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Communication Management (CMGT)
- D class assignments for graduate students available in ASC140; phone (213) 740-0900.
- All graduate students (excluding PhDs) will be assessed a $150 per semester "ASCJ Technology fee. There is no technology fee charged for the summer term. Phone (213)740-5297, or email asctech@usc.edu for questions. All graduate students (excluding PhDs) will be assessed a $150 per
Production and distribution of information within large organizations; information networks, organization structure, control and decision-making functions. Resources necessary for effective organizational communication systems.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21701D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 39 of 90 | Kimberlie Stephens,Jane MacOubrie, Andrew Schrock | ONLINE |   |
Roles, responsibilities and requirements of communication functions within corporations; design and implementation of communication plans; strategic message production for internal and external audiences.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21704D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 15 of 25 (3 on waitlist) | Rebecca Weintraub | ASC204 | |
Communication consulting skills including facilitation, training,presentation coaching, benefits writing, speech writing, and communication organizational change; consulting basics, proposals, cost estimating, and final reports.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21706D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 19 of 25 (1 on waitlist) | Rebecca Weintraub | ASC204 | |
How work settings determine communication: basic structures of communication, influence of technology, social contexts, and physical space. Applications to management.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21708D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 21 of 25 | Colleen Keough | ANN209 | Word (28289 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.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21710D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 20 of 25 | Daniel Durbin | ASCG34 | Word (60928 KB) | |
Develops a conceptual framework for understanding information, uncertainty, knowledge, interpretation, and equivocality. Principles for managing information load, and communication networks information distribution, and decision making.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21711D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 18 of 25 (1 on waitlist) | Liuning Zhou | ASC331 | PDF (355857 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 | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21713D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 78 of 80 | Brad Shipley,Julia Matthews, Cynthia Martinez, Jane MacOubrie, Styles Akira | ONLINE | |
Theory and research on value and attitude formation and change; consequences for communication and behavior.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21715D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Monday | 6 of 12 | Sheila Murphy | KER202 | Word (65758 KB) | |
| 21716D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 24 of 30 | Michael Cody | ANNL116 | | |
| 21717D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 57 of 80 | Brad Shipley,Jane MacOubrie, Kelton Rhoads | ONLINE | |
How mass media shape public images of groups, channel political power, promote consumption of goods. Social and political theoriesas tools in evaluating media impact.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21722D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Tuesday | 15 of 25 | Peter Clarke | ASCG34 | Word (26997 KB) | |
Students learn to assess organizations' online needs, to examine the use of the Internet in terms of electronic commerce and global pressures, and design web page strategies.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21723D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 24 of 25 (6 on waitlist) | Frederick Nager | ANN210 | Word (266500 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.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21724D | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-8:50pm | Monday | 16 of 25 | Dmitri Williams | ANN210 | PDF (243603 KB) | |
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.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Communication Management, Communication Management
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21732D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 153 of 200 | Mathew Curtis, Courtney Pade,Brad Shipley | ASCG26 | Word (51959 KB) | |
| 21735D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 46 of 90 | Mathew Curtis, Nithya Muthuswamy, Yomna Elsayed | ONLINE | |
Communication strategies for product marketing and advertising; communication's role in developing domestic and international marketplaces; practical applications of persuasion theory.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21737D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 57 of 80 | Courtney Pade,Styles Akira, Nithya Muthuswamy | ONLINE | |
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 | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21739D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 21 of 25 | Simon Uwins | ANN210 | PDF (497268 KB) | |
| 21740D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 20 of 25 | Jeffrey Hirsch | ANNL116 | Word (54417 KB) | |
Focuses on management, production and distribution of scripted film, television and web stories to understand visual storytelling as a communicative strategy for advertising and education.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21748D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Thursday | 30 of 40 (11 on waitlist) | David Craig | ASC231 | PDF (139439 KB) | |
Foundational and advanced practices for copywriting and related design incommunication; integrated analysis of concepts and pragmatics surrounding creativity forcommunication effectiveness
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21749D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Monday | 16 of 25 (5 on waitlist) | Gary Wexler | ANNL101 | |
Analysis and development of online communication and marketing campaigns; exploration of current Internet best practices in social media, SEM, privacy, location-based marketing, and online measurement.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21751D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 33 of 40 (4 on waitlist) | Mayanna Framroze | ASC204 | Word (31309 KB) | |
Communication strategies in a global marketing environment; analysis of global – local challenges and opportunities; effective global integrated communication to create and sustain competitive advantage
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21753D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Thursday | 19 of 25 (3 on waitlist) | Paolo Sigismondi | ASC328 | PDF (346863 KB) | |
Examines the influence of the transglobal flow of media between the U.S. entertainment industries and other national media industries
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21757D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 15 of 25 (1 on waitlist) | David Craig | ASC331 | PDF (137890 KB) | |
Practical and theoretical survey of the public relations profession as it is currently practiced, providing a social/contextual backdrop for further study of the field.
