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2023-2024 Edgewood College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ORG 384 E - Topics in Org Beh: Ldrshp Challenge
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course surveys key leadership perspectives and prepares the student to utilize technical tools developed to bring out the best in people. Throughout the course students will move from a traditional model of linear managing to one of leading, coaching, facilitating, and team building with a systemic view. Improved understanding of organizational systems is a guiding principle.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 387 DQ - Champion Diversity in Organizations
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course examines the critical knowledge and skills that are needed to manage an increasingly diverse workforce. The impact of race, gender, ethnicity, culture, and other dimensions of a diverse workforce are examined.
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ORG 397 - Building High Performance Teams
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course examines the nature of teams in organizations. Topics covered include types of teams, stages of team development, team dynamics, team building, and factors influencing teams.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 402 - Motivation in Organizations
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An examination of the development of motives in adulthood, group attractions and pressures, general problems of motivation, basis of motives, changing motives and conflicts. Special attention to work settings and management motivational concerns.
Prerequisite(s): UAPSY 102 F4 or consent of instructor.
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ORG 403 - Testing and Assessment
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An examination of the basic principles of test construction and interpretation including issues related to reliability and validity. Issues related to test administration, scoring and reporting are explored, with emphasis given to ethical issues of psychological tests. Attention is also given to emerging trend in the practical uses of tests.
Prerequisite(s): UAMAT 126 or MATH 121
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ORG 476 - Research Methods
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An examination of the research methods used in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology, such as surveys, case studies, field experiments, etc. In addition to various classroom experiences, the student designs and conducts a research project in which a problem is defined, a hypothesis is formulated, data are collected and analyzed, and a summary report is constructed using APA writing conventions.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): MATH 121 and ORG 403
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ORG 477 KUX - Evaluating Organizational Research
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Senior organizational behavior and leadership majors write and present to the OBLand Psychology department a critical review of the primary research literature on a topic in organizational psychology of their choice. They will exhibit skills in searching data sources (e.g., PsychInfo), writing conceptual frameworks for the reviews, analyzing and summarizing the research articles, critically evaluating the research, and writing the final review paper in APA style.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Written Communication requirement (ENG 110 ).
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ORG 482 - Training & Development in Organizat
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
A review of the application of learning principles in organizational settings. Attention is given to processes such as learning needs analysis, instructional design and development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance. Emphasis is placed upon the important connection between training development and its organizational context.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 484 - Organizational Development
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course explores approaches to individual and organizational-level analysis. Topics include innovation, leadership, corporate cultures, roles of internal and external consultants, problems of implementing change, and measuring relevant variables. The “organization as a system” is a central concept.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 487 - Leading Organizational Change
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course explores various approaches to leading planned change initiatives within organizational settings. Students are exposed to the necessary steps to implement a change strategy. The importance of identifying organizational targets and outcomes is highlighted. Appreciative inquiry is emphasized as the emerging model of planned change.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 494 3 - Ethical Leadership in Organizations
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course provides students with active, engaged learning experiences involving organizational psychology as a science for improving human welfare. Students are exposed to a framework for ethical decision making drawn from the disciplines of organizational psychology, philosophy, and business/management that is intensively explored through assigned reading, interactive classroom discussions, and experiential exercises involving application of course concepts to an organizational situation. The major project in the course is a n organizational study that each student pursues at a site of his/her choosing. These projects allow students to vigorously apply the framework for ethical decision making. Engaged learning, interdisciplinary inquiry, and values exploration characterize this project.
Prerequisite(s): COR 2, Junior Standing and Above.
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ORG 495D - Internship Org Behavior
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 9
This course provides an opportunity for the OBLstudent to intern in a professional organization and to develop an understanding of the practice of organizational change. The practicum will be supervised by program faculty working with a mentoring member of the organization interning the student. The student, the faculty member, and the interning organization’s mentor will develop a printed contract with stated learning objectives, means of performance evaluation, and expected time commitments. The student is expected to successfully complete all required expectations of the business organization as well as the expectations of the faculty mentor. 3 credits = 160 (minimum) to 240 hours 4 credits = 241-321 hours 5 credits = 233-401 hours 6 credits = 402-482 hours.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): Approval of faculty and department.
