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PSYD 745 - Evid Based Prac IV: Groups
Unit(s): 3
This course will review and synthesize the clinical and research literature on group treatment of mental health problems. Students will also learn the dynamics of group process including the types, stages, and group formation. Major theories and evidence-based support for group therapy will be examined. Cultural factors and application of these interventions with diverse communities will be discussed and analyzed throughout the course.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Healt
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PSYD 750A - Practicum 3A
Unit(s): 2
This course builds on Practicum 2B, with advanced clinical training placements in community settings. Through group supervision, students have the opportunity to receive and provide constructive feedback on their clinical work. Didactics of this course will focus on advanced theoretical case conceptualization and treatment planning, and advanced applications of culturally-adapted treatments, with an emphasis on incorporating multiple and intersecting socio-cultural identities. Professional development topics covered focus on professional networking and leadership and advocacy in clinical psychology.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology; NHP Fieldwork Fee - 100
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PSYD 752 - Attachment Theory: Parent Bond
Unit(s): 2
This course will cover developmental considerations of parent-infant bonding and an overview of Attachment Theory, with emphasis on the work of John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Mary Main. The course will familiarize students with significant cross-cultural research methods and findings associated with Attachment Theory, including the work of Peter Fonagy and David Wallin, with regard to current models of mentalization, reflective function, and therapeutic action. Special focus will be directed toward applying Attachment Theory to the understanding and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology
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PSYD 753 - Ldrshp, Cnsltn, Interprof Coll
Unit(s): 2
This course will focus on understanding the structure of a variety of behavioral health settings, as well as methods of effective consultation and collaboration with the various professionals who work in those settings (e.g. nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, and other health professionals). Strategies for best practices in leadership and facilitation of inter-professional interventions in behavioral healthcare will be emphasized.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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PSYD 754 - Human Sexuality
Unit(s): 2
This course will focus on human sexual functioning and dysfunction from psychological, physiological, and socio-cultural perspectives. Students will explore sexual development, the social construction of sex, sexual orientation identities, sexuality continuums, critiques of dominant sexual discourses, and sexual dysfunctions and their treatments. Students will also explore their own attitudes about sexuality and develop an awareness of and comfort with the complexities of human sexuality as applied to clinical settings.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Level Restricted to Doctoral and Graduate
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PSYD 756 - Theory/Prac of Cl Supervision
Unit(s): 2
This course provides a critical overview of the conceptual and empirical literature on clinical supervision, including models, stages, techniques, supervisory relationship and process issues, as well as ethical and legal considerations. Students will also develop core skills in the practice of clinical supervision. Attention to sociocultural aspects of supervision will be emphasized.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology; Level Restricted to Doctoral; Field of study restricted to Psychology Major; Program restricted to PSYD-Psychology,
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PSYD 760 - Practicum 3B
Unit(s): 2
This course builds on Practicum 3A, as students continue with advanced clinical training placements in community settings. Through group consultation, students have the opportunity to receive and provide constructive feedback on their clinical work. Didactics of this course will focus on advanced theoretical case conceptualization and treatment planning and advanced applications of culturally-adapted treatments, with an emphasis on incorporating multiple intersecting socio-cultural identities. Professional development topics covered include professional networking, leadership and advocacy in clinical psychology, as well as preparation for the clinical psychology internship application process.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology; NHP Fieldwork Fee - 100; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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PSYD 765 - Clin Psych Doc Int Sem
Unit(s): 1
This seminar will facilitate the development of strong doctoral internship applications for advanced PsyD students applying for doctoral psychology internships.
Prerequisite: (concurrent PSYD 750A or concurrent PSYD 750) and concurrent PSYD 760
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology
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PSYD 770 - Practicum 4A
Unit(s): 2
This course builds on Practicum 3B, which placed students in advanced clinical training placements in community settings. Through group supervision, students have the opportunity to receive and provide constructive feedback on their clinical work. Didactics of this course will focus on in-depth exploration of a theoretical orientation and its application to case conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention selection. Cultural considerations and culturally appropriate adaptations related to orientation will be emphasized. This course will cover professional development topics including transitioning to Early Career Psychologists, post-doctoral fellowships, licensure, and career advancement.
