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 * =**Course Catalog Description**= || =**Textbooks Used**= || =**Instructor**= || =**Email**= ||
 * **COMS 2. Argumentation. ** Practice in argumentation, critical evaluation, evidence, and reasoning. Basic principles are applied in a variety of formal and informal advocacy situations. Concepts of argument structure and context are discussed and applied. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **COMS 4. Introduction to Public Speaking. ** Theory and technique of public speaking. Emphasis on organizing, supporting, and clearly stating ideas. Practice in informative and persuasive speaking. **Graded: **Graded Student. **Units: **3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **COMS 4H. Honors Public Speaking. ** Provides both theoretical and practical training in the art of public discourse. Students learn both to recognize and to demonstrate the strategic processes of organizing and delivering speeches, especially within the context of global citizenship issues. Students are also introduced to the basic idea of forming reasonable challenges to speech in the public square. **Prerequisite: ** Open only to Honors students. **Graded: **Graded Student. **Units: **3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 5. The Communication Experience. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Basic skills and introductory concepts necessary for effective communication in a variety of settings. Special emphasis on practical experiences within groups, facilitation of interpersonal relationships, and methods of conflict resolution. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Not recommended for COMS majors in General, Organizational or Public Relations concentrations. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 8. Interpersonal Communication Skills. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Basic skills and introductory concepts for examining and altering interpersonal communication. In addition to lectures and discussions, students engage in structured interpersonal exercises and simulations to practice interpersonal communication skills such as listening, paraphrasing, describing feelings and intentions, and giving and receiving criticism. Note: Majors must complete with a grade "C-" or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 20A. Audio Production. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to the theory and practice of audio production in radio, television, film and recording applications. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Corequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 20B. Cross listed: FILM 20A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">2.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 20B. Audio Production Laboratory. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Experience in audio console operation, microphone selection and use, and audio recording in radio, television, film and recording applications. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Corequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 20A. Cross listed: FILM 20B. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">1.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 21. First Year Seminar: Becoming an Educated Person. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to the nature and possible meanings of higher education, and the functions and resources of the University. Helps students to develop and exercise fundamental academic success strategies and to improve their basic learning skills. Students interact with fellow students and the seminar leader to build a community of academic and personal support. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 26. Introduction to Capturing and Editing Digital Media. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Developing skills in producing photographic, graphic and animated materials used for the World Wide Web and multimedia. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 27A. Digital Film/Video Production. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Addresses the theory and practice of film/video production. Students will be expected to understand: camera operation, audio control, basic directing, lighting, and editing. Students will also be expected to learn the terminology of video production/post-production and use this terminology competently. Students enrolled in COMS 27A must be concurrently enrolled in COMS 27B. There are no exceptions to this requirement. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Corequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 27B. Cross-listed: FILM 27A **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">2.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 27B. Digital Film/Video Production Laboratory. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Provides practical, hands-on experience in video production. Students will be expected to become proficient in all production roles: camera operation, audio control, basic directing, lighting, and editing. Students enrolled in COMS 27B must be concurrently enrolled in COMS 27A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Corequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 27A. Cross listed: FILM 27B. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">1.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 55. Media Communication and Society. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to the basic concepts of mass communication, including the effects, uses, and functions associated with the goods and services of mass media. Examination of the ways mass media combine with other institutions to affect the organization, design, and comprehension of messages, as well as political thought, cultural beliefs, and economic behavior. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Majors must complete with a grade of "C-" or better. Cross Listed: JOUR 55; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || Dominick's Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in Transition || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 100A. Survey of Communication Studies. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Survey of various theories of communication. Attention given to such topics as verbal and nonverbal coding, information processing, interpersonal and small group communication, organizational communication, the structure and effects of mediated communication, rhetorical criticism, and research in communication. Note: Majors and minors must complete with a grade of "C-" or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 100B. Critical Analysis of Messages. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Classical and contemporary models for analyzing messages. Discussion of techniques applicable to a variety of basic message types. Practice in written analysis. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Majors must complete with a grade of "C-" or better; Writing Intensive. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 2, and COMS 4, (COMS 5 is accepted for COMS 4 for MCOM majors) or transfer equivalents (COMS 100A may be taken concurrently), and (GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 80+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M/W). **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 100C. Introduction to Scientific Methods in Communication Research. