Required: 3 credits minimum
Students may take any combination of courses on the Communication Intensive course list to satisfy the 3-credit requirement.
Study and practice of leadership in civilian and military organizations, with emphasis on development of effective oral and written communication. Topics include Air Force leader development, effective supervision, diversity, cross-cultural competence and ethics. The course includes discussion, informal lecture, case studies, self-evaluation of leadership traits, and experiential exercises.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
The course will review different forms of scientific information presented in both professional and popular media, cover scientific writing styles, learn effective presentation of graphical information. Students will learn a variety of methods of professional presentation of scientific results and technical information.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
This course introduces students to reading strategies, critical vocabularies, and critical writing practices. Individual sections will center on a unifying question or problem, emphasizing attentive reading, critical thinking, and qualitative interpretation of literary texts.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
An introduction to creative writing with readings in contemporary and emerging literatures. Genres covered may include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplay. This course stresses individual production through process-oriented writing exercises, small group workshops, individual conferences, and creative theory.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Prepare students to evaluate, design, and conduct research in communication. Develops research-related writing strategies and proficiency.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Introduces the fundamentals of public speaking and multimedia applications. Emphasis on speaking/listening competencies in face-to-face and digital environments using online and digital tools.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Examines practices and issues of relational communication and encourages critical awareness of common assumptions. Topics include computer-mediated communication, communicating with machine verbal and nonverbal cues, conflict models, friendship, intimacy, and the interpersonal significance of race, gender, class, and disability.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Advanced instruction in composing substantive arguments based on primary and secondary research. Multidisciplinary inquiry-based projects ask students to write for both academic and lay audiences in print and digital forms. Specific research methods, writing technologies, and topics vary by section.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Teaches expository writing techniques for using quantitative information as evidence. Focuses on rhetorical strategies for considering contexts, purposes, and audiences needed to support arguments with numerical data. Includes practice representing numbers in prose, information graphics, and presentations.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
A study of written and oral communication in technical and scientific environments; emphasizes audience, writing processes, genres of scientific and technical discourse, visual communication, collaboration, professional responsibility, clear and correct expression. Students write and revise several documents and give oral report(s).
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
A study of contemporary theories of rhetoric and their application to interpreting and critiquing various forms of persuasive discourse, especially in science and technology.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
A study of contemporary theories of rhetoric and their application to interpreting and critiquing various forms of persuasive discourse, especially in health and medicine.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
The examination and production of everyday texts such as social media, image-texts, web pages, signs, museum exhibits, architecture, and fashion in terms of their theoretical, historical, cultural, and technological contexts.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
The examination and design of multimodal "games" such as tabletop games, digital games, and board games, focusing on their cultural, rhetorical, and ethical dimensions. While no prior game design experience is required, students should expect to produce their own games, as well as write about games examined in the course.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Review of the basics of the German language. Includes study of vocabulary, idioms, and sentence structure to improve conversational and reading abilities, and writing of compositions in German.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): HU 3281 or Language Placement German >= 441
Review of the basics of the German language. Includes study of vocabulary, idioms, and sentence structure to improve conversational and reading abilities and writing of compositions in German.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): (HU 3282 or Language Placement German >= 561) and UN 1015
Advanced grammar, composition, and conversation practice. Readings may include texts from literary, social, economic, scientific, engineering, or business discourses in the context of Hispanic cultures. Students completing this course may apply for placement credit.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): HU 3292 or Language Placement Spanish >= 480 or CEEB Spanish Language >= 3 or CEEB Spanish Literature >= 3
Advanced work in creative nonfiction writing; workshop format. Readings will include short memoirs, personal essays, lyric essays, and other sub-genres of contemporary creative nonfiction. Emphasis on individual production through process-oriented writing exercises, small group workshops, individual conferences, and revision/development.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2510 and UN 1015
Advanced work in poetry writing; workshop format. Students will study contemporary and emerging works in order to enrich and stimulate their own poetic practice. Emphasis on individual production through process oriented writing exercises, small group workshops, individual conferences, and revision/development.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2510 and UN 1015
Advanced work in fiction writing; workshop format. Readings will include 'canonical', contemporary, and emerging examples of short-form fiction. Emphasis on individual production through process-oriented writing exercises, small group workshops, individual conferences, and revision/development.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2510 and UN 1015
A consideration of a variety of theoretical and critical approaches and methods of literary research in the study of British and American literature.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
This course focuses on the craft of writing science fiction. Reading stories from classic to contemporary sci-fi and examining key features of the genre. Writing assignments will include reading responses, short creative exercises, peer review, and a research-driven work of fiction.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years, Spring, in even years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