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ORG 605 - Employee Learning & Development
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This highly practical and relevant course emphasizes individual and organizational adult learning concepts and theories as well as pragmatic application that will accelerate effective organizational learning and development. Students learn and apply the techniques and procedures used in the development of adult learners, including employment settings in different organizations and at all organizational levels. Course topics include creating a culture of learning, theories of learning and teaching, practices that enhance adult learning (performance consulting, needs analysis, design and delivery). The course includes contemporary and emerging perspectives as they pertain to movements toward individualized learning, learning in a social enterprise, new discoveries in neuroscience, and technological advancements.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 610 - Organizational Theory and Design
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course focuses on organizations as entities within a diverse social system. Organizations are striving to survive in an environment that is unpredictable and turbulent, where stakeholder demands for social and environmental responsibility are escalating, and where intense pressures to remain competitive drive strategy and leadership. As an introduction to current perspectives in organizational theory and design, the course explores how organizations as systems are designed and structured in relation to their environments, leadership, culture, capability, and processes. Attention is paid to how an organization is equipped for organizational effectiveness and performance in order to sustain value creation.
Offered Spring
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ORG 615 - Organizational Leadership
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Leadership, provides students with an overview of a variety of theories, methods, and models of leadership, with an emphasis on the cultural context in which leadership is pursued. Students will explore their own model of leadership by reflecting on the models presented in class, through interactions with peers/colleagues within the course, and by constructing a leadership profile.
Offered Fall
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ORG 620 - Individual and Team Interventions
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course focuses on how people’s behavior is influenced by their actions and the actions of others in organizational settings. This course examines individual and team interventions from a business perspective. Professionals in the workforce today are facing new challenges and the rapid pace of organizational change requires us to deepen our expertise and prepare for the demands of the present and future. Successfully designing, aligning, and implementing adaptive people management practices is an essential component of organizational effectiveness and value delivery. Topics covered include individual performance improvement, performance coaching, teams and teamwork, conflict resolution, change management, motivation and process consulting. The course is designed to be highly practical, current, and relevant.
Offered Summer
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 625 - Leading in a Global Context
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Leadership is a necessary factor for organizations to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This course introduces concepts and theories of leading organizations in a global context with particular emphasis on an organization’s global strategy and organizational factors within the context of its industry and the global economy.
Offered Fall, Spring
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ORG 630 - Organizational Change
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Investigates the nature of change, forces for change, and the impact of change on its recipients. Introduces students to the practice of organization development with respect to change efforts in organizations as they examine their own roles and skill sets as change agents. Stresses the design and implementation of various organizational interventions. Students learn to choose between, and then design, appropriate interventions to transform an organization from a current state to a desired future state.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 635 - Consultation in Organizations
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Theoretical and practical examination of the process of consulting in organizations in an applied learning setting is examined in both internal and external organizational consulting practices. Effective consulting can support the creation of workplaces that are more collaborative, agile, and ultimately more successful. Topics include entry and contracting, diagnosis and role setting, implementation, evaluation, withdrawal, and maintenance. The course also provides pragmatic suggestions for dealing with difficult clients, and contains expansive guidelines on engaging forms of implementation. Students learn to effectively contribute in teams, develop and empower others, and apply what they learn directly to organizations.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): None.
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ORG 640 - Sustain Decision-Making for Leaders
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Effective decision making is key to success in the workplace and beyond. In organizations, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making are among the most important tasks people perform on a daily basis. However, increasing levels of complexity can put a significant strain on our judgement, often leading to poor choices that can have a long-term impact. Learn key decision-making concepts and processes necessary for developing and implementing long-term strategies that create a competitive advantage to support sustainable organizations. Understand factors that impact individual and group decision-making processes as well as tools and techniques to improve strategic decision making with a focus on sustainability. Learn how to avoid common decision-making errors and blunders that lead to failure in the competitive marketplace. This course is essential for leading the strategic decision-making processes and impacting the direction of the organization.
Offered Fall, Spring
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ORG 690 - Strategic Leadership
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course focuses on strategic thinking in organizational leadership as a process to develop the strengths of a system or organization, and to deliver positive results. Strategic Leadership is designed to equip students with the skills, perspectives, and frameworks needed to lead an organization in achieving its mission and realizing its vision. Through application of prior course learning, students will assess the performance of an organization and devise a plan for continual improvement and systematic innovation within the context of its operating environment.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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CHEM 120 S - General Chemistry I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The first semester of a two-semester sequence of a first-year college chemistry course. This course treats concepts such as structure and properties of matter, electronic structure of atoms and compounds, chemical bonding, chemical reactions, thermochemistry, gas laws, and acid-base chemistry. Laboratory exercises providing hands-on experience with the concepts and experimental techniques of chemistry with emphasis on inquiry, green chemistry, safety, and proper laboratory conduct are integrated into the course. Three lectures plus one four-hour laboratory/discussion section per week.
