role in normal and abnormal speech and language processing. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Corequisite: CMSD-310
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CMSD 485 - Advanced Speech Pathology
Credits: Three (3)
A study of professional terminology, classification, etiologies, symptomologies, and appropriate therapy procedures used with individuals having specific communication disorders. The course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-410
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CMSD 490 - Capstone / Clinic Experience in Communication Disorders 1
Credits: Three (3)
Students will participate in a practicum experience assisting graduate clinicians with fully licensed clinical supervisor(s) consistent with the requirements for becoming a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLP-A) in the State of Missouri. Student clinicians will learn how to apply treatment procedures, meet documentation requirements, and integrate knowledge and skills in speech pathology in the clinic setting. Support will be provided for graduate school applications and preparation. Evidence-based practice will be emphasized, and students may have the opportunity to participate in designing and implementing clinical research projects. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-410
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CMSD 495 - Capstone /Clinic Experience in Communication Disorders 2
Credits: Three (3)
Students will participate in a practicum experience assisting graduate clinicians with fully licensed clinical supervisor(s) consistent with the requirements for becoming a Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLP-A) in the State of Missouri. Student clinicians will learn how to apply treatment procedures, meet documentation requirements, and integrate knowledge and skills in speech pathology in the clinic setting. Support will be provided for graduate school applications and preparation. Evidence-based practice will be emphasized, and students may have the opportunity to participate in designing and implementing clinical research projects. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-490
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COMM 121 - Introduction to Contemporary Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course is a survey of communication from interpersonal to mass media, with an emphasis on understanding the current environment created by communication and technology. Assignments help students understand the media influence in their own lives regardless of major as well as explore communication as a career.
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COMM 141 - Introduction to Writing for Communication and Media
Credits: Three (3)
Students learn and practice the basics of writing for contemporary media and communication in print, electronic, and digital environments. This practical, hands-on course also emphasizes the real-world applicability of the different types of writing to media jobs and communication careers.
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COMM 181 - Pawprint: Digital Writing
Credits: One (1) to Three (3)
Students participate in on-campus media, including the online Pawprint news site, as reporters, editors, advertising sales representatives, and promotions coordinators. Opportunities are also available to work with podcasting and video production. Students select their work from a number of activities, including writing and reporting, editing, digital photography, and graphic illustrations.
Note: This course is open to all Maryville students, who may participate for as many semesters as they wish, but cannot be repeated for credit
Cross-listed: COMM-281, COMM-381
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COMM 201H - Communication Honors
Credits: Four (4)
Current topics in communication will vary each semester.
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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COMM 203H - Third Places in Communication
Credits: Four (4)
In contrast to one’s home (first places) and work (second places), third places, which are public places on neutral ground where people can gather and interact, allow people to develop a strong community and enjoy the company and conversation around them (Oldenburg, 1991). Oldenburg (1991) suggests that baseball fields, beer gardens, main streets, pubs, cafes, coffeehouses, and other third places are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the foundation of a functioning democracy. In this course, students will practice the art of qualitative methods such as participant observation and ethnography as they tour, spend time in, and study the rich collection of third places that make up the St. Louis culture. Students will each select a location in the St. Louis area to study and assignments will include written essays and documents developed from primary data collection using qualitative methods. Field trips to 2-3 student-selected third places will be part of this course. The primary idea driving this course is the question of how language, shared meaning, and community are enacted in third places compared to other spaces in a society.
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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COMM 208H - Technology and Society
Credits: Four (4)
Is technology making our lives better or harming us in irreparable ways? What are the ways that technology has made our workplaces better? In what ways has it made us feel more overwhelmed than ever at work? How can we incorporate technology into our lives in measured, healthy ways? In this class, we will explore the latest writings about technology from many great contemporaries writing about its role in our life. We will have several formal and informal debates where we will take opposing views and flush out the arguments that seek to answer some of the biggest questions of our time.
