Communication Management (CMGT)
- D class assignments for graduate students available in ASC140; phone 740-0903.
Production and distribution of information within large organizations; information networks, organization structure, control and decision-making functions. Resources necessary for effective organizational communication systems. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 500.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21700D | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Wednesday | 9 of 17 | Kimberlie Stephens | ASC225 | Word (74752 KB) |
Roles, responsibilities and requirements of communication functions within corporations; design and implementation of communication plans; strategic message production for internal and external audiences. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 502.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21702D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 15 of 25 | Rebecca Weintraub | ONLINE | Word (59392 KB) |
Writing skills necessary for an organizational communicator; review of strategic writing fundamentals; development of portfolio of diverse media applications based on strategic corporate communication requirements.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21704D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 20 of 21 | Mayanna Framroze | ASC232 | Word (23930 KB) |
How work settings determine communication: basic structures of communication, influence of technology, social contexts, and physical space. Applications to management. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 505.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21705D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 19 of 25 | Collen Keough | ASC204 | Word (61952 KB) |
Examines images and image manipulation in communication, management and social control. Synthesizes work ranging from cognition and interpersonal behavior to mass media and popular culture. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 506.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21709D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 27 of 27 | Daniel Durbin | ASC204 | Word (59904 KB) |
Examination of role of communication in developing and implementing business strategy; critical assessment and practice with models, tools, and techniques for communicating change.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21707D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 14 of 17 | Susan Resnick West | ASC225 | PDF (185253 KB) |
Promotional messages as both creative expressions and agents for behavioral change; application of social science theories of persuasion and compliance in interpersonal and mass-media venues.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21708D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 21 of 25 | Kelton Rhoads | ASC228 | PDF (306234 KB) |
Connections between health providers' communication and patients' well-being; consultation language, nonverbal behavior, physical settings, design of media messages, information technologies in patient education and care.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21720D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 8 of 25 | Peter Clarke | ASC228 | Word (108544 KB) |
Impact of television, satellites, computers, and other new technologies; competing theories about the role of technology in society; historical effects of introducing new technologies. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 530.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21730D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 14 of 27 | Dmitri Williams | KER101 | Word (76800 KB) |
Basics of multimedia; new forms of audio and video interactive technologies; computer communication networks; social, political, cultural, interpersonal, organizational issues related to emerging communication technologies. (Duplicate credit in former COMM 533.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21733D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 17 of 25 | Kwan Lee | ONLINE | Word (100864 KB) |
History, technologies and theories of online communities; their uses for organizations; social networking; identity and privacy; participation; collaboration; advocacy and collective action: games and entertainment.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21734D | Lecture | 5:00-7:50pm | Tuesday | 19 of 19 | Karen North | KER101 |
Theories of effective team communication and leadership; case studies of effective and ineffective teams and leaders; teamwork and communication development; and distributed work teams.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21736D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 25 of 25 | Andrea Hollingshead | ASC228 |
Survey of contemporary technologies, platforms, languages, collaborative methodologies, and how they are used in combination to produce "social networking" websites and other related media.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21737D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 19 of 20 | Zach Posner | KER101 |
Applications of both data and interpretation in communications management. Topics include: audience ratings, surveys, experimental tests of programs and campaigns, formative evaluation, secondary data sources. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 540.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21738D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 22 of 26 | Ben Lee, Daniela Baroffio, Mathew Curtis | ASC331 | Word (108544 KB) | |
| 21739D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 25 of 25 | Ben Lee, Daniela Baroffio, Mathew Curtis | ASC331 | Word (108544 KB) |
Communication strategies for product marketing and advertising; communication's role in developing domestic and international marketplaces; practical applications of persuasion theory. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 541.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21735D | Lecture | 3:00-5:50pm | Monday | 24 of 25 | Andrea Hollingshead | ASC228 |
Competitive analysis and strategic formulation of entertainment and communications firm; cases examine product differentiation, marketing, emerging networks and technological strategies for traditional and new media. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 542.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21740D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 17 of 21 | Jeffrey Klein | ASC240 | Word (70656 KB) |
Use of rhetorical theories and communication models to create organizational identification with internal and external audiences; the role of values and ethics in creating identities.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21742D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 25 of 25 | Sasha Strauss | VKC109 |
Explores foundation of U.S. media policy in the digital age; students prepare White Papers on an urgent issue of contemporary digital media and entertainment policy. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 549.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21745D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 16 of 25 | Paolo Sigismondi | THH214 | PDF (32460 KB) |
Comparative analysis of various countries' communication and information technology policies; examines developments in telecommunications, broadcasting, and entertainment industries and policy questions for global media marketplace. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 557.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21749D | Lecture | 3:30-6:20pm | Monday | 5 of 10 | Shalini Venturelli | KER305 | PDF (127518 KB) |
Global influences on entertainment industries (broadcasting, film, telecommunications, Internet, video games, and music); case analyses of specific organizations and geographic regions; impact on local cultures. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 558.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21750D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 28 of 31 | Jonathan Taplin | ASCG34 | Word (56320 KB) |
Development of law in newer technologies. Cases include cable television, low power television, direct broadcast satellites, teletext, video cassettes, telephone, data networks, computer regulation. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 566.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21760D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 14 of 25 | Tracy Westen | VKC110 | Word (35328 KB) |
Participation as consultants in field projects. Use of organizational, interpretive, and statistical methods to design organizational communication systems is emphasized. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 573.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21770D | Lecture | 3:00-5:50pm | Thursday | Canceled | Collen Keough | Word (27136 KB) |
Comparison of traditional communication programs and newer information and communication technologies for analyzing needs of international communities; design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of development-related projects.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21776D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 15 of 25 | Martin Hilbert | KER101 | PDF (216041 KB) |
Popular culture and marketing communication; race, gender, sexual orientation and consumer culture; consumption patterns and identity, loyalty and self-actualization; cultural marketing campaigns and socio-political conflict.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21778D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 24 of 25 | Christopher Smith | ASCG34 | PDF (158272 KB) |
Examination of the communicative elements of leadership in entertainment products and processes; the role of communication experts in supporting, coaching and facilitating entertainment leadership.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21779D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 14 of 20 | Susan Resnick West | ASC228 | PDF (361542 KB) |
Fundamental principles of audience research; critique of existing methodologies; implications for global audiences and mass media markets. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 587.)
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21769D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 14 of 24 | Kimberlie Stephens | ASC223ABC | Word (48128 KB) |
Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the school. Graded CR/NC.
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21772D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 25 | Daniel Durbin | OFFICE | ||
| 21773D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 5 of 25 | Karen North | OFFICE | ||
| 21774D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 25 | Rebecca Weintraub | OFFICE | ||
| 21775D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 25 | Ben Lee | OFFICE | ||
| 21777D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 25 | Andrea Hollingshead | OFFICE | ||
| 21780D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 19 of 25 | Rebecca Weintraub | OFFICE | ||
| 21781D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | Rebecca Weintraub | OFFICE | ||
| 21782D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21783D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21788D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21789D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21792D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21793D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21794D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21798D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | |||
| 21799D | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE |
Field experience in applying communication principles to settings in organizations, campaigns, or other contexts; analysis and assessment of issues and problems. Open to Communication Management, accelerated B.A., Communication/M.A., Communication Management, and M.A., Global Communication students only. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 591.)
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Communication Management, Communication/Communication Management, Global Communication
Students design and produce an original project appropriate for their emphasis area within the Master of Communication degree; oral defense of project. Open to Master of Communication Management students only. (Duplicates credit in former COMM 597.)
- Prerequisite: CMGT 540
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Communication Management
| Section | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| Quantitative Methods | ||||||||
| 21790D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 24 of 24 | Mathew Curtis | ASC223ABC | Word (96256 KB) | |
| Qualitative Methods | ||||||||
| 21791D | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 29 of 35 | Daniela Baroffio, Ben Lee, Liuning Zhou | ASC223ABC | Word (96256 KB) | |
| Section | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| Managing Communication in Electronic Mass Media | |||||||||
| 21768D | 4.0 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | Canceled | Richard Block | Word (24663 KB) | ||
| Strategic Uses of Marketing Communication Research | |||||||||
| 21795D | 4.0 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 16 of 25 | Jodi Gusek | ASC232 | Word (64512 KB) | |
| Media Work, Production Culture and the Entertainment Industry | |||||||||
| 21796D | 4.0 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 12 of 25 | David Craig | ASCG34 | Word (112640 KB) | |
| Leadership and the Future of News in the Digital Age | |||||||||
| 21797D | 4.0 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 8 of 15 | David Westphal, Geoffrey Cowan | ASC236 | Word (69632 KB) | |
Information accurate as of 10/3/2010 9:40 PM.