Students are introduced to concepts of framing research questions, conducting literature reviews, developing a research design, using qualitive and quantative research tools, and interpreting results of research in communication. Topics include facial expression, eye behavior, physical appearance, body movement and gestures, tactile messages, vocal characteristics, use of time, spatial dynamics, gender and life-stage differences. Analysis of the relationship of rhetoric to dialectic. May involve experiential workshops and fieldwork. Comm 41 or 120 or permission of instructor.
Topics can include provider-patient interaction, media and health, confirmatory communication.
Comm 41 or permission of instructor. May involve fieldwork. Comm 41 or permission of instructor. Bresnahan Theoretical and practical exploration of the issues and image management function in corporate, professional, and non-profit organizations. Assignments may include in-class collaboration on case studies of communication campaigns and crisis communication strategies, interviews with professionals in the practice of communication management, and a communication audit of strategies and messages of a selected organization.