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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COMM 219 - Principles of Visual Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores how visual images are used and manipulated to generate responses by various audiences. The written assignments, readings, and discussions will focus on the analysis and critique of visual communication, as well as how to create meaningful visual messages for mass audiences. Students will also study the role and the function of visual media in a variety of environments. This course will cover aesthetic aspects of both print-based and electronic media production.
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COMM 223 - Professional and Organizational Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course has two objectives: (1) to help students understand organizations’ cultures and structures as places of employment and work; and (2) to give students guidance in developing their resumes and portfolios, and mapping out their individual job searching and interviewing networks and strategies. Students will develop their own resumes and portfolios in the class.
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COMM 231 - Introduction to Digital Media
Credits: Three (3)
Students are introduced to the computer as a tool for producing digital media and imagery. Students will gain basic software skills to produce illustrations, edit photographs, and create documents. They will learn the basics about three programs: Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, as well as basic design principles.
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COMM 232 - Introduction to New and Social Media
Credits: Three (3)
This class explores what is new about the new media landscape and why we should care about these changes in the media landscape. Starting with social implications of the new media, the course will delve into how the new media landscape influences aspects of public relations, advertising, and journalism. New and social media are transforming communication for individuals, organizations, and society and this course focuses on the way language, discourses, and meaning have been and continue to be created and altered within the interdisciplinary area of social media. Students will become familiar with many current social media tools during the course of the class and they will also learn to think critically about how individuals and organizations talk about and create meanings within the world of new and social media.
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COMM 241 - News Writing and Editing
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on reporting and news writing for print, broadcast, and online media, including newspaper, radio, television, and the Internet. Students will learn the basics of writing, rewriting, editing, and proofreading news copy, as well as how to identify and write for different audiences.
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COMM 250 - Strategic Comm in Leadership
Credits: Three (3)
This course concentrates on public relations theories, strategies, and tactics to meet organizational goals. Some areas covered include media relations, campaign development, social and new media, persuasion, and crisis communication. Students will be able to describe how these elements can be combined to create seamless programs that positively and ethically affect an organization. Students investigate issues that challenge contemporary organizations by analyzing case studies, conducting research, designing possible creative solutions, and gaining hands-on opportunities.
Cross-listed: ORGL-250
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COMM 251 - Principles of Strategic Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course concentrates on the principles, evolution, functions, and applied theories of public relations, including the social, ethical, and legal issues that impact the public relations function. The strategic practice of public relations in different contexts and environments, from corporate to non-profit, is discussed, as are careers in the profession.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 281 - Pawprint: Digital Writing
Credits: One (1) to Three (3)
Students participate in on-campus media, including the online Pawprint news site, as reporters, editors, advertising sales representatives, and promotions coordinators. Opportunities are also available to work withpodcasting and video production. Students select their work from a number of activities, including writing and reporting, editing, digital photography, and graphic illustrations.
Note: This course is open to all Maryville students who may participate for as many semesters as they wish, but cannot be repeated for credit.
Cross-listed: COMM-181, COMM-381
Prerequisite: COMM-181
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COMM 296 - Independent Study
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
Independant study courses are developed with the professor and requries Program Director’s approval.
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COMM 297 - Special Studies
Credits: One (1) to Three (3)
This topics course is offered periodically based on student demand, interest, and needs. The course content is developed by the individual course instructor and is based on topics of special interest to communication majors.
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COMM 310 - Digital Film Making
Credits: Three (3)
Students will pursue understanding of the language of film, storytelling, and the principles of shooting and editing through the utilization of digital video production software and equipment. Course will include technical instruction covering camera and lighting equipment, editing software, and digital distribution.