Prerequisite(s): Math placement level 2 or completion of any MATH course (100 level or higher).
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CHEM 121 S - General Chemistry II
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The second semester of a two-semester sequence of a first-year college chemistry course. The course treats basic concepts such as properties of solutions, chemical equilibrium, chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, electrochemistry, and nuclear chemistry. Laboratory exercises providing hands-on experience with the concepts and experimental techniques of chemistry with emphasis on inquiry, green chemistry, safety, and proper laboratory conduct are integrated into the course. Three lectures plus one four-hour laboratory/discussion section per week.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Completion of CHEM 120; and math placement level 3 or completion of MATH 114A or MATH 114B or MATH 231 or higher.
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CHEM 200 - Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Green Chemistry is the design of products and processes while minimizing or eliminating the use or generation of hazardous materials. This course will introduce topics in green chemistry, including the 12 principles of green chemistry, metrics, toxicology and alleviation of environmental and ecological problems.
Offered Winterim, Spring Odd Years
Prerequisite(s): Completion of CHEM 120 or equivalent
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CHEM 321 - Organic Chemistry I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The first semester of a two-semester sequence in the study of the structure (electronic and geometric), properties, and reactions of compounds of carbon. Topics include the structure and physical properties of organic compounds, stereochemistry, reactions and their mechanisms, and structure-reactivity relationships. Lab experiments emphasize lecture concepts while introducing methods in organic synthesis and illustrating techniques such as crystallization, distillation, chromatography, and spectroscopic methods of compound characterization (with emphasis on nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy).
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121 with a minimum grade of C or consent of instructor.
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CHEM 323 - Organic Chemistry II
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
The second semester of a two-semester sequence in the study of the structure (electronic and geometric), properties, and reactions of compounds of carbon. Topics include the structure and physical properties of organic compounds, stereochemistry, reactions and their mechanisms, and structure-reactivity relationships. Lab experiments emphasize lecture concepts while introducing methods in organic synthesis and illustrating techniques such as crystallization, distillation, chromatography, and spectroscopic methods of compound characterization (with emphasis on nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy).
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 321.
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CHEM 340 - Biochemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
A study of the chemistry of biological systems. Topics include cellular constituents; chemical reactions involved in carbohydrate, protein, lipid, and nucleic acid metabolism; cellular energy metabolism; and enzyme kinetics. Previous or concurrent registration in courses in biological science is strongly recommended.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 323; BIO 152 or BIO 182 or consent of instructor.
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CHEM 351 U - Analytical Chemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of analytical chemistry including the treatment of experimental and safety data, gravimetric analysis, volumetric analysis, equilibrium, electrochemistry, chromatography, spectroscopy, and instrumentation and its use in analysis of elements and molecules.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121, and completion of MATH 114B or MATH 231 or a higher level course.
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CHEM 360 X - Relativity & Quantum Mechanics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
An introduction to relativity and quantum mechanics, and applications to atomic, solid state, and nuclear physics and chemistry. The laboratory component will explore these applications in more detail and also emphasize various forms of writing in the sciences.
Offered Spring Even Years
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 131 or PHYS 201; and MATH 231 with C or better. MATH 241 recommended.
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CHEM 361 - Thermodynamics & Kinetics
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Investigates the laws of thermodynamics, properties of the states of matter and dynamics. Cross-listed PHYS 361
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121; MATH 241 (with a C or better); PHYS 131 or PHYS 202
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CHEM 370 - Integrated Laboratory
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
An advanced laboratory course based on projects and problem sets agreed upon by the student and the instructor. The projects will incorporate experience from previous chemistry courses.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): Junior Standing
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CHEM 371 - Inorganic Chemistry I
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
An introduction to main group and transitional metal chemistry with emphasis on biologic uses of the elements. Two lectures per week.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121.
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CHEM 379 - Independent Study - Chemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Topics and credits arranged.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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CHEM 400 3 - Ethics & Responsibilty Sci Research
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
This course is intended for student who will be engaging in research in science or engineering. The student will be expected to prepare a personal statement about their ethics and responsibility to their field of science or engineering. Students will be expected to participate and engage in discussion of issues to become prepared for discourse with fellow professionals and the general public. Students will propose creative solutions for contemporary problems faced by the people working as scientific researchers.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121 or Consent of Instructor
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CHEM 420 - Advanced Biochemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Theory and practice in modern biochemistry and biochemical techniques.
