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COMM 8000 - Communication Studies Research Colloquium

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The Friday Colloquium is a mix of research presentations by scholars in Communication Studies and related fields, and workshops on professional development. The Colloquium provides graduate students with a broader introduction to the field, cutting edge work, and opportunities for developing their interests and skills. The content and specific requirements of COMM 8xxx will vary by year, depending upon the faculty member who coordinates the colloquium series and the direction provided by the Director of Graduate Studies. In the fall of each year, the professional development portion of the Colloquium will focus on teaching. Professional development sessions in the spring may include: navigating the job market, publishing, networking, or alternative academic career paths, depending on the range of speakers and interests of the cohort.

COMM 8101 - Introduction to Graduate Communication Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

COMM 8101 is a required course that provides beginning graduate students with a foundation for understanding the discipline of communication studies from the perspective of a graduate student, scholar, and faculty citizen.

ANTH 8001 - Ethnography, Theory, History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to foundational concepts, methods, and ethnographic work. Emphasizes theories that have shaped 20th-century thinking in cultural anthropology. Connection of these theories to fieldwork and contemporary issues.

ANTH 8002 - Ethnography: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts/perspectives in anthropology. Emphasizes American cultural anthropology. Rrecent work in semiotic, psychological, and feminist anthropology.

COMM 5411 - Small Group Communication Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of small group communication research; theory and practice. Group decision-making and leadership. prereq: 3411 or instr consent

COMM 5611 - Survey of Rhetorical Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 5611/Writ 5776
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Rhetorical theory, from ancient to contemporary period. Application to public discourse.

COMM 8110 - Seminar: Communication Research Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Evaluation of research methods in speech-communication. prereq: undergrad degree in spch-comm or equiv

COMM 8211 - Critical Communication Studies: History, Theory, Method

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Qualitative research methods for studying media institutions, texts, audiences, and contexts.

COMM 8504 - Seminar: Rhetorical Criticism

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Rhetorical criticism theories and methods. Rhetoric as applied to literary studies and the growth of hermeneutics as vantage points for reassessing rhetorical methods. prereq: 5615 or instr consent

CSCL 5555 - Introduction to Semiotics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CL 5555/CSCL 5555/CSDS 5555
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Problems of the nature of the sign; sign function; sign production; signifying systems as articulated in philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and art theory. Application of semiotics to various signifying practices (literature, cinema, daily life).

EPSY 5243 - Principles and Methods of Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	OLPD 5501/EPsy 5243
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introductory course in program evaluation; planning an evaluation study, collecting and analyzing information, reporting results; overview of the field of program evaluation.

EPSY 5244 - Survey Design, Sampling, and Implementation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey methods, including mail, phone, and Web-based/e-mail surveys. Principles of measurement, constructing questions/forms, pilot testing, sampling, data analysis, reporting. Students develop a survey proposal and a draft survey, pilot the survey, and develop sampling/data analysis plans. prereq: [5221 or 5231 or 5261 or equiv], [CEHD grad student or MEd student]

EPSY 5247 - Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to qualitative methods of inquiry. Contrasting different research traditions (e.g., case study, phenomenology, ethnography, social interactionism, critical theory). Practice with field notes, observations, and interviewing. Use of NVIVO to track/code data. prereq: Graduate student or Applied Psychology in Educational and Community Settings Minor

EPSY 5261 - Introductory Statistical Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 3264/5231/5261/5263
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

EPSY 5261 is designed to engage students in statistics as a principled approach to data collection, prediction, and scientific inference. Students first learn about data collection (e.g., random sampling, random assignment) and examine data descriptively using graphs and numerical summaries. Students build conceptual understanding of statistical inference through the use of simulation-based methods (bootstrapping and randomization) before going on to learn parametric methods, such as t-tests (one-sample and two-sample means), z-tests (one-sample and two-sample proportions), chi-square tests, and regression. This course uses pedagogical methods grounded in research, such as small group activities and discussion. Attention undergraduates: As this is a graduate level course, it does not fulfill the Mathematical Thinking Liberal Education requirement. If you would like to take a statistics course in our department that fulfills that requirement, please consider EPSY 3264.