Prerequisite: PSYD 760
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; NHP Fieldwork Fee - 100; Program restricted to PSYD-Psychology,
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PSYD 780 - Practicum 4B
Unit(s): 2
This course builds on Practicum 4A, as students continue with advanced clinical training placements in community settings. Through group consultation, students have the opportunity to receive and provide constructive feedback on their clinical work. Didactics of this course will focus on continued in-depth exploration of a theoretical orientation and its application to advanced case conceptualization, treatment planning and intervention selection. Cultural considerations and culturally appropriate adaptations related to the orientation will be emphasized. This course will cover professional development topics including advancement to internship level training, transitioning to Early Career Psychologists, post-doctoral fellowships, licensure and career advancement.
Prerequisite: concurrent PSYD 770 with a minimum grade of S
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology; NHP Fieldwork Fee - 100
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PSYD 781 - Externship Placement A
Unit(s): 2
This course will focus on helping students become increasingly socialized into the multiple roles of psychologists as they prepare for the clinical and professional demands of a doctoral internship.This will include an opportunity to mentor students in case formulation and case presentation skills, as well as co-facilitate with course instructor, both group consultation and selected didactics. Students will further develop skills in prevention and evidence-based interventions in the treatment of behavioral health conditions. Flexibility in case formulation and presentation skills, and increased independence of functioning in working in behavioral health care settings, including responding to crises will be emphasized.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology
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PSYD 782 - Externship Placement B
Unit(s): 2
This course will build on the fall semester Externship Placement in helping students further their professional development and socialization into the multiple roles of psychologists as they prepare for the clinical and professional demands of a doctoral internship. This will include an ongoing opportunity to mentor less advanced students in case formulation and case presentation skills, as well as co-facilitate with course instructor both group consultation and selected didactics. Students will further develop skills in prevention and evidence-based interventions in the treatment of behavioral health conditions. The ongoing development of flexibility in case formulation and presentation skills, and increased independence of functioning in behavioral health care settings, including responding to crises, will be emphasized.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions
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PSYD 788 - Clinical Dissertation Seminar
Unit(s): 1
This course provides a demonstration of doctoral-level professional practice through the development of a clinical dissertation project proposal. Discussion of clinical and research literature, needs of diverse communities and individuals, design of interventions, and evaluation methods, and approaches to data analysis and interpretation are reviewed.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology; Program restricted to PSYD-Psychology,
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PSYD 789 - FT Clinical Internship
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology involves a one-year, full-time clinical experience. Students enroll in PsyD 789 for x consecutive semesters.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology
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PSYD 795 - Research Seminar Special Topic
Unit(s): 1
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology
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PSYD 797 - Summer Practicum
Unit(s): 1 to 3
This course is designed for students placed in multi-level practicum training placements in community settings throughout the summer. Through group consultation, students will have the opportunity to receive and provide constructive feedback on their clinical work. This course will focus on practicum level specific case presentations highlighting case conceptualization, treatment planning and intervention strategies. Cultural considerations and culturally appropriate adaptations will be emphasized.
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PSYD 798 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Special topics related to the study of clinical psychology. Department approval required.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Nursing and Health Professions; Degree restricted to Doctor of Psychology
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PSYD 799 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
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MCA 601 - College Athletics Digital Era
Unit(s): 3
Overview of the field of Collegiate Athletics with an emphasis on its development in an increasingly networked and digital national landscape. Focus on core concepts and technologies that are transforming today’s marketplace and the response of academic institutions, athletic conferences, and athletic departments at a variety of organizational divisions and levels.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 602 - Management and Leadership
Unit(s): 3
Exploration of leadership and management principles as they apply to Collegiate Athletics. Focus on practical real world situations dealing with effective teamwork, communication strategies, and how to encourage success in the face of significant change. Topics include institutional ethics and consensus building, risk and crisis management, entrepreneurship, managing innovation, accountability dynamics, and career management and professional development.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 603 - Digital Branding & Marketing
Unit(s): 3
A case study driven course of how college athletics brands perform across integrated digital, traditional and social channels. Students gain an understanding of sports brands, how they are different from all other brand categories, how they defy logic in terms of brand affinity, why non-sports brands want to partner with them and why digital branding and marketing strategies are critical to a successful future.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 604 - Revenue Generating w/Partners
