An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Consideration of major theories of criminal and delinquent causation. Emphasis on sociological factors in criminal acts, and dynamics of criminal and delinquent behavior.
Punishment, rehabilitation and contemporary correctional policies; the courts and criminal responsibility; the social structure of correctional organizations and institutions, and their effect on the correctional process.
This course will expose students to a variety of controversial issues relating to the police. Specifically, the course will focus on community policing, police discretionary powers, police use of force, police corruption, racial profiling, the police role in crime rates, gender and policing, and “high profile” crimes.
A global study of crime and justice from the perspective of transnational, international, and comparative criminologies as these examine the scope and structure of crime and justice worldwide.
This course prepares students academically for work towards their MA degree and socializes them into the professions of criminology and sociology, preparing them for the pursuit of further academic and professional interests and goals. The course teaches expectations for graduate and professional work, and introduces academic and professional resources.
Credit Hours: 1 hr May not be repeated for credit Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit
A brief, intensive exploration of specific aspects of crime and its relationship to social organization. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
A brief, intensive exploration of specific aspects of crime and its relationship to social organization. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
A brief, intensive exploration of specific aspects of crime and its relationship to social organization. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An advanced, reading-intensive course on contemporary innovative and interdisciplinary forms of literature, emphasizing structural models, formal techniques, conceptual practices and redefinitions of literary conventions.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs May not be repeated for credit Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on poetry. This course will give students the opportunity to discuss their own poetry, learn revision techniques, and engage creatively and analytically with contemporary poetry.
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on fiction. This course will give students the opportunity to discuss their own fiction, learn revision techniques and engage creatively and analytically with contemporary fiction.
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on creative nonfiction. This course will give students the opportunity to discuss their own nonfiction, learn revision techniques, and engage creatively and analytically with contemporary creative nonfiction.
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on sound poetry. Students will study the acoustic aspects of language and music or sound art as a means of creating poetry; the class is focused on student work and discussion.
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on the lyric essay. This course will introduce students to a genre that blends lyric poetry with the traditional essay; each student will write as least one extended lyric essay and present it to the class for discussion.
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on interactive narrative. Students will study existing work in hypermedia, video art, and installation as well as other narrative forms utilizing the screen such as video games and Web technologies; this class is focused on student work and class discussions.
An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing focusing on mixed media. This course includes projects and exhibits of mixed creative work, using student writing, found text and other mixed materials in alternative book forms, hybrid texts, alternative narrative structures and collaborative installations.
CRTW 550 - Community Outreach for Creative Writers
A creative writing service learning course that requires participation in one semester-long, self-designed community outreach project in the language arts and critical reflection on this experience.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Develop an understanding of the role communication plays in the creative process; ranging from communication skills necessary to individually generate ideas, work collaboratively with others to develop ideas and persuade organizations to implement ideas.
Theory and applications of communication in leadership roles. Deals with interviews, staff meetings, dyadic communication, communication in organizations and communication barriers, with methods of evaluating and improving interpersonal, group and public communication.
CTAC 511 - Readings in Interracial/Interethnic Communication
The development of analytical skills and the study of theoretical perspectives that are applicable in effective interracial/interethnic communication transactions.
Students will investigate a particular topic that is approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Students will investigate a particular topic that is approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Students will investigate a particular topic that is approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Communication inquiry explores the questions, methods and assumptions employed by scholars in communication. The course focuses on current literature, theoretical frames and basic approaches to research.
Students will study a special topic area with resource persons from the community as well as members of the Communication, Media and Theatre Arts faculty.
Students will study a special topic area with resource persons from the community as well as members of the Communication, Media and Theatre Arts faculty.
Students will study a special topic area with resource persons from the community as well as members of the Communication, Media and Theatre Arts faculty.
