Welcome to the
Department of Communication Studies
The Department of Communication Studies is one of six academic units that comprise The Harrington School of Communication and Media in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Rhode Island.
We are one of the most popular majors at URI due to the individualized attention and mentoring we provide our undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the excellent placements our alumni receive across a variety of industries and prestigious graduate and professional programs. Since we envision our students to be the leaders of tomorrow, we work hard to capitalize on their intellectual potential to ensure that they succeed in whatever they choose to do.
With more than 800 undergraduate majors, a large cadre of exceptional graduate students, 30 tenure-track and full-time faculty members - many of whom are award-winning scholars and teachers - and more than 150 attractive course offerings each semester, the Department of Communication Studies is an intellectually and culturally diverse and vibrant community, made up of people who are committed to exploring the many facets of human communication from historical, cultural, philosophical, socio-political, and social-scientific points of view.
SUMMER 2013 Registration
SESSION-1 (5 weeks)
COM100: Communication Fundamentals: Multiple Sections
COM202: Public Speaking: Multiple Sections
COM210: Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Influence, Mark August
COM310: Topics (Online) (Visual Communication across Cultures), Joanne Mundorf
COM322: Gender and Communication (Online), Kathleen Torrens
COM354: Global Business Communication Exchange (Online), Norbert Mundorf
(Can be taken as COM or as BUS317)
COM361: Intercultural Communication (Online), Joanne Mundorf
COM402: Leadership and Motivation, Geoffrey Leatham
SESSION-2 (5 weeks)
COM202: Public Speaking: Multiple Sections
SESSION-3 (10 weeks)
COM100: Communication Fundamentals: Multiple Sections
COM202: Public Speaking (Online), Yinjiao Ye
COM210: Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Influence (Online), Yinjiao Ye
COM221: Interpersonal Communication (Online), Vince Petronio
COM251: Small Group Communication (Online), Crystal Fonseca
COM326: Family Communication (Online), Rachel Dicioccio
COM381: Research Methods in Communication (Online), Norbert Mundorf
COM381: Research Methods in Communication (Online), Abran Salazar
COM382: Communication Theory (Online), Abran Salazar
COM383: Communication Rhetorical Theory (Online), Kevin McClure
COM414: Rhetoric of Sports in Film (Online), Stephen Wood
COM415: Ethics of Persuasion (Online), Adam David Roth
COM416: Propaganda (Online), Kevin McClure
COM421: Advanced Interpersonal Communication (TBA), Abran Salazar
COM462: Communication and Global Society (Online), Guo-Ming Chen
ALTERNATE SESSION
COM191X: Introductory Topics in Communication and Media
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Congratulations to Communication Studies majors Louis Cangiano and Shirley Charles, who were both awarded Doody Scholarships for their commitment to communication studies.
