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CHEM 104 - General Chemistry II
Credits: 4
Topics covered in this course include chemical equilibria, acids and bases, precipitation equilibria, coordination compounds, spontaneity of reaction, electrochemistry, nuclear reactions, metals, nonmetals and organic chemistry.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-103
Corequisite: CHEM-104L
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CHEM 104L - Required Lab-Chem 104
Credits: 0
General Education Area: Natural Science
Corequisite: CHEM-104
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CHEM 120 - General, Organic and Biological Chemistry
Credits: 3
This course is a one-semester Chemistry course designed for non-Science majors including nursing students. Topics included are Measurement, Matter and Energy, Atoms and Elements, Compounds and Their Bonds, Chemical Quantities and Their Reactions, Gases, Solutions, Acids and Bases, Nuclear Radiation, Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Alkanes, Unsaturated Hydrocarbons, Organic Compounds with Oxygen and Sulfur, Carbohydrates, Carboxylic Acids, Esters, Amines, Amides, Lipids, Amino Acids, Proteins, Enzymes, Nucleic Acids, Protein Synthesis, Metabolic Pathways and Energy Production.
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 203 - Organic Chemistry I
Credits: 4
Topics covered in this course are the structure, bonding and reactivity in organic molecules, including alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, alcohols and ethers and their spectroscopic characterization.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-103, and CHEM-104
Corequisite: CHEM-203L
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CHEM 203L - Required Lab-Chem 203
Credits: 0
General Education Area: Natural Science
Corequisite: CHEM-203
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CHEM 204 - Organic Chemistry II
Credits: 4
A continuation of CHEM-203. Topics covered in this course include cyclic aliphatic compounds, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids, amines, phenols, polyfunctional compounds, carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids. The practice of organic synthesis is continued, including electrophilic aromatic substitution, aldol and claisen condensations, along with spectroscopy and structural analysis.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-203
Corequisite: CHEM-204L
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CHEM 204L - Required Lab-Chem 204
Credits: 0
General Education Area: Natural Science
Corequisite: CHEM-204
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CHEM 293 - Cooperative Education
Credits: 1-4
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 296 - Independent Study
Credits: 1-4
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 297 - Special Studies
Credits: 1-4
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty. More information can be requested from the department.
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 301 - Inorganic Chemistry
Credits: 3
This course provides a systematic study of the main group and transition metal elements. Topics include bonding theory, symmetry and group theory, molecular orbitals, acid-base chemistry, coordination compounds and organometallic chemistry.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-103, CHEM-104, CHEM-203, and CHEM-204
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CHEM 320 - Biochemistry
Credits: 4
This course covers the chemistry and metabolism of biomolecules. Emphasis is placed on enzymes and catalysis of biological reactions. The first of a two-semester sequence, this course covers the chemistry and metabolism of biomolecules. Emphasis is placed on physical behavior of biomolecules, enzymes and catalysis of biological reactions.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-103, CHEM-104, CHEM-203, and CHEM-204
Corequisite: CHEM-320L
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CHEM 320L - Required Lab-Chem 320
Credits: 0
General Education Area: Natural Science
Corequisite: CHEM-320
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CHEM 321 - Biochemistry II
Credits: 3
Examination of biochemical processes in detail with a focus on metabolism and metabolic pathways. The central pathways of carbohydrate, lipid and nucleotide metabolism, photosynthesis, regulatory mechanisms and hormonal signaling are covered. This course assumes an understanding of concepts related to the structure and function of biomolecules as presented in CHEM-320.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-320
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CHEM 353 - Quantitative Analysis
Credits: 4
This course places a heavy emphasis on laboratory work. The course covers analytical techniques including volumetric and gravimetric methods. Lecture topics include statistical treatment of data, activity coefficients, acid-base titrations, redox methods and the theory of spectroscopic methods of analysis.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-103, and CHEM-104
Corequisite: CHEM-353L
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CHEM 353L - Required Lab-Chem 353
Credits: 0
General Education Area: Natural Science
Corequisite: CHEM-353
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CHEM 393 - Cooperative Education
Credits: 1-4
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 402 - Research II
Credits: 3
This course will be a continuation of the research experiences students initiated in CHEM/BIOL-401.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Cross-listed: BIOL-402
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CHEM 403 - Research III
Credits: 3
This course will be a continuation of the research experiences students initiated in CHEM/BIOL-402.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Cross-listed: BIOL-403
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CHEM 410 - Instrumental Analysis
Credits: 4
This course studies modern instrumental methods including proton and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, gas chromatography and HPLC. We consider these subjects both theoretically and via laboratory demonstration for infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy, gas chromatography and HPLC.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-353
Corequisite: CHEM-410L
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CHEM 410L - Required Lab-Chem 410
Credits: 0
General Education Area: Natural Science
Corequisite: CHEM-410
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CHEM 431 - Physical Chemistry I
Credits: 3
Physical Chemistry applies physical laws to chemical systems. The main topic covered is thermodynamics, which is the study of energy and its transformations. Using thermodynamics, macroscopic systems including gases, liquids, solids, and solutions are studied.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: CHEM-204, PHYS-154, and MATH-152
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CHEM 432 - Physical Chemistry II
Credits: 3
The second semester of physical chemistry covers chemical processes at the molecular level. Quantum theory and its applications to electronic, vibrational and rotational spectroscopy are the main topics of discussion.
