42 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2020–21 (Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2021/COURSE/course-SPCOM.html
Focuses on the one-to-one, face-to-face communication in both the personal and professional realms. Such topics as verbal and non-verbal interactions, listening, and the better management of interpersonal communication will be studied.
LEC · Course ID 004666On ucalendarSPCOM 100 today
This is an introductory course addressing the major theoretical issues in, approaches to, and applications of communication. Theories from various branches of communication, including interpersonal, group/organizational, rhetorical, mass and cultural, will be explored in-depth. Historical, current, and practical critiques of each theory will be conducted. Coursework is designed to encourage students to give critical consideration to the place of theory within the field of Speech Communication and within everyday life.
LEC · Course ID 014532On ucalendarSPCOM 101 today
This workshop course introduces students to the creative processes of performance in a range of formal and informal settings. Emphasis is placed on the student's development as a performer. Prior performance experience is not required.
WSP · Course ID 004662On ucalendarSPCOM 102 today
This course focuses on developing the qualities and transferable skills necessary for integration, continuous learning, and professional development. This course establishes a common baseline of leadership, communication, and collaboration capabilities for Accounting and Financial Management majors. Focus will be on the design and delivery of various types of communication and the development of basic teamwork skills. [Note: Students will be videotaped.]
Prereq: Accounting and Financial Management, Mathematics Chartered Accountancy, or Science Biotechnology/Chartered Accountancy students. Antireq: SPCOM 204
LEC · Course ID 013718On ucalendarSPCOM 111 today
How does design help us think? This studio course introduces students to practice-based methods for generating knowledge. Topics may include prototyping, performance as research, material thinking, multi-modal representation, and experience design. Students will test and explore how we learn differently through creative practices.
WSP · Course ID 015845On ucalendarSPCOM 149 today
In this course students in Architectural, Civil, Environmental, and Geological Engineering will enhance oral and written communication competencies in contexts relevant to the engineering profession.
Prereq: Architectural, Civil, Environmental, and Geological Engineering students. Antireq: GENE 199 taken fall 2017 or fall 2018
LEC · Course ID 015735On ucalendarSPCOM 191 today
In this course students in Computer, Electrical, and Management Engineering will enhance oral and written communication competencies in contexts relevant to the engineering profession.
Prereq: Computer, Electrical, and Management Engineering students. Antireq: GENE 191
LEC · Course ID 015736On ucalendarSPCOM 192 today
In this course students will enhance oral and written communication competencies in contexts relevant to the life sciences and physical sciences.
Prereq: BSc students in the Faculty of Science. Antireq: SCCOM 100
LEC · Course ID 015737On ucalendarSPCOM 193 today
This course introduces the basic theories for studying the multiple relationships between communication practices and gender. The course emphasizes how communication creates gender and power roles and how communicative patterns reflect, sustain, and alter social conceptions of gender.
LEC · Course ID 015905On ucalendarSPCOM 201 today
This course examines leadership, team dynamics, and communication in organizational contexts. Students will develop communication knowledge and skills to enhance their abilities to be effective in leadership and team roles.
Prereq: Level at least 2A Arts and Business students. Antireq: SPCOM 111
LEC · Course ID 013723On ucalendarSPCOM 204 today
This course introduces foundational theories and lines of inquiry in contemporary media and cultural studies. Students apply media and cultural studies theories and methods through case studies of cultural artifacts ranging from wartime propaganda to memes and viral videos.
LEC · Course ID 015906On ucalendarSPCOM 210 today
This workshop course in performance studies explores performance as a way of knowing. It investigates performance as artistic practice and as a means of understanding historical, social, and cultural practices, including drama/theatre texts, poetry, narratives, and texts of everyday life.
Prereq: Level at least 2A. Antireq: DRAMA 220
WSP · Course ID 012417On ucalendarSPCOM 220 today
Theory and practice of public speaking. A workshop course involving design and delivery of various kinds of speeches, and the development of organizational, vocal, listening, and critical skills. Students will be videotaped. [Note: Must attend first class. May be subject to priority enrolment.]