Cross-listed: ADIN-310
Prerequisite: COMM-231 or ADGD-265
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COMM 321 - Communication Research Methods
Credits: Three (3)
Students in this course will understand and evaluate basic quantitative and qualitative research approaches common to different kinds of communication practice, including research used in strategic communication, applied media projects, and contemporary journalism. Common topics include learning how to conduct and evaluate formal and informal research from surveys, focus groups, and content analysis.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 322 - Communication Law and Ethics
Credits: Three (3)
This course will cover contemporary communication issues that apply to journalism, public relations, advertising, and broadcasting. Topics include copyright & privacy law, media ownership rules & regulations, libel & privacy issues, news and national security, and use of the Freedom of Information Act. Throughout the course, ethical issues are considered, as well as the “why” of the law.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 324 - Gender and Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course surveys the changing ways women and the women’s movement have been depicted by the media over the years. Special focus is placed on the media’s treatment of women as consumers, employees, and advertising targets. The course also examines the vital roles that women have played in the development and popularization of newspapers, magazines, film, radio, and television. Lectures, discussions, readings, research, videotapes, movies, and guest appearances by women currently working in media are part of the course content.
Cross-listed: WGS-324
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COMM 327 - Social Media Campaigns
Credits: Three (3)
Designing and creating innovative social media campaigns is a powerful process in contemporary society and an essential tool for helping organizations craft a public narrative about their value in society. In this course, students will learn to evaluate organizational social media efforts, create and design social media campaigns for a variety of purposes, and provide recommendations to organizations about how to improve their social media efforts. Additionally, students in this course will be able to articulate, find, and digest the latest academic research that lies at the intersection of how technology is impacting organizations.
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COMM 335 - Mass Media, Politics, and Fear
Credits: 3
This class offers an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship between mass media, public perceptions, and American politics. This course explores how the media influences public perceptions about politics and social issues. Often these perceptions turn into fear and have a great impact on political participation and social change. Additionally, the course will explore the unique relationship between the media and individuals from underrepresented populations. Special attention is given to mass media theories, stereotypes, accountability, technology, cultural significance, and politics.
General Education Area: Social Science
Cross-listed: PSCI-335
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COMM 342 - Advanced Media Writing
Credits: Three (3)
This course concentrates on advanced reporting, writing, and editing skills for a variety of journalism environments from traditional to online applications. Special attention is given to interviewing techniques and in-depth background research.
Prerequisite: COMM-141
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COMM 345 - Critical Approaches to Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This class explores the foundational concepts in the field of communication, with a specific focus on the history, theories, and models that have and continue to guide the discipline. Additionally, this course focuses on broader philosophical concepts that communication students must be exposed to for a strong and solid education.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 347 - Strategic Communication: Writing
Credits: Three (3)
Students will learn the basics of developing and writing persuasive and creative messages as part of achieving an organization’s strategic communication goals and objectives. Emphasis is placed on using research to develop strategic platforms for message production, evaluating message writing and message effectivness in achieving communication goals and objectives.
Prerequisite: COMM-141
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COMM 363 - Strategic Communication: Research and Strategy
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on developing research-based strategy and tactics that form the basis of an organization’s internal and external communication to create new campaigns or solve organizational problems. Course topics include understanding the best practice models and case studies and how to manage communication situations. The course provides opportunities to develop strategy for a class client.
Prerequisite: COMM-251
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COMM 374 - Photojournalism
Credits: Three (3)
The objective of this course is to educate students on how to tell a story using still photographs and video through reportage. There is a serious focus on technical skills with the camera and lighting with a flash. Students will explore how photojournalist have changed the world throughout history and will in turn think about how they might be changing the world with their work. Students will be active learners going out in the world documenting stories of various interests. The class will explore the professional practices of photojournalism in the digital age through social media. Assignments will include reportage in diverse areas including sports, editorial, conservation, health, science, historical, news, adventure, travel, food, design, and lifestyle.
Cross-listed: ADPV-374
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COMM 381 - Pawprint: Digital Writing
Credits: One (1) to Three (3)
A continuation of COMM 281. Students participate in on-campus media, including the online Pawprint news site, as reporters, editors, advertising sales representatives, and promotions coordinators. Opportunities are also available to work with podcasting and video production. Students select their work from a number of activities, including writing and reporting, editing, digital photography, and graphic illustrations.
