COMM in Summer 2022!

Tired of finding yourself on the losing side of an argument with your friends or significant other? Want to increase your ability to win those debates? Argument and Debate (COMM 3345) is an excellent way to learn logical argumentative skills in a fun but challenging format. It is an excellent course for those planning a career in law, business, public relations, or any form of advocacy. Students learn how to research and develop arguments; package and organize their arguments into speeches; and shape the presentational format in creative ways. If you are looking for a course that will give you stellar cross examination skills, improve your ability to think and speak under pressure, and be more confident in defending your points of view, this class is for you! After this class you will be able to picture yourself in the leading role of your favorite courtroom or political drama! LBJ attributed his success in politics to the skills he gained while a debater at Texas State. Your journey to success starts with COMM 3345.

Course Catalog Description: A study of basic principles of argumentation emphasizing analysis, evidence, reasoning, and refutation and their applications in formal and informal debate contexts. Students will do laboratory work with the University forensics squad.

Prerequisite: COMM 1310

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Courses offered for summer:

1. Section 751- Summer II, San Marcos Campus, in-person MTWTF, 12:00-1:40.

Course Catalog Description: This course examines various styles of formal and informal communication and builds awareness and understanding of diversity. It will address diversity issues in social characteristics such as age, gender, race, and sexual orientation. It will address how society communicates about issues related to diversity.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. 

Course Attributes:
Multicultural Content 

Courses offered for summer:

1. Section 751 - summer II, online.
2. Section 752 - summer II, online.

COMM 3301 is a basic research methods course where you will develop skills to review the literature, formalize hypotheses or research questions, design survey, collect and analyze data. We will discuss several data collection methods: interviews, focus groups, surveys over the semester. Specifically, you will be trained to develop scientific surveys using Qualtrics and learn basic data analysis in MS Excel, you will also be introduced to a social science analysis software (SPSS). Remember there are no assumptions about your previous work in statistics or research methods, we will meet you where you are!

Course Catalog Description: This course explores how to conduct and interpret communication research through the scientific method.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Courses offered for summer:

1. Section 501 - Summer I, online.

Communication 1310 is about learning and practicing communication skills that make you a more thoughtful, critical, and cooperative person. It’s all about being a better human. Through engaging in class discussions and experiential learning activities, we will learn about how and why we communicate the way we do AND how we can always improve our communication skills. None of us are perfect, but being a good communicator will help us get that much closer to perfect! The abilities to speak, listen and observe nonverbal cues effectively are crucial to personal and professional relationships. This course focuses on the communication processes that drive relationships, help us manage conflict, and make people feel included.  We will explore together how messages and meanings vary with and between people and cultures in three specific communication contexts: interpersonal, small group, and public speaking. 

Course Catalog Description: This course examines the speaking and listening principles and techniques that are fundamental for every aspect of human communication. The course develops basic verbal and nonverbal communication skills and knowledge in three specific contexts: interpersonal, small group, and public speaking.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Course Attribute(s): Component Area Core 090|Communication CAO 091|Lab Required|Time Conflicts Permitted

Courses schedule for summer:

1. Section 501 - summer I, San Marcos campus, in-person MTWRF, 10:00-11:40
2. Section 502 - summer I, online.
3. Section 751 - summer II, online.

Course Catalog Description: This course studies communication principles and theories exploring interpersonal interactions with emphasis on conceptual foundations, personal growth and skill enhancement.

Prerequisite: COMM 1310 with a grade of "D" or better.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Course schedule for summer:

1. Section 501 - summer I, online.

Course Catalog Description: An advanced course in communication designed to examine in detail the phenomenon of leadership in groups and organizations. Various theories and approaches to leadership will be surveyed with an emphasis on applying leadership principles.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Course schedule for summer:

1. Section 501 - summer I, online.

Course Catalog Description: An investigation of rhetorical and behavioral theories of persuasion, the devising of persuasive campaigns, as well as the consumption and generation of persuasive messages in a variety of communication settings. Applicable for careers in business, law, and human relations.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. 

Course schedule for summer:

1. Section 751 - Summer II, San Marcos campus, in-person MTWRF, 10:00-11:40.

Employers identify communication—both oral and written—as one of the top skills they look for in job applicants. COMM 2338, Public Speaking, offers you a chance to develop your oral communication skills. Do you get nervous speaking in front of an audience? This class will give you skills, strategies, and practice to improve your public speaking. Do you already love to speak to an audience? Great! You’ll get more practice in a variety of contexts to hone your public speaking. This class will provide a supportive environment with lots of constructive feedback to prepare you for public speaking in your educational and professional life.

Speak up and speak out! Communication 2338 will help you find your voice and express yourself in public. Whether you are reporting on a project at work, running for public office, protesting on an issue of social justice, representing your company at a press conference, or speaking at a town hall meeting, effective public speaking skills are essential to influencing people and creating professional, social, and political change.  -  Jeremy Hutchins, Senior Lecturer

Course Catalog Description: This course helps the student to develop personal speaking skills and introduces principles of contemporary types of speeches.

Prerequisite: COMM 1310 with a grade of "D" or better.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Course schedule for summer:

1. Section 501 - summer I, San Marcos campus, in-person MTWR, 11:00-1:05.
2. Section 751 - summer II, San Marcos campus, in-person MTWRF, 11:00-12:40.

Graduate-level: This course has the explicit goal of decentering the white-colonial-normative cores of theoretical scholarly inquiry as we revisit, critique, reimage, and reconstruct communication theories and concepts. This course is meant as an intervention and radical upheaval of “traditional” communication thought and theorizing, and imbeds differences of racial, cultural, physical, and gendered standpoints. Not only are we learning about these theories, but the instructional position of this course will give you the ability and skills to teach communication from an inclusive theoretical lens. We will utilize the Austin, Orbe, Sims (2021) text which features both established and promising scholars, facilitates an understanding of how the communicative experiences of marginalized groups fit in previously conceived theoretical frameworks, and offers innovative conceptions of communication theorizing centered in/through the perspectives of African American/Black, Latinx, Asian American, Indigenous/First Nations people, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Course Catalog Description: This course is an examination of theories of human communication contexts including interpersonal, family, intercultural, organizational, and instructional communication. The course may be repeated with a different topic.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Levels: Doctoral Level- Research/Sch, Graduate Post Baccalaureate, Graduate/Masters

Course Attributes:
Exclude from 3-peat Processing

Course schedule for summer:

1. Section 751 - summer II, online, MTWR 10:00am -12:05pm

Course Catalog Description: This course focuses on communication in small groups and teams including an analysis of the structure and skills involved in managing the task and relational components of group work. Special emphasis is placed on problem solving discussion, effective meeting leadership and participation, and critical thinking. 

Prerequisite: COMM 1310 with a grade of "D" or better.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours.

Course schedule for summer:

1. Section 501 - summer I, San Marcos campus, in-person MTWTF, 2:00-3:40.