Undergraduate Course Offerings

Course ID:	SPCM 1010. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication in Human Society
Course Description:	The role of speech communication in the constitution of human beings and their interrelationships. Explores individual differences in communication competence, and role of communication in formation, development, and maintenance of interrelationships.
Oasis Title:	COMM HUMAN SOC
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in SPCM 1500
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall and spring semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 1100. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Public Speaking
Course Description:	The fundamental principles and practices of public speaking, including systematic library research, creative analysis and synthesis of topics, organization, language, delivery, audience adaptation, reasoning, arguments, and supporting materials.
Oasis Title:	INTRO PUBLIC SPEAK
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 1300. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Academic Debate
Course Description:	Introduction to the concepts of academic public policy debate. Students will work on skills including: argumentation, delivery, organization, refutation, and research. Students will be trained to participate in classroom debates and may engage in novice debate tournaments held at other institutions.
Oasis Title:	INTRO ACAD DEBATE
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 1500. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
Course Description:	Communication as it occurs in two-person and small group settings. Primary concern is given to understanding how an individual can use verbal and nonverbal communication to improve relationships and derive maximum social rewards.
Oasis Title:	INTERPERSONAL COMM
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in SPCM 1010
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 1800. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 1 hours lab per week.
Course Title:	Cultural Diversity in Communication
Course Description:	Patterns of public and interpersonal communication among and between ethnic groups, especially North American minority cultures, strategies for fostering group identity, difficulties in inter-group communication, and skills for improving the quality of those interactions.
Oasis Title:	CULTL DIVRS IN COMM
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in SPCM 4800
Semester Course Offered:	Offered spring semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2100. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Advanced Public Communication
Course Description:	Advanced practice in varied public communication contexts such as community presentations, press conferences, media interviews, and persuasive speaking to hostile audiences. In addition to developing platform speaking skills, emphasis is placed on interactional skills and providing communication assistance to organizations and individuals.
Oasis Title:	ADVANCED PUBLIC COM
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1100 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2150H. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Perspective on Public Communication (Honors)
Course Description:	Practice in delivery and criticism of speeches, employing models from great speakers and speeches in history.
Oasis Title:	PERS PUBLIC COMM
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in SPCM 1100
Prerequisite:	Permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2200. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Rhetoric and Society
Course Description:	The course will survey the various roles played by rhetoric in human communities. A variety of cases and theories will be employed to illuminate the operations of rhetoric in a variety of contexts and applications.
Oasis Title:	RHETORIC/SOCIETY
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every odd-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2300. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 1 hours lab per week.
Course Title:	Business and Professional Communication
Course Description:	The principles and skills for making effective business presentations. Students will learn to manage communication in a variety of professional and organizational contexts. Emphasis is on clarity and persuasiveness in communicating with clients, associates, and other decision-makers.
Oasis Title:	BUSINESS & PROF COM
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in MGMT(SPCM) 5960
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2360. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Rhetoric and Popular Culture
Course Description:	This course investigates the intersections between rhetoric and popular culture. It explores a variety of rhetorical approaches including structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, and feminism. Governing questions include: In what ways does popular culture shape and address political life? How do the demands of the marketplace affect popular rhetorics?
Oasis Title:	RHET & POP CULTURE
Semester Course Offered:	Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2400. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Oral Decision Making
Course Description:	The theory and practice of democratic decision making, from researching a topic systematically in specialized library sources to reaching a workable solution through group discussion. Second phase will involve theory and practice of debating and implementing decisions through parliamentary procedure.
Oasis Title:	ORAL DECISION MAK
Nontraditional Format:	This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2510. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Small Group Communication
Course Description:	Emphasizes student involvement in groups working on socially significant projects of their own choice. Examines factors which affect quality of communication and group outcomes; interpersonal and task behaviors, leadership, norms, conflict resolution, and creativity.
