Required Courses
All PhD students are required to take these courses in their first year unless they receive a waiver from the instructor and GPD:
- Comm 611: Introduction to Theories and Concepts of Human Communication
- Comm 620: Qualitative Research Methods in Communication
- Comm 621: Quantitative Research Methods in Communication
- Comm 891A: Proseminar: Graduate Introduction to Communication
Area Surveys
Students must take one or two of these subfield surveys, depending on their previous graduate study:
- Comm 613: Intro to Theories of Social Interaction and Culture
- Comm 695S: Intro to Performance Studies
- Comm 691B: Intro to Media Theory
- Comm 693D: Intro to Film Theory
In consultation with their Plan-of-Study committee, students will then select from permanent course titles and special topics, as well as courses outside the department, to complete their coursework.
Permanent Titles
- 540: Internet Governance & Information Policy
- 627: Fixing Social Media
- 690E: Ethnography of the Digital
- 705: Race, Media and Politics
- 712: Political Communication
- 724: Audience Research and Cultural Studies
- 791E: Television Studies: Text, Culture, Industry
- 794B: Critical Pedagogy
- 794M: Field Research Methods in Communication
- 795M: Performance Ethnography
- 795N: Cultural Studies: Theoretical Foundations
- Comm 796: Independent Study
- 797E: Performing Survival
- 797P: Media Archaeology
- 797U: Special Topics—Techno Imaginaries and the Global South
- Comm 896: Directed Research
Special Topics
In addition to permanent titles, graduate courses are often offered on a Special Topics basis. Topics offered in recent semesters include:
- Argument, Conflict, and Mediation
- Citizenships and Belongings
- Communication and the Public Sphere
- Consumer Culture
- Content Analysis
- Food as Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Media Effects
- Media Historiography
- Media Literacy
- Narrative and Mediated Storytelling
- Political Economy of Communication
- Technology, Ethics, and Media Justice