Examines theory and research relevant to understanding advanced issues in organizational communication. Topics may include strategies of innovation, organizing, networking, decision-making, globalization, technology, power, and diversity.

This course examines strategic risk and crisis communication research, theory, and practices. Special emphasis is placed on crisis planning, media relationships, image restoration, ethical responses, and organizational learning.

This course focuses on what and how popular culture entertainment media functions to communicate and persuade. Forms to be examined may include films/movies, television programs, music, cartoons, and/or comics. Ultimately, students will be equipped with tools to make educated decisions as critical consumers of the messages conveyed in popular culture entertainment media.

This course is designed to explore how sport media communicate social values, social norms, cultural identification, and cultural values. This approach will allow students to critically evaluate sport media, organizations, and audiences.

Examines theory and research relevant to the role of interpersonal communication in managing mental and physical health. Topics related to interaction in health contexts include: communicating identity in health and illness, health and personal relationships, health care provider/patient communication, medical decision-making, and interpersonal health education and prevention efforts.

Examines theory and research on the nature and development of small group communication. Topics include leadership, interpersonal relations and roles, goals, and decision-making in multiple organizational contexts. Communication major or permission of instructor required for enrollment.

This course provides the student with basic knowledge about the discipline of public health. After receiving a philosophical and political orientation to public health, students will begin to acquire functional knowledge of the strategies most often applied in public health practice. Key content areas (such as HIV prevention, maternal and child health, reducing obesity rates, and reducing tobacco addiction) will become focal points for the investigation of these strategies.

This course will provide students with an introductory understanding of public health concepts through critical examination of popular cinema and instruction in basic public health principles, disease principles, and behavioral and social interactions related to the movie topics. A combination of lectures, readings and film viewing will enable students to understand the relationship between behavioral, environmental, biological and other risk factors with disease, injury or other health outcomes. The effect of social, economic and health systems context will also be examined.

This course will be an in-depth introduction to the relationship of sex and sexual behaviors to health and wellness.

In this class, students explore the wide variety of careers and professional settings where people with training in public health work. Through guest lectures and discussions with professionals in the field, students gain exposure to the roles and responsibilities of those who work in nonprofit, for-profit, and governmental public health; health care; health care administration; and other related fields. As part of this course, students will assess their own interests, skills, and personality to explore and describe their career goals and strategically plan for a career in this area.