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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

Course Information

Catalog Course Definitions 

Core – Course is approved for specific core curriculum (i.e. arts and sciences curriculum; quantitative reasoning and mathematical skills)

Cross-Listed – Class that is offered along with another class that has the same topic, title, and course content. Max Hours displayed for each cross-listed class is the total number of hours allowed for all courses completed within a particular cross-listed group. See below for more information on Max Hours.

Gt - Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer as part of the gtPathways program. 

Max Hours (in Course Description) – Total number of applicable credit hours that count toward a student’s degree for a particular course or cross-listed group.

Requisite: 

  • Prerequisite – Specific course completed or “in progress” (i.e. ENGL 1020 or ENGL 1020 with C- or higher)
  • Corequisite – Specific course taken at the same time (i.e. BIOL 2071 taken same time as BIOL 2051)
  • Restriction – Restricted to a specific population (i.e. Restricted to MUSC majors or junior standing, etc.)

Course Number Definitions:

  • 1000 - 4999 Undergraduate Level
  • 5000 - 9999 Graduate Level
 

Communication
  

  • COMM 3271 - Communication and Diversity


    Explores the complexities of communication across diverse identities such as race, ethnicity, and gender. Course attempts to seek solutions via sharing meaning and discovering common ground. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 3275 - Family Communication


    Explores family communication processes in traditional and nontraditional families through examination of theories and research on the family. Topics include conflict, family secrets, decision-making, and practical guidelines for improved communication in families. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 3640 - TV, Culture, & Communication


    This course examines television theories and histories, from broadcast TV to internet streaming. Investigating TV industries and representations, students will gain an understanding of TV’s role in contemporary culture. Term offered: spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 3650 - Media and Society


    Approaches communication from a historical perspective, examining how major revolutions in communication technologies have influenced and impacted society over time. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Prereq: COMM 1021 with a C- or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 3660 - Social Media for Social Change


    Students analyze new social media platforms in terms of their textual and visual content, their software structure, and their interactive features, thus learning how to analyze and produce online content intended to spur social change. Prereq: Students must have completed COMM 1011 and COMM 2020 with a C- or higher, or receive permission from the instructor, to enroll in this course. Term offered: fall, spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 3840 - Independent Study


    Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the CLAS undergraduate advising office for approval. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • COMM 3939 - Internship


    Applies communication or technical communication concepts and skills in supervised employment situations. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Prereq: Students must havecompleted 15 credit hours at CU Denver and have a 2.75 GPA overall and must work with the Experiential Learning Center advising to complete a course contract and gain approval. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • COMM 4000 - Communication and Sport


    Examines the language and imagery used in sporting discourse. Considers how sports reflect and refract culture, both positively and negatively. Cross-list COMM 5000. Term offered: fall, spring. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4015 - Communication and Civility


    Examines the central role of communication in the creation of a civil and humane society. The definition, understanding, and practices of civility in public discourse and in professional, social, and personal relationships are explored. Film, literature, music, and other texts are utilized to illustrate key concepts and serve as catalysts for discussion. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4020 - Feminist Perspectives on Communication


    Introduces the communication theories of major feminist theorists such as Mary Daly, Bell Hooks, and Sonia Johnson, with a focus on how their theories challenge and transform current understandings of communication. Cross-listed with COMM 5020. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4021 - Perspectives on Rhetoric


    Introduces major theories of rhetoric from classical through contemporary times, including the theories of Aristotle, Cicero, I. A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas. Cross-listed with COMM 5021. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4022 - Critical Analysis of Communication


    Surveys research methods used to analyze messages from rhetorical and critical perspectives. Cross-listed with COMM 5022. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4031 - Perspectives on Communication


    Overview of major theories and literature in the communication field that serve as the foundation for the study of communication. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4040 - Communication, Prisons, and Social Justice


    Examines the U.S. prison-industrial complex and enables students to envision ways of reducing crime and improving democracy by engaging in community service. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Strongly Recommended: Students complete COMM 2020 or COMM 2030 prior to taking this class. Cross-listed with COMM 5040. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4051 - Advanced Strategic Communication


