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2011 – 2012Course DescriptionsClinical Lab ScienceCLS 500 CLINICAL TRAINING CERTIFICATEPROGRAM PART ONE (8)Prerequisites: BS in Biology with anEmphasis in Clinical Laboratory Science orEquivalent educational credential.The first phase of clinical training in aclinical laboratory at a partner hospital.Graded Credit/No CreditCLS 501 CLINICAL TRAINING CERTIFICATEPROGRAM PART II (8)40 hours field studies per weekPrerequisites: BA in Biology with anEmphasis in Clinical Laboratory Science orEquivalent educational credential.The second phase of clinical training in aclinical laboratory at a partner hospital.Graded Credit/No CreditCommunicationCOMM 101 PUBLIC SPEAKING (3)Three hours lecture per weekIntroduction to communication theory andthe study of the human communicationprocess with an emphasis on effectivepublic communication. Includes intensivepractice in public speaking, reasoning,and critical listening.GenEd: A1COMM 200 INTRODUCTION TOCOMMUNICATION STUDIES (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: COMM 101Foundational principles and theoriesof communication provide the studentwith alternate ways to understandhuman interaction. Tracing historical andcultural answers to the question, whatis communication, guides students toconsider alternate paradigms.GenEd: A1COMM 210 INTERPERSONALCOMMUNICATION (3)Three hours lecture per weekAnalysis of the role communication playsin interpersonal relationships with specialemphasis on intercultural communication.Oral interpersonal communication skillswill be stressed.GenEd: A1COMM 211 DISCERNING INFORMATIONIN AN INTERCONNECTEDWORLD (3)Three hours lecture per weekProvide students with strategies to helpthem make sense of our informationsaturatedworld. Students should criticallyassess information, differentiate theperspectives of information seekers fromproviders and evaluate our sourcesof knowledge through issues suchas surveillance, surrogates, privacy,information seeking behavior, informationcontrol, intellectual property, digitaldemocracy, and emerging informationcommunication technologies.Student Option: Graded or Credit/No CreditSame as LIB 211GenEd: A3, DCOMM 220 GROUP COMMUNICATION (3)Three hours lecture per weekThis course examines communication inthe small group context. It will investigatethe important theoretical foundationsand practical applications of groupcommunication as well as apply thosetheories and skills to actual groupinteractions.GenEd: A1COMM 230 INTRODUCTION TOJOURNALISM (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: ENGL 103 or ENGL 105Designed for students interested inproducing print and photo journalismfor local community publications. Topicswill include journalistic writing stylesand techniques, research strategies,interviewing methods, appropriatelayout and design techniques. Projectswill culminate in a product suitable forpublication.Same as ENGL 230GenEd: A2COMM 301 ADVANCED PUBLICSPEAKING (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: COMM 101Develops advanced skills of persuasion,narratives, language usage, leadership,and the ability to handle difficult speakingsituations.COMM 310 COMMUNICATIONRESEARCH METHODS (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: COMM 200Investigation of methodology andanalytical techniques of humancommunication, including participantobservation, interview, focus groups,surveys, conversation and contentanalysis.COMM 320 PERSUASION ANDARGUMENTATION (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: COMM 101Students will debate one another incontemporary topics in health, businessand the environment. Students will alsoparticipate in creating a public campaignto persuade a larger audience.COMM 321 CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS (3)Three hours lecture per weekFocuses on the ways that people fromdifferent cultures interact. Students willanalyze and participate in conversationswith people who claim different groupmemberships such as regional, religious,ethnic, or national backgrounds, age,gender and sexual orientations.GenEd: C3BCOMM 322 SOCIOLOGY OFPOPULAR CULTURE (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: SOC 100Examines popular culture from asociological and a comparativeperspective. Emphasizes the impact ofmass media on individual behavior,marketing and consumption ofamusements and entertainments in thedomestic and global marketplace.Same as SOC 322, ENGL 322COMM 331 ART, SOCIETY, ANDMASS MEDIA (3)Three hours lecture per weekThe study of synergetic relationshipsbetween visual art and humancommunication dating back to the rootsof civilization. Comparative studies in artand communication link ancient traditionsto the development of contemporary massmedia including print, photography, film,television and the internetSame as ART 331GenEd: C1, D, InterdisciplinaryCOMM 333 NONPROFITORGANIZATIONS (3)Three hours lecture per weekIssues unique to nonprofit organizationsincluding financial, legal, and political.Same as POLS 333, ECON 333,BUS 333GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary234 www.csuci.edu • California State University Channel Islands • 2011 - 2012 Catalog