COMM 497 - Independent Research

4 Hour(s) Credit
Designed to encourage students to pursue an important area of research in communication. Allows a student to study a subject area in more depth than possible in the traditional classroom setting. With the advice of an instructor, the student submits a proposal including a letter of intent, an outline of the proposed study with bibliography and an abstract of the intended topic area. The project should ideally be new research as an addendum to an earlier project. A public presentation of research is required.
Four hours per week.
Prerequisites C or better in COMM 297, (at least 3.0 GPA in COMM courses) permission of department chair and approval and cooperation of supervising instructor.
May Not Receive Credit for Both COMM 497 and CMAT 497

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