COMM 3415 — Communication Criticism
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath WIusually offered: summerBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional
Offers students an opportunity to deepen their abilities to think critically about texts in a variety of forms such as orations, advertisements, music, and art. Studies methods that may range from close textual analysis to deconstruction to theories of performance. Students are required to write a lengthy research paper that carefully analyzes a rhetorical object.
Prerequisites
- one of:
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer B 2023 | 1 | 13 | 19 | 68% | 6.0 |
| Fall 2023 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 95% | 1.0 |
| Summer B 2024 | 1 | 17 | 19 | 89% | 2.0 |
| Summer A 2025 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
| Summer B 2025 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 100% | 0.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 18% · T 0% · W 35% · Th 18% · F 0%
Common patterns: async (65% of sections), MWR (18% of sections), W (17% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Timothy Barr (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Timothy Barr (100% of students) · reviews
Summer A
- Katie Bruner (100% of students) · reviews
Summer B
- Katie Bruner (73% of students) · reviews
- Marie Odile Hobeika (27% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (COMM course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All COMM courses · Plan it at numap.app