Communications (COMM)

Explore critical reading as an active, reflective process that goes beyond surface comprehension to interact deeply with diverse texts. This course will challenge ideas, draw connections, and build independent opinions while analyzing analogies, metaphors, structure, and arguments. Students will develop skills to identify biases, critique media, evaluate how messages are constructed to shape perspectives and behavior, and practice forming well-supported arguments and making meaningful connections between concepts. This course meets the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and the SUNY General Education Core Competency requirement for Critical Thinking and Reasoning. 3 credits (3 credit hours), offered in fall or spring.

Engage in college-level composition, research, and presentation in this comprehensive course. Students will be introduced to and practice various modes of rhetoric by writing essays, delivering presentations, and culminating in an argumentative research project. This project will include selecting an appropriate topic, researching this topic, composing an essay on this topic, and finally, presenting this topic to an audience utilizing an extemporaneous style of speaking and appropriate materials and visuals. Topic of the course decided by faculty. In order to know the next topic, please see the subtitle and unique course description available on the college website’s course listings page and in the scheduling tools. These will be available prior to registration. This course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and the SUNY General Education requirement for Communication Oral and Communication Written as well as the SUNY General Education Core Competency requirement for Critical Thinking and Reasoning and Information Literacy. Pre-requisite: Placement in COMM 105; or "C" or better in COMP 100 or equivalent. 3 credits (3 lecture hours), fall or spring.

Develop skills in public speaking, presentation, and other forms of oral communication by composing and delivering both informative and persuasive speeches. Students will practice addressing a group to develop confidence and proficiency and will refine techniques of organization to present ideas that successfully utilize visual aids to engage an audience. Pre- or Corequisite: COMP 101 or COMM 105. 3 credits (3 lecture hours), fall or spring semester. This course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and the SUNY General Education requirements for Communication Oral, Information Literacy, and Critical Thinking and Reasoning.

This course examines dyadic communication and the major variables that impact it. Some issues which will be examined are issues of gender, power, conflict, and culture. Nonverbal communication and the impacts of technology will also be included. Students are given opportunities through in-class exercises and writing assignments to learn new theories, apply them and to assess their competence in using them. 3 credits (3 lecture hours), spring semester This course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and the SUNY General Education Requirement for Humanities.

Introduction to the organization and behavioral characteristics of group interaction in oral decision making. Content includes the analysis of leadership, conflict and consensus, systems theory, and other issues in task-oriented groups. The course will closely examine the impact of communicating over distances on modern small group theory. The impact of technology on modern group theory will also be a covering concept throughout the semester. 3 credits (3 lecture hours), fall or spring semester This course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement.

This is a survey course that examines the evolution of visual communication from the invention of the printing press to the development of the World Wide Web. Students will learn the many ways information is produced and consumed in a modern, media-rich society. Typographic, graphic, informational, cartoon, still, moving, television, and computer images are analyzed within a framework of personal, historical, technical, ethical, cultural and critical perspectives. Prerequisite: COMP 101 or COMM 105 and junior or senior standing, or permission of instructors 3 credits (3 lecture hours), fall or spring semester This course satisfies the Liberal Arts and Sciences requirement and the SUNY General Education Requirement for Basic Communication.