Every semester, the Department offers a wide variety of courses that focus on the many facets of contemporary communication studies. There are a variety of ways to obtain information about courses:

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In recent years some combination of the following communication courses have been offered:

CO 010 - Rhetorical Tradition
CO 020 - Survey of Mass Communication
CO 030 - Public Speaking
CO 040 - Interpersonal Communication (formerly numbered CO 253)
CO 105 - Elements of Debate
CO 213 - Fundamentals of Audio I
CO 214 - Fundamentals of Audio II
CO 215 - Soundcasting Media
CO 222 - Studio Television Production
CO 223 - Field Television Production
CO 235 - Advertising
CO 240 - Public Relations
CO 245 - Advanced Public Relations
CO 249 - Communication Law
CO 250 - Mass Communication Ethics
CO 251 - Gender and Media
CO 255 - Media Aesthetics
CO 259 - Cyberlaw
CO 260 - American Public Address
CO 263 - Media, Law and Society
CO 268 - Business of Electronic Media
CO 271 - Communicating Nonverbal Messages
CO 272 - New Media and Society
CO 273 - Media Violence
CO 274 - Difficult, Dysfunctional, and Dangerous Communication
CO 277 - Visual Media
CO 285 - Cultural Diversity in the Media
CO 291 - Persuasion
CO 293 - Advanced Public Speaking
CO 350 - Research Methods
CO 369 - Social Protest Theory
CO 372 - Mass Communication Theory
CO 374 - Human Communication Theory
CO 375 - Argumentation Theory
CO 377 - Visual Communication Theory
CO 425 - Broadcast Century Issues
CO 426 - TV and Society
CO 429 - Globalization and the Media
CO 434 - Advanced Visual Theory and Aesthetics
CO 436 - Rhetorical Criticism
CO 442 - Intercultural Communication
CO 447 - Communication Criticism
CO 448 - Television Criticism
CO 449 - Crisis Communication
CO 451 - Gender Roles and Communication
CO 461 - Communication in Family Relationships
CO 462 - Popular Music and Identity
CO 463 - Media and Popular Culture
CO 465 - Health Communication
CO 467 - Communication and Culture in the Workplace
CO 485 - Advanced Intercultural Communication
CO 501 - Communication Internship
CO 589 - Senior Internship Seminar
CO 592 - Honors Thesis
CO 597 - Readings and Research
CO 599 - Advanced Independent Research