**Review** Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

COMM 410 Living With/Through Your Screens

This course is designed to introduce the concepts, theories, and issues surrounding the emergence of communication technologies and the evolution of the communication process.

3

Offered

Generally offered Spring Annually

COMM 422 Directed Study

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
1- 3

Special Notes

Maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations

COMM 431 Communication and Leadership

Examine theories of leadership, major leadership research findings and various leadership methods. Consider how the principles derived from leadership literature can be applied to small group and organizational settings.
3

COMM 440 Science Communication

Students will examine strategies and theories to communicate science with non-science audiences. The course focuses on development of real-world products to communicate science.

3

Special Notes

COMM 440 cannot be retaken for credit if credit for COMM 461 or BIO 495 Special Topics course "Scientific Communication" has already been completed.

Offered

Generally offered Spring Annually

Mutually Exclusive Course

Credit can be earned for only one of these courses: COMM 440 OR BIO 460

COMM 461 Seminar in Communication

Investigate issues of current concern for COMM professionals with subject varied according to faculty expertise.
1- 3

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course is repeatable with a maximum of 9 credit hours

COMM 491 Communication Theory Capstone

Summative course of the nature and function of communication theory and research including an overview of the traditions of theory and current perspectives in the discipline.

3

Prerequisites

(COMM 100 and COMM 102 and COMM 201 and COMM 220 and COMM 330 and COMM 343 with a minimum grade of D-)

Offered

Generally offered Fall, Spring, and/or Summer Annually

COMM 492 Undergraduate Internship

Supervised work experience in area of specialization. Submit a proposal to the coordinator of internships six weeks before registration. Maximum of six semester credit hours may be counted toward the major.
1-10

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 10 credit hours