Note: This course is open to all Maryville students who have completed COMM 281.
Prerequisite: COMM-281
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COMM 390 - Advanced Web Site Design
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on the technical and aesthetic considerations for designing web sites using HTML, CSS, and Flash Animation. Usability, basic graphical user interface design, navigation, production of web graphics, web aesthetics, and web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and wikis will be topics of discussion.
Cross-listed: ISYS 390
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 395 - Model United Nations
Credits: Three (3)
This course consists of a study of the politics and constitutions of selected international organizations. Students will acquire advanced practical training as public speakers and rhetors, and refine their skills in parliamentary procedure, issue advocacy, persuasion, argumentation, and consensus building. Students may repeat the course for credit.
Cross-listed: PSCI-395
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COMM 397 - Special Studies
Credits: Three (3)
These courses are offered periodically based on student needs and interests. The courses may focus on skill development, special interest topics, or current events.
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COMM 416 - Issues and Crisis Management
Credits: Three (3)
Based in the scholarship of issues and crisis management, this course prepares students to fulfill the vigilant communication role important to dealing with issues in a timely fashion to prevent crises, as well as managing and/or mitigating a crises in its various stages.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 422 - Global Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on communication systems in world cultures with an emphasis on understanding the social, cultural, political, and economic effects on different systems. Students will also explore intercultural communication and the challenges of communicating in a global environment.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 423 - Professional and Organizational Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course has two objectives: (1) to help students understand organizations’ cultures and structures as places of employment and work; and (2) to give students guidance in developing their resumes and portfolios, and mapping out their individual job searching and interviewing networks and strategies. Students will develop their own resumes and portfolios in the class.
Prerequisite: COMM-121
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COMM 471 - Strategic Communication Campaigns
Credits: Three (3)
This capstone experience course gives students the opportunity to use all of their previous coursework to develop, create, implement, and evaluate a communication campaign for a client/organization. Key elements of this course include the ability to apply theoretical concepts to a real-world situation, to negotiate and advise the client on best courses of action, and to experience how the professional communication world works.
Prerequisite: COMM-347
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COMM 472 - Strategic Communication Campaigns I
Credits: 3
This class has been created and designed for students like you - students who are ready to move from being a student to being a member of a group ready to put what you’ve learned in other classes to work in this two-part capstone experience. You will be expected to act as if you’re working in a strategic communication agency. This class serves as the first step in the capstone experience, in which you’ll bring together what you’ve learned throughout the program about the process of developing integrated campaigns. You will then develop a full campaign for a fictitious client. You will also begin work on your final Portfolio and receive feedback from real professionals in your area.
Prerequisite: COMM 347
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COMM 473 - Strategic Communication II
Credits: 3
This class has been created and designed for students like you - students who are ready to move from being a student to being a member of a group ready to put what you’ve learned in other classes to work in this two-part capstone experience. You will be expected to act as if you’re working in a strategic communication agency. This class serves as the second and final step in the capstone experience. In addition to mastering the process of developing integrated campaigns, you will develop a full campaign for a real client. In this class, you will also complete your Portfolio along with receiving feedback from real professionals in your area. Finally, you will gain skills in leveraging your Communication degree in the work world.
Prerequisite: COMM-472
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COMM 481 - E-Media & Digital Writing
Credits: Three (3)
This class is designed to move you from being a student to being a member of a group ready to put what you’ve learned in other classes to work in this capstone experiences. You will be expected to act as if you’re working in a digital communication agency. You will develop a full digital campaign for a real client. You will learn how to develop, create, write, and evaluate messages for online and digital channels and environments from traditional web sites to social media applications. You will also learn to determine the most effective mix of digital and media messages for different audiences and situations.
