Spring 2011 Graduate Communication Courses

All courses are offered on Main Campus unless listed as Internet sections.
For questions about course content please contact instructors listed with each course.
For questions about registering for courses, contact Prof. Greg Pulliam.

Please confirm course offerings, times, and days by checking the IIT online schedule.

Download the spring 2011 Graduate Communication Course PDF.

COURSE NUMBER	TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	DAY AND TIME

COM 421-01	TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION	TBA	TR 1:50 PM - 3:05 PM
	Principles and practice in the communication of technical materials. Students work on the design, writing, and revising of reports, articles, manuals, procedures, and proposals, including the use of graphics.

COM 421-02	TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION	TBA	INTERNET

COM 424-01	DOCUMENT DESIGN	Maciukenas, J.	MW 5:00 - 6:15 PM
	Principles and strategies for effective document and information design, focusing on print media and familiarizing students with current research and theory as well as with practices in document design. Students design, produce, and evaluate documents for a variety of applications, such as instructional materials, brochures, newsletters, graphics, and tables.

COM 425-01	EDITING	Otterbacher, J.	INTERNET
	Principles and strategies for editing at all levels, working with both hard and soft copy. Includes practice in copymarking, copyediting, proofreading, editing for grammar and style, and comprehensive editing. Attention primarily to documents from science, technology, and business.

COM 428-01	VERBAL & VISUAL COMMUNICATION	Henson, A.	TR 5:00 - 6:15 PM
	Introduces students to the issues, strategies, and ethics of technical and professional presentations, and provides students with opportunities to engage in public address, video presentations and conferencing, and group presentations. Analysis of audience types and presentation situations, group dynamics, persuasive theories, language and mass media.

COM 440-01	INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM	Pulliam, G.	TR 3:15 - 4:30 PM
	Introduction to the principles and practices of modern American journalism. Students will analyze news stories and media, and will cover and report on campus area events. Student-generated news stories will be discussed, analyzed and evaluated. Prerequisite: HUM 102, 104, or 106.

COM 501-01	INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS	Bauer, M.	TR 3:15 - 4:30 PM
	An introduction to the systematic study of language. Focus on the core areas of linguistics, such as sound patterns of language (phonology), form (syntax, morphology) and meaning (semantics, pragmatics), as well as applied areas, such as language variation, language acquisition, psychology of language, and the origin of language.

COM 523-01	COMMUNICATING SCIENCE	Batson, L.	INTERNET
	Principles and strategies for communicating scientific information in professional settings. Students develop a literature review, proposal, and feasibility study; learn how to adapt scientific information to various audiences; and complete exercises on style, grammar, and other elements of effective professional communication. Emphasis on usability, cohesion, and style in each assignment.

COM 528-01	DOCUMENT DESIGN	Maciukenas, J.	MW 5:00 - 6:15 PM
	Principles and strategies for effective document and information design, focusing on print media and familiarizing students with current research and theory as well as with practices in document design. Students design, produce, and evaluate documents for a variety of applications, such as instructional materials, brochures, newsletters, graphics, and tables.

COM 529-01	TECHNICAL EDITING	Otterbacher, J.	INTERNET
	Principles and strategies for editing at all levels, working with both hard and soft copy. Includes practice in copymarking, copyediting, proofreading, editing for grammar and style, and comprehensive editing. Attention primarily to documents from science, technology, and business.

COM 542-01	KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT	Stolley, K.	T 6:25 - 9:05 PM
	Analysis of the nature and uses of systems and knowledge in business and professional settings, focusing on the technical communicator's roles and tasks in generating and transferring data, information and knowledge within organizations.

COM 580-01	MODERN PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY	Glassman, E.	MW 1:50 - 3:05 PM
	This course examines the history of modern printing and typography from 1900 to the present day. From experiments with photography to the digital revolution, we will explore how modern printing and typography developed. Technological, aesthetic, and graphic design perspectives will help us understand the role of printing and typography as vital forms of modern communication.

COM 580-02	SOCIAL NETWORKS	Hemphill, L.	W 6:25 - 9:05 PM
	An introduction to social network analysis (SNA) techniques and discussions about the application of SNA to socio-technical research questions. We will examine social networks that manifest both on- (e.g., workplaces) and off-line (e.g., Facebook).

COM 580-03	ANALYZING & COMMUNICATING QUANTITATIVE DATA	Otterbacher, J.	MW 3:15 - 4:30 PM
	An introduction to statistics and data analysis tailored to the needs of technical communicators and information architects. Students will work with the SPSS package on datasets they would be likely to encounter in the field. Emphasis will be placed on developing intuition as to which analyses are appropriate given one's questions of interest, as well as how to interpret and communicate the results of analyses.

COM 580-04	LINGUISTICS FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS	Bauer, M.	TR 5:00 - 6:15 PM
	This course examines how core concepts in linguistic theory are applied to issues in technical communication. Topics include discourse-level phenomena, sentence structure, sound patterns of speech, and language processing. The goal of the course is for students to be prepared to make their own contributions to tech comm using linguistic theory as a research framework. Fulfills linguistics requirement for Ph.D. students.

COM 580-05	WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT	Stolley, K.	M 6:25 - 9:05 PM
	A production-intensive course in the theory and practice of developing web-based applications, emphasizing design for mobile web browsers. Students will learn agile, modular development techniques grounded in open-source technologies, including version control (Git), Ruby, and Ruby web development frameworks, such as Rails and Sinatra. Note: students should take COM 530: Standards-Based Web Design or have a solid command of Web standards (especially XHTML and CSS) prior to enrolling in this course.

ALSO AVAILABLE: COM 591 RESEARCH & THESIS M.S., COM 594 PROJECT, COM 597 SPECIAL PROBLEMS, COM 691 RESEARCH & THESIS Ph.D.

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