LEC · Course ID 004665On ucalendarSPCOM 223 today
Theory and practice of interviewing. A workshop course which teaches theory, design, and presentation of interviews. Videotaping student exercises will enhance interview design and delivery, as well as listening and critical skills.
Prereq: (For Mathematics students) one of EMLS 101R, 102R, EMLS/ENGL 129R, ENGL 109, SPCOM 100, SPCOM 223
LEC · Course ID 004667On ucalendarSPCOM 225 today
This course introduces the basic theories and practices for communicating among people of different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. This class provides an opportunity for discussion of variations within and among cultures and encourages students to examine their cultural heritage.
Prereq: SPCOM 101; Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 012411On ucalendarSPCOM 226 today
A workshop course in leadership combining theoretical and experiential perspectives. Students will develop and apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be effective and perceptive communicators in a leadership position.
Prereq: For Mathematics students one of EMLS 101R, EMLS 102R, EMLS/ENGL 129R, ENGL 109, SPCOM 100, SPCOM 223; Level at least 2A
WSP · Course ID 010342On ucalendarSPCOM 227 today
This course introduces a theoretical framework for understanding the nature and significance of public communication. Strategies and techniques typically employed in political and commercial contexts are examined.
Prereq: Level at least 2A Speech Communication students; or for Mathematics students one of EMLS 101R, EMLS 102R, EMLS/ENGL 129R, ENGL 109, SPCOM 100, SPCOM 223
LEC · Course ID 012410On ucalendarSPCOM 228 today
In this course students will learn advanced digital design theory. They will participate in workshops with professional designers, develop specialized digital materials, and contribute signature work to their digital portfolio. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 011682On ucalendarSPCOM 300 today
The analysis, writing, and editing of speeches. Analysis will focus on the reading and viewing of several famous 20th-century speeches using theories of communication. Writing and editing will focus on implementing oral/aural communication strategies.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 005137On ucalendarSPCOM 323 today
A workshop course which works from theory to develop the skills to work in groups effectively. The principles of group dynamics, leadership, and conflict resolution will be studied and implemented in small group meetings and presentations.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 004691On ucalendarSPCOM 324 today
This course examines organizational theory, the communication process, and the interplay between the two. Students will develop the skills to identify, analyze, and solve a variety of organizational communication problems through case study group work and other workshop-style methods.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 004739On ucalendarSPCOM 325 today
Students explore techniques to access and develop the voice as a resource for performance.
Prereq: One of THPERF 102/SPCOM 102, SPCOM 223, DRAMA 102. Antireq: DRAMA 326
WSP · Course ID 004692On ucalendarSPCOM 326 today
In this course students will be introduced to design and production of digital business presentations. They will develop specialized digital materials and contribute work to their digital portfolio.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 012415On ucalendarSPCOM 329 today
This course examines the ways in which individuals and institutions communicate to enact agency and build communities situated within power relations. Students will develop their understanding of what power and agency are, the relationship of each to communication, and how each constitutes community life.
Prereq: SPCOM 101; Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 015100On ucalendarSPCOM 335 today
This course investigates how distinct modes of communication impact the creation of messages, dissemination or knowledge, and reception of meaning. Students will examine aural, textual, and visual communication in the context of print, electronic, and digital media.
Prereq: SPCOM 101; Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 015099On ucalendarSPCOM 339 today
This course identifies critical communication inquiry at the individual, group, public, and collective levels of theory and practice. Students will work to develop strategies of engagement or thinking that could extend, modify, or overturn standing theoretical positions and initiate new inquiry. Critique and criticism are developed in order to explore advanced questions within the field of Speech Communication, and students are introduced to critical research methods used by scholars in the field of Speech Communication.
Prereq: SPCOM 101; Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 014533On ucalendarSPCOM 399 today
This course further develops theories and methods for studying how communication practices reflect, maintain, and disrupt social conceptions of gender and sexuality. The course emphasizes how gender, sexuality, and communication are implicated in power relations, and how gender and sexuality intersect with multiple dimensions of identity and culture.
