COMM 1A:
Media Technologies, People, and Society (COMM 211)
(Graduate students register for COMM 211.) Open to non-majors. Introduction to the concepts and contexts of communication. A topics-structured orientation emphasizing the field and the scholarly endeavors represented in the department.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 1B:
Media, Culture, and Society
The institutions and practices of mass media, including television, film, radio, and digital media, and their role in shaping culture and social life. The media's shifting relationships to politics, commerce, and identity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
COMM 103S:
Media Entertainment
The impact of media entertainment on individuals, social groups, and societies. Sources include a diverse cross-section of entertainment. Introduction to psychological and socio-psychological theories. Empirical findings relating to media entertainment as a stimulus and a reception phenomenon. What renders diverse genres of media content and format enjoyable? Why do individuals pursue entertainment experiences in ever-increasing numbers? What is the political impact of apolitical media entertainment?
| Units: 3-5
COMM 104:
Reporting, Writing, and Understanding the News
Techniques of news reporting and writing. The value and role of news in democratic societies.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-CE
COMM 106:
Communication Research Methods (COMM 206)
(Graduate students register for COMM 206.) Conceptual and practical concerns underlying commonly used quantitative approaches, including experimental, survey, content analysis, and field research in communication. Pre- or corequisite: STATS 60 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
COMM 108:
Media Processes and Effects (COMM 208)
(Graduate students register for COMM 208.) The process of communication theory construction including a survey of social science paradigms and major theories of communication. Recommended: 1 or PSYCH 1.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 112S:
Bending the Truth Propaganda in Media and Culture
What is propaganda? What role does it play in our lives? And how do we conceive of propaganda's relationship to politics and culture? This course will examine the evolution of propaganda from the early 20th century to the present. It will take up examples from advertising, journalism, cinema, painting and digital media. By the end of the course, students will have a broad understanding of the tactics by which various interest groups have sought to influence public communication.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
COMM 116:
Journalism Law (COMM 216)
(Graduate students register for 216.) Laws and regulation impacting journalists. Topics include libel, privacy, news gathering, protection sources, fair trial and free press, theories of the First Amendment, and broadcast regulation. Prerequisite: Journalism M.A. student or advanced Communication major.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 117:
Digital Journalism (COMM 217)
(Graduate students register for COMM 217.) Seminar and practicum. The implications of new media for journalists. Professional and social issues related to the web as a case of new media deployment, as a story, as a research and reporting tool, and as a publishing channel. Prerequisite: Journalism M.A. student or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
COMM 120:
Digital Media in Society (COMM 220)
(Graduate students register for 220.) Contemporary debates concerning the social and cultural impact of digital media. Topics include the historical origins of digital media, cultural contexts of their development and use, and influence of digital media on conceptions of self, community, and state. Restricted to Juniors and Seniors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 125:
Perspectives on American Journalism (COMM 225)
(Graduate students register for COMM 225.) Issues, ideas, and concepts in the development of American journalism, emphasizing the role of the press in society, the meaning and nature of news, and professional norms that influence conduct in and outside the newsroom. Prerequisite: 1 or junior standing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 131:
Media Ethics and Responsibility (COMM 231)
(Graduate students register for COMM 231.) The development of professionalism among American journalists, emphasizing the emergence of objectivity as a professional and the epistemological norm. An applied ethics course where questions of power, freedom, and truth autonomy are treated normatively so as to foster critical thinking about the origins and implications of commonly accepted standards of responsible journalism.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ER
COMM 140:
Digital Media Entrepreneurship (COMM 240)
(Graduate students register for COMM 240.) Primarily for graduate journalism and computer science students. Silicon Valley's new media culture, digital storytelling skills and techniques, web-based skills, and entrepreneurial ventures. Guest speakers.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
COMM 153:
Internet, Politics, and Society
The Internet's penetration into the fabric of daily lives, interpersonal and social interactions, political systems, and communication institutions. Key political and social domains where its impact is manifested.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
COMM 160:
The Press and the Political Process (COMM 260, POLISCI 323R)
(Graduate students register for COMM 260.) The role of mass media and other channels of communication in political and electoral processes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 162:
Analysis of Political Campaigns (COMM 262, POLISCI 323S)