Unit(s): 3
A case study driven course of how college athletics brands perform across integrated digital, traditional and social channels. Students gain an understanding of sports brands, how they are different from all other brand categories, how they defy logic in terms of brand affinity, why non-sports brands want to partner with them and why digital branding and marketing strategies are critical to a successful future.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 605 - Ticketing, Pricing, and Sales
Unit(s): 3
Analyze the evolution of ticketing and development strategies that drive overall revenue for athletic departments. Orientation on traditional primary ticket markets and the emergence of new national secondary ticket markets and dynamic ticketing strategies. Particular emphasis on new data gathering segmentation technologies to determine pricing and fan engagement.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 606 - Budget Cycle/Financial Mgmt
Unit(s): 3
Overview of the fields of budgeting, accounting and financial management as it applies to Collegiate Athletics within institutions of higher education. Focus on budgeting models, accounting principles, and financial reporting at different levels using case studies based on intercollegiate athletics. An analysis of the changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics and the financial impact is has on Athletic Departments.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 607 - Governance and Compliance
Unit(s): 3
The course provides an overview of the structure and role of national governing intercollegiate associations (e.g., NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA) both internal (institutional integrity) and external (association rules and regulations) governance and compliance. Particular attention is given to university control mechanisms and NCAA governance, bylaws, violations and campus implementation of compliance monitoring systems. Students shall become familiar with governance pertaining to academic performance, athletics personnel, amateurism, recruiting, eligibility, extra benefits and awards, and playing and practice seasons. The course includes case studies involving NCAA interpretations, waivers and infraction cases.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 608 - Engagement/Analytics/Marketing
Unit(s): 3
Focuses on ways that universities and colleges understand their fan bases and create engaging, intelligent and integrated activations with them. Particular attention is paid to the role of new data driven digital and social media applications from an innovation, production, distribution engagement and new revenue perspective.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 609 - Facility Design/Fan Experience
Unit(s): 3
Overview of facilities assessment methodology and how to use these metrics in the creation of an overall facilities strategy. Case studies of new construction and renovation projects creatively financed capital projects and methods for identifying prerequisites and anticipating potential issues. Additional focus on the use of new digital technologies to enhance the game-day experience and fan engagement in venue construction and enhancement.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 610 - Sport Event Management
Unit(s): 3
This course focuses on operational planning, set-up and management of all athletics type game day events, including risk and crisis evaluation and implementation. The course offers a comprehensive understanding of how these fields are becoming increasingly interwoven at event venues and sporting events around the world. Particular attention is paid the practical management of mega-events, collegiate multi-events and singe game sporting events.
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MCA 611 - Professional Development I
Unit(s): 2
Application of professional development concepts and strategies culminating in the development of an exportable ePortfolio. Focus on identifying specific collegiate athletics interests and specialization, verbally and digitally articulating previous and newly acquired, transferable and specialized skills, targeting most desirable career possibilities and developing ways to stay proactive and compete for industry positions. A practical course with an associated mix of professional practicum, networking, project and symposia responsibilities and assignments focused on competitive job market preparation. Professional development and career management is a continuous part of the Master in Collegiate Athletics student experience. As such, this course is split into two related sections, offered each summer.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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MCA 612 - Professional Development II
Unit(s): 2
Application of professional development concepts and strategies culminating in the development of your program ePortfolio. Focus on identifying specific collegiate athletics interests and specialization, verbally and digitally articulating previous and newly acquired transferable and specialized skills. This the second course in the Professional Development series.
Prerequisite: MCA 611
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MCA 698 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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COMS 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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COMS 202 - Rhetoric & the Public Sphere
Unit(s): 4
This course focuses on the history and theory of rhetoric as an art central to public life, exploring the ways that language affects how we construct knowledge, create communities, delimit social space, promote our collective interests, and critique the laws and norms that bind us together.
Prerequisite: RCOM 120 or RHET 120 or RCOM 126 or RHET 126 or concurrent RCOM 131 or concurrent RHET 131 or RCOM 140 or RHET 140 or RCOM 195 or RHET 195 or RCOM 220 or RHET 220 or concurrent RCOM 250 or concurrent RHET 250 or SII 120 or concurrent RHET 295 or RHET 195
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COMS 203 - Communication & Everyday Life
Unit(s): 4
This course examines how the communication experiences in daily life - interactions with friends, family, significant others, peers, and coworkers - are illuminated by interpersonal communication theory. Throughout this course, students engage with a variety of materials designed to enhance both their analytic and experiential knowledge about everyday communication.
