Identity, Diversity, and Communication

The Identity, Diversity, and Communication area focuses on communication processes central to experiences of social identity, culture, and difference. The communicative (re)production and consequences of prejudice and tolerance are explored through lenses of intergroup theorizing, stigma, and power. Faculty work as part of interdisciplinary teams to illuminate identity formation and diversity in terms of representations, cognitions, and relationships.

The Faculty

Scholars in this area are engaged in research across a range of contexts including organizations, media, and interpersonal/family relationships. Research aims to understand a variety of social categories, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, family structures, and (dis)ability.

Research Groups

Institute for Family Diversity and Communication

Media and Diversity Center

Graduate Program

Graduate Coursework

Identity, Diversity, and Communication graduate coursework provides of strong foundation of communication research training in interpersonal and family, mediated, and organizational contexts. A wide variety of methodological are included in potential coursework, ranging from quantitative to qualitative, critical, and rhetorical methods.

Selected Graduate Course List

You will work with your committee to develop a program of study that is unique to your interests. More courses are available in the course catalog.

Required Communication Courses

8000 Communication Pro-Sem
8120 Introduction to Communication Research Methods
9280 Seminar in Communication Theory

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Specialized Communication Courses

9430 Topics in Organizational Communication (Topics vary and course may be repeated)
- Topic 1: Power in Organizations
- Topic 3: Identity and Stigma in Organizations
8310 Seminar in Interpersonal Communication
9310 Seminar in Family Communication
9330 Topics in Interpersonal Communication (Topics vary and courses may be repeated)
- Topic 1: Narratives in and about Personal Relationships
- Topic 2: Communication and Family Diversity
9170 Research Practicum
9530 Topics in Mediated Communication – Mass Media and Social Relationships

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Outside Courses

Human Development and Family Studies

8620 Work and Family Seminar
8630 Gendered Relations in Families
8770 Poverty
8012 Family Dynamics and Interventions
8220 Family Theories
8610 Remarriage: Step Families
8640 Gendered Relations in Families Psychology
8310 Survey of Social Psychology
8440 Social and Emotional Development
9560 Family and Group Process Sociology
8277 Race, Ethnicity, and Transnational Inequalities
7687 Seminar in Family Sociology
9887 Seminar in Sociology of Gender
7500 Sociology of Social Policy
7320 Culture, Identity, and Interaction
8087 Critical Race Theory
9525 Culture, Difference, and Inequality
9887 Seminar in Sociology of Gender

Women’s and Gender Studies

7110 Feminist Research and Criticism
8020 Graduate Feminist Theory
8040 Seminar: Problems & Issues in Feminist Scholarship

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Method Courses

8120 Seminar in Quantitative Methods in Communication
8130 Seminar in Qualitative Methods in Communication (Topics vary and course can be repeated)
- A-Narrative theory and Grounded Theory
- B-Ethnography and Phenomenology
8140 Content Analysis
8170 Seminar in Quantitative Methods in Communication II
8180 Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods
8160 Rhetorical Criticism
JOURN 8010 Advanced Qualitative Methods in Journalism
ESC_PS 8610 Quantitative Methods in Educational Research I
ESC_PS 8620 Quantitative Methods in Educational Research II
ESC_PS 8630 Qualitative Research in Education I
ESC_PS 9650 Application of Multivariate Analysis in Educational Research
ESC_PS 9710 Structural Equation Modeling
ESC_PS 9720 Hierarchical Linear Modeling
PSYCH 9320 Social Psychology Methodology
PSYCH 9715 Multilevel Modeling
SOC 8187 Seminar on Interview Theory and Techniques