CM-120 Communication Seminar 1 (4 credits)
Communication Seminar I focuses on the separate communication modes of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and information technological literacy as methods of making meaning. As students explore ideas from print and online resources, personal experience, and active learning situations, they recognize the impact on meaning of language elements such as audience, context, focus, purpose, and structure. Individually and in small and large group activities, students expand their understanding of complex topics and critical thinking skills. Students develop an awareness of self-management strategies such as time management, study skills, vocabulary acquisition, and independent research, and learn to employ self assessment and feedback to evaluate their progress in this course and across the curriculum.
CM-125 Communication Seminar 2 (3 credits)
The student works to refine communication abilities (listening, reading, speaking, writing and information technology literacy) for academic purposes to become more effective in performances and processes as well as in self-assessment ability in relation to development as a communicator.
Prerequisite(s): CM-120
CM-225 Communication Seminar 3 (3 credits)
The student works to communicate at an increasingly sophisticated level, using multiple communication abilities (listening, reading, speaking, writing and information technology literacy) to develop persuasive and well-researched integrated performances in preparation for advanced communication in disciplinary contexts.
Prerequisite(s): CM-125
CM-225C Communication Seminar 3 (3 credits)
The student works to communicate at an increasingly sophisticated level, using multiple communication abilities (listening, reading, speaking, writing and information technology literacy) to develop persuasive and well-researched integrated performances in preparation for advanced communication in disciplinary contexts.
CM-501 APA Upgrade (0 credits)
This go-at-your-own-pace workshop is an asynchronous online experience that will reframe APA through graduate and disciplinary lenses. You'll learn how the APA format standards reflect the standards of your discipline, and you'll discover and practice using recommended resources to help you expand your comfort and accuracy beyond the basic reference page. You'll also learn about APA's bias-free language standards, which are reflected in most professional disciplines today. One-on-one appointments with your instructor are available if you'd like to work through how to apply APA standards to a current course assignment.
CM-503 Source-Heavy Writing (0 credits)
This class offers strategies to bolster the resource management, synthesis, and documentation skills that play major roles in most all graduate writing. You'll learn what faculty - and your discipline! - expect from your writing at the graduate level and how source management can make the process more manageable, creative, and uplifting. The course offers a blend of synchronous and asynchronous online meetings in alternate weeks, and one-on-one appointments with your instructor are available if you'd like to share and work through some of your own course writing.