catalog header

Course Catalog

Course Detail

COMM 285 Analyzing Practices and Habits
3.00 credits
This course provides a foundation in attending to, analyzing, and reporting meaningful information about the social world through humanistic communication research methods. The course introduces ethnographic and qualitative research methods, ethics, selection of research topics and questions, ethnographic data collection methods (e.g. participant observation; un-, semi- and structured interviewing; structured observation), managing and coding field notes, and qualitative analysis. In this course, students will create field notes, analyses, and more. Fall and Spring.
Prerequisite:
COMM 100 Minimum Grade: D or HONS 100 Minimum Grade: D
Equivalent:
HONS 283 - OK if taken since Fall 2023
SOSJ 263 - OK if taken since Fall 2018