Prerequisite: RCOM 120 or RHET 120 or RCOM 126 or RHET 126 or concurrent RCOM 131 or concurrent RHET 131 or RCOM 140 or RHET 140 or RCOM 195 or RHET 195 or RCOM 231 or RHET 231 or concurrent RCOM 250 or concurrent RHET 250 or SII 120 or concurrent RHET 295 or RHET 195
College of Arts and Sciences
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COMS 204 - Communication & Culture
Unit(s): 4
This introduction to the field of communication examines how cultures and sub-cultures differ in their language use, and how their communicative practices shape the production, interpretation, and reproduction of social meanings. Students will learn how to conduct fieldwork to study everyday cultural communication.
Prerequisite: RCOM 120 or RHET 120 or RCOM 126 or RHET 126 or concurrent RCOM 131 or concurrent RHET 131 or RCOM 140 or RHET 140 or RCOM 195 or RHET 195 or concurrent RCOM 250 or concurrent RHET 250 or SII 120 or concurrent RHET 295 or RHET 195 or RHET 320
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COMS 252 - Critical & Rhetorical Methods
Unit(s): 4
This course explores methods for close textual reading and analysis. Students study a number of theoretical approaches to rhetorical criticism and apply those theories in analyzing speeches, essays, images, public spaces, and other texts.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
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COMS 253 - Quantitative Research Methods
Unit(s): 4
This course explores methods for understanding and conducting experimental and survey research. Students study a number of approaches encompassed in empirical research methods and apply those data analysis techniques in reading, designing, and analyzing quantitative research.
Prerequisite: COMS 203
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COMS 254 - Qualitative Research Methods
Unit(s): 4
This course explores methods for understanding and conducting qualitative research. Students will learn and practice a number of approaches to qualitative data collection such as interviewing, focus group, participant-observation, and audio/video recording and inductive data analysis techniques that analyze meaning and understanding in communication. Students will practice the skills of reading, designing and analyzing qualitative research.
Prerequisite: COMS 204 or ANTH 204
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COMS 295 - TYS: Transfer Year Seminars
Unit(s): 4
Transfer Year Seminars (TYS) are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All TYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many TYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. TYSeminars are only open to transfer students who are in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one TYSeminar, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other TYSeminars offered this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Prerequisite: TRNS 1XX
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COMS 300 - Relational Communication
Unit(s): 4
This course focuses on the inherent link between communication and relationships. Specifically, the course examines the role of communication in three phases of personal relationships: development, maintenance, and dissolution.
Prerequisite: COMS 203 and (COMS 253 or COMS 254)
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COMS 302 - Dark Side IP/Family Comm
Unit(s): 4
This course sets out to explore research and theory that illuminates the dark side of interpersonal and family communication and provides an orientation for understanding the dark side as inseparable from the brighter side in understanding human communication.
Prerequisite: concurrent COMS 253 or concurrent COMS 254
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COMS 306 - Family Communication
Unit(s): 4
This course will focus on the central role that communication plays in family life. Some topics covered include: family forms, family systems and communication patterns, family rituals and stories, conflict, and family stress.
Prerequisite: COMS 203 and (COMS 253 or COMS 254)
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COMS 314 - Intercultural Communication
Unit(s): 4
Analysis of major variables affecting interpersonal communication between persons of different cultural and subcultural backgrounds.
Prerequisite: COMS 204
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COMS 315 - Asian American Culture & Comm
Unit(s): 4
This course explores the communication patterns of Asian Pacific Americans. Students will examine cultural practices, language, and discourse and how these construct shared and contested individual and collective identities.
Prerequisite: RCOM 120 or RHET 120 or RCOM 126 or RHET 126 or RCOM 131 or RHET 131 or RCOM 140 or RHET 140 or RCOM 195 or RHET 195 or RCOM 220 or RHET 220 or RCOM 250 or RHET 250 or SII 120
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COMS 320 - PR Principles & Practices
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the theory and practice of public relations as an applied social science. Provides an overview of historical approaches, discussion of current trends, analysis of legal and ethical issues, and application of strategic communication theories in the field of public relations.
Prerequisite: RHET 130 or RHET 131 or RHET 120 or RHET 195 or RHET 250 or RHET 295 or RHET 126 or RHET 140 or RHET 231
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COMS 322 - PR Law & Ethics
Unit(s): 4
An investigation of legal and ethical concerns in public relations. Using actual public relations cases, students assess the ethical dilemmas presented and devise ethical, theoretically sound solutions.