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 340 .
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CHEM 431 X - Advanced Organic Chemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
An exploration of advanced concepts in organic chemistry such as chemical structure, properties of reactive intermediates, reaction mechanisms, kinetics, spectroscopic techniques, and synthetic methods. Topics will be explored by discussion of examples from the primary chemical literature; concepts will vary somewhat based upon student interest. A special emphasis will be placed on the development of scientific writing skills. Three discussions per week.
Offered Spring Odd Years
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 323, ENG 110.
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CHEM 469 - Special Topics in Chemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Advanced study of topics of special current interest in chemistry and related fields. Seminar/discussion format.
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CHEM 471 - Inorganic Chemistry II
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
A survey of inorganic reaction mechanisms, materials, organometallic, and solid state chemistry.
Offered Fall Odd Years
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 371.
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CHEM 479 - Independent Study - Chemistry
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Independent reading and research developed by the student with the approval and direction of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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CHEM 480 K - Chemistry Seminar
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
A seminar for upper-level chemistry majors to practice scientific communication skills and participate in discussion of topics in current research with fellow students and faculty. Students present a topic from the primary chemical literature. One seminar-format meeting per week.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Four semesters of chemistry.
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CHEM 489 - Undergraduate Research
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Opportunities for students to engage in research collaboratively with faculty or with researchers from other agencies. Note: This course may be taken multiple times.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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CHLF 200 D - Cultural Diversity Across the Care Spectrum
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students will explore, critically examine and experience the rich and varied cultural, linguistic and social diversity that comprises 21st century education and its history. Through self-analysis and reflection, students will gain a deeper understanding of what culture is and how it works, personal identity construction and the importance this personal awareness plays in the creation of a classroom culture that supports academic success for all students, regardless of cultural, social or linguistic background. Grounded in theories of intercultural competence, students will develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to engage students in ways that are culturally, socially and linguistically responsive and appropriate. Through materials and experiences facilitated in this course, students will gain an understanding of the ways in which social justice can be enacted in schools and the role of teachers as advocates and allies for an equitable, just and compassionate society.
Prerequisite(s): Studies in Education major with a Child Life concentration, and Sophomore standing or higher.
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CHLF 210 J - Infancy and Childhood
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is designed to provide a study of the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of the child through prenatal, infancy, early childhood, and middle childhood periods. It will focus on the comprehension, application, and analysis of theories and issues of childhood, including social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and moral development and learning. Special attention is given to educational implications for children from diverse backgrounds. A 20-30 hour practicum is required.
Prerequisite(s): ED 201 or concurrent, declared Child Life major, or consent of the instructor.
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CHLF 220 J - Adolescent Psychology
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is designed to provide a study of physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of the adolescent. It will focus on the comprehension, application, and analysis of theories and issues in adolescence, including social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and moral development and learning. Special attention is given to educational implications for adolescents from diverse backgrounds. A practicum is required.
Prerequisite(s): ED 200, ED 201 or concurrent, declared Child Life major, or consent of instructor.
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CHLF 301 - Introduction to Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The child life profession, including theoretical and historical perspectives on child life; programming, job availability, trends affecting academic preparation; program requirements, field experiences, including practicum placements, internships and volunteer experiences; supplemental career options; interviews and presentations of program directors, child life professionals, and alumnae working in the field of child life.
Prerequisite(s): Second year students only
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CHLF 308 - History of Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
An overview of the history of the child life profession, from the earliest development of pediatric care and the identification of psychosocial care for children in health care settings, through the emergence of child life as a professional organization. Topics will include fundamental theorists and researchers, and key pioneers whose work help define the profession, the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals, the Child Life Council, and the CLC Archives. This is a predominantly online course.
Prerequisite(s): CHLF 301
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CHLF 311C - Wellness and Ethics in Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course provides introductory knowledge and skills to integrate concepts of health, nutrition, and physical fitness into the programming created by professional child life specialists. Instruction in developmentally appropriate programs for physical fitness and health promotion will build ethical understandings of personal and community health issues.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Studies in Education, Child Life major.
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CHLF 324 - The Helping Relationship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The role of the professional in helping relationships; family/professional partnerships emphasized. Includes childhood traumas, skills and methods of communication, personal support, and facilitation; personal assessment of skills needed in helping relationship professions, including child life, special education, social work, nursing, counseling, and teaching.