Prerequisite: COMM-141
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COMM 482 - E-Media & Digital Writing Campaigns I
Credits: 3
Welcome to the World Wide Web environment. This class is designed to move you from being a student to being a member of a group ready to put what you’ve learned in other classes to work in this two-part capstone experiences. You will be expected to act as if you’re working in a digital communication agency. This class serves as the first step in the capstone experience, in which you’ll bring together how to write intelligently, clearly, creatively, and credibly for the web to develop a digital campaign. You will then develop a full campaign for a fictitious client. You will also begin work on your final Portfolio and receive feedback from real professionals in your area.
Prerequisite: COMM-141
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COMM 483 - E-Media & Digital Writing Campaigns II
Credits: 3
Welcome to the World Wide Web environment. This class is designed to move you from being a student to being a member of a group ready to put what you’ve learned in other classes to work in this two-part capstone experiences. You will be expected to act as if you’re working in a digital communication agency. This class serves as the second and final step in the capstone experience, in which you’ll bring together how to write intelligently, clearly, creatively, and credibly for the web to develop a digital campaign. You will develop a full digital campaign for a real client. In this class, you will also complete your Portfolio along with receiving feedback from real professionals in your area. Finally, you will gain skills in leveraging your Communication degree in the work world.
Prerequisite: COMM-482
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COMM 494 - Portfolio Defense
Credits: Zero (0)
All students completing a communication major are required to complete a portfolio defense. For students taking courses on campus, COMM 494 satisfies this requirement in a student’s final Spring semester of enrollment. This portfolio defense will occur on an afternoon toward the end of the semester and students will be required to develop a physical portfolio and an online portfolio to display on the day of the portfolio defense.
Prerequisite: Senior Status
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COMM 496 - Independent Study
Credits: One (1) to Four (4)
Prerequisite: Application to, and approval by, the Communication Program Director and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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COMM 497 - Special Studies
Credits: One (1) to Three (3)
These courses are offered periodically based on student needs and interests. The courses may focus on skill development, special interest topics, or current events.
Prerequisite: Permission of Program Director
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COMM 498 - Communication Seminar
Credits: Three (3)
These courses focus on various cultural, political, economic, technological, sociological, commercial, behavioral, or functional aspects of Communication.
Prerequisite: Permission of Program Director
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COMM 499 - Internship
Credits: One (1) to Six (6)
Variable between 1 and 6 Prerequisite: Application to and approval by the Communication Internship Coordinator.
Note: Note: This course can be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Prerequisite: Application to and approval by the Communication Internship Coordinator
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COMM 501 - Foundations of Leadership
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the process of leadership through the framework of contemporary leadership research and theory. Emphasis is placed on integrating theory and practice through a variety of methods, including student case studies and experiential learning. Drawing on current leadership research and tools, students explore options to practice leadership and affect positive change from any position in an organization, community, or society.
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COMM 502 - Foundations: Theories and Application
Credits: Three (3)
This course provides an intensive examination of a variety of strategic communication theories in public relations, advertising, and marketing communication; the background & perspectives of scholars who developed the strategic communication theories; & the application of these theories in academic & professional work.
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COMM 503 - Best Practices: Models and Systems
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on the systems and models of communication practice that have been studied and developed by academics and applied by practitioners in their work. The emphasis in this course is understanding the synergy created when academic knowledge and scholarship are incorporated in strategic decision making as illustrated by case studies and other practical-world analysis.
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COMM 516 - Issues and Crisis Management
Credits: Three (3)
Based in the scholarship of issues and crisis management, this course prepares students to fulfill an advanced level of crisis communication within an organization. This course discusses at an advanced level thecommunication role important to dealing with issues in a timely fashion to prevent crises, as well as managing and/or mitigating a crisis in all its various stages and across all the various channels (including social media platforms).
