Sep 23, 2024  
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
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Graduate Courses


 
  
  • CRM 592 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CRM 597 - Independent Study


    Intensive study of a criminological problem or theory, supervised by a member of the criminology faculty.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall (Even Years), Winter and Summer (Odd Years)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 598 - Independent Study


    Intensive study of a criminological problem or theory, supervised by a member of the criminology faculty.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall (Even Years), Winter and Summer (Odd Years)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 599 - Independent Study


    Intensive study of a criminological problem or theory, supervised by a member of the criminology faculty.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall (Even Years), Winter and Summer (Odd Years)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 610 - Theories of Criminal Behavior


    Consideration of major theories of criminal and delinquent causation. Emphasis on sociological factors in criminal acts, and dynamics of criminal and delinquent behavior.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Winter

    Prerequisite(s):   

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014; Links 05/2011


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  • CRM 611 - Sociology of Crime and Its Correction


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Winter

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 620 - Controversies in Policing


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 650 - Media, Crime and Justice


    An examination of the intersecting roles of media, crime and justice and how the three converge to influence policies of social control.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Summer (Even Years)

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 666 - Global Criminology


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall

    Class Restriction(s): Masters Standing

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 676 - Graduate Pro-Seminar


    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

    Cross-listed with SOCL 676 

    Class Restriction(s): Masters standing

    Major Restriction(s): Master of Arts in Sociology (SOC)  or Master of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice (CRM)  

    Equivalent Course(s): SOCL 676

    Last Updated:
    New Course 6/2016, effective Fall 2016


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  • CRM 679 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CRM 680 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CRM 681 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CRM 690 - Thesis


    Completion of research and/or analytical problem, writing of thesis and committee approval of same.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall, Winter and Summer (Even Years). Offered on a credit/no-credit basis.

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 691 - Thesis


    Completion of research and/or analytical problem, writing of thesis and committee approval of same.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall, Winter and Summer. Offered on a credit/no-credit basis.

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 692 - Thesis


    Completion of research and/or analytical problem, writing of thesis and committee approval of same.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Typically offered Fall, Winter and Summer

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 697 - Independent Study


    Intensive study of a criminological problem or theory, supervised by a member of the criminology faculty.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall, Winter and Summer

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


    Summer 2024 Course Sections

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  • CRM 698 - Independent Study


    Intensive study of a criminological problem or theory, supervised by a member of the criminology faculty.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall, Winter and Summer

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRM 699 - Independent Study


    Intensive study of a criminological problem or theory, supervised by a member of the criminology faculty.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Typically offered Fall, Winter and Summer

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    Course Rotation 12/2014


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  • CRTW 506 - Contemporary Forms


    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)

    Cross-listed with CRTW 426 

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing

    Equivalent Course(s): CRTW 426

    Last Updated:
    Links 05/2011


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  • CRTW 522 - Writing Workshop


    An advanced workshop seminar in creative writing, with sections as specified in the schedule.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs May be repeated for credit
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Major Restriction(s): Open only to students admitted to graduate programs in English Language and Literature .

    Notes -
    Students in other graduate programs may request permission from department to enroll, enrollment not guaranteed


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  • CRTW 523 - Writing Workshop: Poetry


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CRTW 524 - Writing Workshop: Fiction


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CRTW 525 - Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CRTW 526 - Writing Workshop: Sound Poetry


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CRTW 527 - Writing Workshop: The Lyric Essay


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CRTW 528 - Writing Workshop: Interactive Narrative


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CRTW 529 - Writing Workshop: Mixed Media


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • 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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CRTW 687 - Independent Study


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    *


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  • CRTW 698 - Independent Study


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    *


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  • CRTW 699 - Independent Study


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    *


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  • CTAA 590 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAA 591 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    *


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  • CTAA 592 - Special Topics


    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.
     