General Education Area: Natural Science
Prerequisite: PHYS-154 or PHYS-104, MATH-152, and CHEM-204
Recommended MATH-251 (but not required)
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CHEM 433 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory
Credits: 2
This course should be taken simultaneously with CHEM-432. It is a laboratory course that introduces the student to techniques in physical chemistry. It requires the student to do independent library research and apply it to designing an experiment from start to finish.
Corequisite: CHEM-432
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CHEM 493 - Cooperative Education
Credits: 1-4
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: 1-4
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 497 - Special Studies
Credits: 1-4
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty. More information can be requested from the department.
General Education Area: Natural Science
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CHEM 498 - Advanced Topics Seminar
Credits: 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
Related Courses: BIOL-498, SCI-498
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CHEM 499 - Chemistry Internship
Credits: 1-4
Students are supervised in fieldwork dealing with chemical problems and processes in public or private laboratory or industrial settings.
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CMSD 100 - Introduction to Communication Disorders
Credits: 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: 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: 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 and Physiology of Speech
Credits: 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 and BIOL-102
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CMSD 330 - Language and Speech Acquisition
Credits: 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: 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 and CMSD-410
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CMSD 360 - Language Development and Disorders
Credits: 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-410
Corequisite: CMSD-330 prior or concurrent
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CMSD 410 - Clinical Methods and Management
Credits: 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, and CMSD-330
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CMSD 440 - Audiology
Credits: 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 and CMSD-310
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CMSD 470 - Aural Rehabilitation
Credits: 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: 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: 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-350, CMSD-360, and CMSD-410
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CMSD 490 - Capstone / Clinic Experience in Communication Disorders 1
Credits: 3
Students will participate in a practicum experience with fully licensed/certified clinical supervisor(s) consistent with the requirements for practicum experience at the undergraduate level. 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 will have the opportunity to participate in journal discussions. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-350, CMSD-360, and CMSD-410
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CMSD 495 - Capstone /Clinic Experience in Communication Disorders 2
Credits: 3
Students will participate in a practicum experience with fully licensed/certified clinical supervisor(s) consistent with the requirements for practicum experience at the undergraduate level. 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 will have the opportunity to participate in journal discussions. This course is required for CMSD majors.
Prerequisite: CMSD-490
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COMM 110 - Public Speaking
Credits: 3
This course surveys communication principles and types. The major goal is the development of skills in public speaking. Emphasis is placed on speech organization, audience analysis, and delivery.
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COMM 121 - Introduction to Contemporary Communication
Credits: 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: 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: 1-3
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.
Related Courses: COMM-281 and COMM-381
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COMM 223 - Professional and Organizational Communication
Credits: 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: 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: 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 233 - Introduction to Digital Media II
Credits: 3
Students will gain advanced software skills building on their learning from COMM-231 to produce illustrations, edit photographs, and create reports and documents. They will learn advanced elements about three programs: Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, as well as additional design theories and principles that extend learning from Intro to Digital Media.
Prerequisite: COMM-231
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COMM 241 - News Writing and Editing
Credits: 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: 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 250H - Strategic Communications in Leadership
Credits: 4
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.
General Education Area: Social Science
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
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COMM 251 - Principles of Strategic Communication
Credits: 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: 1-3
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.
Related Courses: COMM-181 and COMM-381
Prerequisite: COMM-181
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COMM 297 - Special Studies
Credits: 1-3
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: 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.
Prerequisite: COMM-231 or ADGD-265
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COMM 321 - Communication Research Methods
Credits: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1-3
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.
Related Courses: COMM-181 and COMM-281
Prerequisite: COMM-281
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COMM 390 - Website Design
Credits: 3
This course will help students develop websites that are functional and attractive. It will combine an artistic design approach with programming contents to enhance students’ abilities to design, create, develop and publish websites.
Cross-listed: ISYS-390
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COMM 397 - Special Studies
Credits: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1-4
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: 1-3
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: 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: 1-6
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 as learn to use traditional methods of research and analysis, such as surveys, focus groups, field experiements, 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: 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: 3
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 3
These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty.
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