Courses
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- Offered: Every Third Semester
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
The study of persuasion through communication. Topics include audience analysis, experimental design of studies in persuasion, and the application of persuasive theory to various examples of communication.
- Offered: Summer (Depending on Enrollment)
- Prerequisites: EN 211 with a grade of "C" or better and sophomore standing.
The process of formally evaluating rhetorical activity, including songs, humor, films and television. As they learn the process of criticism, students survey a variety of communication events that have had a lasting impact on American culture.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Exploration into the study of communication aesthetics. The course examines a range of communication processes, concepts and techniques using the arts as its primary data base. Course includes some discussion of interpretive methods and consideration of various aesthetic mediums.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Exploration and development of one’s awareness of, and conscious ability to use, various aspects of the communication discipline. Both intrapersonal and interpersonal communication are stressed.
- Offered: Infrequently
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Development of an understanding of the range of phenomena included in the study of nonverbal communication. A study of the relationship of proxemics, kinesics, chronemics and haptics to the total human communication process.
- Offered: Every Third Semester
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Designed to acquaint students with theories and principles of effective communication within organizational settings, with specific application of behavioral theories to contexts of communication relevant to organizations such as labor unions, hospitals, government agencies, business, military and educational institutions.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Understanding the prodromal conditions that create crisis situations for businesses, organizations, and high-profile individuals and applying communication theories to create appropriate responses to a crisis situation. Through case studies, simulations, and creation of a crisis communication plan, students learn how to anticipate and plan communication strategies for the post 9/11 era.
- Offered: Infrequently
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Principles and perspectives of ethical communication will be studied and applied to a variety of communication contexts. The impact of honest versus deceptive communication on the individual and society is evaluated.
- Offered: Every Third Semester
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Understanding the social and cultural foundations for and strategic and tactical dimensions of the effective promotion of environmental policy, including the psychology of environmental communication; historical and cultural analyses of environmental rhetoric; environmental communication in government, business and communities; and the role of the media.
- Offered: Contact Department
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
This course is designed to introduce students to the environmental conditions in Brazil while focusing on the ways in which Brazilians communicate about and understand communications related to those conditions in the context of an integrated social science perspective. Following a series of on-campus workshops dealing with Brazil in general as well as a variety of social science perspectives, students will spend two weeks in Brazil studying and applying concepts.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SP 310, completion of 32 credits in the major and registration for graduation.
Taught as a seminar and focused on assessment of educational outcomes in the major as students finalize their preparations for graduate studies and/or entry into the workforce. Current and emerging issues in the field of communication studies, along with general current events, provide a basis for developing professional portfolios, reflecting on educational experiences, and completing various assessment-based tasks.
- Offered: On demand
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Projects in the areas of speech carried on under the supervision of a faculty member.
- Offered: On demand
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing. Students must submit required forms to register for their internship before the end of the 4th week of a semester in which the internship will take place.
Practical, applied experience involving placement in a job situation.
- Offered: On demand.
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
- Offered: On demand
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Independent study by qualified undergraduates in an area to be defined by the student and instructor.
Notes: May be repeated for up to eight credits.- Offered: Fall Winter
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: ST 101 or permission from instructor.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: ST 111.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: ST 111.
- Offered: Summer
- Prerequisites: ST 111.
- Offered: Summer
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Admission into the surgical technology program and completion of the following courses with a "C" or better: CLS 109, CLS 204, ST 101, ST 211, ST 212, BI 207 and BI 208.
ST 250 and 260 represent the Surgical Technology Practicum. Together these courses represent a full-time commitment of a 500-hour, 21-week supervised practicum at various affiliated hospital sites. Grading is on an S/U basis.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: Admission into the Surgical Technology program and completion of the following courses with a "C" or better: CLS 109, CLS 204, ST 101, ST 211, ST 212, BI 207 and BI 208.
ST 250 and 260 represent the Surgical Technology Practicum. Together these courses represent a full-time commitment of a 500-hour, 21-week supervised practicum at various affiliated hospital sites. Grading is on a S/U basis.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: Must be a certified surgical technologist (CST) in order to pursue a bachelor’s degree in clinical health science with two years’ experience in the field of surgical technology (with proof of employment) and advanced cardiac life support training (ACLS). A minimum of 2.5 in the major and NMU cumulative GPA.
Designed to give certified surgical technologists a full-time practicum experience in one or several advanced practice areas. Depending on the student’s goals, experiences desired and available internship slots, credit may be variable and range from 2 to 16 credits.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: SO 101 or instructor's permission.
Introduction to techniques of data analysis for social research. Applied uses of descriptive and inferential statistics are emphasized. Computers and statistical software are used as part of the instruction process.
Notes: Cross listed as SO 208.