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Empirical methods commonly applied during communication research. An introduction to the concepts fundamental to the scientific study of communication, including conceptual and operational definitions, sampling, measurement, experimental design, independent and dependent variables, and quantitative data analysis. Note: Majors must complete with a grade of "C-" or better. Prerequisite: COMS 100A; may be taken concurrently. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || Treadwell's Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry (3rd edition) || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 101. Information Management and Privacy. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Students develop skills to use information proficiently in digital environments. In order to cope with information overload, students learn how to define and limit informational needs, how to access and evaluate information critically, and how to analyze and integrate information purposefully. The course teaches students evolving strategies and techniques for maintaining personal information spaces and security. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 103. Presentational Speaking in the Organization. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Contemporary communication techniques for use in business and industry. Principles and practice of oral reporting, persuasive speaking, conference participation, and interpersonal interaction. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS majors are urged to take COMS 104 instead of COMS 103. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> A general education oral communication course. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 104. Persuasive Public Speaking. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Advanced public speaking focusing upon persuasive strategies, principles and techniques. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 2, COMS 4, or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 105. Communication in Small Groups. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Theory and practice in small group communication. Topics include leadership, meeting management, evolution of group norms, phases of group development, communication networks, good communication techniques, conflict management, and problem solving in a variety of contexts. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 106. Digital Media Creation - An Introduction. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Students learn multimedia authoring through the manipulation of digital media download legally from online repositories. Students learn how to digitally edit pixel-based images, vector images, audio, video and 3D models, while learning the principles that govern all digital media. The course uses Open Source and specialized software. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 107. Children And Television. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of television on children. Explores in detail issues such as televised violence, stereotyping, advertising and cognitive development. Discusses relationship between television and education. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 108. Family Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Family as a small group with emphasis on understanding and interpreting the dynamics of family communication and socio-psychological theories. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 8 or FACS 50 or SOC 166, or instructor permission. Cross Listed: FACS 108; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 110. Advanced Debate Workshop. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Participation in intercollegiate debate competition. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Credit / No Credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">1.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 111. Debate Research Practicum. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Directed research in the current intercollegiate debate topic; identification of issues, compilation of evidence, and case building. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> May be taken four times for credit with instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 114. Communication and American Culture. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Critical analysis of the ways modern American media interact with the conduct of American life; emphasizes the role of commercialism and other aspects of contemporary American capitalism; examines the problem of personal development and relationships in the context of a commercially dominated media system. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 115. Nonverbal Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Nonverbal communication will focus on the nonverbal aspects of human communication. Students will learn the vocabulary of nonverbal communication (NVC) as we examine the nature of NVC, NVC Codes, and the effects of NVC on messages we receive and send. In addition, we will consider nonverbal behaviors in interpersonal relationships, intercultural communication and research in nonverbal. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 116. Intercultural Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Analysis of factors which influence communication between individuals of different cultures and cocultures. Discussion and practical application. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 117. Multimedia Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Students create and integrate information and digital media with the purpose of informing or persuading an audience. By identifying communication needs, students learn to prepare multimedia presentational aids and standalone multimedia presentations for distribution in online environments. This course features topics in visual communication, story-boarding, presentation and delivery. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 101 and COMS 106 **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 118. Survey of Public Relations. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduces the student to publics, organization-environment relationships, structures, practices, and processes from a communication theory and research perspective. Specifically, the student is introduced to the multi-phased approach to public relations, an approach that highlights the PR subprocesses of task identification, task analysis, and task performance. Prerequisite: At least one college writing course in ENGL or JOUR with a grade of "C-" or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 119. Conflict Resolution Through Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Ways to identify, clarify, and resolve conflicts in dyads, groups, and organizations. Conflict is contrasted with disagreement, aggression, incompatible values, etc. The costs and benefits of conflict are explored. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 120. History of the Media. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examination of development of major mass communication media in the U.S. and of how the economics, content, regulation and audience use of the media have been affected by the way the media have evolved. Current issues and trends are discussed, as well as possible future development. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 55 or JOUR 55 or equivalent; may be taken concurrently. Cross Listed: JOUR 120; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || Fellow's American Media History || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 121. Media Aesthetics. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Overview and analysis of the primary aesthetic tools used to create messages in video and film. The basic properties of light, color, area, space, shape, sound, time and motion are defined and discussed as they relate to media production. Introduces students to the concepts and vocabulary necessary for effectively conceiving, producing or criticizing mediated messages. Designed primarily for students with interest in digital media. Provides a foundation for students working in media criticism. Cross listed: FILM 121. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 122. Writing for Interactive Media. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Writing and editing for visual, audio, and interactive media. How to choose appropriate format and delivery mechanisms for news, web sites, kiosks, and CD/DVD. Topics include copyright law and information ethics. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> ENGL 1A and ENGL 20 or (GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M/W.) **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 123. Writing For Public Information. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Organization and operation of communication media; practice in publicity and public relations techniques. Emphasis on clear writing and correct public relations formats such as releases, PSAs, articles, and speeches. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> GWAR certification before Fall 2009; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W + co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70/71 + co-enrollment in ENGL 109X Cross Listed: JOUR 123; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 124. Writing Scripts for Film/Video. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Developing narratives, documentaries, educational, promotional, and experimental short screenplays. Students are expected to develop a writing style and master screenwriting and audio/visual scripting formats. Scripts will be developed to be produced in advanced production courses: COMS/FILM 128 and COMS/FILM 185. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> ENGL 1A and ENGL 20. Cross listed: FILM 124. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 126. Motion Graphics in Film and Video. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Artistic and technical skills employed when capturing and editing photographic, audio, and video data files. Data files are prepared for export into multimedia authoring applications. Mastery of appropriate hardware and software. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 20A, COMS 20B and COMS 26 or both COMS 27A and COMS 27B each with a grade of "B-" or better or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 127. Producing and Directing for Television. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Theory and practice of producing and directing television programs with emphasis on studio and control room techniques. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 20A, COMS 20B, COMS 27A, COMS 27B, each with a grade of "B-" or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 128. Non-Studio Video Production. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Production of video materials using portable cameras and recorders. Application of electronic field production and post-production techniques. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 20A, COMS 20B, COMS 27A, COMS 27B each with a grade of "B-" or better. Cross-listed: FILM 128. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 129. Film and Video Production Management. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Management and administration of the preproduction and production process. Course to include script breakdown, budgeting, scheduling and other preproduction and production management skills needed for film or video production. Special attention on the history, development and current practices of the Production Manager. Cross listed: FILM 129. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 130. Staging and Lighting Digital Video. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to the aesthetics, concepts and techniques used to control lighting in digital video productions. Aspects of staging, blocking and composition in the context of studio and location lighting. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Students enrolled are required to work on productions outside of scheduled class time (1-3 hours/week). **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 20A, COMS 20B, COMS 27A, COMS 27B, each with a grade of B- or better. Cross listed: FILM 130. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 133. The Documentary Film. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examines the historical, development, and present state of documentary film. Emphasis is on both understanding and critically analyzing the significance of various genres of the documentary and its uses as a tool for information, proselytizing, education, and propaganda. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 136. Introduction to Electronic Publishing. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Design and production of information sites for the World Wide Web. Concepts covered include market analysis, cognitive design, layout, navigation, interactive strategies, site management, and multimedia components for electronic distribution systems. Introduction to object oriented programs and XHTML text editors. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 26 or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 140. Online Collaboration. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Students learn to communicate in virtual environments in real-time and asynchronously. Students survey current technologies for collaboration, explore psychological and cultural aspects of individuals working and communicating in teams across computer networks, and identify strategies to foster cooperatives in distributed work. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 101 and COMS 106 **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 141. Theory of Film and Video Editing. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Study of history and theory of film and video editing. Many films are viewed and discussed, examining how editing theory is put into practice. Cross listed: FILM 141. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 142. Film As Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Explores the uses of film as a tool of communication. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 143. Theories of Interpersonal Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> One-to-one communication between individuals in both social and task settings. Theories of communication during the growth and decay of relationships, as well as research on the forces behind relational dynamics. Topics include nonverbal communication, self concept, communication of self, theories of conflict resolution, communication competence and the rhetoric of disconfirmation. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 8 or equivalent; COMS 100A may be taken concurrently. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 144. Developing Rich Media Websites. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> An introduction to the creation of multimedia websites using current multimedia development software such as Flash. Emphasis will be placed on creating interactive video and formatting video programs for delivery over the WWW, extranets, or intranet. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 27A, and COMS 27B. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 145. Organizational Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Basic concepts of interpersonal and inter-group communication within formal and informal social organizations. Current techniques of auditing and evaluating organizational communication. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 149. Multimedia Authoring. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Basic multimedia authoring theory and skills. Text, graphics, audio, and video are synchronized into interactive media. Topics include 2D animation, interface design, and fundamentals of scripting language. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 106, COMS 126. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 150. Mass Communication Theories and Effects. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Survey of the major theories dealing with the relationship between the mass media and human communication behavior. Examination of research into the social, political, economic and cultural effects of mass communication. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 55 or JOUR 55 or equivalent; and COMS 100A which may be taken concurrently. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 152. Freedom Of Speech. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Thorough introduction to issues related to freedom of speech and censorship, sections of the historical origins of free speech, seditious speech, libel and slander, pornography and obscenity, commercial speech and advertising, symbolic speech and hate speech. The class brings a communication focus to addressing issues related to the First Amendment. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 153. Mass Media Law and Regulation. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Laws and regulations that govern print, broadcast, and the electronic mass media in the U.S. Discusses the process by which laws and regulations are enacted and interpreted as well as legal and regulatory issues concerned with the content, control, political role and responsibilities of media practitioners, regulators, Congress, and the public. Cross Listed: JOUR 153; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 154. Instructional Design and Training. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Communication theory and practice in organizational training. Surveys instructional communication theory and the instructional design process. Focus on effective communication in training contexts. Topics include needs assessment, training design, training evaluation and training delivery via electronic media. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 155. Survey of World Cinema. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> A historical review of the development of major international film styles and themes. Concepts derived from this study of international film are then used as a basis to analyze contemporary films of India, Asia, and Africa. Emphasis is on both the development of formal film technique and a comparison of the unique cultural values that shape the film narrative and style. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 157. Video Art. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> The creation and analysis of video artwork; including techniques of video production, post-production manipulation and critique, within the context of art and communication. The techniques and theory of producing and editing video will serve as a foundation for the pursuit of individual, creative projects. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">ART 97 or COMS 27A/Film 27A and COMS 27B/Film 27B. Cross-listed as ART 147; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 158. Public Relations Planning and Management. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Theoretical concepts to the solution of problems for pre-selected non-profit and campus clients by forming small group PR agencies; completing needs assessments; profiling target and secondary audiences; developing and implementing a strategic public relations plan; producing targeted messages for media kits and other uses; developing and evaluating formative and summative evaluation plans; and making formal in-class presentations to peers, clients and invited PR professionals. Students will also learn how to negotiate contracts, maintain client relations, track work on projects and develop timelines and budgets. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 118 and COMS 123 or JOUR 123 with grade of "C-" or better. Cross Listed: JOUR 158; only one may be counted for credit. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 160. Political Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Analyzes the relationship between mass media and political decision-making, including a structural analysis of political and media institutions. Particular attention on the formation of public opinion through messages and strategies, and the impact of public opinion on public policy. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 161. Health Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Communication principles and techniques as they apply to the many facets of health care, health education and promotion, and research in health communication. Emphasis on understanding and improving communication among health professionals, and between health professionals and clients. Explores the rapidly emerging field of health communication. Selected concepts and theories of human communication are directly applied to communication problems and situations in health care settings through the use of case studies. In addition, pertinent research that helps explain human interaction in health care is incorporated through readings and discussions. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || duPre's Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives (4th edition) + selected research articles || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 162. Gender Ideology and Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Scholarly, theoretical and critical writings on the production and circulation of gender roles, images, and gender-types attributes through communication, with a special focus on mass-mediated communication such as television, video, and film. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 100A **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 164. Visual Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Comprehensive overview of the theoretical concepts and communication methodologies appropriate for analysis of contemporary visual messages. Focuses on rhetorical analysis of visual messages. Significant research and critical writing required **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 100A and 100B or equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 165. Communication and Religion. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examines the history, development and present state of religious communication. Discussion of the limits and challenges communication theories face when confronted with situations requiring them to describe the indescribable. Emphasis upon the communication methods in a religious context as well as the communication strategies, limits, and possibilities that are revealed in what is arguably the most extreme of communication situations: the intersection of religion and words. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 166. Theories of Persuasion and Attitude Change. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Various theories of persuasion and attitude change, both classical and empirical, in terms of their effectiveness and social impact. Includes units on production and consumption of persuasive messages. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 167. Systems and Theories of Rhetoric. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Historical survey of theories of rhetoric. Comparison/contrast of scope and value of rhetorical theories. Practice in critical writing. Prerequisite: COMS 100B or equivalent with a grade of "C-" or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 168. Approaches to Rhetorical Criticism. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Analyzes rhetorical events, using a variety of critical perspectives. Current issues on criticism's function and the critic's role. Practice in critical writing. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 100B or equivalent with a grade of "C-" or better. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 169. Television Criticism. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to television criticism theory and to various critical methods with which television program texts may be analyzed. Current theoretical and critical issues in the function of criticism and the role of the critic are addressed through readings, writing assignments, screenings and discussion. Prerequisite: COMS 100B with a grade of C- or better; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses; or unclassified graduate student status; or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 170. Data Analysis in Communication Research. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to the application of data analysis to the study of communication processes. Prerequisite: COMS 100C or equivalent with a grade of "C-" or better; or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 171. Survey Methods in Communication Research. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Techniques of survey research in communication, including sampling, questionnaire construction, interviewing, data analysis, and report writing. Each student designs and executes a research project. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 100C or equivalent with a grade of "C-" or better; or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 172. Content Analysis. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Content analysis as a research technique in communication. Emphasizes design and execution of content analysis studies in a wide range of communication situations. Each student completes several short studies and a major project. Prerequisite: COMS 100C or equivalent with a grade of "C-" or better; or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 173. Communication, Language and Culture. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Cross-cultural exploration of communication and social interaction; relationship between language and society; cross-cultural implications of values embedded in message production, transmission, and interpretation; studies of how language influences perception and organization of social reality; linguistics, information and message transmission. Note: Restricted to junior and above or instructor permission. Prerequisite: ComS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 174. International Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Movement of mediated messages across and between national boundaries. Topics include news and entertainment flow, media systems and philosophies, cultural dependency and imperialism, the new world information order and communication development. Prerequisite: COMS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 175. Creative Problem Solving. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Creative problem solving techniques for use by individuals and groups. Topics include the nature of creative problem solving, barriers to creativity, clear problem definition, idea generation, decision making, group dynamics in creative situations, implementation of changes, and overcoming resistance to change. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 176. Communication and Terrorism. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> This course addresses the communication aspects of terrorism, including both the ways terrorism has been used to make political and religious statements worldwide; how the media cover those messages; and how we talk about those messages and the coverage they receive. The course draws on the cutting-edge communication research from international/intercultural, political, mass communication, and computer-mediated communication sources. This is a course in the communication of terrorism. It is neither a course in the political science of terrorism nor in the criminal justice enforcement of counter-terrorism. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 100A or instructor permission **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 178. Virtual Communities on the Internet. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> The nature of communication in virtual communities on the Internet and the impact that these communities have on traditional communication media. Topics include: the interaction of real and cyber communities, self-publishing, educational uses of virtual communities, virtual self-governance, artificial intelligent agents, and the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity. Students will participate in structured on-line activities. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 179. Media, Sports, and Society. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examines and critiques the relationship between the mass media and sports. Reviews theoretical approaches for studying media and sports (including historical, sociological, psychological, political, and cultural studies perspectives), then examines how sport is mediated through literature, print journalism, radio, and television. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 180. Senior Seminar in Organizational Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Seminar on communication theories, techniques and research methodologies in the field of social and governmental organizational systems. Prerequisite: COMS 145; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses including COMS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 181. Senior Seminar in Small Group Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Seminar on the ways theories of group communication are realized in actual social settings. Prerequisite: COMS 105; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses including COMS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 182. Senior Seminar in Interpersonal Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Seminar on advanced theories of interpersonal communication. Sample topics include relational development, relational termination, communication and interpersonal attraction, and communication competence. Students present one in-class report and complete a major research paper. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 8; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses including COMS100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 183. Senior Seminar in Media Issues and Ethics. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Seminar on the functions and roles of communication media in contemporary society. Includes issues and ethical considerations associated with freedom, responsibility and control examined from the points of view of the media, the government and the public. Specific topics will vary. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 55 or JOUR 55; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses including COMS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || selected research articles || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 184B. Multimedia Project Completion. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Second of a two-semester senior project sequence. Students complete the project designed in COMS 184A. Projects are completed with assistance and feedback from the instructor, client, and working professionals. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Corequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 184A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 185. Senior Practicum in Video Production. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Assignments in various phases of video production including creative use of camera, sound and lighting, editing production design, production planning and management, and directing and producing. Students in first semester function as crew members for productions. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> May be repeated once for credit. Repeating students are expected to produce and direct a major student project. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 128 with a minimum grade of "C-" or better; and instructor permission. Cross listed: FILM 185. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 187. Issue Management and Case Studies in Public Relations. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examines the management of issues in the public and private sectors including knowledge and skills in the communication activities and thinking processes that affect an issue's development. Uses case studies of organizations--governmental agencies, businesses, and not-for-profit entities to assess issue development and management by examining the fundamental questions confronting organizations: What should the particular organization do and how should it do it? Examines criteria for selecting among alternative options, and the relation of the organization to its environment. Explores the broader social, legal, and ethical implications of the organization's activities. Prerequisite: COMS 118; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 188. Senior Seminar in Intercultural Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Critically examines and analyzes complex dynamics and concepts in communication and culture in a pluralistic society. Also relates various perspectives on intercultural communication theories and methods to an analysis of social interaction processes among culturally diverse groups. An interactive dimension includes problem-solving strategies. Prerequisite: COMS 116; completion of 12 units of upper division COMS courses including COMS 100A. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 189. Practicum in Communication Training. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Students work in groups to complete organizational training projects within community organizations. After assessing the organization's needs, students design, conduct and evaluate training. Advanced readings and professional competencies are emphasized. Prerequisite: COMS 145 and COMS 154 or instructor permission. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 190. Human Communication on the Internet. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Provides an in-depth study of communication models that summarize and explain the interaction of humans in electronic environments, especially the Internet. Students locate, organize, analyze, an synthesize the latest research in online communication and make connection between theoretical models and their own experiences **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> COMS 101 and COMS 106 **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 191. New Media and Society. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> The course examines contemporary social, cultural, political and economic topics regarding the adoption of digital media and the Internet. Students understand their role as citizens of a global knowledge-based society and the ethical dimensions brought by the new computer-enabled media environment Prerequisite: COMS 101 and COMS 106 **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 192. Senior Seminar in Film. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Research seminar that provides an in-depth investigation of film as an art form, a medium of mass communication and a means of personal expression. Subject will vary according to instructor. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Completion of the Film Studies core, and (GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M/W). Cross listed: FILM 192. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 196. Critical Analysis of the Media. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> The course will introduce students to semiotics that will be employed to tease out "overt" and hidden meanings in news (print and video) and other mediated messages. In particular the course will focus on the various, powerful strands of American ideology, e.g., individualism, democracy, patriarchy, femininity, feminism, capitalism, the family, patriotism, environmentalism, and the First Amendment that shape an understanding of ourselves and of our society. It will examine the present state of American journalism and how it operates. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Prerequisite: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Upper division standing for majors and non majors. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 200. Introduction to Graduate Study. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Explores the focus, scope and coherence of the Communication Studies discipline. Introduces various library resources. Students learn bibliographic skills and major documentation styles. Extensive writing is required including a literature review on a significant topic of interest in the discipline. Must be taken within the first two semesters of graduate enrollment. Prerequisite: COMS 167, COMS 168 or COMS 169; COMS 170, COMS 171, or COMS 172; may be taken concurrently. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 201. Communication Theory. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Approaches to the study of human communication. Emphasizes general theories of communication and specific theories of rhetoric, symbolic interaction, information processing, interpersonal communication, small group communication, persuasion, organizational communication, and mass communication. Must be taken within first two semesters of graduate enrollment. Prerequisite: COMS 167, 168 or COMS 169; COMS 170, COMS 171, or COMS 172. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 202. Research Methods in Communication Studies. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Introduction to advanced quantitative and qualitative research methods. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply at least one research perspective to a significant topic of interest in the discipline. Students are expected to produce a well-crafted research proposal as part of a culminating experience. Prerequisite: COMS 167, COMS 168, or COMS 169; COMS 170, COMS 171, or COMS 172; may be taken concurrently. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || Frey, Botan, & Krep's Investigating Communication Research: An introduction to Research Methods (2nd edition) || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 206. Organizational Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> History, research, and theories in the social, psychological, and structural aspects of organizational communication. Students undertake field studies integrating various analytical approaches. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 207. Dyadic Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Various theoretical approaches to interpersonal or face-to-face communication. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 208. Communication and National Development. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Role of communication in national development. Examines how communication (government policies, technologies and implementation strategies) can be used in the development of third world nations. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 209. Communication and Social Change. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Relationship between movement rhetoric, mass media messages and major societal changes and paradigm shifts. Students examine the flow of communication from individual and group "change agents" to the larger population and write a paper which illuminates a contemporary social change in progress. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 210. Seminar in Mass Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Concentrated survey of mass media systems and an analysis of theories of media uses and effects. Students are required to conduct library research on a specific media-related topic and to present their findings orally. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 || Bryant and Oliver's Advances in Media Effects: Advances in Theory & Research (3rd edition) + selected research articles || Carmen Stitt || stitt@csus.edu ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 211. Electronic Media and American Culture. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> American thought and culture as reflected in and influenced by the content of electronic media. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 212. Seminar in Small Group Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Theory and research about task-oriented groups. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 213. Seminar In Criticism. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Intensive examination of critical theory. A major critical paper is prepared by each student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Note: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Graduate Writing Intensive **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 215. Communication and Public Opinion. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examines theoretical foundations of public opinion formation and change and explores current public opinion measurement methodologies. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 216. Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Intercultural Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Various theories, perspectives and approaches to the study of intercultural communication. Selected contemporary issues pertaining to race and culture and their impact on the communication process, especially the multicultural/multiracial consciousness in California in particular, and the U.S. in general. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 217. Assessment of Communication Behavior in Organizations. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Review of measuring instruments commonly used to assess communication practices in large organizations. Students also critically review relevant research literature regarding important communication issues in large organizations. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 219. Conflict Resolution. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Review of theory and research of the role of communication in conflict resolution. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 221. Instructional Communication Theory. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Survey of dominant theories of instructional communication. Students read, study and critique prevailing bodies of literature which have a bearing on the study and practice of instructional communication. Theories are used to help students reflect on their own experiences as teachers and students and to generate new ideas for research in instructional communication. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 222. Instructional Communication Practicum. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Examination of communication theory and research in instructional or training contexts. Designed for beginning teachers or organizational trainers. Centers on those communication principles which contribute to greater student/client learning and satisfaction. Emphasis on the development and implementation of instructional communication packages for adult learners. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 228. Corporate Advocacy and Public Policy. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Explores "corporate advocacy" as a kind of rhetorical, persuasive transaction between Corporate America and those in its environment. Seeks to understand corporate America's role in the "policy process" (broadly defined), by analyzing the constituted authority for policy formation, the actual institutions involved in such formation, the interaction between/among these centers of power, the difference between authority and influence between/among these centers of power and influence, and how corporate America uses rhetorical messages to enhance various goals. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">COMS 230. Computer-Mediated Communication. **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"> Instruction and analysis of human and social Computer-Mediated Communications. Covers from how digital media affects representation and narrative to research on current uses of the Internet and the theoretical frameworks applied to summarize it. Includes a component of Computer Literacy that will help students understand Computer-Mediated Communication and use online collaborative tools efficiently. No previous computer knowledge is required. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Graded Student. **<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Units: **<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #454545; font-family: Verdana,'Lucida Grande',Lucida,sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">3.0 ||  ||   ||   ||