COMN 480 - Communication Research

2022-2023 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is designed to introduce you to communication research basics and develop your ability to conduct and evaluate research. Methodologies of communication research are explored, including experiments, surveys, focus groups, content analysis, and rhetorical and critical analyses. These methodologies and the theoretical and ethical assumptions underpinning them are examined as ways of posing questions and getting answers about human communication. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to critically evaluate the research of others while also developing your own research proposal based on a selected topic of interest.

Prerequisite(s): junior or senior standing, COMN 100. Permission of instructor.
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis