Mass Communication Ph.D. Track

Required Methodology Courses

COMM 301: Investigation of Special Topics: Introduction to Research Methods (may be waived with methods background)
COMM 302: Research Methods
COMM 303: Advanced Communication Research Methods
COMM 305: Theory Construction and Research Design
COMM 401: Proseminar in Communication Research

Elective Methodology Course (one of the following):

POLI 379: Principles and Methods of Survey Research
POLI 380: The Practice of Survey Research
PSYC 348: Field Research Methods
PSYC 349: Causal Modeling in Social Psychology
PSYC 392: Measurement and Scaling
SOCI 324: Qualitative Methodology
STAT 343: Design of Experiments

Directed Research Requirement

COMM 490: Seminar and Directed Research in Communication

Required Common Theory Courses (2 courses)

COMM 330: Mass Communication Theory
COMM 310: Persuasion Theory and Research

Required Core Theory Courses (4 courses)

COMM 315: Communication Campaigns
COMM 331: Seminar in Mass Communication Research
COMM 402: Topics in Applied Communication Research
COMM 341: Political Communication

Emphasis Area Courses (at least 5 courses, with at least 3 from a single group)
Common or Core Theory Courses not used to fulfill requirements above may be used to fulfill this requirement.

Political Communication
COMM 320: Interpersonal Communication
POLI 341: Public Opinion and American Democracy
POLI 342: Political Parties and the Electorate
POLI 386: Public Opinion and Public Policy
POLI 3xx: Comparative Political Communication (R. Farnon) – not in catalog
SOCI 364: Political Sociology
SOCI 390: Social Movements
SOCI 365: Social Change

Health Communication
ANTH 352: Medical Anthropology
COMM 320: Interpersonal Communication
COMM 326: Organizational Communication: Theory and Research
GPAH 319: Allied Health Education
PSYC 346: Special Topics in Psychology: Health Psychology (Fisher)
PSYC 346: Special Topics in Psychology: Social Cognition (Pratto)
PSYC 390: Human Judgment and Decision Process
PUBH 400: Intro to Public Health
PUBH 401: Principles of Epidemiology
PUBH 404: Environmental Health
PUBH 405: Social Foundations of Public Health
PUBH 419: Public Health Agencies
PUBH 420: Voluntary Health Agencies
PUBH 430: Public Health Informatics
PUBH 433: Health Program Evaluation
PUBH 451: Maternal and Child Health Services
PUBH 452: Injury and Violence Prevention
PUBH 453: Chronic Disease Control
PUBH 455: Health Education
PUBH 456: Community Nutrition
PUBH 462: International Health
PUBH 470: Health Behavior and Public Health
PUBH 471: AIDS Seminar
PUBH 473: Women, Public Health and Reproduction
PUBH 474: Minority Health
PUBH 475: Gerontological Health
SOCI 349: Medical Sociology