This course focuses on the craft of environmental and nature writing. In conjunction with creative writing exercise and peer review, students will analyze a variety of exemplary texts within the genre, culminating in the production of a research-driven manuscript in either poetry, fiction, or nonfiction.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Examination of the responsibilities of an editor and grounding in basic editorial skills. Topics include situations of editing, levels of editing, readability, correctness, style, relations with authors, and social and political implications of editing.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Studies and practices principles for sharing scientific knowledge in professional settings. Focuses on: scientific papers, research proposals, and scientific posters, among other genres.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Introduces writing, research, and editing that contribute to a public understanding of science.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Introduces fundamentals of grant proposal writing and research. Possible topics: writing for nonprofits, grant writing in various disciplines, researching funding resources.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Studies and practices principles for sharing scientific knowledge in meetings with other medical and health professionals.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Introduces writing, research, and editing that contribute to a public understanding of health and medicine.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Students will use digital delivery modes to design and deliver presentations for a variety of social and professional purposes. Students will explore the ethical, social, and political implications of digital delivery for civic life and public discourse.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Surveys the area of Human-Machine Communication. Considers a variety of communicative machines, contexts, and perspectives. Examines issues of agency, media representations, co-construction, culture, privacy, and other ideas in relation to the communicative interplay of humans and machines.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Examines models for communicating risks associated with environmental, safety, and health hazards. Considers the diverse roles assumed by the public under each of these models and means of ensuring that risks are communicated fairly, honestly, and accurately.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Learn how and why historians examine the past, and how they craft stories about it for readers. Emphasis on disciplinary approaches and philosophies of history. Students will practice research skills with archival, oral, and digital sources, and apply them in written, oral, and online work products.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
Examines how human interaction with physical environment has changed in North America over the last four centuries. Topics include uses of land by Native Americans, changes associated with European colonization, incorporation of natural resources into industrial economy, early conservation and preservation movements, and environmental concerns accompanying urbanization and industrialization.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Privacy has been a defining characteristic of human experience since ancient times. But what is privacy? Students will interrogate the experiences, meanings, and definitions of privacy throughout history. The thematic structure of this course will allow students to explore the question of 'what is privacy' through a variety of disciplinary lenses.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
The history of Europe from 1300 to 1650.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Examines major ideas, processes, and events in world history. Topics may include trade and commodities, imperialism, slavery, migration, or other subjects with transnational significance. May be repeated if topic differs
- Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
An intensive survey of the literature of 19th-20th century history of social thought, including the writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and other prominent anthropologists, sociologists, and political philosophers.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Junior, Senior
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
This applied course gives students practice producing professional communications for policymakers, community leaders, and other decision-makers - translating research for decision-making by writing policy briefs, creating infographics, visualizing data in charts, tables, and other graphics, and giving professional presentations to the public.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring
This course explores changes in human interactions with earth systems over time, starting with the development of agriculture and continuing to the present. Case studies include mining, forestry, water, agricultural, sustainability, and urban development.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
- Pre-Requisite(s): SS 3520 and UN 1015
Advanced reading and discussion course focusing on the various ways in which we understand writing about the history of technology. This course provides the theoretical framework for research and writing in the field, and culminates in a major research project with primary source research as well as a required interpretive component.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
Through hands-on exploration of multiple physical methodologies students gain a deeper understanding of, and ability to harness the actor's physical instrument. Character physicality, pantomime, and vocal projection are some topics of the class.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Introduction to drafting conventions and standards by the entertainment industry. Focus on technical and design techniques using CAD for communication through: ground plans, elevations, sections, detail drawings, orthographic projections, system diagrams, and 3D representations.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Spring
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Students learn the basics of performing and recording copy for various genres of voice acting, and finding materials for producing auditions.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: On Demand
- Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015
Fundamentals of designing lighting for theatre, architecture and entertainment through various explorations and projects. Focus on professional design development and presentation techniques; theatrical drafting conventions, light sketches, plots. Also, designer/director relationships, script analysis, research, design concepts/history.
- Credits: 3.0
- Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
- Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
- Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
- Pre-Requisite(s): THEA 1120 and UN 1015