Prerequisite(s): CHLF 210 or PSY 345
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CHLF 360 - Medical Terminology for Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This medical terminology course will provide framework for medical terminology used in the hospital setting. This course is primary help online.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Child Life
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CHLF 370 - Psychosocial Care Hspt Hospital Fam
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Effects of hospitalization on children, adolescents and families at each stage of development. Focus on applied theory and interventions to lessen the stress of hospitalization. The role of family systems and the relationship with the child life specialist as a member of the health care team will be explored. A practicum is required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Child Life
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CHLF 372 - Materials Methods Play Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Materials and methodology for Child Life activity programs; including preparation, therapeutic medical play, distraction and coping.
Prerequisite(s): CHLF 370, ED 375 and admission to Child Life
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CHLF 375 - Pediatric Conditions & Research
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Common medical diseases and conditions of children and adolescents, including those requiring surgical intervention. Emerging treatment and innovative research methods in child life and the healthcare environment will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Child Life
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CHLF 399 - Practicum Experience
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This practicum is a supervised experience that fulfills hours that may not have been completed with previous courses. The content of the experience is determined by faculty and practicum supervisor.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): None.
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CHLF 400 - Child life independent study
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This independent study is based on Instructor appoval only.
Offered Other
Course Fee: No
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CHLF 418 - Learning through Play
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is designed to nurture play in the learning process and to appreciate each individual’s unique style of play. Research related to play in health, naturalistic assessment learning, and work will be highlighted and methods will include experiences designed to incorporate play into work and living environments. Interactive and fosters creativity. A practicum is required.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): Declared Education Major OR Studies in Education Major with a child life concentration OR Child Life Major.
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CHLF 475 3 - Child Family Internship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 12
This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply academic and clinical skills learned in the classroom in a professional program setting under the supervision of a Certified Child Life Specialist. Students will be required to explore the application of their unique background and foundation included with interpersonal skills to develop a philosophy and professional standard that will encourage their emerging role as a family centered health care professional. Consideration of all current aspects of multidisciplinary health care will be included as students create an understanding of medical, psychosocial, and ethical care of children in hospitals and health care settings.
Offered Fall, Winterim, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all other coursework.
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CHLF 600 - History of Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will cover the theoretical perspectives of the care of children in hospitals beginning in the 1800’s and the researchers that created the foundations of psychosocial care of children.
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CHLF 601 - Introduction to Child Life
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The child life profession, including theoretical and historical perspectives on child life; programming, job availability, trends affecting academic preparation; program requirements, field experiences, including practicum placements, internships and volunteer experiences; supplemental career options; interviews and presentations of program directors, child life professionals, and alumnae working in the field of child life.
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CHLF 610 - Child, Youth, and Adolescent Devel
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The course will review all areas of development from infancy, childhood, youth, and adolescence. The course will examine direct applications of the knowledge and use of developmental theory to the practice of an effective child life professional.
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CHLF 620 - Psychosocial Care Hspt Child Family
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will look at effects of hospitalization on infants, children, adolescents, and families at each stage of development. This course will focus on applied theory and interventions to lessen the stress of hospitalization. The role of family systems and the relationship with the child life specialist as a member of the health care team will be explored. A practicum is required.
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CHLF 630 - Medical Terminology
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will use a systematic approach to basic medical terminology vocabulary. The knowledge obtained in this course will help students to successfully navigate in health care settings. Through the course and semester assignments students will learn ways to incorporate medical terminology in child life practice, interventions and resources.
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CHLF 640 - Semi: Communication and Collab
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This seminar course will examine a variety of communication styles, both verbal and written, that will ensure effective communication with patients and families, child life colleagues, and the interdisciplinary health team. Strategies for effective collaboration with these groups will be explored. Documentation and charting styles will also be reviewed.
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CHLF 650 - Semi: Leadership and Intern Prep
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The goal of this course is to help the student prepare for the various steps of the internship application process, including resumes, written essays, and interviews. This course will explore leadership theories and styles to better prepare students for success as child life specialists.
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CHLF 660 - Peds Cond Eff on Child Growth/Devel
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course reviews the common medical diseases and conditions of children and adolescents, including those requiring surgical intervention. Emerging treatments and innovative research in child life and the health care environment will be explored.
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CHLF 670 - Materials and Methods of Play
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will explore various materials and methodology for child life play/activity programs, including preparation, therapeutic play, distraction, and coping.
