Aug 18, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

COM 310 - Communication Theory


Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: Yes Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No
4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
Prerequisites: COM 110  with a “C-” or better and sophomore standing, or instructor’s permission.

Explores theories of human communication from post-positivist, interpretive, rhetorical, and critical perspectives. Readings, assignments, and discussions consider communication topics that have multifaceted dimensions, including the ways communication is shaped by and shapes power relations, manages relationships and identities, facilitates dialogue, and evolves with new media.

Notes: Formerly SP 310.