EPSY 5262 - Intermediate Statistical Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Application of statistical concepts/procedures. Analysis of variance, covariance, multiple regression. Experimental design: completely randomized, block, split plot/repeated measures. prereq: 3264 or 5261 or equiv

EPSY 8251 - Statistical Methods in Education I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 8251/EPsy 8261
Prerequisites:	[EPSY 5261 or equiv] or undergrad statistics course
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Statistical Methods in Education I is the first course in an entry-level, doctoral sequence for students in education. This course covers estimation and hypothesis testing with a particular focus on ANOVA and an introduction to multiple linear regression. Prepares students for EPSY 8252/8262. prereq: [EPSY 5261 or equiv] or undergrad statistics course

EPSY 8252 - Statistical Methods in Education II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 8252/EPsy 8262
Prerequisites:	[8251, 8261 or equiv]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Statistical Methods in Education II is the second course in an entry-level, doctoral sequence for students in education. This course focuses on multiple linear regression and provides an introduction to linear mixed models. prereq: [8251, 8261 or equiv]

FW 8394 - Research in Fisheries

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Directed research.

FW 8494 - Research in Wildlife

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Directed research. prereq: instr consent

GWSS 8201 - Feminist Theory and Methods in the Social Sciences

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar on recent theories, including feminist versions of positivist, interpretivist, critical theoretical, and postmodernist models of social science knowledge. Methodologies congenial to feminist practices of inquiry, including use of narrative in theory, feminist ethnography, discourse analysis, and comparative methods in history.

GWSS 8210 - Seminar: Feminist Theory & Praxis

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics in feminist theory.

SOC 8801 - Sociological Research Methods

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Multiple objectives of social research and how they inform research design. Conceptualization and measurement of complex concepts. Broad issues in research design and quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and management. prereq: Grad soc major or instr consent

SOC 8890 - Advanced Topics in Research Methods

Credits:	2.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title

WRIT 5775 - Rhetorical Traditions: Classical Period

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

This course provides an intensive survey of rhetoric as understood and practiced in ancient Greece and Rome, and serves as an introduction to graduate-level study of historical rhetoric more generally. The course attends to the development of the discipline of rhetoric in the Classical world and to the recurring themes that constitute "the rhetorical tradition." Class discussions and assignments assess the epistemological foundations, ethical status, and socio-political importance of ancient rhetorical training and discourse. Primary readings (in English) include works by sophists and orators of the Greek Classical period, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and others. Secondary readings and class discussion will consider political, cultural, and philosophical contexts for ancient rhetorical theory, oratorial practice, and the teaching of speech and writing. This course will prepare graduate students for preliminary exams, research, and pedagogical encounters in rhetoric.

WRIT 5776 - The Rhetorical Traditions: Modern Era

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 5611/Writ 5776
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

This course is designed to acquaint graduate students with different traditions of rhetorical theory. It surveys a range of rhetorical tools/methods, and sets out to assist students to find a clear purpose for using rhetorical theory and to develop a structured approach to their objects of criticism. It prioritizes Black, Indigenous, transnational, and anti-racist approaches to rhetoric, and situates those as foundational to the traditions of such theoretical traditions as semiotics, deconstruction, genealogy, affect theory, assemblage theory, and psychoanalysis. It is intended to prepare students for comprehensive exams, conference presentations, and pedagogical encounters with rhetoric.

COMM 5110 - Special Topics in Communication Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Advanced theoretical problems. See department office for current offering.

COMM 5211 - Critical Media Studies: Theory and Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Survey of theories, research methods, and scholars dominating critical media studies since late 1920s. prereq: Graduate students or undergraduates who have completed COMM 3211 (Introduction to Media Studies) or its equivalent

COMM 5221 - Media, Race, and Identity

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Critical media studies perspective on cultural politics of race and ethnicity. Social construction of race, politics of racism, media representations of race. prereq: 3211 or instr consent

COMM 5231 - Media Outlaws

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

People working outside of mainstream media institutions who find creative/provocative ways to use media as space for cultural, political, or economic critique/resistance.

COMM 5261 - Political Economy of Media Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Organizational practices of media communicators. Media content as link between communicators and audiences. How viewers use/process media content. prereq: 3211 or instr consent

COMM 5411 - Small Group Communication Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of small group communication research; theory and practice. Group decision-making and leadership. prereq: 3411 or instr consent

COMM 5431 - The Process of Persuasion

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Communication campaigns (e.g., advertising, political) illustrating persuasive processes and theories. Research paper required. prereq: 3431

COMM 5441 - Communication in Human Organizations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Communication in organizational settings. Organizational structure and dynamics and their effect upon the communication process. Individual projects.