(Graduate students register for COMM 262.) Seminar. The evolution of American political campaigns, and the replacement of the political party by the mass media as intermediary between candidates and voters. Academic literature on media strategies, the relationship between candidates and the press, the effects of campaigns on voter behavior, and inconsistencies between media campaigns and democratic norms. Do media-based campaigns enable voters to live up to their civic responsibility? Has the need for well-financed campaigns increased the influence of elites over nominations? Have citizens become disengaged?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 166:
Virtual People (COMM 266)
(Graduate students register for COMM 266.) The concept of virtual people or digital human representations; methods of constructing and using virtual people; methodological approaches to interactions with and among virtual people; and current applications. Viewpoints including popular culture, literature, film, engineering, behavioral science, computer science, and communication.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
COMM 168:
Experimental Research in Advanced User Interfaces (COMM 268, COMM 368, ME 468)
(Undergraduates register for 168; master's students for 268; doctoral students for 368.) Project-based course involves small groups designing and implementing an experiment concerning voice and agent user interfaces. Each group is involved in a different, publishable research project. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 169:
Computers and Interfaces (COMM 269)
(Graduate students register for COMM 269.) Interdisciplinary. User responses to interfaces and design implications of those responses. Theories from different disciplines illustrate responses to textual, voice-based, pictorial, metaphoric, conversational, adaptive, agent-based, intelligent, and anthropomorphic interfaces. Group design project applying theory to the design of products or services for developing countries.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-CE, WAY-SI
COMM 172:
Media Psychology (COMM 272)
(Graduate students register for COMM 272.) The literature related to psychological processing and the effects of media. Topics: unconscious processing; picture perception; attention and memory; emotion; the physiology of processing media; person perception; pornography; consumer behavior; advanced film and television systems; and differences among reading, watching, and listening.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
COMM 177C:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Environmental Journalism (COMM 277C)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277C.) Practical, collaborative, writing-intensive course in environmental journalism. Science and journalism students learn how to identify and write engaging stories about environmental issues and science, how to assess the quality and relevance of environmental news, how to cover the environment and science beats effectively, and how to build bridges between the worlds of journalism and science. Limited enrollment: preference to journalism students and students in the natural and environmental sciences. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 177D:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Magazine Journalism (COMM 277D)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277D.) How to report, write, edit, and read magazine articles, emphasizing long-form narrative. Tools and templates of story telling such as scenes, characters, dialogue, and narrative arc. How the best magazine stories defy or subvert conventional wisdom and bring fresh light to the human experience through reporting, writing, and moral passion. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
COMM 177G:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Covering Silicon Valley (COMM 277G)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277G.) Business reporting basics in the context of Silicon Valley's technology scene. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 177K:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Human Rights Journalism (COMM 277K)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277K.) The evolution of human rights law and enforcement, and the role of journalists in uncovering, pursuing, and publicizing political violence, detention, and torture. Case studies from S. Africa, Latin America, Israel and Palestine, N. Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan and Darfur. Human rights issues in the U.S. in the aftermath of 9/11. Students conduct research and write journalistic reports on foreign and domestic issues. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 177S:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Sports Journalism (COMM 277S)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277S.) Workshop. The history of sports writing from the 20s to present. Reporting, interviewing, deadline writing, and how to conceptualize and develop stories. Students write features and news stories for publication in a new sports section in The Cardinal Inquirer, an online publication of the graduate program in journalism. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
COMM 177Y:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Foreign Correspondence in the Middle East (COMM 277Y)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277Y.) What's involved in working as a journalist in one of the most important and dangerous parts of the world.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 182:
Virtual Communities and Social Media (COMM 282)
(Graduate students register for CMM 282.) Taught by the originator of the terms virtual community and smart mobs. How the concept of community has changed from agricultural to industrial to networked societies. Much class discussion takes place in social cyberspaces.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
COMM 190:
Senior Project
Research project. Prerequisite: senior standing.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Bettinger, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Garcia, D. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI);
Turner, F. (PI)
COMM 195:
Honors Thesis