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CHLF 680 - Loss, Bereavement, and Trauma
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will study a variety of special needs, interventions, and coping strategies for dealing with crisis situations of emergency room trauma, dying children and youth, and grieving families. This course will present an overview of child life services and programming in the following settings: emergency department, trauma, critical care, death and dying, grief and bereavement.
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CHLF 699 - Child Life Practicum
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1.5
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 1.5
Experiential learning and observation of Certified Child Life Specialists, child life practicum students begin to increase their knowledge of evidence-based, developmentally-appropriate interventions including therapeutic play, preparation and education that support and reduce fear, anxiety and pain for infants, children, youth and families as they cope with the stress and uncertainty of illness, injury and treatment. Through these experiences, child life practicum students will enhance their knowledge of the child life profession and investigate the process of applying child life and developmental theory to practice.
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CHLF 700 - Child Life Field Experience
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
The child life internship consists of supervised observation of and participation in child life programming for hospitalized children and adolescents in pediatric hospitals, community hospitals or other approved health care facilities.
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COMMS 100 O - Introduction to Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will introduce students to concepts in interpersonal, organizational, public and mediated communication, and will focus primarily on developing applied communication competencies in the following areas: personal relationships, conflict management, careers, small groups, public presentations, basic media literacy and civic engagement.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 110 1 - Justice and Sports
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course examines how we talk about sports, and for what purposes. The sporting world provides us with opportunities to talk about issues of social importance that we might otherwise ignore. Recent controversies within the sporting world have inspired nationwide discussions about racism, sexism and gender equality, the exploitation of college athletes, corruption in college sports, labor issues, violence, health and safety issues, or the use of sport as propaganda. By examining the world of “sports talk” through a communication perspective, students will understand how the sporting world functions as both a reflection of our social shortcomings and a site for social change.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): This course is for first semester freshmen or freshmen transfer students.
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COMMS 201 - Communication and Civilization
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Provides students with the history of the discipline and the importance of communication in the development of civilization. The class covers the contributions of rhetoric and communications theory from early Greek times to the present, and offers vital insight to past and future contributions of Communication Studies.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 100
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COMMS 219 - Applied Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
A practicum course providing guided experience in applied communication.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 225 - Advanced Applied Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
A practicum course providing advanced guided experience in applied communication.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 232 2 - Civic Engagement & the Common Good
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
While serving as volunteers with a Madison-area social service organization, students will develop an understanding of the values implicit in organizations of this sort and their importance to the broader community. Through classroom work and volunteer activities, students will learn the essential role of communication in an organization’s internal functioning and its relation to society at large. Among other activities, students will develop a significant public message (oral presentation, brochure, report, or web inclusion) related to some aspect of organizational communication. The volunteer time commitment will be 15 hours per student to be scheduled during the semester. Students will need to be available to spend at least 2 hours per visit. This time commitment does not include travel time between Edgewood and the organizational partner. Students may be assigned a variety of volunteer roles.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.
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COMMS 240 - Intro to Interpersonl Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Examines the fundamental elements of interpersonal communication. Students will explore strategies for listening effectively, resolving conflict constructively, and using respectful language to improve interpersonal communication and relationships. The process of interpersonal communication is not as simple as it might first appear. This course looks at how scholarship can inform everyday interaction and explores how research and theories can lead to more effective and satisfying relationships.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 100
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COMMS 242 - Intro to Organizational Comm
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Explores the communication that originates from and within profit and non-profit organizations. A survey of concepts, theories, and research helps the student to apply communication knowledge to the professional environment and prepare for a successful career.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 240
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COMMS 243 - Introduction to Media Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Explores the structure, history, functions, potentials, and impact of mass and mediated communication in the U.S., with a focus on how culture and mass media influence each other.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 100 , COMMS 242 , ENG 110
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COMMS 250 - Relational Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Examines the fundamental elements of interpersonal communication within the context of developing relationships. This course explores the forces that bring people together, keep them together, and separate and divide them. Whether with roommates, lovers, parents, or friends, we are constantly experiencing how communication behavior affects our relationships. It is within the context of our relationships with others that abstract concepts like feedback, perception, and conflict resolution become increasingly relevant. Therefore, theories and concepts covered in this course are examined against the backdrop of students’ actual relationships.
Offered Spring Odd Years
Course Fee: No
Prerequisite(s): None
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COMMS 260 X - Writing for the Media
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course introduces students to writing in a professional environment and to the forms of writing for the mass media (including news and feature stories for print and broadcast, advertising copy, writing for the Web, and writing for public relations). The class is heavily practice-based, with the majority of the final grade coming from weekly writing assignments and in-class writing workshops. The main course objective is for students to leave the class able to write clearly, concisely, and appropriately for a variety of media settings.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the Written Communication requirement (ENG 110 ).