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COMM 520 - Evidence Based Research
Credits: Three (3)
A core competency of strategic leadership is the ability to gather information, analyze and critically evaluate that information, and then use that information to make important decisions. In this course, students will learn to become effective consumers of research and data, as well learn to use traditional methods of research and analysis, such as surveys, focus groups, field experiments, program evaluations, and descriptive and inferential statistics to evaluate organizations, communication strategies, products, services, processes, and performance.
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COMM 522 - Global Communication
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on the advanced communication systems present in a variety of cultures with an emphasis on deeply understanding the social, cultural, political, and economic effects on different organizational systems. Students will also explore advanced nonverbal and intercultural communication competencies, and the many strategic challenges of communicating in a global environment.
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COMM 523 - Organizational Communication
Credits: Three
This course addresses key communication theories and best practices within the context of work. Graduate students will learn how to assess communicative issues, locate quality evidence, and apply the findings to everyday work situations to develop more effective organizational communication strategies both internally and externally. Furthermore, graduate students will learn effective communication strategies specifically in regards to leadership, change management, decision making, organizational culture, organizational identification, conflict management, and team management.
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COMM 525 - Professional and Organizational Ethics
Credits: Three (3)
This course examines ethical decision making and issues in the organizational context using a framework that is empirically informed and consistent with best practices and regulations. Emphasis is placed on understanding how interpersonal and group relations and values impact individual and corporate responsibility and ethical issues in relation to internal and external stakeholders.
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COMM 563 - Strategic Communication: Research and Strategy
Credits: Three (3)
This course focuses on developing advanced research-based strategy that together comprisean organization’s internal and external communication to create new campaigns or solve organizational problems with the stakeholders upon whomthe organizationdepends. The emphasis in this course is onunderstanding the best practice and currentmodels for strategy through case studies. Students will have opportunities to develop strategy for a class client.
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COMM 565 - Persuasion
Credits: 3
This course investigates and critically analyzes the systematic, academic, and practical study of persuasion. Persuasion, as defined by Perloff (2014), is “a symbolic process in which communicators try to convince other people to change their own attitudes or behaviors regarding an issue through the transmission of a message in an atmosphere of free choice” (p. 17). Persuasion may be viewed through the lenses of both art and science. This course extensively explores the key persuasive concepts of social influence, attitudes, attitude measurement, power, charisma, ethics, emotion, and the use of persuasive tactics in advertising and marketing. This course will also illustrate the importance of persuasive theories and their direct application to practice in both personal and organizational contexts. The purpose of this course is 1) to unveil the power of effective persuasive tactics and social influence, 2) to learn to ethically apply persuasive tactics in work life and personal life, and 3) to use ethical persuasive tactics to best strategically influence others.
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COMM 571 - Integrated Marketing Campaigns
Credits: Three (3)
This course gives graduate students the opportunity to be innovative in the development, creation, implementation, and evaluation of an advanced communication campaign for a client/organization in the St. Louis community. Key elements of this course include the ability to apply theoretical, evidence-based concepts and strategies to a particular client situation, to negotiate and advise the client on best courses of action, and to experience the real-world outcomes of evidence-based strategies.
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COMM 580 - Conflict Resolution and Negotiations
Credits: Three (3)
In this course, students will learn theoretical models and frameworks to help you better understand the differing types of conflict that can arise within an organization, why conflict arises, when conflict can help versus hurt an organization, and how conflict can be negotiated and resolved. In addition, students will learn specific negotiation and mediation strategies and techniques.
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COMM 596 - Independent Study
Credits: 1
Variable between 1 and 4 credits Prerequisite: Formal application to, and approval by, the Communication Program Director and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences are required.
Prerequisite: Formal application to, and approval by, the Communication Program Director and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences are required.
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COMM 597 - Special Topics: Strategic Communication
Credits: Three (3)
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.