A study of selected rhetorical theories from the classical age to the present with a view of discovering the methods and objectives of rhetoricians and relating them to society and its problems.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 582 Last Updated: Number change 6/2012
The theory, application and analysis of negotiation strategies used in settings such as public policy, commerce, international relations, and collective bargaining.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 573 - Studies in Communication and Negotiation Last Updated: Number, Title and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013
The theory, application and analysis of communication strategies for conflict management in interpersonal, small-group and organizational settings.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 583 - Communication and Conflict Resolution Last Updated: Number, Title and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013
This course provides an examination of Theories, research methods, and current developments in the area of interpersonal communication. Theories and developments discussed represent a cross-section of perspectives and assumptions about human communication and are generally recognized as among the most important and highly cited in the field.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 645 Theories of Interpersonal Communication Last Updated: Tittle and description change 5/2012
An examination of communication dynamics in diverse societies and between different cultural and racial communities. The interactions among communication, culture, race, identity, and perception are explored. The course includes integration of theory with research and practice.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs May not be repeated for credit Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing
Previously listed as CTAC 647 - Intercultural Communication; CTAC 579 - Studies in Intercultural Communication Last Updated: Change to title and description 6/2015, effective Fall 2015; Title, Number and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013
This course will examine the development of organizational communication as a field of academic study, including the major questions that have guided and challenged research in this area. Students will survey a broad range of organizational communication theories, methods and related research.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 572 - Studies in Organizational Communication Last Updated: Number, Title and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013
This course will examine the development of small group communication as a field of academic study, including the major questions that have guided and challenged research in this area. Students will survey a broad range of small group communication theories, methods and related research.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 584 - Studies in Small Group Communications Last Updated: Number, Title and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013
An exploration of such communication problems as communicator acceptability, social coordination and outcome achievement from the perspective of the community context.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 578 Last Updated: Number change 6/2012
Survey of health communication theory and research. Examines issues such as patient-provider and everyday communication, broader community-societal discourse, and organizational and mass health communication.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Last Updated: New Course 01/2014, effective Summer 2014
An introduction to the nature and value of research in studying human communication, including the philosophies of science and processes of inquiry, formulating research questions/ hypotheses, role of theory in research design, measurement validity and reliability, survey research, experiment design, textural analysis, and qualitative methods.
A critical examination of fundamental processes, principles, and practices designed to explain, theoretically, a broad range of communication phenomena.
Credit Hours: 3 hrs Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)
Previously listed as CTAC 587 - Communication Theory Last Updated: Number and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013
Students will investigate a particular topic that is approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Students will investigate a particular topic that is approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
Students will investigate a particular topic that is approved by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
CTAC 689 - Internship in Communication and Theatre Arts
A directed field experience in a department-approved agency or institution under the direction of certified personnel. Arrangements must be approved by adviser prior to registration.
Theoretical and applied study of both traditional and contemporary methodologies for the interpretive performance on poetry and prose fiction. Students will gain experience in using performance as a tool to engage and interrogate non-dramatic literary texts through the application of various critical lenses. Emphasis will be placed on longer work of fiction and modern and contemporary poetry.
Theoretical and applied study of both traditional and contemporary methodologies for the performance of drama. Students will gain experience in using performance as a tool to engage and interrogate dramatic texts through the application of various critical lenses. Emphasis will be placed on Modern and Contemporary drama.
Applied analysis of methodologies for performing Shakespeare’s texts. Emphasis placed on proficiency in the use of his language and group exploration of his dramas within varied contexts. Students will work individually and collectively with Shakespeare’s Histories and Comedies.
Intensive applied analysis of methodologies for performing Shakespeare’s tragedies. Emphasis placed on proficiency in the use of his language and group exploration of his dramas within varied contexts. Students will work individually and collectively.
CTAO 540 - Personal Narrative/Oral History in Performance
Explores nature and role of these texts in relationship to “other” and social-cultural-political perspectives. Focus on primary sources, including interviewing, transcribing, scripting, staging for solo-group performance and ethics.
Exploration and experience in locating new texts and performances within the parameters of specific contexts. Emphasis on implications of cultural, sociopolitical and critical perspectives.
Analysis, adaptation and direction of narrative, particularly prose fiction, for group performance and theatre; exploration of group performance as dramatic enactment, interrogation, cultural and critical expression; experimentation in emergent forms.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.
An experimental course for subject matter not provided in other departmental offerings. The content will change from semester to semester. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied. Not more than six hours of special topics may be used on a degree program.