COMM 5451W - Intercultural Communication Processes (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Theory and research on cultural differences in values, norms, behaviors, and perceptions that affect communication across cultures internationally and domestically.

COMM 5611 - Survey of Rhetorical Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 5611/Writ 5776
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Rhetorical theory, from ancient to contemporary period. Application to public discourse.

COMM 5615W - Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of public discourse using various theoretical perspectives. prereq: 1101; 3601 recommended

COMM 5617 - History and Criticism of U.S. Public Discourse: 1630-1865

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

How discourse has been used to establish or maintain power. Speeches and public debates used to examine American public address from 17th century (e.g., Puritan sermons) to the Civil War. prereq: Jr

COMM 5970 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Instructor and department consent is required.

COMM 8210 - Seminar: Selected Topics in U.S. Electronic Media

Credits:	3.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Literature survey; evaluating research on topics; conducting independent research project on a particular topic. prereq: 5210 or instr consent; offered when feasible

COMM 8402 - Seminar: Interpersonal Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Evaluate and develop new perspectives for analyzing, diagnosing, and managing interpersonal communication problems. prereq: 5402 or instr consent

COMM 8403 - Seminar: Emotion and Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Major theories of emotion and the role of emotion in communication.

COMM 8451 - Seminar: Intercultural and Diversity Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Development of ideas/methods for research project, M.A. Plan B project, or Ph.D. dissertation. prereq: instr consent

COMM 8452 - Seminar: Methods of Intercultural/Diversity Facilitation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Theories of and techniques for managing effective intercultural communication and diversity. Intercultural training. prereq: 4451 or 5452 recommended

COMM 8502 - Seminar: Communication Theory Construction

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Logic of communication theory development and modification from a social scientific perspective. Types of communication theories. prereq: 5421 or instr consent

COMM 8504 - Seminar: Rhetorical Criticism

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Rhetorical criticism theories and methods. Rhetoric as applied to literary studies and the growth of hermeneutics as vantage points for reassessing rhetorical methods. prereq: 5615 or instr consent

COMM 8606 - Seminar: Rhetorical Analysis of Campaigns and Movements

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Literature and methodology in historical and contemporary rhetorical campaigns and movements.

COMM 8611 - Seminar: Rhetoric

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

History/criticism of rhetorical theory. Research in rhetoric. prereq: 5611 or instr consent

COMM 8625 - Seminar: Communication Ethics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Independent research on communication ethics in interpersonal, group, organizational, intercultural, and media settings. Theories of ethics and methods of analysis. prereq: Ethics course or instr consent

COMM 8910 - Advanced Topics in Communication Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Literature survey; evaluating research on topics; conducting independent research project on a particular topic.

COMM 8994 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Supervised research project.

AFRO 5866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The "second reconstruction." Failure of Reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Post-1945 assault on white supremacy via courts/state, grass-roots southern movement in 1950s/1960s. Black struggle in north and west, emphasis on Black Power by new organizations/ideologies/leaders. Ascendancy of Reagan, conservative assault on movement.

AMES 5920 - Topics in Asian Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMST 4101 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 4101/GLBT 4101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.

AMST 8202 - Theoretical Foundations and Current Practice in American Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of central theoretical work in the field and survey of key methodologies. prereq: grad AmSt major or instr consent or dept consent

AMST 8231 - Cultural Fallout: The Cold War and Its Legacy, Readings

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Culture of Cold War, its legacy. How it affected/reflected domestic politics, public policies, civic life, gender expectations, sexuality, class relations, racial justice, and civil rights. Impact of domestic anti-communism and of American cultural politics abroad.

AMST 8920 - Topics in American Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ANTH 8001 - Ethnography, Theory, History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to foundational concepts, methods, and ethnographic work. Emphasizes theories that have shaped 20th-century thinking in cultural anthropology. Connection of these theories to fieldwork and contemporary issues.

ANTH 8002 - Ethnography: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts/perspectives in anthropology. Emphasizes American cultural anthropology. Rrecent work in semiotic, psychological, and feminist anthropology.

ANTH 8810 - Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar examines particular aspects of method and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.

