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• COMM 334: Small Group Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits)(Prereq: COMM*140) Introduces successful communication in a variety of group settings. Topics may include group leadership and participation, conflict resolution, interpersonal considerations, group norms and cohesiveness, and evaluations. Students work in small groups to learn and put into practice effective communication principles. Offered as needed Prerequisite:    Take COMM*140(2375) THEA*140 or ENGL*390;
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• COMM 340: Media Effects

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits) Examines how people are affected by media content. Topics may include what content affects people, what those effects are and how often they occur, and what situations make effects more likely to happen - for example, if violent content causes people to be violent. Students learn the history and major categories of effects, how to analyze and evaluate media content, and to help others avoid negative media effects. F,S
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• COMM 341: Advanced Public Speaking

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits)(Prereq: COMM*140) Continues understanding and practice of public speaking at an advanced level, with a focus on speech and structure and delivery methods. Topics may include audience analysis, evaluation of other public communication, and self-reflection processes. Students learn to develop their own, personal speaking style. Offered as needed. Prerequisite:    Take COMM*140(2375);
  ShareCOMM 341 - Advanced Public Speaking

• COMM 345: Communication Activism

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (Prereq: Juniors and Seniors only and successful completion of 60 credit hours) This seminar requires students to work with non-governmental, governmental, and/or grass roots advocacy groups engaging in public service, social justice, and/or other applied communication projects often now collectively referred to as Communication Activism. Utilizing a variety of communication skills- including but not limited to message design for foundational, educational, and/or preventive campaigns - students will research, publicize, advocate against, and/or intervene in a social justice project with a community service organization. This is an active, intensive course that combines service learning with perspectives and practices from communication, health promotion, social science, and journalism. As such, this course is designed for students committed to social activism. F, S.
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• COMM 362: Enticing Signs: Semiotics Adv.

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits) A study of signs, sign systems, and the production of meaning in advertising messages from the perseptive of the field of semiotics. A vast array of advertisements influence and affect our lives in many ways. The class looks at various aspects of this form of discourse from the standpoint of semiotic analysis and related conceptual frameworks. It considers the signifying processes that underlie advertising messages in print, electronic, and digital form. F,S,Su
  ShareCOMM 362 - Enticing Signs: Semiotics Adv.

• COMM 365: Women and Media

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits) Examines the history of women's roles and contributions to media industries. Topics may include employment opportunities for women and media effects on women. Offered as needed
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• COMM 372: Organizational Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3)(Prereq: COMM 140) Examines how organizations design and use communication. Topics may include communication methods, leadership, conflict management, diversity, and globalization. Students learn how to achieve individual and group goals in organizations and apply skills to their workplace and personal lives. F,S Prerequisite:    Take COMM*140(6652);
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• COMM 380: Signs Among Us: Semiotics Cltr

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3)(=IDS 380) A study of the signs and sign systems produced, exchanged and interpreted in contemporary culture. From toys to cuisine, from comics to video games, from plastic to astrology, the course offers critical approaches to the mutliple spheres of meaning in which we move. F,S,May,Su
  ShareCOMM 380 - Signs Among Us: Semiotics Cltr

• COMM 430: Film&Cultr:Ethnographic Film

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits) Introduces films and film techniques designed to explore cultural contexts, such as customs and identities. Topics include ethnographic processes and approaches used by filmmakers, ethics of representation, self-reflexivity, and the relation of time and space to culture. Offered as needed
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• COMM 431: Effects/Represnt From Pop Film

  3.00 Credits

  Coastal Carolina University

  
  (3 credits) Explores identity and representation in popular movies from the perspective of audiences. Topics may include social, political, economic, and historial contexts of films, as well as misrepresentation, exploitation, and appropriation of identities. Students learn about film techniques, and uses and effects of popular films as perceived by audiences. Offered as needed
  ShareCOMM 431 - Effects/Represnt From Pop Film