Course content varies each term. Teaches fundamental thinking skills necessary for critical evaluation and presentation of arguments, especially those based on quantitative information. Introduces generic logical and statistical concepts through analysis and discussion of cases drawn from reporting in the mass media, research on media effects, and audience studies. Mass Communication Research. Guided introduction to mass communication research process.
Students collaborate on research.
Junior standing, concentration in communication studies, and permission of instructor. Internship credit is not retroactive and must be prearranged. No more than six credits combined of Comm. Studies 321 and 322 may be elected. May not be used to satisfy communication studies electives in a communication studies concentration plan.