COM-101, titled "Communication Analysis," is a comprehensive 3-credit course designed to explore the intricacies of communication, focusing on the analysis of verbal and visual messages. This course is tailored for students who have completed ENG 101 and are concurrently enrolled in ENG 102 or its honors equivalent. It delves into the commonalities and differences across various communication subdisciplines, emphasizing critical inquiry and intensive writing. With a general education designation in Social & Behavioral Sciences, it also addresses special topics such as Ethnic, Race, and Gender Awareness, and Contemporary Global and International Awareness.Structured into fifteen modules, the course covers a wide range of topics from the basics of human communication and the history of communication studies to specialized areas like gender and organizational communication. Each module combines theoretical and practical elements, helping students to not only understand but also apply communication theories to real-life situations. Assessments include exams, discussions, and significant writing projects aimed at enhancing critical listening, thinking, and interacting skills. 

This is both a human communication and public speaking text for the general education course.

An introduction to the human communication concentration in the communications major. This course will introduce you to communication principles, common communication practices, and a selection of theories to better understand the communication transactions that you experience in your daily life.

Randomly Changing Variables: An OER Textbook with Exercises explores nonverbal communication, the loudest voice humans embody. Each chapter provides academic details and skills check observation assignments to learn about and work with face behavior, eye behavior, vocalics, proxemics, territoriality, and touch communication. Recommended for adults.

Course Connection: SPCH 303 - Nonverbal Communication
The opportunity to engage in nonverbal communication observations to interpret and apply academic nonverbal dimensions to communication behavior; the opportunity to enhance awareness and skill in nonverbal communication behavior in professional, public, and personal life.

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This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between story creation and story appreciation is analyzed. Readings are drawn from literary and cinematic criticism, as well as from descriptions of interactive, distributed works. Students analyze a range of storytelling techniques; they develop a proposal using visualization techniques; and they prototype a working story experience, culminating in a final project displayed at the end of the semester.