Oasis Title:	INTRO SMALL GROUP
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2520. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Interviewing
Course Description:	Information gathering, problem solving, and persuasive communication skills in dyadic settings. Survey, journalistic, job seeking, and employee appraisal interview forms. Students gain experience conducting interviews across a variety of situations.
Oasis Title:	INTRO INTERVIEWING
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in MGMT(SPCM) 5870
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 2550H. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Perspective on Interpersonal Communication (Honors)
Course Description:	Through lectures and class discussion, students will critically examine theory and research in interpersonal communication. Emphasis is placed both on learning about the communication process and on becoming a more effective participant in it.
Oasis Title:	PERSP INTERP COMMUN
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in SPCM 1500
Prerequisite:	Permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM(AFAM) 2810. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication in African American Communities
Course Description:	Rhetorical strategies and patterns of orality in African American communication, communication styles in conflict, and skill development for cultural interaction.
Oasis Title:	AFRICAN AM COMMUN
Semester Course Offered:	Offered spring semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 3300. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism
Course Description:	Rhetorical approaches to the criticism of public communication. Intensive practice in writing rhetorical analyses will be provided.
Oasis Title:	INT RHET CRIT
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1100
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 3310. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. 6 hours lab per week.
Course Title:	Case Studies in Public Communication
Course Description:	Application of rhetorical theory and criticism to one or more case studies, ranging from recurring persuasive strategies in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, to the role, function, and impact of public discourse in the Montgomery boycott of the 1950s.
Oasis Title:	CASE ST PUBLIC COM
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 3320. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Environmental Communication
Course Description:	Human actions that affect the environment are dependent on how we think and communicate about nature and the environment. This class analyzes communication patterns about nature and humanity's relation to nature. In particular, it examines messages of activists, scientists, governmental agencies, and industries relating to environmental protection.
Oasis Title:	ENVIRONMENTAL COMM
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every even-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 3330. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement
Course Description:	Exploration of the role of rhetoric in shaping civil rights discourse. Using the struggle of African Americans as an instructive case study, this course will attempt to come to terms with the philosophical concepts, political issues, moral complexities, and discursive characteristics of civil rights rhetoric.
Oasis Title:	RHET CIV RGHTS MVT
Nontraditional Format:	Rolling classroom involves a 4-day trip visiting sites of the Civil Rights Movement.
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 3500. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Interpersonal Communication Theory
Course Description:	Major theories of human communication, with special emphasis upon interpersonal communication. The role, function, and assumptions of theoretical approaches will be discussed.
Oasis Title:	INTERP COMM THEORY
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1100 or SPCM 1500
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 3700. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Empirical Research Methods In Communication
Course Description:	Social science research methods in interpersonal communication. Covers formalizing research questions, conceptual and operational definitions, hypothesis testing, measurement, sampling, research design, and computer analysis.
Oasis Title:	EMP RES METH IN COM
Prerequisite:	STAT 2000 or STAT 2210 or STAT 3000 or MSIT 3000
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall and spring semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM(AFAM) 3820. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Interracial Communication
Course Description:	An applied approach to understanding the significance of interracial communication in Western Society. The societal influences of history, language, and mass media in shaping our knowledge and understanding of positive interracial relationships.
Oasis Title:	INTERRACIAL COMM
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4200. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
Course Description:	Rhetorical theory in classical, modern, and contemporary times.
Oasis Title:	INTRO RHET THEORY
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4210. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Classical Rhetoric
Course Description:	The theory and practice of rhetoric in the classical period. The course focuses principally upon Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine.
Oasis Title:	CLASSICAL RHET
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4220. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Theories of Argumentation
Course Description:	Process by which people give reason to justify their acts, beliefs, attitudes, and values and to influence the thought and action of others. Traditional and contemporary theories of argumentation and critical analysis of public argument.
Oasis Title:	THEORIES OF ARGUMNT
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4310/6310. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication Strategies in Government
Course Description:	Communication strategies and activities in the executive and legislative branches of local, state, and national government. Case study approach incorporated into the class.
