The University of Toledo

This course explores visual perception: color, design, viewer effects. You will creating and design a project (print, Web site, PowerPoint presentation, video, interactive CD, etc.) and analyze its social significance in businesses and professions.

This course covers current issues in communication technology: policy and strategic planning, the "information revolution," media censorship, media ethics, Internet research, media regulation, the right to privacy, libel, copyright, intellectual property, and the "digital divide."

Persuasion is a widespread form of modern social management. This seminar examines how persuasive techniques engineer our perception, mobilization, and consent in organizations.

This course evaluates how ethics affect job performance, public perception of your firm, and workers' job satisfaction. Students will examine case studies of firms displaying honorable or dishonorable conduct.

Students will explore the role of communication in organizational conflict management, assess conflict scenes, design correction plans of action for those scenes, and present their solutions. Participants will observe record, describe and analyze conflict episodes in their own work contexts using qualitative analysis methods.

The course explains the ways organizations use media and communication strategies: face-to-face interaction, dissemination of information via the mass media, connecting by means of computers and the influence of the telephone.

COMM 6270