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COMMS 280 - Introduction to Public Relations
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is an overview of the functions, practices, and applications of public relations in private industry and the public sector, both in the U.S and abroad. We will examine the nature and role of PR, its historical development, activities of PR professionals, the ethics of public relations, and professional development of those working in the field.
Offered Fall
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COMMS 290 K - Professional Presentations
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students will develop an understanding of the communication skills and expectations involved in professional, organizational, and public life. Such expectations include the ability to devise effective and ethical communication messages that respond appropriately to informative, persuasive, crisis communication, interviewing, and ceremonial speaking situations.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the Written Communication requirement (ENG 110 ) and completion of the Oral Communication requirement (COMMS 100 ).
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COMMS 294 2V - Science Community Engagement
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is for students who are interested in how science can be communicated to the community at large. Students will examine the roles of the scientists and science educators in society. Topics for discussion will include: ethical and controversial issues in science, the various ways scientific knowledge is conveyed to the public, and how the general public uses science in their lives. Through intensive community engagement, students will develop a sense of the role scientists and science educators play in the community at large. NOTE: Some class meetings or community outreach may occur on nights and weekends. Cross-listed NATS 294
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school; completion of Written Communication requirement (ENG 110 ).
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COMMS 295 K - Soc Media: Brands, Influencers & Hm
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course will help students understand how social media has changed the way we do business and explore the influence of social networks and personal connections. Learning will take place both in virtual and face-to-face environments. Students who complete this course will know how to create profiles, appropriately post, tweet, comment, chat and tag. Students will gain confidence in their participation in virtual communities and have hands-on experience with the latest social media platforms, developing the online communication skills that today’s employers demand.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 311 - Qualitative Comms Research Methods
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course aims to help students gain an essential view of qualitative inquiry within communication contexts. This course entails the following specific objectives: to examine the theoretical traditions of qualitative methods in the field of communication; to understand various approaches to qualitative inquiry such as interviewing, focus groups, and ethnography; to critique written qualitative research in communication journals and identify ways to improve it; and to develop skills and techniques to design a qualitative research project, including collecting and analyzing qualitative data and writing up qualitative findings.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above. Completion of COMMS 100 , COMMS 313 , and ENG 110 .
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COMMS 312 KU - Argument and Controversy
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This study of argumentation and controversy is designed to cultivate concepts and abilities which are practically important to the use of reasoned discourse in public contexts which involve disagreement, doubt, and/or opposition. The course aims at developing competence in the conduct of arguments calling for policy decision both in isolation and within public contexts. It seeks to enhance a student’s ability to analyze, criticize, produce, and report arguments. The course also explores functions of argumentation in democratic societies.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Introduction to Communication (COMMS 100 ) or concurrent enrollment in Introduction to Communication; completion of Logic: Practice of Critical Thinking (CRIT 101 )
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COMMS 313 - Quantitative Comm Research Methods
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Provides students with tools to better understand quantitative social science and communication research. The class covers the basics of scientific inquiry, choosing participants, making generalizations, developing instruments, and collecting/analyzing data for communication research. Students will design and conduct a quantitative research project exploring a communication question of their choice using the online survey tool Qualtrics. The research experience will emphasize information and technological literacy, which will include finding, evaluating and analyzing relevant information, understanding research ethics in the digital age, and using a variety of information sources and technological tools.
Offered Fall
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher. COMMS 201
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COMMS 314 - Persuasion Promotion & Advertising
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course investigates persuasive communication with a special focus on advertising and promotion. Students are introduced to theories of persuasion, integrated marketing communication tools, and the practical application of persuasive communication methods.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 315 - Nonverbal Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course explores theory, research and practical applications of nonverbal communication in interpersonal relationships. It examines various types of nonverbal communication, including kinesics, proxemics, vocalics, haptics, artifacts, and chonemics. It also considers how communicators and their environment influence nonverbal behaviors in relationships, as well as the use of nonverbal behaviors for specific purposes, such as managing one’s image, expressing emotions, managing conversations, processing messages, deceiving, and influencing others.
Offered Spring
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 240 .