Oasis Title:	COMM IN GOVERNMENT
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4320. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication Strategies in Political Campaigns
Course Description:	The role communication plays in deciding which candidate will run for office, the nomination of candidates, and the election of candidates to office.
Oasis Title:	POLITICAL CAMP COMM
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every even-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4330. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication Strategies in the Courtroom
Course Description:	How verbal communication skills and strategies of persuasion are used in a variety of legal settings. Includes interviewing, courtroom speeches, witness examination, jury selection and deliberation, as well as issues of judicial argumentation and reasoning and effects of media on litigation outcomes.
Oasis Title:	COURTROOM COMM
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300
Semester Course Offered:	Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4340/6340. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication and Religion
Course Description:	The nature and practice of communication in a variety of religious traditions. Notions of sacred symbolism, myth, revelation, hermeneutics, and apologetics are especially emphasized.
Oasis Title:	COMM REL
Semester Course Offered:	Offered spring semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4350. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Scientific Communication
Course Description:	The practice of communicating scientific learning within disciplines, across disciplines, and to lay audiences. The course is designed to equip students in the natural and social sciences with the skills necessary to bring scientific information to professional audiences and to the general public through the spoken word. In addition to basics of organizing and clarifying a scientific presentation, research findings in areas such as risk perception, numeracy, uncertainty management, and visual argument will be presented.
Oasis Title:	SCI COMM
Duplicate Credit:	Not open to students with credit in SPCM 2310
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4360/6360. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Communication Strategies in Social Movements
Course Description:	The rhetorical nature, function, development, and impact of social movements on society as applied to one or more case studies and the role of the media in social change.
Oasis Title:	COMM SOCIAL MOVEMEN
Nontraditional Format:	This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4370/6370. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Women and United States Public Discourse
Course Description:	History and criticism of speeches by United States women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social reform movements, especially woman's rights and feminism.
Oasis Title:	WOM & PUB DISCOURSE
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4500. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Advanced Interpersonal Communication
Course Description:	Communication in personal relationships from periods of relational development through relational disengagement. Emphasis on understanding and applying social scientific theories of communication.
Oasis Title:	ADV INTERPERSON COM
Prerequisite:	(SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1500) and SPCM 3700
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4510. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Nonverbal Communication
Course Description:	The functional potential of each type of nonverbal communication. Primary emphasis is given to demonstrating the value of specific kinds of nonverbal cues in communicating successfully in such real world settings as the job interview, male-female interaction, and the courtroom.
Oasis Title:	NONVERBAL COMM
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4520. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Persuasion
Course Description:	The impact of persuasive communication is studied with emphasis on source, message, medium of presentation, and audience effects. Theoretical approaches to persuasion and persuasive communication.
Oasis Title:	PERSUASION
Nontraditional Format:	This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1100 or SPCM 1500
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4530. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Advanced Small Group Communication
Course Description:	Theory and techniques of small group discussion, with emphasis on current experimentation and research. Course content includes the ways in which communication influences and is influenced by group formation, development of group norms, group performance, and other topics.
Oasis Title:	ADV SMALL GROUP COM
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1100 or SPCM 1500
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4540/6540. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Interpersonal Conflict
Course Description:	An examination of the precursors, dynamics, and implications of interpersonal conflict in a variety of formal and informal relational contexts.
Oasis Title:	IPC CONFLICT
Undergraduate Prerequisite:	SPCM 3700
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4550/6550. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Organizational Communication
Course Description:	The relationship between communicating and organizing within complex organizations. Course content includes the ways in which communication creates organizational cultures, identities, networks, leadership, conflict, and other topics.
Oasis Title:	ORG COMM
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1100 or SPCM 1500
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM(HPRB) 4610/6610. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Health Communication
Course Description:	Communication about health with physicians and other providers, within support groups and health care organizations, and by public figures, groups, and organizations.
Oasis Title:	HEALTH COMM
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4800. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Intercultural Communication
Course Description:	Factors that facilitate or impede effective communication between members of different cultural groups. Considers interactions between people from different nations as well as co-cultures within the same nation. Effects of differing world-views, value systems, language varieties, nonverbal codes, and relational norms. Skills for disseminating ideas across cultures and for building intercultural competence.