LEC · Course ID 012412On ucalendarSPCOM 401 today
This course is designed to study the intersection of communication and culture. In this course, culture is defined broadly to include a variety of contexts, such as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, and class. Students gain theoretical and practical understanding of the opportunities and obstacles that exist as individuals and communities communicate within and across cultures.
Prereq: SPCOM 226; Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 012413On ucalendarSPCOM 402 today
This course examines the communicative, psychological, and sociological aspects of persuasion and persuasive messages, with attention to interpersonal contexts, the role of images, and persuasion in the media and public discourse. This course will explore the ways in which the sending and receiving of persuasive messages involve cognition, emotions, and social norms in everyday contexts.
Prereq: SPCOM 223; Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 013571On ucalendarSPCOM 420 today
An examination of the ways in which communication on the part of individuals, groups, and institutions contributes to fostering justice in social contexts. Areas of focus include communication and justice in interpersonal, workplace, community, and national/international contexts.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 013570On ucalendarSPCOM 430 today
This case study course examines the communication strategies involved in a public response to crisis, using such fields as sports, the entertainment world, politics, and business.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 010340On ucalendarSPCOM 431 today
This course focuses on how conflict is communicated and resolved in one-on-one, group, and organizational contexts. Theoretical perspectives, simulations, role plays, and self-assessment exercises will enhance students' abilities to be successful communicators in conflict situations.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 010350On ucalendarSPCOM 432 today
This workshop course will examine the communication skills necessary for the organizational consultant. Participation in videotaped simulations will allow students to explore consulting styles and training interventions by developing the communications expertise and knowledge specific to the consulting professional.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
WSP · Course ID 010345On ucalendarSPCOM 433 today
A study of the social, historical, and rhetorical dimensions of collective action. Topics may include health and welfare movements, civil rights and anti-war protests, and environmentalism.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 011393On ucalendarSPCOM 434 today
This course explores how to create, perform, and analyze performance texts, here defined as including drama/theatre texts, poetry, narratives, and the texts of everyday life. Through readings and creative investigation, students will explore the links between the participant, the researcher, the site, and the impulse of inquiry.
Prereq: SPCOM 220; Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 011906On ucalendarSPCOM 440 today
This course explores the function of communication in advocating for, and generating social change, mostly through practices of resistance, protest, and other forms of dissent and collective action. Students will examine historical and/or contemporary examples of resistance and social change, and will imagine how communication might be used effectively to challenge the status quo.
Prereq: SPCOM 101; Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 015907On ucalendarSPCOM 471 today
An examination of the interplay between communication and ethics from historical and pragmatic perspectives. Issues discussed include communication in a variety of settings, such as intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, public, and intercultural interactions as they relate to personal development, values, meaning making, and ethical ways of communicating.
Prereq: Level at least 3A or Level at least 2A Philosophy majors
SEM · Course ID 013573On ucalendarSPCOM 475 today
This course will explore the role of media in enabling and/or inhibiting communication about the environment and climate change. After offering an overview of the field of environmental communication, it will engage in an analysis of key issues regarding the role of the media in relation to the environment, such as "social license to operate," the role of alternative media practices, and the environmental impact of media systems themselves. The course will consider a range of different media genres in relation to the environment (e.g., public relations, governmental communication, news media, social media, NGO campaigns, documentaries). What are the primary objectives and strategies of different forms of environmental communication and how do these various media shape public understanding of environmental issues?
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 015933On ucalendarSPCOM 479 today
Seminars in special areas of speech communication. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 011402On ucalendarSPCOM 490 today
Seminars in special areas of speech communication. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3B
SEM · Course ID 011403On ucalendarSPCOM 491 today
This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to complete a comprehensive presentation in their major area of concentration. [Note: A grade for THPERF/SPCOM 499A will be submitted only after the completion of THPERF/SPCOM 499B.]
Prereq: Level at least 4A Honours Speech Communication. Antireq: DRAMA 499A
LEC · Course ID 004740On ucalendarSPCOM 499A today
This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to complete a comprehensive presentation in their major area of concentration. Second part of THPERF/SPCOM 499.
Prereq: Level at least 4A Honours Speech Communication
LEC · Course ID 004741On ucalendarSPCOM 499B today