    Provides senior-level training in hands-on communication environments where targeted messaging seeks specific outcomes. All students complete projects for community group, media outlet or corporation they choose. Students will not receive credit for this class if they have already received credit for COMM 4640. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Prereq: Students must have completed COMM 2051 or COMM 2071 or COMM 3680 with a C- or higher, or receive permission from the instructor, to enroll in this course. Cross-listed with COMM 5051. Term offered: fall, spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4082 - Wilderness Communication


    The primary goal of this course is to engage issues of wilderness, communication, and environmental sustainability. Students will read philosophical, theoretical, and academic literature on human symbolic constructions of wilderness. Cross-listed with COMM 5082. Term offered: summer, fall. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4111 - Theories of Leadership


    Examines research and applications related to the major theories of leadership. Emphasizes a critical reading of research confirming or denying various theories, and stresses the historical development of theories of leadership behavior and characteristics. Cross-listed with COMM 5111. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4215 - Ethics in Communication


    Designed to help students identify and address the daily ethical challenges that occur in private, social, and professional contexts. Focus is on recognizing, analyzing, and resolving real-world ethical dilemmas using diverse approaches to ethical decision-making. Cross-listed with COMM 5215. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4221 - Research Methods: Qualitative


    Applies qualitative research methods to human communication practices, including the processes of designing qualitative studies, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting results. Cross-listed with COMM 5221. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4230 - Nonverbal Communication


    Studies nonverbal behaviors that accompany or replace verbal communication, including macrospace, proxemics, kinesics, facial expression, eye contact, gestures, vocal characteristics, touch and personal adornment. Cross-listed with COMM 5230. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4240 - Organizational Communication


    Addresses the relationships among such communication factors as flow, media, channel, diversity, information delivery and organization functioning, morale, and productivity. Stresses functional workplace skills and practices. Cross-listed with COMM 5240. Term offered: fall, spring. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4245 - Advanced Organizational Communication


    Explores critical theoretical perspectives on communication in complex organizations, including issues and standpoints that have not been included in mainstream theory and research. Analyzes assumptions and pragmatic solutions associated with these theories. Cross-listed with COMM 5245. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4255 - Negotiations and Bargaining


    Designed to allow students to study theories and apply concepts that explain the influences of various forms of mediating, reducing, and/or resolving conflict among individuals, groups, organizations, nations and cultures. Cross-listed with COMM 5255. Term offered: summer. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4260 - Communication and Conflict


    Studies the influence of communication on intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup conflict situations. Cross-listed with COMM 5260. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4262 - Mediation


    Explores theoretical and practical aspects of mediation in a variety of contexts ranging from divorce mediation to labor-management disputes. Cross-listed with COMM 5262. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4265 - Gender and Communication


    Examines gender as it is constructed, performed, evaluated, and negotiated through communication. Topics covered include the nature of gender, the gender binary, scientific research on gender, gender stories in popular culture, the process of crafting and performing gender stories, and responses to gender performances. Cross-listed with COMM 5265. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4268 - Communication and Diversity in U.S. History


    Explores issues of diversity and community in the construction of U.S. culture. Emphasis on legal and historical texts that codify or challenge majoritarian notions of difference and systems of social control. Cross-listed with COMM 5268. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4270 - Intercultural Communication


    Examines the philosophy, process, problems, and potentials unique to communication across cultural boundaries. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Cross-listed with COMM 5270. Term offered: fall, spring. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4280 - Communication and Change


    Examines the role of communication in change processes of various kinds, including social change and diffusion of innovations. Cross-listed with COMM 5280. Prereq: COMM 2082 with a C- or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4282 - Environmental Communication


    Studies the communication processes involved in policies and practices affecting natural and human environments. Cross-listed with COMM 5282. Term offered: spring. Prereq: COMM 2082 with a C- or higher permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4290 - Web Design