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COMM 605 - Digital Media Campaigns
Credits: Three (3)
Designing and creating innovative digital media campaigns is a powerful process in contemporary society and an essential tool for helping organizations craft a public narrative about their value in society. In this course, students will learn to evaluate organizational digital media efforts, create and design digital media campaigns for a variety of purposes, and provide recommendations to organizations about how to improve their digital media efforts. Additionally, students in this course will be able to articulate, find, and digest the latest academic research that lies at the intersection of how technology is impacting organizations.
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COMM 605 - Digital Media Campaigns
Credits: Three (3)
Designing and creating innovative digital media campaigns is a powerful process in contemporary society and an essential tool for helping organizations craft a public narrative about their value in society. In this course, students will learn to evaluate organizational digital media efforts, create and design digital media campaigns for a variety of purposes, and provide recommendations to organizations about how to improve their digital media efforts. Additionally, students in this course will be able to articulate, find, and digest the latest academic research that lies at the intersection of how technology is impacting organizations.
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COMM 610 - Digital Mkt Metrics & Analytics
Credits: Three
This course provides an intensive examination of a variety of digital media metrics and analytics
necessary to measure and evaluate marketing communication campaigns. Furthermore, it
provides an evidence based approach to digital marketing that can measure an organization’s
return on their marketing investments. Graduate students will learn practical, up to date tools
that will help in analyzing, creating, and measuring effective digital marketing campaigns.
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COMM 630 - Digital Visual Communication
Credits: Three (3)
The objective of this course is to educate students on how to use and understand photography as a tool in communication. Students will learn how to create professional photographs with their iPad or Digital Camera and grasp an understanding on how to read those photographs from an objective lens. There will be a survey of topics ranging from photojournalism ethics to fashion model objectification that will widen one’s appreciation of how photography changes society for the good and bad. The course will be deep rooted in photography theory and critical thinking. Students will graduate with the basic skills of an entry level photographer and have a portfolio of images to illustrate their competency. The experience will accumulate in a final photo-thesis where the student will argue with media theory (Punctum and Studum Theory) why the images they created are powerful.
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COMM 673 - Social Network and Search Engine Optimization
Credits: Three (3)
Develop knowledge, understanding and concepts related to direct and web marketing techniques,
tactics, and strategies that enable a manager to make sound business decisions. Topics include web
media and databases, target audiences, forecasting and cost control, research, and testing of creative strategies.
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COMM 685 - Capstone: Comprehensive Examination
Credits: Three (3)
Note: Comprehensive examination must be taken in the last semester of coursework before graduation.
Prerequisite: Approval by Program Director required
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COMM 697 - Special Topics
Credits: Three (3)
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty. For more information and a listing of current offerings, please see additional descriptons at www.maryville.edu/specialstudies.
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COMM 698 - Strategic Communication Capstone
Credits: Three (3)
Students will choose between a thesis and a project. Thesis: Students completing a thesis will identify a topic on which to conduct original research with the goal of adding to the theoretical body of knowledge in strategic communication. Project: Students completing a project will use applied research and theory to construct a comprehensive plan to address a problem/opportunity in a selected setting, such as the student’s place of work or an organization or cause the student is interested in.
Prerequisite: Program Director Approval Required
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COSC 130 - Introduction to Programming
Credits: Three (3)
This course covers data types, statements, expressions, control flow, functions, and object oriented programming. It emphasizes principals of software development, debugging, and testing. Project based learning is used to help students develop effective problem solving skills and effective collaboration skills.
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COSC 140 - Introduction to Blockchain
Credits: Three (3)
This course provides a foundational understanding of blockchain to students. The idea of what blockchain is, why it is needed, and the problems it solves is covered. An overview of how blockchain technology works and is developed is covered as well as the structure of these technologies. The potential as well as the limitations of blockchain is reviewed as well as how these limitations can be overcome.
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COSC 150 - Introduction to Java Programming
Credits: Three (3)
This course introduces students to fundamental features of Java programming language. Topics include data types, control flow and loops, objects, classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
Note: No previous programming experience is required.