Qualifies students to conduct communication research. Student must apply for department honors thesis program during Spring Quarter of junior year.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Bettinger, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Garcia, D. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI);
Turner, F. (PI)
COMM 199:
Individual Work
For students with high academic standing. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Bettinger, J. (PI);
Bosshart, L. (PI);
Brinkley, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Frankel, G. (PI);
Garcia, D. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Grimes, A. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Lev-On, A. (PI);
Luskin, R. (PI);
Markoff, J. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Noveck, B. (PI);
Pomerantz, G. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Rheingold, H. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI);
Turner, F. (PI);
Voelker, D. (PI);
Wheaton, J. (PI);
Zachary, G. (PI);
Ementon, S. (GP);
Trockel, M. (GP)
COMM 206:
Communication Research Methods (COMM 106)
(Graduate students register for COMM 206.) Conceptual and practical concerns underlying commonly used quantitative approaches, including experimental, survey, content analysis, and field research in communication. Pre- or corequisite: STATS 60 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 208:
Media Processes and Effects (COMM 108)
(Graduate students register for COMM 208.) The process of communication theory construction including a survey of social science paradigms and major theories of communication. Recommended: 1 or PSYCH 1.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 211:
Media Technologies, People, and Society (COMM 1A)
(Graduate students register for COMM 211.) Open to non-majors. Introduction to the concepts and contexts of communication. A topics-structured orientation emphasizing the field and the scholarly endeavors represented in the department.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 212:
Models of Democracy (COMM 312, POLISCI 237, POLISCI 337)
Ancient and modern varieties of democracy; debates about their normative and practical strengths and the pathologies to which each is subject. Focus is on participation, deliberation, representation, and elite competition, as values and political processes. Formal institutions, political rhetoric, technological change, and philosophical critique. Models tested by reference to long-term historical natural experiments such as Athens and Rome, recent large-scale political experiments such as the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly, and controlled experiments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
COMM 216:
Journalism Law (COMM 116)
(Graduate students register for 216.) Laws and regulation impacting journalists. Topics include libel, privacy, news gathering, protection sources, fair trial and free press, theories of the First Amendment, and broadcast regulation. Prerequisite: Journalism M.A. student or advanced Communication major.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 217:
Digital Journalism (COMM 117)
(Graduate students register for COMM 217.) Seminar and practicum. The implications of new media for journalists. Professional and social issues related to the web as a case of new media deployment, as a story, as a research and reporting tool, and as a publishing channel. Prerequisite: Journalism M.A. student or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 220:
Digital Media in Society (COMM 120)
(Graduate students register for 220.) Contemporary debates concerning the social and cultural impact of digital media. Topics include the historical origins of digital media, cultural contexts of their development and use, and influence of digital media on conceptions of self, community, and state. Restricted to Juniors and Seniors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 225:
Perspectives on American Journalism (COMM 125)
(Graduate students register for COMM 225.) Issues, ideas, and concepts in the development of American journalism, emphasizing the role of the press in society, the meaning and nature of news, and professional norms that influence conduct in and outside the newsroom. Prerequisite: 1 or junior standing.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 231:
Media Ethics and Responsibility (COMM 131)
(Graduate students register for COMM 231.) The development of professionalism among American journalists, emphasizing the emergence of objectivity as a professional and the epistemological norm. An applied ethics course where questions of power, freedom, and truth autonomy are treated normatively so as to foster critical thinking about the origins and implications of commonly accepted standards of responsible journalism.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
COMM 240:
Digital Media Entrepreneurship (COMM 140)
(Graduate students register for COMM 240.) Primarily for graduate journalism and computer science students. Silicon Valley's new media culture, digital storytelling skills and techniques, web-based skills, and entrepreneurial ventures. Guest speakers.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
COMM 260:
The Press and the Political Process (COMM 160, POLISCI 323R)
(Graduate students register for COMM 260.) The role of mass media and other channels of communication in political and electoral processes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 262:
Analysis of Political Campaigns (COMM 162, POLISCI 323S)
(Graduate students register for COMM 262.) Seminar. The evolution of American political campaigns, and the replacement of the political party by the mass media as intermediary between candidates and voters. Academic literature on media strategies, the relationship between candidates and the press, the effects of campaigns on voter behavior, and inconsistencies between media campaigns and democratic norms. Do media-based campaigns enable voters to live up to their civic responsibility? Has the need for well-financed campaigns increased the influence of elites over nominations? Have citizens become disengaged?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 266:
Virtual People (COMM 166)
(Graduate students register for COMM 266.) The concept of virtual people or digital human representations; methods of constructing and using virtual people; methodological approaches to interactions with and among virtual people; and current applications. Viewpoints including popular culture, literature, film, engineering, behavioral science, computer science, and communication.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
COMM 268:
Experimental Research in Advanced User Interfaces (COMM 168, COMM 368, ME 468)
(Undergraduates register for 168; master's students for 268; doctoral students for 368.) Project-based course involves small groups designing and implementing an experiment concerning voice and agent user interfaces. Each group is involved in a different, publishable research project. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 269:
Computers and Interfaces (COMM 169)
(Graduate students register for COMM 269.) Interdisciplinary. User responses to interfaces and design implications of those responses. Theories from different disciplines illustrate responses to textual, voice-based, pictorial, metaphoric, conversational, adaptive, agent-based, intelligent, and anthropomorphic interfaces. Group design project applying theory to the design of products or services for developing countries.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 272:
Media Psychology (COMM 172)
(Graduate students register for COMM 272.) The literature related to psychological processing and the effects of media. Topics: unconscious processing; picture perception; attention and memory; emotion; the physiology of processing media; person perception; pornography; consumer behavior; advanced film and television systems; and differences among reading, watching, and listening.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 273:
Public Issues Reporting I
Reporting and writing on government and public policies and issues; their implications for the people and the press. Required for journalism M.A. students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
COMM 274:
Public Issues Reporting II
Student teams study one major public policy issue that has broad societal impact. Students report and write individually, and as a team produce a body of journalism that advances the understanding of a new issue each year, published on a web site and offered for publication to newspapers and other media outlets. Prerequisites: 273, Journalism M.A. student.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
COMM 275:
Multimedia Storytelling: Reporting and Production Using Audio, Still Images, and Video
Multimedia assignments coordinated with deadline reporting efforts in COMM 273 from traditional news beats using audio, still photography, and video. Use of digital audio recorders and audio production to leverage voice-over narration, interviews, and natural sound; use of digital still cameras and audio to produce audio slideshows; and the combination of these media with video in post-production with Final Cut Pro. Prerequisite: Journalism M.A. student. Corequisite: COMM 273.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
COMM 277C:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Environmental Journalism (COMM 177C)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277C.) Practical, collaborative, writing-intensive course in environmental journalism. Science and journalism students learn how to identify and write engaging stories about environmental issues and science, how to assess the quality and relevance of environmental news, how to cover the environment and science beats effectively, and how to build bridges between the worlds of journalism and science. Limited enrollment: preference to journalism students and students in the natural and environmental sciences. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 277D:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Magazine Journalism (COMM 177D)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277D.) How to report, write, edit, and read magazine articles, emphasizing long-form narrative. Tools and templates of story telling such as scenes, characters, dialogue, and narrative arc. How the best magazine stories defy or subvert conventional wisdom and bring fresh light to the human experience through reporting, writing, and moral passion. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 277G:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Covering Silicon Valley (COMM 177G)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277G.) Business reporting basics in the context of Silicon Valley's technology scene. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 277K:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Human Rights Journalism (COMM 177K)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277K.) The evolution of human rights law and enforcement, and the role of journalists in uncovering, pursuing, and publicizing political violence, detention, and torture. Case studies from S. Africa, Latin America, Israel and Palestine, N. Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan and Darfur. Human rights issues in the U.S. in the aftermath of 9/11. Students conduct research and write journalistic reports on foreign and domestic issues. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 277S:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Sports Journalism (COMM 177S)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277S.) Workshop. The history of sports writing from the 20s to present. Reporting, interviewing, deadline writing, and how to conceptualize and develop stories. Students write features and news stories for publication in a new sports section in The Cardinal Inquirer, an online publication of the graduate program in journalism. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
COMM 277Y:
Specialized Writing and Reporting: Foreign Correspondence in the Middle East (COMM 177Y)
(Graduate students register for COMM 277Y.) What's involved in working as a journalist in one of the most important and dangerous parts of the world.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
COMM 282:
Virtual Communities and Social Media (COMM 182)
(Graduate students register for CMM 282.) Taught by the originator of the terms virtual community and smart mobs. How the concept of community has changed from agricultural to industrial to networked societies. Much class discussion takes place in social cyberspaces.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
COMM 289:
Journalism Master's Project
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
COMM 290:
Media Studies M.A. Project
Individual research for coterminal Media Studies students.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Bettinger, J. (PI);
Brinkley, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Frankel, G. (PI);
Garcia, D. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Grimes, A. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI);
Turner, F. (PI);
Ementon, S. (GP)
COMM 291:
Graduate Journalism Seminar
Required of students in the graduate program in Journalism. Forum for current issues in the practice and performance of the press. The seminar frequently features Bay Area Journalists as guest speakers. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
COMM 299:
Individual Work
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Bettinger, J. (PI);
Brinkley, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Frankel, G. (PI);
Garcia, D. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Grimes, A. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Luskin, R. (PI);
Markoff, J. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Noveck, B. (PI);
Pomerantz, G. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Rheingold, H. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI);
Turner, F. (PI);
Wheaton, J. (PI);
Zachary, G. (PI);
Ementon, S. (GP)
COMM 301:
Communication Curriculum Development and Pedagogy
Required of all Ph.D. students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
COMM 307:
Summer Institute in Political Psychology
Lectures, discussion groups, and workshops addressing many applications of psychology to the analysis of political behavior. Public opinion, international relations, political decision-making, attitudes and beliefs, prejudice, social influence and persuasion, terrorism, news media influence, foreign policy, socialization, social justice.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-6
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 308:
Graduate Seminar in Political Psychology (POLISCI 324)
For students interested in research in political science, psychology, or communication. Methodological techniques for studying political attitudes and behaviors. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 310:
Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) Workshop (POLISCI 402)
Colloquium series. Creation and application of new methodological techniques for social science research. Presentations on methodologies of use for social scientists across departments at Stanford by guest speakers from Stanford and elsewhere. See http://mapss.stanford.edu. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 311:
Theory of Communication
Required of Communication doctoral students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-5
COMM 312:
Models of Democracy (COMM 212, POLISCI 237, POLISCI 337)
Ancient and modern varieties of democracy; debates about their normative and practical strengths and the pathologies to which each is subject. Focus is on participation, deliberation, representation, and elite competition, as values and political processes. Formal institutions, political rhetoric, technological change, and philosophical critique. Models tested by reference to long-term historical natural experiments such as Athens and Rome, recent large-scale political experiments such as the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly, and controlled experiments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
COMM 314:
Doctoral Research Methods II B
Part of the doctoral research methods sequence. Focus is on the logic of qualitative research methods and modes of inquiry relevant to the study of communication and meaning. Prerequisite: Communication Ph.D. student, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
COMM 317:
Doctoral Research Methods I
Approaches to social science research and their theoretical presuppositions. Readings from the philosophy of the social sciences. Research design, the role of experiments, and quantitative and qualitative research. Cases from communication and related social sciences. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
COMM 318:
Doctoral Research Methods II
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-5
COMM 320G:
Advanced Topics in New Media and American Culture
Primarily for Ph.D. students. Prerequisite: 220 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-5
COMM 325G:
Comparative Studies of News and Journalism
Focus is on topics such as the roles and responsibilities of journalists, news as a genre of popular literature, the nexus between press and state, and journalism's commitment to political participation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-5
COMM 360G:
Political Communication
Limited to Ph.D. students. Advanced topics. Prerequisite: 260 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 368:
Experimental Research in Advanced User Interfaces (COMM 168, COMM 268, ME 468)
(Undergraduates register for 168; master's students for 268; doctoral students for 368.) Project-based course involves small groups designing and implementing an experiment concerning voice and agent user interfaces. Each group is involved in a different, publishable research project. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 372G:
Seminar in Psychological Processing
Limited to Ph.D. students. Advanced topics. Prerequisite: 272 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-5
COMM 380:
Curriculum Practical Training
Practical experience in the communication industries. Prerequisites: graduate standing in Communication, consent of instructor. Meets requirements for Curricular Practical Training for students on F-1 visas. 380 May be repeated four times for credit. (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
COMM 397:
Complementary Project
Individual research for Ph.D. candidates.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-6
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 18 units total)
COMM 398:
Major Research Project
Individual research for Ph.D. candidates.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-6
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 18 units total)
COMM 399:
Advanced Individual Work
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-9
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 72 units total)
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Brinkley, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Luskin, R. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Noveck, B. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI);
Turner, F. (PI)
Terms: Aut, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Bailenson, J. (PI);
Brinkley, J. (PI);
Fishkin, J. (PI);
Frankel, G. (PI);
Glasser, T. (PI);
Grimes, A. (PI);
Iyengar, S. (PI);
Krosnick, J. (PI);
Nass, C. (PI);
Reeves, B. (PI);
Roberts, D. (PI)
COMM 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
COMM 107:
The First Amendment in the Digital Age (COMM 207)
(Graduate students register for COMM 207.) Interdisciplinary. Legal, institutional, sociological, and technological framework for free expression in democracy. History, values, and principles of the First Amendment. The challenge of new technology to old doctrine. Impact of the Internet on issues of free speech, such as political criticism, fair use, defamation, low value speech, professional privilege, and public forum in an era of private networks. How do new social networking technologies produce the expertise and accountability promoted by the First Amendment?
| Units: 4-5
COMM 111S:
Digital Media and the Political Process
The impact of new media technologies on electoral campaigns, the political process, and democratic practice. Major theoretical perspectives on new media and collective action, political communication, the public sphere, and social movements. Are digital media altering the balance of political power in American democracy? Do digital networks reshape the way we elect presidents and contest public issues? Is the Internet undermining the ability of journalists and political elites to set the public agenda?
| Units: 4
COMM 118Q:
Theories of Film Practice
Preference to sophomores. How theory connects with practice in the production of film and television. Film and television from the perspectives of practitioners who have theorized about their work in directing, editing, screenwriting, cinematography, and sound, and social scientists whose research has explored similar issues empirically.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
COMM 136:
Democracy and the Communication of Consent (COMM 236, POLISCI 134)
(Graduate students register for COMM 236.) Focus is on competing theories of democracy and the forms of communication they presuppose, combining normative and empirical issues, and historical and contemporary sources. Topics include representation, public opinion, mass media, small group processes, direct democracy, the role of information, and the prospects for deliberative democracy.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
COMM 147:
Modern History and Future of Journalism (COMM 247)
(Graduate students register for COMM 247.) The birth and evolution of local and national television news. The modern history of newspapers. Can they survive in the era of online journalism?
| Units: 4-5
COMM 158:
Free Expression and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (COMM 258)
(Graduate students register for COMM 258.) How intellectual property law fosters and hinders free speech. When does an author or inventor have a right to re-use someone else's creative expression? Are appropriation of other people¿s art, music sampling, and reverse engineering a theft of property or the basis of innovation? How technologies such as as wikis, virtual worlds, youtube, and search engines challenge the balance between constitutional protection of intellectual property and the First Amendment. Fundamentals of trade secret, patent, copyright, and trademark law and policy. No prior legal knowledge required.
| Units: 4-5
COMM 167:
Advanced Seminar in Virtual Reality Research
Restricted to students with previous research experience in virtual reality. Experimental methods and other issues.
| Units: 1-3
COMM 207:
The First Amendment in the Digital Age (COMM 107)
(Graduate students register for COMM 207.) Interdisciplinary. Legal, institutional, sociological, and technological framework for free expression in democracy. History, values, and principles of the First Amendment. The challenge of new technology to old doctrine. Impact of the Internet on issues of free speech, such as political criticism, fair use, defamation, low value speech, professional privilege, and public forum in an era of private networks. How do new social networking technologies produce the expertise and accountability promoted by the First Amendment?
| Units: 4-5
COMM 236:
Democracy and the Communication of Consent (COMM 136, POLISCI 134)
(Graduate students register for COMM 236.) Focus is on competing theories of democracy and the forms of communication they presuppose, combining normative and empirical issues, and historical and contemporary sources. Topics include representation, public opinion, mass media, small group processes, direct democracy, the role of information, and the prospects for deliberative democracy.
