COMMuniqué: From COMM Advising

Fall registration begins on March 20 at 7am, but please check the “Enrollment Appointment” section of your Student Center, in the Student Admin system, for YOUR assigned pick date/time: 

http://studentadmin.uconn.edu/help/students/registration-appointment-time/

In addition to the COMM courses we regularly offer, there are a few new (or returning) options this Fall to which I wanted to draw your attention.

• COMM 2100  Professional Communication is now offered as a large lecture hall format, with several discussion groups that meet at various times, in order to accommodate the increased demand for the course. Here’s a brief description:  This course is designed to examine professional and business communication.  We will discuss various methods of business communication as well as designing professional messages.  This course will take a professional perspective – there will be many assignments and they will be done in a short period of time.  Further, this course will study some theoretical aspects of the organization.  For more information, please contact Prof. Meade (thomas.meade@uconn.edu).

• COMM 3200  Interpersonal Communication (section 001) is now offered in a hybrid/Blended format, which Prof. Denes explains this way: “Over half of the course will take place online. Much of the lecture material will be presented online and through course readings. There will be several in-person symposiums; in-person class time will also be used for special presentations, exams, group work, and group presentations.”  For more information, please contact Prof. Amanda Denes (Amanda.denes@uconn.edu). 

• COMM 4120  Communication Campaigns and Applied Research will be offered again. Here’s an excerpt from Prof. Snyder’s syllabus: “The purpose of this course is to learn how to design a good communication campaign.  This is a practical course, designed to give you practical skills.  You will learn two qualitative research techniques -- interviewing and focus groups -- that can be applied to marketing, advertising, public relations, political campaigns, health education, radio or television program development, counseling, public opinion polling, etc… This class is for people who are curious and eager to try qualitative research” (Fall 2013).  For more information, please contact Prof. Snyder (leslie.snynder@uconn.edu). 

• COMM 4320 Media and Diverse Audiences will be offered again. Prof. Rios’ Spring 2015 syllabus explains who the course is intended for “any student who (1) is planning a career in the communication field (2) wishes to have a more complex understanding of mass media in a diverse world. A goal of this class is to offer students an environment in which they take a serious look at general market (mainstream) media, alternative media and specialized audience segments.” 

• COMM 4470  Soap Opera/Telenovela is being offered again.  Prof. Rios’ Spring 2016 syllabus included the following course objectives:
• Identify international and domestic television programs of particular social and commercial value in soap opera/drama/telenovela history.
• Identify motivating factors (e.g. nation’s technological development level, profit, consumer desires) involved in global flows (distribution, export, import, ideas) of television programs.
• Differentiate unique country styles for content (e.g. aesthetics, length, themes, technical quality, etc.) among international and domestic television programs.  For more information, please contact Prof. Diana Rios (diana.rios@uconn.edu)

•  COMM 4998 Variable Topics - Social Media: Research & Practice. 

  According to the course instructor, Prof. Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, “The purpose of this course is to examine social media from multiple perspectives, including theories that guide our understanding of their effects on individuals and society, current research on their role in various settings, and practical applications of them in personal and professional use…. Students will learn to review and critique the current research on social media, as well as conduct their own research of the existing literature. Students will also learn applied skills and best practices of social media use as a set of communication tools.”  For more info, please contact Prof. Oeldorf-Hirsch,anne.oeldorf-hirsch@uconn.edu

  (The course will eventually be offered as COMM 4460, but until the catalog updates are processed, it is offered this semester as a Variable Topics course.  You are eligible to take this course even if you’ve already taken COMM 4998 before.)

For more information, contact: Joel at jose.nebres@uconn.edu