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COSC 151 - Computer Science I
Credits: Three (3)
This is an introduction to computer programming in C++ language. The course covers structural programming concepts, simple data types and algorithms in addition to basic C++ syntax, operators, control structures, arrays, pointers, function parameter passing, and object programming. Projects are required for coding techniques, program design, and debugging.
Note: No previous programming experience is required.
Prerequisite: MATH-125 or higher
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COSC 152 - Computer Science II (C++OOP)
Credits: Three (3)
This course covers the concepts of encapsulation and Object Oriented Programming. Topics include the OOP fundamentals such as inheritance, polymorphism, and, in addition, overloading and exception handling. OOP programming environment in JAVA may be presented at the later part of the course.
Note: Lab assignments are required at the intermediate level of OOP design.
Prerequisite: COSC-151, Minimum grade C-
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COSC 220 - Database Design
Credits: 3
This course covers practical issues in relational database systems that includes creating databases, updating data, retrieving data, and saving data in databases. Project based learning is used to help students develop effective problem solving skills and effective collaboration skills. This course covers no-relational database on a large scale. Topics include MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, HBase, and Neo4j. Project based learnings is used to help students develop effective problem solving skills and effective collaboration skills.
Prerequisite: COSC-130, COSC-150 or COSC-151
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COSC 231 - Project Management
Credits: Three (3)
This course covers the project management methodologies. Topics covered include: project planning, quality management, time and cost management, agile, waterfall, and risk management.
Prerequisite: COSC-150 and COSC-220
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COSC 290 - Blockchain Networks
Credits: Three (3)
This course presents students an understanding of the different types of blockchain networks including, but not limited, public, private, consortium, and permissioned networks. The user of blockchain networks and the value that can be brought to businesses, industry sectors, and society are explored.
Prerequisite: COSC-140
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COSC 305 - Blockchain Cryptocurrencies
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the basic properties of various cryptocurrencies (e.g bitcoin, ethereum, ether). Cryptography techniques will be explored to gain a fundamental understanding of the mechanics behind cryptocurrencies.
Prerequisite: COSC-290
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COSC 315 - Ethics and Legal Aspects of Blockchain
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the ethical and legal hurdles and consequences of implementing blockchain technologies. Analyzing historical and contemporary case studies, this course allows for an exploration of blockchain across industries for the implementation and scaling of blockchain technology. Current events involving blockchain in the legal system, corporate world, and the public sphere will be addressed and examined.
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COSC 350 - Data Structures and Algorithms
Credits: Three (3)
This course studies the design and implementation of data structure and algorithms. Topics include applications of data structures such as stacks, queues and linked-lists, analysis of algorithms, and algorithmic tools and techniques, including sorting and searching methods. Requires substantial object programming projects to solve real world problems using these data structure and algorithms.
Prerequisite: MATH-311
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COSC 360 - Operating Systems
Credits: Three (3)
Exposure to Windows, Linux, and Unix Operating systems. The course covers the theoretical aspects of operating systems including system structures, scheduling, threads and concurrent processes, deadlock detection and prevention, storage and file management, virtual memory, system protection, and security.
Prerequisite: MATH-117 or higher (course must be algebra based), COSC-350
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COSC 375 - Applications of Blockchain Technology
Credits: Three (3)
This course allows students to put into practice blockchain principles with the development of a blockchain application. This course also covers the different uses of blockchain across industries including cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and ledgers.
Prerequisite: COSC-290
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COSC 497 - Special Topics in Advanced and Emerging Topics in Blockchain
Credits: Three (3)
This course explores the ethical and legal hurdles and consequences of implementing blockchain technologies. Analyzing historical and contemporary case studies, this course allows for an exploration of blockchain across industries for the implementation and scaling of blockchain technology. Current events involving blockchain in the legal system, corporate world, and the public sphere will be addressed and examined.
Prerequisite: COSC-140
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