Please note: We are no longer called the Speech Communication Department. However, when you register for classes online, you will still find us in the Speech Communication listings (our courses are still listed with the SP prefix).

Department of Communication Course Offerings



Course # & Description
Course Titles
Faculty & Syllabi
Notes

SP 100

Introduction to Communication

Freeman Syllabus
Kennamer Syllabus

Required Course for Majors


SP 212

Mass Communication & Society

Good
Kennamer Syllabus

.


SP 215

Introduction to Intercultural Communication

 

.


SP 218

Interpersonal Communication

Geiger Syllabus

.


SP 220

Public Speaking

Atkins Syllabus
Gray Syllabus
Pearson Syllabus
Renfrow Syllabus


SP 227

Nonverbal Communication

Geiger Syllabus

 


SP 230

Listening

Scolnick Syllabus







Course # & Description
Course Titles
Faculty & Syllabi
Notes

SP 311

Communication Inquiry

.

Required Course for Majors


Sp312 Media Literacy Freeman Syllabus  

SP 313U

Communication in Groups

Geiger Syllabus

Tierney Syllabus   Fully online course

U*


SP 314U

Persuasion

KennamerSyllabus
Ritchie (fall 06) Syllabus

U*.


Sp 317U Communication about Violence & Children
Tierney U*

SP 318U

FamilyCommunication

Bagley

U*.


SP 320

AdvancedPublic Speaking

Freeman

.


SP 324

Critical Thinking and Argumentation

 

Not offered every year.


SP 329

Oral Presentation and Performance

.

Not offered every year


SP 337U

Communication and Gender

Tierney Syllabus   Fully Online Course

U*


SP 340

Interviewing

.

.


Sp 399U Film Studies (I, II, III) Jacobsen Syllabi   3 term sequence:  Fall I   II    III
Sp399 ComputerMediated Communication TottenSyllabus   Fully Online Course







Course # & Description
Course Titles
Faculty & Syllabi
Notes

SP 409

Internships (4,8 & 12 credit options)

Contact- Jil Freeman

See the
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM


Sp 410 Wait! Don't Sendthat Email Yet!
 
Sp 410 Ethics andEconomics of the Corporate Media Kennamer Syllabus  
Sp 410 Communicating in Virtual Teams Tierney Course Description  
Sp & WS 410 Communicating Feminism Tierney Course Description


Sp 410 Teaching Communication in Mentor Relationships Geiger Syllabus

Sp 410U/510 Women in Contemporary Film Jacobsen Syllabus  
Sp 410/510 Metaphor and Meaning RitchieSyllabus  

SP 412U/512 

Empirical Theories of Mass Communication

ColemanSyllabus

.U*
Not offered every year


SP 415U/515

Problems in Intercultural Communication

Kapoor Syllabus
Bagley

U* & WIC*& CBL


SP 416/516 

Theories of Communication

Coleman Syllabus
Kennamer Syllabus
Poulsen

Required Course for Majors


SP 417

Communication and Conflict

Geiger



SP 418U/518 

Advanced Interpersonal Communication

Poulsen

U*
Not offered every year


SP 419

Gossip and  Shop Talk: Interpersonal Challenges at Work

Tierney Syllabus



Sp 420U/520 Political Communication Coleman
Sussman

SP 422U/522

Critical Theories of Mass Communication 

.

U*


SP423U/523

Organizational Communication 

 

.U*


SP 426/526

The Rhetorical Tradition

.

Not offered every year


SP 427U/527

Issues in International Communication

Sussman

U*& WIC*


SP 430

Advanced Speaking and Listening

Syllabus- Tierney

.


SP 436/536

Communication and Cognition 

.

Not offered every year


SP 437U/537

Urban Communication

.

.U*
Not offered every year


SP 447

Communicationand Aging

Voegele

Offered in the Summer


SP/WS 452U - 552 Gender/Race in Media Kapoor Syllabus U*& WIC*

SP 457U

The Language of Violence

Syllabus -Tierney

U*



Course # &Description
Course Titles
Faculty & Syllabi
Notes

Sp 510 Seminar: Media Studies Good Syllabus  
Sp 510 Studies in Small Group Communication Schell Syllabus  

SP 511

Introduction to Graduate Studies

Ritchie Syllabus

 


SP 513

Seminar: Communication in Institutional Contexts

Poulsen

.


Sp 514 Seminar: Communication, Culture, and Community



SP 521

Quantitative Methods in Communication Research




SP 525

Seminar: International Communication and Culture

.

Not offered every year


SP 528

Communication in Relational Contexts

.
Not offered every year

SP 531 Qualitative Methods in Communication Research .


SP 533 Seminar: Organizational Communication .

SP 541 Methods of Rhetorical Criticism .
Not offered every year

SP 556

Language, Meaning and Interpretation

Ritchie Syllabus
Not offered every year