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(some of these are pretty old)

Social Media

New Media Audiences. A graduate seminar about how the internet changes audience practices and the meaning of 'audiences'. Looks at audiences vs publics, fan creativity and its relation to industry, activism and more.

Communication and New Technology. A graduate/undergraduate bridge course designed around reading new books.

Personal Relationships and Communication Technologies. A graduate seminar examining how the internet, telephone, telegraph, and other technologies mediate our personal relationships.

Communication on the Internet An undergrad course that examines the nature of communication online, its potential consequences offline, and the ways on and offline life are interwoven. Covers issues including identity, relationships, community, access, gender, health, and politics.

Internet Studies A graduate seminar team taught with Dr. John Monberg several years ago now. Issues include methods, ethics, identity, community, relationships, space, the public sphere, and other good stuff. This won't be taught again, but it's still a good resource syllabus.

Research Methods

Qualitative Methods A graduate methods seminar in the logic of qualitative methods, the research process, and methods including participant-observation, interviewing, discourse analysis, and document analysis.

Qualitative Data Analysis A graduate methods follow-up seminar about turning data collected through qualitative research into insightful analyses.

Language and Discourse Analysis A graduate seminar combining methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding how language works to create social context and identities.

Ethnography of Communication A graduate methods course that includes the qualitative methods of participant-observation and interviewing used in the service of describing and explaining a cultural whole.

Interpersonal Communication

Introduction to Theories of Interpersonal Communication This is a survey lecture-discussion course in Interpersonal Communication. The course covers models of communication, social cognition, and the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of interpersonal relationships.

Nonverbal Communication This is a survey lecture-discussion course in Nonverbal Communication for upper leve undergraduates and graduate students. The course covers nonverbal codes, culture, gender and emotional expression along with oodles of other interesting topics.