BTHX 8000 - Advanced Topics in Bioethics

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Advanced study of bioethics topics of contemporary interest. prereq: Grad or professional student

CPSY 8302 - Developmental Psychology: Social and Emotional Processes

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Normative issues and individual differences in social development from infancy through adolescence. Emphasizes developmental psychopathology, life span considerations. prereq: Doctoral student, instr consent

CPSY 8360 - Special Topics in Developmental Psychology

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Intensive study in specialized areas of developmental psychology. Topics/credits vary. prereq: Doctoral student

CSCL 5555 - Introduction to Semiotics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CL 5555/CSCL 5555/CSDS 5555
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Problems of the nature of the sign; sign function; sign production; signifying systems as articulated in philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and art theory. Application of semiotics to various signifying practices (literature, cinema, daily life).

CSCL 5833 - Marx, Freud, Nietzsche: Intellectual Foundations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Three thinkers who defined modernity: Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche. Central tenets of their thought/terms associated with their theories. Their careers portrayed against the background of their times; their place in intellectual history.

CSCL 5993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 5993/CSDS 5993
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading or study. Prereq-instr consent, dept consent, college consent.

EMS 8100 - Workshop in Early Modern Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Lectures and workshops offered by various centers, departments, institutes, and libraries across disciplines on Twin Cities campus. Online reports and discussion. prereq: instr consent

ENGL 5140 - Readings in 18th Century Literature and Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Literature written in English, 1660-1798. Topics may include British literature of Reformation and 18th century, 18-century American literature, a genre (e.g., 18th-century novel). prereq: Grad student or instr consent

ENGL 5805 - Writing for Publication

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Conference presentations, book reviews, revision of seminar papers for journal publication, and preparation of a scholarly monograph. Style, goals, and politics of journal and university press editors/readers. Electronic publication. Professional concerns. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

ENGL 8090 - Seminar in Special Subjects

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Sample topics: literature of World War II, writings of the Holocaust, literature of English Civil War, advanced versification.

ENGL 8150 - Seminar in Shakespeare

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Perspectives/works vary with offering and instructor. Recent topics include Global Shakespeare, Shakespearian Comedy, Shakespeare and Performance.

ENGL 8400 - Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sample topics: Marxism and nationalism; modern India; feminism and decolonization; "the Empire Writes Back"; Islam and the West. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8992 - Directed Reading in Language, Literature, Culture, Rhetoric, Composition, or Creative Writing

Credits:	1.0 -9.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Directed Reading in Language, Literature, Culture, Rhetoric, Composition, or Creative Writing prereq: instr consent, dept consent

EPSY 5243 - Principles and Methods of Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	OLPD 5501/EPsy 5243
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introductory course in program evaluation; planning an evaluation study, collecting and analyzing information, reporting results; overview of the field of program evaluation.

EPSY 5244 - Survey Design, Sampling, and Implementation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey methods, including mail, phone, and Web-based/e-mail surveys. Principles of measurement, constructing questions/forms, pilot testing, sampling, data analysis, reporting. Students develop a survey proposal and a draft survey, pilot the survey, and develop sampling/data analysis plans. prereq: [5221 or 5231 or 5261 or equiv], [CEHD grad student or MEd student]

EPSY 5247 - Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to qualitative methods of inquiry. Contrasting different research traditions (e.g., case study, phenomenology, ethnography, social interactionism, critical theory). Practice with field notes, observations, and interviewing. Use of NVIVO to track/code data. prereq: Graduate student or Applied Psychology in Educational and Community Settings Minor

EPSY 5261 - Introductory Statistical Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 3264/5231/5261/5263
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

EPSY 5261 is designed to engage students in statistics as a principled approach to data collection, prediction, and scientific inference. Students first learn about data collection (e.g., random sampling, random assignment) and examine data descriptively using graphs and numerical summaries. Students build conceptual understanding of statistical inference through the use of simulation-based methods (bootstrapping and randomization) before going on to learn parametric methods, such as t-tests (one-sample and two-sample means), z-tests (one-sample and two-sample proportions), chi-square tests, and regression. This course uses pedagogical methods grounded in research, such as small group activities and discussion. Attention undergraduates: As this is a graduate level course, it does not fulfill the Mathematical Thinking Liberal Education requirement. If you would like to take a statistics course in our department that fulfills that requirement, please consider EPSY 3264.