| Units: 4-5
COMM 238:
Democratic Theory: Normative and Empirical Issues (COMM 338)
Conflicting visions in terms of normative conflicts and empirical evidence. How citizens communicate with each other and their representatives, and how their representatives deliberate. Topics include theories of deliberation, how democracy is transformed when brought to the mass public, how informed a public is needed, and potential pathologies of small group communication in settings including juries, town meetings, and contemporary public consultations. Readings include Madison, Burke, Mill, Lippmann, Dewey, Schumpeter, Dahl, Sunstein, and Mansbridge.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 239:
Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Laboratory Experiments: Social and Cognitive Perspectives
The social and psychological processes involved in asking and answering questions via questionnaires for the social sciences; optimizing questionnaire design; open versus closed questions; rating versus ranking; rating scale length and point labeling; acquiescence response bias; don't-know response options; response choice order effects; question order effects; social desirability response bias; attitude and behavior recall; and introspective accounts of the causes of thoughts and actions.
| Units: 4
COMM 247:
Modern History and Future of Journalism (COMM 147)
(Graduate students register for COMM 247.) The birth and evolution of local and national television news. The modern history of newspapers. Can they survive in the era of online journalism?
| Units: 4-5
COMM 257:
Networked Governance: Democracy and New Technology (COMM 357)
Interdisciplinary seminar. The impact of technology on government institutions. How to use communications, law, and technology to engage experts and the broader public in decision making. Student teams develop implementation ready pilot projects for the next presidential administration.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 258:
Free Expression and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (COMM 158)
(Graduate students register for COMM 258.) How intellectual property law fosters and hinders free speech. When does an author or inventor have a right to re-use someone else's creative expression? Are appropriation of other people¿s art, music sampling, and reverse engineering a theft of property or the basis of innovation? How technologies such as as wikis, virtual worlds, youtube, and search engines challenge the balance between constitutional protection of intellectual property and the First Amendment. Fundamentals of trade secret, patent, copyright, and trademark law and policy. No prior legal knowledge required.
| Units: 4-5
COMM 326:
Advanced Topics in Human Virtual Representation
Topics include the theoretical construct of person identity, the evolution of that construct given the advent of virtual environments, and methodological approaches to understanding virtual human representation. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 331G:
Communication and Media Ethics
Limited to Ph.D. students. Advanced topics in press ethics and responsibility. Prerequisite: 231 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-3
COMM 338:
Democratic Theory: Normative and Empirical Issues (COMM 238)
Conflicting visions in terms of normative conflicts and empirical evidence. How citizens communicate with each other and their representatives, and how their representatives deliberate. Topics include theories of deliberation, how democracy is transformed when brought to the mass public, how informed a public is needed, and potential pathologies of small group communication in settings including juries, town meetings, and contemporary public consultations. Readings include Madison, Burke, Mill, Lippmann, Dewey, Schumpeter, Dahl, Sunstein, and Mansbridge.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 357:
Networked Governance: Democracy and New Technology (COMM 257)
Interdisciplinary seminar. The impact of technology on government institutions. How to use communications, law, and technology to engage experts and the broader public in decision making. Student teams develop implementation ready pilot projects for the next presidential administration.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 379:
History of the Study of Communication
The origins of communication/media theory and research emphasizing the rise of communication as a separate field of study. The influence of schools of thought concerning the scope and purpose of the study of communication. Readings include foundational essays and studies. Prerequisite: Ph.D. student or consent of instructor.
| Units: 1-5
COMM 386:
Media Cultures of the Cold War (ARTHIST 475)
The intersection of politics, aesthetics, and new media technologies in the U.S. between the end of WW II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Topics include the aesthetics of thinking the unthinkable in the wake of the atom bomb; abstract expressionism andmodern man discourse; game theory, cybernetics, and new models of art making; the rise of television, intermedia, and the counterculture; and the continuing influence of the early cold war on contemporary media aesthetics. Readings from primary and secondary sources in art history, communication, and critical theory.
| Units: 3-5
