Training and Development, Teamwork, Problem Solving, Higher Education, Public Speaking
Teaching
courses taught
COMM 1600 - Group Interaction
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Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Learn communication skills to be a better group member and enhance group effectiveness in a variety of professional and civic contexts. Practice group communication skills through an innovative group project and online simulation. Focuses on topics such as group development & socialization, decision making, conflict management, technology & virtual group work, difference & diversity, planning & coordination, leadership & management, and ethics. Required for COMM and COMN majors. Formerly COMM 1600.
COMM 2650 - Business and Professional Communication
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Fall 2025
Develops knowledge of concepts and skills required for successful participation in contemporary workplace communication. Focuses on communication processes associated with contexts such as sales, leadership, diversity, teamwork, customer service, and conflict. Facilitates students conduct of self-assessment, networking, interviewing, and other career-development strategies. Provides students training in informative and persuasive business presentations. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1300 and COMM 1600.
COMM 3320 - Persuasion in Society
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 / Summer 2025 / Spring 2026
Learn personal and professional skills to become more persuasive in a variety of communication contexts, and develop a broader and more critical understanding of the culture of persuasion that pervades all aspects of society.
COMM 3430 - Communication, Culture and Sport
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Summer 2025
Examines the communicative, historical and cultural aspects of sport in contemporary American society including the intersections of power, gender/sexuality, race and class.
COMM 3620 - Advanced Teamwork and Collaboration
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2025
Explores communication and collaboration in complex situations (e.g., extreme environments e.g., space travel; cross-sector collaborations). Reviews and applies key processes of team/group communication and collaboration to the context of extreme teams to identify communication issues and interventions relevant in complex organizing or dangerous situations.
COMM 4000 - Advanced Topics in Communication
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Fall 2025
Analyzes special interest areas of communication theory, research, and practice. Course format involves lecture, discussion, investigative analysis, and practical application. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 3210 and COMM 3300.