Prerequisite: COMS 202 or COMS 203 or COMS 204 or COMS 320 or ADVT 341
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COMS 323 - Public Relations Writing
Unit(s): 4
Public relations writing employs a variety of styles, formats, message structures, and technologies in the design, implementation, and evaluation of communication programs. Students apply advanced persuasive strategies across a variety of print and electronic media.
Prerequisite: concurrent COMS 320
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COMS 325 - Social Media Strategies for PR
Unit(s): 4
With a primary focus on strategic overview and managerial implications, this course serves to provide both the 1) profound understanding of the social science and driving force behind the transforming new media platforms, and 2) the practical knowledge and opportunities to build analytical skills.
Prerequisite: RHET 103 and (RHET 120 or RHET 130 or RHET 131 or RHET 250) and (concurrent COMS 202 or concurrent COMS 203 or concurrent COMS 204)
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COMS 326 - Public Relations Campaigns
Unit(s): 4
Using a combination of case-study and experiential approaches, students learn to create communication programs for nonprofit organizations. Topics covered include planning, strategic and ethical message construction, risk assessment, and crisis management.
Prerequisite: COMS 320
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COMS 333 - Political Communication
Unit(s): 4
This course explores what it means to say that politics, more than involving talk or debate, is a form of communication-a rhetorical practice of making meaning and deploying persuasive techniques to create the conditions for social change. It undertakes a study of political communication during election cycles to gain an understanding of the most contemporary rhetorical strategies employed in political messages. As such, the course will focus primarily on American campaign rhetoric as a way to better grasp how we might become part of an active and informed citizenry.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
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COMS 335 - Rhetoric of Social Movements
Unit(s): 4
This service-learning course examines how social movements employ rhetoric to bring about social change. We will study the foundations of social movement theory while examining various historical movements in order to understand how rhetorical strategies and techniques move various audiences to action.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
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COMS 336 - Rhetoric of Law
Unit(s): 4
This course offers students both a theoretical understanding of the relationship between rhetoric and law, as well as the practical knowledge of how to read, engage and critique legal texts addressing a specific social problem or legal question.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
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COMS 337 - Rhet of Sex,Gender & Sexuality
Unit(s): 4
This course investigates how discourses structure and critique our experiences of sex, gender, and sexuality. Students will be introduced to a variety of theories about gender and sexuality that will help them analyze and evaluate everyday discourses and objects.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
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COMS 344 - Environmental Communication
Unit(s): 4
This course explores conceptual frameworks for understanding the relationship between communication, culture, and the environment. Students will critically analyze discourse about the environment from a number of contexts (social movement rhetoric, mass and social media, public deliberation, and popular culture) and also develop applied environmental communication skills.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
Restriction: Field of Study restrictions exclude Environmental Studies Major, Environmental Studies Minor
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COMS 350 - Nonverbal Communication
Unit(s): 4
Theoretical approaches and methods to study nonverbal communication. Focus on individual and cultural differences; functions by stage and type of social relationships.
Prerequisite: COMS 203 and (COMS 253 or COMS 254)
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COMS 352 - Health Communication
Unit(s): 4
This class examines communication’s role in maintaining, creating, and promoting health. Some topics covered include: practitioner-patient communication, ethnicity and health, social support, gender and health, health campaigns, media and health, and health beliefs.
Prerequisite: COMS 253 or COMS 254
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COMS 356 - Organizational Comm.
Unit(s): 4
An analysis of the communication theories used to explore the complex structures and processes within organizational settings.
Prerequisite: COMS 252 or COMS 254
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COMS 358 - Persuasion & Social Influence
Unit(s): 4
The study of behavior, attitude formation and change, and the principles of persuasion.
Prerequisite: COMS 253 or ADVT 341
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COMS 360 - Language & Social Interaction
Unit(s): 4
This class explores language in use including how people use language to accomplish tasks, create meaning, and interact with one another. Students will learn language components such as phonetics, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in relation to the communication process. Examines sociolinguistics, roles in prejudice, differences in language use in functional communication skills.
Prerequisite: COMS 204
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COMS 362 - Communication Education
Unit(s): 4
This course is designed to highlight how communication plays a role in a variety of educational contexts. Whether you are interested in education from a student’s perspective, trainer’s perspective, or teacher’s perspective, the course offers insights into the sociopolitical development of our education system(s), various philosophical approaches to the art and labor of education, as well as lenses through which to understand diversity, learning styles, and educational participation. In this course, I encourage you to consider education as a democratic practice and reflect upon what that means for you as a student and as a potential educator. I will push you to think of educational spaces as those in which communication is a tool for the co-creation of meaning. This class will help you apply a variety of communication strategies to your specific educational interests and needs.
