• COMM 3020: Communication Research Methods WE

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Covers basic communication research methods in both quantitative and qualitative research. Focuses on the research process and discusses the methodological tools for understanding and conducting basic communication research. Includes examples based on research and promotes awareness of the importance of quantitative and qualitative research perspectives as well as of data collection and analytical procedures.
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• COMM 3025: Introduction to Qualitative Communication Research

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Reviews methods of qualitative data collection, including ethnography, interviewing, observation, and textual analysis. Explores a variety of methods of qualitative analysis including rhetorical, interpretive, and critical analyses. Prepares students for careers in the fields of user-experience research, organizational research, communication consulting, and graduate research in the field of communication.
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• COMM 3030: Media Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the concept of media literacy and how individuals can become more knowledgeable citizens when analyzing and evaluating messages disseminated from a wide variety of media outlets.
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• COMM 3040: Media Ethics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Covers ethical issues in media communication. Includes discussions of ethnicity, gender, nationalism, and conflict. Analyzes development of moral agency. Examines tensions between individual freedoms and social responsibilities. Addresses ethical questions in the context of current struggles within and over corporate and public media.
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• COMM 3050: Theories of Communication and Culture WE

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing.. Covers main theoretical approaches to communication and culture. Includes transmission, ritual, symbolic interactionist, structuralist, post-structuralist, postmodern, and critical theories.
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• COMM 3100: Propaganda and Persuasion

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Considers the problem of manipulative propaganda in the modern American context. Focuses on consumerist and militaristic propaganda. Treats propaganda as a special type of intentionally persuasive communication, designed by power blocs to engineer the consent of large numbers of people, often with hidden, unethical, or nefarious intent. Features a heavy use of cinema.
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• COMM 3110: Non Fiction Cinema History

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Surveys the history of non-fiction/documentary film from 1896 to the present. Includes study of early pioneers from Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH to the current trend of reality television and popular documentaries. May screen some films which carry an "R" rating.
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• COMM 3115: Communicating in Environments

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores how people use communication to navigate both social and natural environments. Investigates social and small group communication; specifically, how small groups are created, what role(s) they play in life. Considers how our culture communicates about the natural world: how do we define nature, who communicates for nature, and how does nature behave as a stakeholder in environmental conflicts. Occurs at the Capitol Reef Field Station, which allows for an experiential application of the theories of small-group and environmental communication. Focuses on the experience and application of the literature of the discipline to create an integrated-learning opportunity.
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• COMM 3120: Fundamentals of New and Social Media

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines contemporary issues related to social media, including the impact of such media on journalism and society, social media effects, and new media campaigns. Investigates the relationship between government policy and social media in relation to issues such as the digital divide, net neutrality, and the use of social media to sustain protests and revolutions.. Software fee of $20 applies.
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• COMM 3130: The Culture of Nature and Technology

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Analyzes the cultural construction of nature and technology from historical, interpretive, and critical perspectives. Deconstructs the nature/culture dichotomy. Critiques the neutrality of technology thesis. Explores the political and social implications of representations of, and relations to, nature and technology.
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