EPSY 5262 - Intermediate Statistical Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Application of statistical concepts/procedures. Analysis of variance, covariance, multiple regression. Experimental design: completely randomized, block, split plot/repeated measures. prereq: 3264 or 5261 or equiv

EPSY 8251 - Statistical Methods in Education I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 8251/EPsy 8261
Prerequisites:	[EPSY 5261 or equiv] or undergrad statistics course
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Statistical Methods in Education I is the first course in an entry-level, doctoral sequence for students in education. This course covers estimation and hypothesis testing with a particular focus on ANOVA and an introduction to multiple linear regression. Prepares students for EPSY 8252/8262. prereq: [EPSY 5261 or equiv] or undergrad statistics course

EPSY 8252 - Statistical Methods in Education II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 8252/EPsy 8262
Prerequisites:	[8251, 8261 or equiv]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Statistical Methods in Education II is the second course in an entry-level, doctoral sequence for students in education. This course focuses on multiple linear regression and provides an introduction to linear mixed models. prereq: [8251, 8261 or equiv]

FREN 8230 - Critical Issues: Criticism and Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Critical issues relating to works in criticism/thought related to French/Francophone literature, philosophy or culture.

FSOS 8001 - Conceptual Frameworks in the Family

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Major theoretical models about families, emphasizing sociohistorical context.

FW 8394 - Research in Fisheries

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Directed research.

FW 8494 - Research in Wildlife

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Directed research. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8230 - Theoretical Geography

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Advanced topics. Topics vary with interests of faculty offering course. Contemporary theoretical/philosophical themes transcending subdisciplines of human/physical geography. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8980 - Topics: Geography

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 30.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent

GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 5406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examines spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 5502 - Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GLBT 4502/GWSS 4502/GWSS 5502
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Public policy issues, processes, and histories as these affect women-, children-, and gender-related issues.

GWSS 8210 - Seminar: Feminist Theory & Praxis

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics in feminist theory.

GWSS 8230 - Seminar: Cultural Criticism and Media Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Topics in literature, film, art.

GWSS 8250 - Seminar: Nation, State, and Citizenship

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics related to nation, state, citizenship.

GWSS 8490 - Seminar: Transnational, Postcolonial, Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Graduate topics in comparative/global studies.

HIST 5283 - Marx, Capital and History: An Introduction to Marxist Theory and History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Explore Marx's understanding of capitalism and its history. Marx's argument regarding historical specificity of capitalism as economic/social condition

HIST 5900 - Topics in European/Medieval History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Selected topics in European or medieval history not covered in regular courses; taught as staffing permits. prereq: Grad or [advanced undergrad with instr consent]

HIST 5960 - Topics in History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Selected topics in history not covered in regular courses. Taught as staffing permits. prereq: [advanced undergrad with instr consent]

HIST 8025 - Politics of Historical Memory

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Ger 8820/Hist 8025
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Issues surrounding interaction of memory/history. Genealogy of historical memory. Individual narratives and circulation of historical memory. Sites/forms of collective memory. Justice and historical memory. Case studies, discussions, research projects.

HIST 8910 - Topics in U.S. History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 15.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -16.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students work on tutorial basis. Guided individual reading or study. prereq: Grad student, instr consent

JOUR 8290 - Special Topics in Strategic Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: Strat Comm MA grad major

JOUR 8650 - Seminar: Psychology of Media Effects

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

In-depth study of psychological concepts/theories concerning individual cognitive processing of content of both traditional/new electronic media. Critically evaluate latest empirical research concerning how individuals respond to the content of both traditional mass media/newest electronic digital media. prereq: Grad students enrolled in Mass Communication MA or PhD program or instr consent

KIN 5371 - Sport and Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Kin 5371/Rec 5371
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Sport, sporting processes, social influences, systems. Structures that have effected and exist within/among societies, nations, and cultures. Contemporary issues such as social differentiation, violence, and honesty. prereq: [3126W, grad student] or instr consent

KIN 5511 - Sport and Gender

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Kin 5511/Rec 5511
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Critically examines women's involvement in/contributions to sport, physical activity, and leisure.

LING 5900 - Topics in Linguistics

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics vary. See Class Schedule.

MIMS 8001 - Theories of the Moving Image

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Study of the moving image as the intersection between critical media studies and film studies. Not a historical overview, but rather current discussions in these areas contextualized with relevant readings in classical film and media theory.

MIMS 8003 - Historiography of the Moving Image

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Genealogies of the moving image. "Crisis" of film in debates about "old" and "new" media; Hollywood's role in defining commercial and oppositional forms of moving images; approaches to the writing of history in relation to media historiography.

OLPD 5128 - Anthropology of Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5128/OLPD 5128
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Insights from educational anthropology for educators to address issues of culture, ethnicity, and power in schools.