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COMS 364 - Comm for Justice & Soc Change
Unit(s): 4
This service-learning seminar looks cross-culturally at the issue of justice and social change in various communicative environments - from courtrooms to non-governmental organizations, to the media and international assemblies. The course will explore the communicative practices involved in legal proceedings, human rights, conflict resolution, and the struggle for social justice and change. Using a format that combines lectures, discussions, and student’s service-learning projects, we will tackle issues such as the communicative nature of conflict; the unequal access to justice and other social resources; the debate over universal vs. relativistic human rights; the cultural and communicative practices involved in conflict and its resolution; the link between power and communication.
Prerequisite: COMS 204 or ANTH 204
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COMS 365 - Geographies of Communication
Unit(s): 4
This course explores how our experience of communication is shaped by the physical realities of communication media: transportation routes, cable lines, switchboards, relay stations, GPS and communication satellites, computer networks, cellular towers, and the fiber optic layout of the postmetropolis. Such media generate a communicative environment, or infosphere, that empowers a growing number of people with the electronic capabilities to produce and disseminate communication all other the world. In this class we will use contemporary communicative theories to study how geography and communication interact.
Prerequisite: COMS 204
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COMS 366 - Ethnography of Communication
Unit(s): 4
Students in this service-learning seminar will explore the communicative practices of various organizations concerned with social justice through ethnographic participant observation in a community non-profit organization. Readings from cultural and communication theory will provide the conceptual background for their fieldwork.
Prerequisite: COMS 204 or ANTH 204
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COMS 368 - Communication & Aging
Unit(s): 4
Communication and Aging examines the construction of what it means to age and be ‘old’, specifically, the communication processes inherent in this phenomenon, the impact of aging on human relationship/communication, and communication in contexts involving and impacting older adults.
Prerequisite: COMS 203
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COMS 369 - Comm and Health Disparities
Unit(s): 4
We live in a world of widespread health inequality. This community-engaged learning course will examine health disparities from a communication perspective. We will learn and work through collaborative engagement with community organizations and members to create small scale positive change using communication to reduce inequalities in health.
Prerequisite: COMS 204 and (COMS 253 or COMS 254)
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COMS 370 - Message Design in Health
Unit(s): 4
An advanced course designed to provide an understanding of the communication processes in health-related interaction. Specifically, the curriculum addresses the types of health-related messages produced, their pragmatic goal, the known effectiveness of these messages, and the theoretical and methodological concerns when examining messages used in health-related interaction in a medical context.
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COMS 372 - Comm,Disability & Soc Just
Unit(s): 4
An advanced service-learning course designed to examine the attitudes and perceptions of and toward persons with disabilities, how communication creates and perpetuates an inaccurate and unjust depiction of disabled persons, the communicative behaviors of persons who are disabled and the nondisabled during their interaction, and how theories of communication and social justice can illuminate how this socially interactive inequity may be remedied.
Prerequisite: COMS 253
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COMS 373 - Rhetorical History of the US
Unit(s): 4
This course explores the history of the United States from the perspective of the rhetoric that shaped historical events. It examines how history has been made and re-made rhetorically. The course analyzes radical social movements and rhetorics of dissent; struggles to expand the public sphere and citizenship rights; the uses of cultural memory; and symbolic constructions of ‘America’.
Prerequisite: COMS 202
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COMS 375 - Intl Conflict & Alliance Bldg
Unit(s): 4
This course explores international/intercultural perspectives to conflict, intercultural conflict resolution, alliance building, and transforming intercultural relationships. The course is designed to increase your awareness of culture and communication, to give particular attention to several international regions in which conflict has been extensively studied, to increase your understanding of how cultural differences affect conflict and conflict resolution, to increase your ability to assess your own and others’ cultural identities and experiences in conflict, and to try out and apply conflict management and community building strategies such as dialogue, problem solving, peace circles, and community building. Current research on third party processes such as mediation, intergroup dialogue, and community development will be applied to international sites as well as to U.S. community conflicts.
Prerequisite: COMS 204
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COMS 390 - Special Topics in Comm Studies
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
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COMS 398 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 4
A faculty supervised program of reading and study in communication. May be repeated for credit. Requires written permission of instructor, chair, and dean. See COMS website for full guidelines.