- Crosslist: This course is offered by the PR department but may qualify for major credit in CMGT. To register, enroll in PR 561.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21599D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 34 of 80 | Burghardt Tenderich,Laura Jackson,Terrence Chmielewski | ONLINE | |
Communication strategies for effective negotiation, mediation and facilitation of disputes; structures for public interventions; emergence of online dispute resolution systems.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21769D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Tuesday | 9 of 25 | Colleen Keough | ASC231 | Word (22839 KB) | |
The political economy of communications and information in China's broader process of development and re-entry into global capitalism; particular media and communication conditions and policies
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21772D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Tuesday | 27 of 30 | Ben Lee | ASC231 | |
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 | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21774D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Wednesday | 5 of 25 | François Bar | ANNL116 | PDF (276557 KB) | |
Theoretical foundations of social marketing and entertainment education; uses of dramatic serials, telenovelas and animation to promote human rights; program design, evaluation.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21775D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-9:20pm | Wednesday | 22 of 25 | Paula Patnoe-Woodley | ANN406 | PDF (288190 KB) | |
Fundamental principles of audience research; critique of existing methodologies; implications for global audiences and mass media markets.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| 21779D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Thursday | 13 of 25 | Brad Shipley | ASC231 | Word (38498 KB) | |
Theory, structure and effects of culture on narrative. Story in non-profit and health organizations; new fields that recognize the importance of storytelling; storytelling in diverse media.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21780D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Thursday | 11 of 16 (2 on waitlist) | Doe Mayer | ASC240 | PDF (374673 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 | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21781D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | Ben Lee | OFFICE | | |
| 21782D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | Courtney Pade | OFFICE | | |
| 21783D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | David Craig | OFFICE | | |
| 21784D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | | ||
| 21785D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | | ||
| 21786D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 25 | OFFICE | | ||
| 21787D | 001 | 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. Graded CR/NC.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Global Communication, Communication Management, Communication, Digital Social Media, Public Diplomacy (Practitioner and Mid-Career Professional),, Public Diplomacy
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student, Master Student
| Section | Session | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21795D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 32 of 80 | Ben Lee | OFFICE | | |
| 21796D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 2 of 20 | Daniela Baroffio | OFFICE | | |
| 21797D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 5 of 20 | Patricia Riley | OFFICE | | |
| 21798D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 2 of 20 | Nick Cull | OFFICE | | |
| 21799D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 3 of 20 | Courtney Pade | OFFICE | | |
| 21800D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 20 | OFFICE | | ||
| 21801D | 001 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 20 | OFFICE | | ||
| 21802D | 758 | 1.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 4 | Kathryn Kelly | OFFICE | |
Students design and produce an original project appropriate for their emphasis area within the Master of Communication degree. Open to Master of Communication Management students only. Prerequisites: CMGT 501 and CMGT 540. Duplicates credit in former CMGT 597.
- Prerequisite: CMGT 501 and CMGT 540
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Communication Management
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21812D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:00pm | Wednesday | 7 of 20 | Ben Lee | ASC236 | Word (477184 KB) | |
| 21813D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-8:30pm | Wednesday | 5 of 20 | Ben Lee | ASC236 | Word (477184 KB) | |
| 21814D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:00pm | Wednesday | 9 of 20 | Daniela Baroffio | ASC236 | Word (325120 KB) | |
| 21815D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-8:30pm | Wednesday | 3 of 20 | Daniela Baroffio | ASC236 | Word (325120 KB) | |
| 21822D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 20 | Daniela Baroffio | ONLINE | |
Students design and produce an original project appropriate for their emphasis area within the Master of Communication degree. Open to Master of Communication Management students only. (Duplicates credit in former CMGT 597).
- Prerequisite: 1 from (CMGT 597a or CMGT 597)
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): Communication Management
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21823D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 3 of 20 | Daniela Baroffio | OFFICE | | |
| 21833D | 169 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 20 | Daniela Baroffio | ONLINE | |
| Section | Session | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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| Analytical Tools for Decision Making | ||||||||||
| 21836D | 001 | 4.0 | Lecture | 3:30-6:20pm | Monday | 21 of 22 (2 on waitlist) | Mathew Curtis | ASC328 | | |
| Influencer Strategies | ||||||||||
| 21837D | 001 | 4.0 | Lecture | 3:30-6:20pm | Tuesday | 30 of 30 | Frederick Nager | ANNL101 | Word (162438 KB) | |
| Marketing Communication Theory and Application | ||||||||||
| 21835D | 001 | 4.0 | Lecture | 2:00-4:50pm | Monday | 14 of 25 | Courtney Pade | ASC231 | PDF (131716 KB) | |