PA 5290 - Topics in Planning

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5490 - Topics in Social Policy

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5721 - Energy Systems and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of energy production/consumption choices on environmental quality, sustainable development, and other economic/social goals. Emphasizes public policy choices for energy/environment, linkages between them.

PA 5790 - Topics in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PHIL 8510 - Seminar: Aesthetics Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics vary by offering.

POL 8260 - Topics in Political Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in special topics or problems.

PSY 5204 - Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to interpersonal relationship theory/research findings. prereq: Honors or grad student or instr consent

PSY 8203 - Impression Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Classic and contemporary theory and research concerning interpersonal strategies of impression management and interplay between private and public self. prereq: Grad psych major; 8208 recommended; instr consent

PSY 8205 - Principles of Social Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Contemporary theoretical positions and related research. prereq: Psy PhD student

RELS 8190 - Comparative Seminar in Religions in Antiquity

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics vary. Major cultural movement as it developed over several centuries. Draws on evidence in literature, archival records, inscriptions, documentary papyri, and archaeological remains. Artistic media such as wall painting, architectural ornament, funerary sculpture, or manuscript illumination. prereq: Grad student in relevant field

SAGR 8010 - Colloquium in Sustainable Agriculture

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Forum for University faculty and students, and representatives of the farming community, including farmers, grassroots organizations, agricultural businesses, and representatives of state agencies, to engage in discussions on topics related to sustainability of food production. prereq: Coursework in biological or social sciences that provides intro to ag practices or issues

SCMC 5993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Guided individual reading or study.

SOC 8090 - Topics in Sociology

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: instr consent

SOC 8311 - Political Sociology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Social dimensions of political behavior and social origins of different forms of the state. How various theoretical traditions--Marxist, Weberian, and feminist--address key issues in political sociology, including citizenship, revolution, state formation, origins of democracy, welfare state, and fascism.

SOC 8790 - Advanced Topics in Sociological Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Sample topics: theories of conflict, theories of purposive action, Marxist theory, and structure-agency debate.

SOC 8801 - Sociological Research Methods

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Multiple objectives of social research and how they inform research design. Conceptualization and measurement of complex concepts. Broad issues in research design and quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and management. prereq: Grad soc major or instr consent

SOC 8890 - Advanced Topics in Research Methods

Credits:	2.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title

TH 8120 - Seminar

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Selected research topics from various theatre fields and periods. Sample topics: Border Crossings--Theatre History and Representation; The Theatre and Drama of the Third Reich, 1927-1944.

WRIT 5775 - Rhetorical Traditions: Classical Period

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

This course provides an intensive survey of rhetoric as understood and practiced in ancient Greece and Rome, and serves as an introduction to graduate-level study of historical rhetoric more generally. The course attends to the development of the discipline of rhetoric in the Classical world and to the recurring themes that constitute "the rhetorical tradition." Class discussions and assignments assess the epistemological foundations, ethical status, and socio-political importance of ancient rhetorical training and discourse. Primary readings (in English) include works by sophists and orators of the Greek Classical period, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and others. Secondary readings and class discussion will consider political, cultural, and philosophical contexts for ancient rhetorical theory, oratorial practice, and the teaching of speech and writing. This course will prepare graduate students for preliminary exams, research, and pedagogical encounters in rhetoric.

WRIT 5776 - The Rhetorical Traditions: Modern Era

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 5611/Writ 5776
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

This course is designed to acquaint graduate students with different traditions of rhetorical theory. It surveys a range of rhetorical tools/methods, and sets out to assist students to find a clear purpose for using rhetorical theory and to develop a structured approach to their objects of criticism. It prioritizes Black, Indigenous, transnational, and anti-racist approaches to rhetoric, and situates those as foundational to the traditions of such theoretical traditions as semiotics, deconstruction, genealogy, affect theory, assemblage theory, and psychoanalysis. It is intended to prepare students for comprehensive exams, conference presentations, and pedagogical encounters with rhetoric.

WRIT 8510 - Seminar in Rhetoric

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics may include theories, history, criticism, major figures, movements, visual or material rhetoric. Topics vary. See the Class Schedule.

WRIT 8550 - Seminar in Technology, Culture, and Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics may include computer-mediated communication, democracy/technology, controversies over digital communication, privacy/ethical issues, feminist theory and interactions of gender with science and technology, communication in legal or medical settings. Topics vary. See the Class Schedule.

COMM 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required

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