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required

    Last Updated:
    *


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  • CTAC 504 - Creativity and Communication


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 505 - Assertiveness Skills for Professionals


    Assertiveness skills training for business and education professionals. The focus of the course is on the theory and practice of assertive behaviors.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 506 - Persuasion in the Modern World


    Emphasis is placed on the uses and applications of persuasion in such areas as politics, business, religion and education.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 509 - Communication for Leaders


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • 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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 512 - Conflict Resolution Skills for Professionals


    Practical applications of the communication skills utilized for conflict resolution processes and procedures for professionals.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 575 - Studies in Listening Behavior


    A study of the practice of listening behavior for interpersonal, small-group and organizational applications.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Major Restriction(s): Communication and Theatre Arts Majors only


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  • CTAC 590 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 591 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 592 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 597 - Independent Study


    Advanced study on an individual basis in areas not covered, or not covered in depth, in formal course work.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr May be repeated for credit
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAC 598 - Independent Study


    Advanced study on an individual basis in areas not covered, or not covered in depth, in formal course work.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs May be repeated for credit
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAC 599 - Independent Study


    Advanced study on an individual basis in areas not covered, or not covered in depth, in formal course work.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs May be repeated for credit
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAC 600 - Communication Inquiry


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 606 - Colloquium in Communication


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit


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  • CTAC 607 - Colloquium in Communication


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit


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  • CTAC 608 - Colloquium in Communication


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit


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  • CTAC 641 - Rhetorical Theory


    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


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  • CTAC 642 - Communication and Negotiation


    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


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  • CTAC 643 - Communication Activism and Change


    An examination of communication theory and practice in activism and change.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Previously listed as CTAC 577 - Communication and Change
    Last Updated:
    Title, Number and Description Change 10/2012, effective Winter 2013


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  • CTAC 644 - Communication and Conflict Management


    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


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  • CTAC 645 - Interpersonal Communication


    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


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  • CTAC 647 - Communicating Culture and Race


    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


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  • CTAC 648 - Organizational Communication


    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


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  • CTAC 649 - Small Group Communication


    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


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  • CTAC 650 - Community Communication


    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


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  • CTAC 652 - Health Communication


    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


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  • CTAC 670 - Teaching of College Speech


    Theory and practice of teaching speech at the college level.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr May be repeated for credit, total credits not to exceed 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required

    Previously listed as CTAC 570
    Last Updated:
    Number change 6/2012


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  • CTAC 677 - Communication Research


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Prerequisite(s):  

    Previously listed as CTAC 677 Research Techniques
    Last Updated:
    Title and description change 5/2012; Links 05/2011


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  • CTAC 678 - Communication Theory


    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


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  • CTAC 679 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 680 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 681 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAC 686 - Cooperative Education in Communication


    One semester of supervised educational work in communication and theatre arts. An evaluation is required at the end of each employment period.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAC 687 - Cooperative Education in Communication


    One semester of supervised educational work in communication and theatre arts. An evaluation is required at the end of each employment period.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAC 688 - Cooperative Education in Communication


    One semester of supervised educational work in communication and theatre arts. An evaluation is required at the end of each employment period.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required


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  • 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.

    Credit Hours: 4 hrs
    Grade Mode: Credit/No-Credit

    Department Permission is required


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  • CTAO 500 - Performing Prose & Poetry


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAO 412  

    Last Updated:
    Equivalent Course Added 2/2015, effective Fall 2015


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  • CTAO 505 - Voice and Dialects


    Advanced projects in preparing oral presentations and characterizations in regional and foreign dialects.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Cross-listed with CTAO 405 

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAO 405 

    Last Updated:
    New Course 1/2015, effective Fall 2015


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  • CTAO 514 - Studies in Performing Drama


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing


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  • CTAO 518 - Studies in Performance: Shakespeare I


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Class Restriction(s): Graduate Standing


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  • CTAO 519 - Studies in Performance: Shakespeare Ii


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Prerequisite(s):   or instructor permission

    Last Updated:
    Links 05/2011


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  • 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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAO 541 - Performance, Text and Context


    Exploration and experience in locating new texts and performances within the parameters of specific contexts. Emphasis on implications of cultural, sociopolitical and critical perspectives.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAO 542 - Adapting/Directing Narrative Theatre


    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.

    Credit Hours: 3 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)

    Equivalent Course(s): CTAO 411  

    Last Updated:
    Equivalent course added 2/2015, effective Fall 2015


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  • CTAO 590 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 1 hr
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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  • CTAO 591 - Special Topics


    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.

    Credit Hours: 2 hrs
    Grade Mode: Normal (A-F)


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