Please note that room locations and schedules are subject to change and all details should be confirmed before the start of the class.
Click here for a list of complementary courses in other departments which count towards the Minor.
Fall 2024
COMS 210 (CRN 2015)
Introduction to Communication Studies (3 credits)
TBD
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:35 pm-3:55 pm
COMS 301 (CRN 2016)
Core Concepts in Critical Theory (3 credits)
TBD
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:05pm-5:25pm
COMS 310 (CRN 2017)
Media and Feminist Studies (3 credits)
TBD
Wednesdays and Fridays, 1:05pm-2:25pm
COMS 320 (CRN 2018)
Media and Empire (3 credits)
Wednesdays and Fridays, 2:35pm-3:55pm
COMS 350 (CRN 2019)
Sound Culture (3 credits)
Prof. Alex Blue V
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:35am-9:55am
COMS 361 (CRN 2020)
Selected Topics Communication Studies 1 (3 credits)
Children, youth and digital media
Sara Grimes
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:35am-12:55pm
Children and young people’s relationship with media technologies and media content is often a
source of controversy, panic, and/or hype. This course examines the prominent roles digital
media have in children’s culture, learning, identity formation, and play, and how digital media
designs and discourses reflect and reproduce dominant (often conflicting) ideologies,
controversies, and social values. Emphasis is placed on understanding the continuities and
discontinuities that exist between emerging and traditional children’s media, the unique
opportunities and challenges associated with digital technologies and how they are currently
(re)shaping children’s lives and cultures.
COMS 491 (CRN 2023)
Special Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
Prof. Bobby Benedicto
Tuesdays, 2:35pm-5:25pm
COMS 492 (CRN 7753)
Power, Difference and Justice (3 credits)
Prof. Mark Lloyd
Mondays, 11:35am-2:25pm
Winter 2025
COMS 230 (CRN 1845)
Communication and Democracy (3 credits)
Prof. Mark Lloyd
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:05pm-5:25pm
COMS 330 (CRN 1846)
Media in Cultural Life (3 credits)
Sara Grimes
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:35pm-3:55pm
COMS 340 (CRN 1847)
New Media (3 credits)
TBD
Tuesdays and Thursdays,Ìý2:35pm-3:55pm
COMS 360 (CRN 1848)
Environmental Communication (3 credits)
TBD
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:35am-12:55pm
COMS 400 (CRN 1849)
Critical Theory Seminar (3 credits)
Prof. Darin Barney
Thursdays, 2:35pm-5:25pm
COMS 435 (CRN 7014)
Advanced Issues in Media Governance (3 credits)
Prof. Mark Lloyd
Mondays, 11:35 am-2:25 pm
COMS 500 (CRN 6882)
Special Topics in Communications Studies 1 (3 credits)
Noise
Prof. Alex Blue VÌý
Tuesdays, 2:35PM-5:25PM
This course will cover everything from the implications of the word as both fixed meaning and metaphor, to the ramifications of private and public perceptions of noisiness; noise music scenes; policy and legislation around noise complaints and noise ordinances, etc. It will also discuss visual noise, static, interference, and various other permutation of noise. While the final project can be a research paper, there will an option for different media submissions.