    Covers writing web pages in HTML, beginning Photoshop, style sheets, bitmapped animations, issues of usable layout, navigability, structure, typography, and color on the web. Projects require students to develop static web sites. Cross-listed with COMM 5290. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4300 - Multimedia Authoring


    Analysis and evaluation of components of multimedia development and hands-on instruction featuring computer animation for advertising, training, and educational projects. Cross-listed with COMM 5300. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4430 - Communication, China, and the US


    This course provides a senior-level opportunity to study how China & the USA have spoken about and to each other, from the Opium War through the Cyber Wars, thus situating this nation in a world of globalizing communication. Note: this course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Cross-listed with COMM 5430. Term offered: fall. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4500 - Health Communication


    Examines the role of communication in a wide range of health contexts. Topics include cultural constructions of health and illness, public health communication campaigns, client-provider interactions, telemedicine, community-based health programs and medical journalism. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Cross-listed with COMM 5500. Term offered: fall, spring. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4525 - Health Communication and Community


    This course provides a broad knowledge base about health disparities and culturally competent frameworks in healthcare by enabling students to engage in service learning projects with local health-related community groups. Note: this course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Term offered: spring. Prereq: COMM 2020 or COMM 2030 or COMM 2050 with a C- or higher or permission from the instructor. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4550 - Rhetorics of Medicine & Health


    This senior seminar/bridge class investigates persuasion in contemporary medicine/health care from clinical settings through mass media. Case studies explore contagion, health policy, the body, death, and biopower. The course requires extensive discussion of readings and an original research project. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Cross-listed with COMM 5550. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Term offered: fall. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4558 - Digital Health Narratives


    This course blends readings, discussions and activities about health narratives with digital media production skills to teach students how to create compelling digital stories about health-related topics. Note: this course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Cross-listed with COMM 5558. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Term offered: spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4575 - Designing Health Messages


    Examines the roles of communication in the design and impact of health messages/campaigns. We will design and assess health communication messages/campaigns in a participatory, process?oriented way using varied communication tools. Prereq: COMM 2500 with a C- or higher or instructor permission. Cross-listed with COMM 5575. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4600 - Media Theory


    Surveys a broad array of critical and interpretive approaches to the study of media. Approaches include political economic, semiotic, rhetorical, psychoanalytic, feminist, and cultural. Cross-listed with COMM 5600. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4601 - You Are What You Eat: Food as Communication


    Because food provides a communication channel for much of who we are as individuals, as a community and as a society this course analyzes food as a form of communication. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Cross-listed with COMM 5601. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4610 - Communication, Media, and Sex


    Develop the tools to think critically about representations of sexuality and to understand the social construction of sexuality, the role of sexual representations in mass media and society, and the complex relationships between sexual acts, identities, and desires. Restriction: Restricted to class level Junior, Senior, or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with WGST 4610. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4611 - Rhetoric of Global Food Policy


    This course examines stakeholder relations, agendas, and debates about global food policy using rhetorical concepts and analysis. Topics include the framing of debates about agriculture, hunger and obesity, the greening of food governance, sustainable food systems, and more. This course fulfills the communication department’s pathway course requirement. Cross-listed with INTS 4611. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Term offered: spring, fall. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4620 - Health Risk Communication


    Acquaints students with contemporary theory, research, and practice in health risk communication. Strongly Recommended: COMM 4500. Cross-listed with COMM 5620, ENVS 5620, and PBHL 4620. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4621 - Visual Communication


    Explores the social, cultural, and behavioral effects of visual images in a variety of contexts, including graffiti, film, advertising, art and architecture. Cross-listed with COMM 5621. Prereq: COMM 1021 with a C- or higher. Term offered: spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4660 - Queer Media Studies


    Queer Media Studies is a discussion-based, writing-intensive seminar that examines the history and development of U.S. LGBTQI media by focusing on media texts and production, sociocultural context, and media reception. Cross-listed with COMM 5660, WGST 4660, WGST 5660. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Term offered: fall, spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4665 - Principles of Advertising