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COMS 399 - Directed Project
Unit(s): 1 to 4
A faculty supervised project (such as internship or research experience) for credit. DOES NOT count toward the COMS major. Students can accumulate a maximum 8 units.
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COMS 490 - Topics in Comm Studies
Unit(s): 4
Advanced topics not examined in regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit. This class counts toward the COMS major/minor.
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COMS 496 - Comm Studies Internship
Unit(s): 4
Field experience in a setting that relates communication study to the student’s professional goals. Students may count no more than four (4) credits of Internship credit toward the major.
Prerequisite: COMS 202 and COMS 203 and COMS 204 or (COMS 252 or COMS 253 or COMS 254)
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior
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CMPL 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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CMPL 200 - Cultures in Conflict
Unit(s): 4
A substantial introduction to the basic principles and methodology of literary analysis for comparing works of different cultural origins, time periods, and regions of the world. This course will focus on representations of conflicts in literature that sustain a diversity of perspectives including issues of war, power, class, gender and ethnicity, displacement and discrimination.
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CMPL 210 - Literatures of the Body
Unit(s): 4
A substantial introduction to the basic principles and methodology of literary analysis for comparing works of different cultural origins, time periods, and regions of the world. This course will focus on representations of the human body that sustain a diversity of perspectives to address questions of body politics, gender and sexualities, race, class, and social inequalities.
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CMPL 295 - TYS: Transfer Year Seminars
Unit(s): 4
Transfer Year Seminars (TYS) are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All TYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many TYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. TYSeminars are only open to transfer students who are in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one TYSeminar, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other TYSeminars offered this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link:https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Prerequisite: TRNS 1XX
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CMPL 398 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 4
A course in the area of the proposed topic for directed study. Written permission of the instructor required.
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CMPL 399 - Critical Analysis
Unit(s): 4
This course builds on the analytical and critical skills developed in English 190 and 191 through examination of the major methodologies of Twentieth Century literary theories. Offered every Fall.
Prerequisite: (CMPL 195 and CMPL 200) or CMPL 295
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CMPL 400 - Capstone Sem/Comparative Lit
Unit(s): 4
A course that integrates the comparative knowledge and skills derived from previous work in a seminar setting and a significant research project. Offered every Spring.
Prerequisite: CMPL 390
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CS 106 - Computers, Genes, and Society
Unit(s): 4
We’ll investigate how computer science, biology and math come together inBioinformatics to impact our lives. We’ll study applications ofBioinformatics, such as CSI and gene therapy, including ethical concerns.We’ll use simple Bioinformatics tools and propose policy.
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CS 107 - Computing, Mobile Apps, & Web
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to computer science for non-majors with little prior programming experience. Students develop programs using visual and high-level programming languages to control robots, create animated simulations, and build Internet and general applications. In addition, students are exposed to an overview of computing and its influence on modern society. Offered Fall and Spring.
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CS 110 - Intro to Computer Science I
Unit(s): 4
Use of procedures, parameter passing, block structures, data types, arrays, abstract data structures, conditional control, iterative and recursive processes, and input/output in programming solutions to a variety of problems. Top-down and bottom-up design and functional decomposition to aid in the development of programs. Four hours lecture and two hours lab. Offered Fall and Spring.
Prerequisite: (CS 107 with a minimum grade of C or concurrent MATH 109 with a minimum grade of C)
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CS 112 - Intro to Computer Science II
Unit(s): 4
Design and development of significantly sized software using top-down design and bottom-up implementation. Dynamically allocated data, object-oriented programming, architecture of memory, basics of language translation, and basics of algorithm analysis. Development of simple graphical user interfaces. Four hours lecture. Offered Fall and Spring.
Prerequisite: CS 110 with a minimum grade of C
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CS 131 - Creating Images: Photoshop I
Unit(s): 2
First in a two-part series. Introduction to image design, manipulation and processing for utilization in print, on the web and photographically. Acquiring images through scanning, from the Web and other sources. Introduction to Adobe Photoshop tools and palettes. Use of Photoshop tool in image correction, development and collaging. Students develop a portfolio of images. Taught in lecture/lab format using Adobe Photoshop. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CS 141 - Word Processing
Unit(s): 2
Basic word processing including the creation, editing, merging and printing of documents. Block operations, search and replace, spell checking, footnotes, headers/footers, and type styling. Taught in lecture/lab format with exercises selected from contemporary word processors such as Microsoft Word. Offered Fall and Spring.
