COMM 355

COURSE CODE: COMM 355

COURSE TITLE: Communication and Global Security

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Global security communication theories and practices; SDG16; communication models; global security communication products; approaches to theorizing in global security communication.

PREREQUISITE: None

COURSE GOAL: TO provide the student an appropriate environment and opportunity to achieve a deeper and broader understanding of communication and global security.

Upon completion of the program, the student is expected to:

• Articulate the theories from the communication science and their impact on the conduct of effective global security activities.
• Do critical analysis of communication problems and situations in relation to relevant global security.
• Articulate the role and functions of specific communication science principles and theories in the practice of effective global security.

COURSE OUTLINE:

• Unit I. Global Security: The State of Play
  • Module 1. Rule of Law and Peace and Security
  • Module 2. United Nations
  • Module 3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Unit II. The Communication Factor in Global Systems
  • Module 4. Communication in the Context of International Security
  • Module 5. Intelligence and Communication
  • Module 6. Foreign and Security Policy
• Unit III. Strategic Communication
  • Module 7. Information Operations (Info Ops)
  • Module 8. Psychological Operations (PsyOps)
  • Module 9. Systems, Control and Communications
• Unit IV. Global Media as Socio-Economic-Political Weapons
  • Module 10. History of International Communication Studies
  • Module 11. The Persuasion Paradigm
  • Module 12. The Globalization of Communication
• Unit V. Communication as Terrorism
  • Module 13. The Phenomenon
  • Module 14. The Strategic Use of Communication
  • Module 15. Counterstrategies
• Unit VI. Case Studies
  • Module 16. Hezbollah Communication
  • Module 17. Taliban Communication
  • Module 18. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Communication