COMM 2820

COMM 2820

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

Covers social scientific methods to solve communication research problems empirically. Topics include basic principles of social scientific research, random sampling, questionnaire design, experimental research design, focus group techniques, content analysis, and basic descriptive and inferential statistics. Students also learn basic data manipulation, presentation, and analysis techniques using SPSS and EXCEL.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: sophomores or higher.

Distribution Category (SBA-AG)

Outcomes
  • Have an appreciation for how we do research in the field of communication and why it is important to understand research methods
  • Utilize a variety of communication databases to identify scholarly research related to a research topic of interest
  • Understand key concepts and vocabulary used to describe various research paradigms and designs
  • Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of communication research designs that utilize in-depth interviews, content analysis, surveys and experiments
  • Apply knowledge and skills learned about content analysis to design a codebook to analyze newspaper coverage
  • Apply knowledge and skills learned about surveys to design an original questionnaire about media use and a sampling strategy
  • Analyze numerical data using descriptive andinferential statistics in EXCEL and SPSS
  • Convey statistical information through graphs, charts and figures using EXCEL and SPSS

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18245 COMM 2820   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited: Sophomore standing or higher.
    This class is restricted to only allow Communication majors to enroll during the pre-enrollment period. Following pre-enroll, students from any major will be allowed to enroll in any remaining available seats.

  • 18246 COMM 2820   DIS 201

    • R Ives Hall 109
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Won, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18247 COMM 2820   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18248 COMM 2820   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18249 COMM 2820   DIS 204

    • R Ives Hall 109
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
    • Won, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18250 COMM 2820   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18251 COMM 2820   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person