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CS 142 - Creative Tools: Publishing I
Unit(s): 2
Survey of desktop publishing systems and capabilities, including document import, layout, page formatting, zooming, printer and font setup. Enhancing publications through graphics; basic drawing tools; captions, logos, and photographs; cropping and panning techniques. Taught in lecture/lab format using Adobe Pagemaker.
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CS 151 - Spreadsheet Computing I
Unit(s): 2
Learn to use Microsoft Excel as a spreadsheet tool to analyze and manage data. Topics: Windows Explorer, workbook window, menus, toolbars, commands, basic formulas, editing and formatting, simple functions, print options, opening/closing workbooks, worksheets, file management, numeric labels, values, date formats, serial dates, date calculation, mathematical operators, and relative versus absolute cell referencing. Taught in lecture/lab format using Microsoft Excel. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CS 161 - Database Computing I
Unit(s): 2
Overview of the design of database management systems and issues in the design of a relational database schema. Introduction to database creation, editing, querying, and report generation using a commercial database system. Taught in lecture/lab format.
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CS 171 - Web Site Design/Development I
Unit(s): 2
Introduction to the Internet, web browsers, and e-mail. Procedures for accessing information on the web, including the use of search engines. Survey of major information sources. Taught in lecture/lab format. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CS 181 - Presentation with PowerPoint
Unit(s): 2
Planning, production, and implementation of computer-based multimedia presentations. Editing and formatting slides for individual and large-group presentations. Using ClipArt, WordArt, drawing tools and AutoShapes. Creating organization charts. Includes text, graphics, charts, tables, and templates. Involves individual student projects. Taught in lecture/lab format using PowerPoint software. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CS 182 - Animation in Adobe Animate
Unit(s): 2
Practical Series in Computer Science. This course focuses on computer animation using Adobe Flash. Students develop skills in animation including: drawing, painting, and creating text in Flash. Importing and modifying images for Illustrator, Photoshop, and other programs. Working with layers. Creating symbols. Using the library for storing images and movie clips. Shape and motion tweening. Traditional animation techniques. Use of timelines and keyframes. Using sound. Creating buttons. Involves individual student projects. Taught in lecture/lab format. Offered Fall/Spring.
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CS 184 - Drawing on the iPad
Unit(s): 2
This is a hands-on, lab-based class, introducing the iPad as a tool for drawing, painting, animating -and writing, drawing and laying out a finished one-page comic story. Students will learn in a step-by-step manner how to use an array of the most current and professional iPad applications. Students create artwork throughout the class, supported by instruction in drawing and painting, bolstered by a comprehensive foundation in design and color theory.
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CS 186 - Sp Topics in Computer Sci
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Topics not covered by other CS curricular offerings. Students may register for this class in more than one semester. Consent of instructor required. Offered intermittently.
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CS 191 - 3D Comp Graphics & Animation
Unit(s): 2
Three-dimensional virtual worlds created with the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) for use in worldwide web pages. Basic structures and adjustment of predefined simple and complex scenes. Survey of higher level tools for creating VRML worlds and other approaches to 3D web content. Taught in lecture/lab format using proprietary software and shareware.
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CS 212 - Software Development
Unit(s): 4
Advanced programming topics including inheritance and polymorphism, multi-threaded programming, networking, database programming, and web development. Techniques for debugging, refactoring, and reviewing code.
Prerequisite: CS 245 with a minimum grade of C
Corequisite: CS-212L
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CS 212L - Software Development Lab
Unit(s): 0
0 unit lab course associated with CS 212 Software Development.
Prerequisite: CS 245 with a minimum grade of C
Corequisite: CS-212
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CS 220 - Intro to Parallel Computing
Unit(s): 4
Introduction to the C programming language. Overview of parallel architectures. Programming shared and distributed memory parallel computers. Parallel program performance evaluations. Four hours lecture. Offered every Fall.
Prerequisite: CS 110 with a minimum grade of B or CS 112 with a minimum grade of C
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CS 221 - C and Systems Programming
Unit(s): 4
Introduction to the C programming language and UNIX/Linux systems programming. Pointers in C, libraries, devices, processes, threads, system calls, memory management, and interprocess communication with sockets.
Prerequisite: (CS 110 with a minimum grade of C or CS 112 with a minimum grade of C)
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