    Provides a fundamental understanding and appreciation of advertising in today’s global society, including consumer motivation, buying behavior, research, creative development and media planning. Cross-listed with COMM 5665. Prereq: COMM 1021 with a C- or higher. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4680 - Mass Media Law And Policy


    Covers issues of mass communication and the law and ethics, including issues of the First and Fourth Amendments, communication regulations, intellectual property, public access and obscenity. Cross-listed with COMM 5680. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4681 - Communication Issues in Trial Court Practices and Processes


    Introduces students to communication and language research aimed at improving the fairness, reliability, and validity of court and judicial processes, including lawyer-client interviews, interrogatories, jury selection, jury instructions, witness examination, and the use of language evidence in court. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 2030. Cross-listed with COMM 5681. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4682 - Political Communication


    Examines the communication processes involved in mediated political events. Topics include the stages of the campaign process, media coverage of the political campaign process, and literacy skills needed to understand political advertising. Cross-listed with COMM 5682. Prereq: COMM 2020 or COMM 2030 with a C- or higher. Term offered: fall. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4683 - Media in the Courtroom


    Critically examines the complex issues raised by media involvement in criminal court cases, including effects of pre-trial publicity, cameras in the courtroom, participants who argue their stories to the media, the CSI effect, and other phenomena relevant to media influence. Repeatable. Max Hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4688 - Senior Seminar: Transitioning from College to Career


    Synthesis experience for communication majors designed to prepare students to enter the job market and to integrate and reflect on their experience in communication. Must have senior standing. This course fulfills the communications department’s exit course requirement. Restrictions: Restricted to students with senior standing.Term offered: spring, fall. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4700 - Thesis and Project Practicum


    Focuses on strategies of research design and writing for undergraduate students working on theses for Latin honors and for master’s students seeking to complete a major research paper or thesis. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Cross-listed with COMM 6700. To be eligible to enroll in this course you must be a senior majoring in communication, have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and have a GPA in your communication coursework of 3.5. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4710 - Topics in Communication


    Special classes for faculty-directed experiences examining communication issues and problems not generally covered in the curriculum. Cross-listed with COMM 6710. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max hours: 15 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • COMM 4720 - Dynamics of Global Communication


    Explores the word “global” in a communication context by analyzing the relationships between world media, international events, economics and the geopolitics of culture. This analysis is supported by the application of mass, human and cultural communication theory. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Cross-listed with COMM 5720. Restriction: Restricted to students with junior standing or higher or permission from the instructor. Term offered: fall, spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4750 - Legal Reasoning and Writing


    Introduces the fundamentals of legal reasoning and legal argumentation through intensive class discussion, formal debate and writing. Attention is given to the relationship between case and statutory law and their application in trial and appeals courts in the United States. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1020, ENGL 2030 and any 3000 level English course. Cross-listed with COMM 5750, PSCI 4757, 5747. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4760 - New Media and Society


    This course examines the relationship between new media (such as the internet and mobile phones) and society. Students will investigate the social and cultural aspects of communication technologies. Cross-listed with COMM 5760. Prereq: COMM 1021 and COMM 2020 with a C- or higher. Term offered: fall, spring. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 4840 - Independent Study


    Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the CLAS undergraduate advising office for approval. Prereq: Permission of instructor. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • COMM 4880 - Directed Research


    Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the CLAS undergraduate advising office for approval. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • COMM 4995 - Global Study Topics


    This course is reserved for CU Denver faculty-led study abroad experiences. The course topic will vary based on the location and course content. Students register through the Office of Global Education. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max hours: 15 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 15
  

  • COMM 5000 - Communication and Sport


    Examines the language and imagery used in sporting discourse. Considers how sports reflect and refract culture, both positively and negatively. Cross-list COMM 4000. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5021 - Perspectives on Rhetoric


    Introduces major theories of rhetoric from classical through contemporary times, including the theories of Aristotle, Cicero, I. A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4021. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5040 - Communication, Prisons, and Social Justice


    Examines the U.S. prison-industrial complex and enables students to envision ways of reducing crime and improving democracy by engaging in community service. Note: This course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. Cross-listed with COMM 4040. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with Permission of instructor. COMM 2020 is recommended preparation for this course. Term offered: spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5051 - Advanced Strategic Communication