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COMMS 317 D - Intercultural Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is the study of how individuals perceive and react to cultural rules, and how those perceptions and reactions affect the ways they communicate with one another. The general goals of the class are for students to develop understanding of the role that identity plays in intercultural communication, develop understanding of how cultural rules affect communication, learn how cultures differ from each other and how they come together and coexist, and develop competence in communicating with people of various cultures in the United States and beyond.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 240 and COMMS 242
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COMMS 319 2 - Mass Comm Cmpgn: Comm 4 Public Good
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course asks students to investigate how communication campaigns can help improve the quality of life for diverse individuals and populations. Working in teams, students will develop the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to plan, design, and carry out a communication campaign for a real-world client, a nonprofit organization. The issue addressed in this campaign will depend on the needs of the nonprofit organization, but whatever the issue, students will carefully consider relevant aspects of diversity including culture, gender, socioeconomic status, and more.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school; background in mediated communication (possibly from COMMS 243 , COMMS 260 , or a graphic design course) is suggested but not required.
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COMMS 320 - Group Discussion & Team Leadership
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Communication makes a difference in small groups. In this course students will examine leading theories and methodological approaches focused on the link between communication and group outcomes. Students will have the opportunity to apply these theories and methods to real-life groups. Students will cover such topics as group processes, functionalism, decision making, emotions, leadership, social identity and conflict. The objective is to learn not only how to be a more effective group member but also how to evaluate and improve group experience, achievement and interaction.
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COMMS 325 JKQ - Gender, Culture, and Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
In this course we will examine how gender is communicated within cultural and institutional settings (how we come to know what it is to be a woman or a man), the multiple ways humans communicate within and across gender lines (how we express ourselves as gendered individuals and why we do it many different ways), and the relationship of the two. We will also look at how feminists’ theories illuminate gender issues in communication. Cross-listed WS325
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 378 - Communication Teaching Practicum
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Students get hands-on experience in college-level teaching by working closely with a Communication Studies faculty member to assist in class preparation and instructional activities in a given course. Student must arrange practicum contract with supervising instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Prior satisfactory completion of the course in which the student is serving as teaching assistant, and consent of instructor.
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COMMS 379 - Independent Study - Comm Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 1
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Independent Study of selected topics in Communication Arts developed by the student with the approval and direction of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
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COMMS 430 - Special Topics in Comm Studies
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
A variable topics seminar that treats specialized areas of communications study, e.g., health communications, communication, communication and the environment, persuasion, and marginalized communities.
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 430A - Topics: Health Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 430B - Topics: Afro-American Communication
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course explores African-American language, culture and communication with in-depth and critical interpretations within a social and historical context. Cross-listed ETHS430B
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 430D - Tpc: Unspinning Campaign Rhetoric
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Characteristic of political campaigns is the “spinning” of factual information. Campaigners employ a variety of techniques including bending “facts,” mischaracterizing the words of others, and ignoring or denying crucial evidence to create support for their value and/or policy positions. Guided by previous communication research, students will identify important assertions of fact in the campaigns of state and local candidates in the 2010 elections and seek to verify such assertions by consulting relevant literature and experts. If the candidates’ assertions are not supported, the candidates themselves will be asked for clarification. The study will be conducted within the context of general campaign communication and will pursue such questions as “What political realities encourage “spin?” “What is the ethical importance of veracity in political speech?” “What is the role of the media in perpetuating “spin” and/or “fact checking” assertions made in political campaigns?”
Prerequisite(s): None.
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COMMS 440 3 - Senior Capstone
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
This course is meant to serve as a summary “capstone” experience that will help students integrate what they have learned in their college experience–in and out of the classroom–with their plans for the future. It helps students reflect upon and prepare to present their accomplishments, develop resumes/curriculum vitas, practice communication-theory-based interviewing skills, and explore avenues for locating career and graduate study opportunities as well as opportunities for developing a rich and fulfilling life outside the professional realm through civic engagement. The course also guides students in reflecting on Edgewood’s COR questions in the context of their chosen field.
Offered Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): COR2, Senior standing.
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COMMS 450 - Communication Internship
Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
This course provides an opportunity for the communications studies student to intern in a professional organization and to develop an understanding of the range of professional practice within the field. The practicum will be supervised by program faculty working with a mentoring member of the organization interning the student. The student, the faculty member, and the interning organization’s mentor will develop a printed contract with stated learning objectives, means of performance evaluation, and expected time commitments. The student is expected to successfully complete all required expectations of the organization as well as the expectations of the faculty mentor. 3 credits = 160 (minimum) to 240 hours 4 credits = 241-321 hours 5 credits = 233-401 hours 6 credits = 402-482 hours.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): COMMS 243 and COMMS 317
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