This seminar was designed for students preparing to take the major, a minor or advanced seminars in communication. The mass communication system in the United States will be examined in terms of its basic philosophical and legal assumptions and the current political, cultural, sociological and psychological theories relating to the process and effects of mass communication. A two-member graduate committee must approve the project. Students conduct independent research under the supervision of an adviser. May be taken multiple times with approval of graduate adviser.
Students write a research paper appropriate for submission to an academic conference.