| Course Title | Description | Status |
| Communication Relationships and Communties (SUNY Oswego COM 312) | A detailed look at the relationship of how our interpersonal communication shapes our communities, our relationships, and ourselves. Consideration is given to a variety of representations of meaning, emotion, and thinking as they influence and are shaped by our communication with friends, family, significant others, culture and social institutions. | Designed, at the request of the Oswego Communication Studies Department, to replace Communication and Social Cognition, which had failed to win approval of the University Curriculum Committee. Approved by Oswego Communication Studies Curriculum Committee and Communication Studies faculty. Taught in Fall, 2002. Semester Syllabus used in teaching class. |
| Computer-Mediated Communication Systems | A broad overview of computer mediated communication systems and their use. In its first (1991) variant, a Ph.D. seminar at the University of Utah, the course focused on computer-conferencing and the process of new media development. In its second (1996) variant at Marist College, it examined a variety of new Internet media, including e-mail, chat rooms, the web, multimedia documents, computer conferencing, and other emerging new media. | Taught once as a graduate-level seminar (Visiting Professor) at the University of Utah and a second time as an upper division course (Adjunct Professor) at Marist College. |
| Mediated Interpersonal Communication (SUNY Oswego COM 395) | Use of mediated interpersonal communication systems has been growing for over 100 yours, but has exploded recently, with a range of computer-mediated interpersonal communication systems having quickly acheived widespread use. This course examines a range of technologically-mediated and computer-mediated interpersonal communication systems. Systems examined may include the telephone, C.B. Radio, instant messaging, group chat, e-mail, computer conferencing, groupware, family radio, and cooperative composition environments. interpersonal media, including face-to-face communication, will also be considered. | New course proposal approved by the Oswego Communication Studies Curriculum Committee. Taught in Spring, 2003. Semester Syllabus used in teaching class. |
| Comparative Media | People communication with each other using hundreds of different systems of communication. We spend most of our time using only a few of these media. Television, telephone, newspapers, instant messaging, radio, cellular phones, magazines, electronic mail, movies, face to face interaction, music recordings, and informal small group may be the the media we use most, but they are just a fraction of the media we use. This course will explore the diverse range of media, the reasons why we pick one medium over another for a particular purpose, and the effects those media have on relations, communities, organizations, our society, and the way we conduct our lives. Somewhat uniquely, it will also look at the effects that we have on our media and the ways in which we (can) shape media to better fit our needs. | New course proposal approved by the Oswego Communication Studies Curriculum Committee. Never taught at Oswego. A variant of the course design was scheduled as a masters degree course at Brooklyn College but was cancelled due to low enrollment just before the semester started. Here is the course syllabus for that course. |
| Designing Media | The last 200 years have been characterized by an accelerating explosion of mediated communication systems, including interpersonal, organizational, small group, mass, and interpersonal mass media. We live increasingly in a world of "designer media" in which media are designed to solve specific communication problems. Internet portals, groupware, and workflow systems all represent specific examples of systems in which media are designed, customized, recombined xxxxx to has been growing for over 100 yours, but has exploded recently, with a range of new computer-mediated interpersonal communication systems having quickly acheived widespread use. This course examines a range of current and anticipated computer-mediated interpersonal communication systems both in terms of current practice and the processes by which such systems are invented and evolve. Current systems that will be examined will include the telephone, C.B. Radio, instant messaging (chat), e-mail, computer conferencing, groupware systems, family radio, and cooperative composition environments. Possible future interpersonal media will also be considered. | New course proposal developed for, but never submitted to, the Communication Studies Department at SUNY Oswego. |
| Interpersonal Messages and Media | A detailed look at a range of Interpersonal Communication media, the contexts in which they are used, and the messages that we create while talking to one another. Contexts examined will include dyadic, professional, friendship, relational, family, small group, and organizational. Media considered will include some combination of face-to-face interaction, correspondence, telephone, interpersonal radio, e-mail, computer conferencing, personal web sites, web cams, interactive streaming audio and video, interactive gaming, instant messenging. A variety of interpersonal communication concepts will be examined within the context of these interpersonal contexts, interpersonal media, and the communication ecologies that they form. | First attempt to designed a replacement for Communication and Social Cognition. Was considered insufficiently general to the expertise that others might bring to th ecourse. See Communication Relationships and Communities, above, for the successful course proposal. This remains a good course design which I would like to teach someday. |
| Interpersonal Communication (SUNY Oswego COM 212) | A broad introduction to the study Interpersonal Communication that will give the student a range of tools, based in communication theory and research, with which they can better understand communication with family and friends has helped to shape who they are, how differing communication experiences cause people to think in different ways, and how their communication practice can be managed to enhance both their career success and their relationships with friends, significant others, and family. | An update of an older Introductory Interpersonal Communication general syllabus. Created at the request of the department as a part of the routine course evaluation and review process. Submitted to univesity curriculum committee as course update. Here is the semester syllabus of course taught in a manner consistent with the new general syllabus. |
| Advanced Interpersonal Communication (SUNY Oswego COM 412) | A detailed look at specific theories of, and research traditions within, Interpersonal Communication. Topics, generally selected so as to not overlap with other specific course offerings within the department, might include such topics as Family Communication, Relationship Formation and Change, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication Technologies, Intrapersonal Communication, and many others. | Semester Syllabus of course taught in a manner consistent with the proposed general syllabus. Updated from Current Syllabus |
| Introduction to Communication Technologies | An overview of the different technologies, including people, paint, clay, paper, manufacturing processes, electricity, radio waves, computers, and networks, that are used to create media. The approach of the course will be quasi-historical. We will consider new communication technologies in more or less the same order that they were developed, starting with feats of human memory and ending with advanced Internet Media. | Submitted to the University of Texas San Antonio as an implmentation of its COMM 2733 in the course of interview process for curriculum in communication technologies. |
| Fundamentals of Communications Media | Considers the ways in which we combine communication technologies together to create media and enable language and messages. Begins with an overview of the generalized kinds of communication technologies, proceeds to consider the workings of communication network architectures, layer by layer, seques to analysis of Internet applications, and finishes with an overview of the requirements and design process as it is exercised in most companies. | Submitted to the University of Texas San Antonio as an implmentation of its COMM 3733 in the course of interview process for curriculum in communication technologies. Second course of a three course sequence. |
| Organizational Media Architecture | A practical course in the process of new media design in the context of corporate re-engineering processes. Designed to introduce students to a toolkit that can be used to engage the organization, understand the processes that one is designing for, assess the impact the design may have, and create an organizational media architecture that can be understood by management, implemented by technical programming and support staff, and used productively by the organizational stakeholders that will engage the system. | Submitted to the University of Texas San Antonio as an implmentation of its COMM 4733 in the course of interview process for curriculum in communication technologies. Final course of a three course sequence. |
| You Already Know How to Program, You Just don't You Do | An introduction to computer programming in the continuing education series of the IBM Research Division. Oriented to non-programmers who wanted to learn how, the course taught the REXX programming language and illustrated the process of programming with analogies from everyday life. | Taught twice. |
| C Language Programming | An introduction to the C programming language for experienced programmers. Part of the continung educaion series of the IBM Research Division. | |
| IBM Personal Computer Assembly Langauge Programming | An introduction to programming personal computers using 8086 assembly language and the bios and systems features of the IBM Personal Computer. Oriented to experienced programmers attending IBM's Systems Resarch Institute. |