Oasis Title:	INTERCULTURAL COMM
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3700 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM(AFAM) 4810. 3 hours.
Course Title:	African American Rhetoric and Communication
Course Description:	The history and criticism of the communication of African American speakers, with emphasis upon oral rhetoric relating to social-political development since 1860.
Oasis Title:	AFRICAN AM RHET COM
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM(AFAM) 4830/6830. 3 hours.
Course Title:	African American Relational Communication
Course Description:	Interpersonal communication within African American relationships from a holistic framework. Historical, sociological, and psychological factors that affect individual behaviors within these relationships, including gender socialization from Africa to America.
Oasis Title:	AFAM RELATIONAL COM
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1500 or SPCM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC (AFAM) 2150 or AFAM(PSYC) 3150
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM(AFAM) 4840/6840. 3 hours.
Course Title:	African American Family Communication
Course Description:	This course provides students with an opportunity to examine communication within the African American family from an African-centered perspective. It requires students to read and critically examine various theoretical and methodological approaches to the African American family.
Oasis Title:	AFAM FAMILY COMM
Pre or Corequisite:	SPCM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC(AFAM) 2150 or AFAM(PSYC) 3150
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4900. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit.
Course Title:	Special Topics in Communication
Course Description:	Selected and rotating topics such as humor and communication, visual communication, or communication training in business and industry.
Oasis Title:	SPECIAL TOPICS
Prerequisite:	SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1100 or SPCM 1500
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4910. 1-3 hours.
Course Title:	Internship in Communication
Course Description:	Communication theory and research to public or private sector enterprise. Emphasis on observation and analysis of communication behaviors in workplace contexts.
Oasis Title:	INTERNSHIP
Nontraditional Format:	Field-based internship.
Prerequisite:	[(SPCM 1010 or SPCM 1100 or SPCM 1500) and (SPCM 3300 and SPCM 3700)] or permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Course ID:	SPCM 4920. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. 3 hours lab per week.
Course Title:	Debate Practicum
Course Description:	Concentration on the practice of intercollegiate debate. Open to students who travel to debate tournaments.
Oasis Title:	DEBATE PRACTICUM
Nontraditional Format:	Practicum.
Prerequisite:	Permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Course ID:	SPCM 4930. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Course Title:	Directed Study in Communication
Course Description:	Independent, intensive, and extended research conducted under the supervision of a faculty member.
Oasis Title:	DIRECTED STUDY
Nontraditional Format:	Individual student/professor interaction.
Prerequisite:	SPCM 3300 and SPCM 3700
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4960H. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Directed Reading and/or Projects (Honors)
Course Description:	Individual study, reading, or projects under the direction of a professor.
Oasis Title:	DIR READ/PROJECTS
Prerequisite:	Senior standing and permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4970H. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Directed Reading and/or Projects (Honors)
Course Description:	Individual study, reading, or projects under the direction of a professor.
Oasis Title:	DIR READ/PROJECT
Prerequisite:	Senior standing and permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4980H. 3 hours.
Course Title:	Directed Reading and/or Projects (Honors)
Course Description:	Individual study, reading, or projects under the direction of a professor.
Oasis Title:	DIR READING/PROJECT
Prerequisite:	Senior standing and permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Course ID:	SPCM 4990H. 3-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Course Title:	Honors Thesis in Speech Communication
Course Description:	Individual research in major field of study under the direction of a Speech Communication faculty member. Project result is a paper of scholarly significance, meeting standards and requirements for an Honors thesis. Student will be expected to present or defend thesis in a public forum.
Oasis Title:	HONORS THESIS
Nontraditional Format:	Independent reading/study/data analysis format with periodic meetings with the professor who is directing the project.
Prerequisite:	Permission of Honors
Pre or Corequisite:	SPCM 3300 and SPCM 3700
Semester Course Offered:	Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)