CMS 386K-1 () - Survey in Interpersonal
DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide a rigorous overview of the fundamental and contemporary theories and types of research problems that are the foci of interpersonal communication scholarship. The purpose of the course is to give you opportunities to engage with theory. That is, in addition to learning the constructs and assumptions of major theoretical frameworks, you will think critically about the perspectives that have guided seminal research programs in our field; understand the strengths and limitations of those perspectives; and become better able to theorize and to contribute new knowledge of interpersonal communication through your own theoretically-driven, empirical research.
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TBD
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Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 398T () - Supervised Teaching
- Read about and consider through reflection and discussion various teaching methods and philosophies.
- Read about and consider through reflection and discussion the particularity of communication studies and/as pedagogy
- Read about and consider through reflection and discussion what critical pedagogies might look like and accomplish from 2020 onward.
- Learn about and practice course design in the form of a syllabus, a teaching philosophy, and a lesson plan
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TBD
PREREQUISITES/RULES:
Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 386N-1() - Quantitative Research Methods
Anita L. Vangelisti (vangelisti@austin.utexas.edu)
T; 3:30 - 6:30 pm; CMA 7.120
DESCRIPTION: The primary goal of this course is to give you a solid understanding of the logic of quantitative social science. The class will focus on the process of defining research problems, the logic of research design, and a limited number of techniques – for measurement, for design and sampling, and for analysis of data. There are no pre-requisites for this course.
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PREREQUISITES/RULES:
Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 390S () - Dialogue
Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 390N-8 () - Social Media Effects
PREREQUISITES/RULES:
Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 390S.8 () - Communicating Knowledge
Jeff Treem (jtreem@austin.utexas.edu)
DESCRIPTION: This course covers a broad range of theoretical approaches and empirical research related to the communication of knowledge – including the study of both organizations, and processes of organizing among workers. Topics will include: communities of practice, boundary objects, innovation, knowledge management, transactive memory, expertise, and ICT use.
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Weekly class readings will be available online
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Preference will be given to Communication Studies students
CMS 390P-5 () - Foundations of Rhetoric Theory
DESCRIPTION:
This course explores the intellectual background to the study of rhetoric and persuasive communication. By examining the important figures in rhetoric and how they define persuasion and its relation to knowledge and ethics, this course will enhance one’s ability to address rhetorical and communication content in many of the courses that one may be asked to teach, including rhetorical theory, public speaking, persuasion, and rhetorical criticism. It also will add a historical scope to the theories and approaches one may use in their contemporary research into rhetorical and communicative phenomena.
This course represents a theoretical-historical review of writings about rhetoric, covering important thinkers and traditions in the Western tradition of rhetoric. Students will be encouraged to take a global and pluralistic view of theories of rhetoric and persuasive communication. To further this end, we will also explore theorists and approaches rooted in traditions from China and India. As a whole, the course will cover many topics of vital interest to the contemporary practice and study of rhetoric, public address, persuasion, and criticism. Each writer’s way of situating rhetoric in a world of texts and action will be interrogated as a way of understanding human experience in general.
Students will be encouraged to write a paper suitable for conference presentation that fits one of these paths: (1) a paper that appropriates concepts or concerns from a historical figure in rhetoric in studying a phenomenon or practice of the student’s current research interests in communication/rhetoric, or (2) a paper that engages a topic in the history of rhetoric proper. Students can engage figures, traditions, and problematics that are not explicitly covered in our class sessions.
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TBD
PREREQUISITES/RULES:
Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 386P-6 () - Dark Side of Interpersonal
TH; 3:30 - 6:30 pm; CMA 7.120
TBD
PREREQUISITES/RULES:
Open to all Communication Studies graduate students and with instructor approval, other University of Texas graduate students.
CMS 081M () - Intro to Graduate Studies in Comm
DESCRIPTION: This course was created in 2000, driven by graduate student input. It has taken several forms over the years. Consistent goals, however, have been to (1) introduce incoming graduate students to their cohort, other graduate students, the faculty, the department, the college and the university and (2) socialize incoming graduate students to professional expectations and issues associated with the department and careers involving research.
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Open to Graduate Students in The Department of Comm Studies ONLY.