    Provides senior-level training in hands-on communication environments where targeted messaging seeks specific outcomes. All students complete projects for community group, media outlet or corporation they choose. Students will not receive credit for this class if they have already received credit for COMM 5640. Cross-listed with COMM 4051. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with Permission of instructor. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5221 - Research Methods: Qualitative


    Applies qualitative research methods to human communication practices, including the processes of designing qualitative studies, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting results. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4221. Term offered: spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5240 - Organizational Communication


    Addresses the relationships among such communication factors as flow, media, channel, diversity, information delivery and organization functioning, morale, and productivity. Stresses functional workplace skills and practices. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4240. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5255 - Negotiations and Bargaining


    Designed to allow students to study theories and apply concepts that explain the influences of various forms of mediating, reducing, and/or resolving conflict among individuals, groups, organizations, nations and cultures. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4255. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5260 - Communication and Conflict


    Studies the influence of communication on intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup conflict situations. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4260. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5265 - Gender and Communication


    Examines gender as it is constructed, performed, evaluated, and negotiated through communication. Topics covered include the nature of gender, the gender binary, scientific research on gender, gender stories in popular culture, the process of crafting and performing gender stories, and responses to gender performances. Cross-listed with COMM 4265. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5270 - Intercultural Communication


    Examines the philosophy, process, problems, and potentials unique to communication across cultural boundaries. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4270. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5282 - Environmental Communication


    Studies the communication processes involved in policies and practices affecting natural and human environments. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4282. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5430 - Communication, China, & the US


    This course provides a senior-level opportunity to study how China & the USA have spoken about and to each other, from the Opium War through the Cyber Wars, thus situating this nation in a world of globalizing communication. Note: this course fulfills the communication department’s exit class requirement. This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with Permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4430. Term offered: fall. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5500 - Health Communication


    Examines the role of communication in a wide range of health contexts. Topics include cultural constructions of health and illness, public health communication campaigns, client-provider interactions, telemedicine, community-based health programs and medical journalism. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4500. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5550 - Rhetorics of Medicine & Health


    This senior seminar/bridge class investigates persuasion in contemporary medicine/health care from clinical settings through mass media. Case studies explore contagion, health policy, the body, death, and biopower. The course requires extensive discussion of readings and an original research project. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Cross-listed with COMM 4550. Term offered: fall. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5558 - Digital Health Narratives


    This course blends readings, discussions and activities about health narratives with digital media production skills to teach students how to create compelling digital stories about health-related topics. Cross-listed with COMM 4558. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with Permission of instructor. Term offered: spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5575 - Designing Health Messages


    Examines the roles of communication in the design and impact of health messages/campaigns. We will design and assess health communication messages/campaigns in a participatory, process?oriented way using varied communication tools. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors (NDGR-NHL and NDGR-NLA). Cross-listed with COMM 4575. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5601 - You Are What You Eat: Food as Communication


    Because food provides a communication channel for much of who we are as individuals, as a community and as a society this course analyzes food as a form of communication. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with Permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4601. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5620 - Health Risk Communication


    Acquaints students with contemporary theory, research, and practice in health risk communication. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4620, ENVS 5620, and PBHL 4620. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5621 - Visual Communication


    Explores the social, cultural, and behavioral effects of visual images in a variety of contexts, including graffiti, film, advertising, art and architecture. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4621. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5660 - Queer Media Studies


    Queer Media Studies is a discussion-based, writing-intensive seminar that examines the history and development of U.S. LGBTQI media by focusing on media texts and production, sociocultural context, and media reception. Cross-listed with COMM 4660, WGST 4660, WGST 5660. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5665 - Principles of Advertising


    Provides a fundamental understanding and appreciation of advertising in today’s global society, including consumer motivation, buying behavior, research, creative development and media planning. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4665. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5682 - Political Communication


    Examines the communication processes involved in mediated political events. Topics include the stages of the campaign process, media coverage of the political campaign process, and literacy skills needed to understand political advertising. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll by permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4682. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5720 - Dynamics of Global Communication


    Explores the word “global” in a communication context by analyzing the relationships between world media, international events, economics and the geopolitics of culture. This analysis is supported by the application of mass, human and cultural communication theory. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Cross-list COMM 4720. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5760 - New Media and Society


    This course examines the relationship between new media (such as the internet and mobile phones) and society. Students will investigate the social and cultural aspects of communication technologies. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll by permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4760. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 5840 - Independent Study


    Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the Graduate School for approval. Prereq: Permission of instructor. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • COMM 5880 - Directed Research


    Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the Graduate School for approval. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • COMM 5939 - Internship


    Applies communication or technical communication concepts and skills in supervised employment situations. Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the Graduate School for approval. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • COMM 5995 - Global Study Topics


    This course is reserved for CU Denver faculty-led study abroad experiences. The course topic will vary based on the location and course content. Students register through the Office of Global Education. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 15 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 15
  

  • COMM 6013 - Introduction to Graduate Work in Communication


    Designed to familiarize students with the philosophical, ideological, and methodological bases of study in communication. Note: Required of all graduate students in M.A. program in communication. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 6200 - Communication and Critical Theory


    This course offers students an introduction to the intellectual history and current status of the relationship between communication and critical theory; canonical thinkers (Marx, Freud, Adorno, etc.) are coupled with contemporary communication scholars who work on questions of social justice. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 6400 - Communication, Globalization and Social Justice


    This course offers students an introduction to the intersections of communication as a discipline, globalization as a world process, and social justice as a contested, ever-evolving goal of activists. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 6700 - Thesis and Project Practicum


    Focuses on strategies of research design and writing for undergraduate students working on theses for Latin honors and for master’s students seeking to complete a major research paper or thesis. Cross-listed with COMM 4700. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll with Permission of instructor. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • COMM 6710 - Topics in Communication


    Special classes for faculty-directed experiences examining communication issues and problems not generally covered in the curriculum. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree majors. Undergraduates with senior standing may enroll by permission of instructor. Cross-listed with COMM 4710. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max Hours: 15 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
  

  • COMM 6950 - Master’s Thesis


    Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the Graduate School for approval. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • COMM 6960 - Master’s Project


    Note: Students must submit a special processing form completely filled out and signed by the student and faculty member, describing the course expectations, assignments and outcomes, to the Graduate School for approval. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3

Computer Science
  

  • CSCI 1001 - Computer Forensics I


    Topics covered: how to conduct a computer forensic exam; how an individual can hide data on a computer; how the investigator can find that hidden data.This course will also incorporate hands-on learning through the use of a forensic software package. (Non-CS majors) Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • CSCI 1350 - Introduction to Computing in Society


    This is an introductory course for individuals who would like to learn about the field of computer science, how modern computing is affecting society, and the basics of computer programming. We will explore how computing has changed society, how intertwined in our daily lives computer programs have become, and how these programs are created. We will explore these topics while learning the basics of computer programming with a modern programming language. Prereq: High School Algebra. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing


    First course in computing for those who will take additional computer science courses. Covers the capabilities of a computer, the elements of the computer language C++, and basic techniques for solving problems using a computer. Coreq: CSCI 1411. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • CSCI 1411 - Fundamentals of Computing Laboratory


    This laboratory is taken with CSCI 1410 and will provide students with additional help with problem solving and computer exercises to compliment the course material covered in CSCI 1410. Coreq: CSCI 1410. Max hours: 1 Credit. Semester Hours: 1 to 1
  

  • CSCI 1510 - Logic Design


    The design and analysis of combinational and sequential logic circuits. Topics include binary and hexadecimal number systems, Boolean algebra and Boolean function minimization, and algorithmic state machines. Lecture/lab includes experiments with computer-aided design tools. This course requires the level of mathematical maturity of students ready for Calculus I. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
  

  • CSCI 1800 - Special Topics


    Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
 

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