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4.00 Credits
This course explores practice and theory of writing for interactive media, including hypertext and hypermedia, narrative games, critical games, and location-based media.
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4.00 Credits
From idea through final draft, students learn the process of developing comedic scripts for visual media. The commercial structure of media, the selling and buying of scripts, traditions of comedy, and creating a concept by oneself or with a staff of writers are all explored.
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4.00 Credits
Students in this course will explore the narrative aspects of game writing. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the creative, technical, and media aspects of writing for games. In this course, students will create an original game idea and produce various written assets for it, as well as a game demo.
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4.00 Credits
Students will learn how to use social media for strategic purposes, develop effective content, and measure success through analytics.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This variable credit internship course is designed for communication (COM) majors and advertising and public relations (AD/PR) majors. Key assignments include learning objectives, orientation seminar, informational interview, reports, and evaluations. Cannot be used to meet the 300-or-above-level requirement in either the COM or AD/PR major. Credits (1-4) vary according to the number of hours worked at the internship host site.
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4.00 Credits
A search for the defining characteristics of a director's works, including issues of thematic motifs and visual style.
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4.00 Credits
This course will be an investigation into the thematic, theoretical, technical and structural concepts that contribute to our understanding of film genre. Students, through weekly informal writing as well as significant research-based formal papers, will sharpen their analytical, critical and research skills. Specifically, they will employ the methodology of critical inquiry and utilize appropriate vocabulary and processes to engage, through analysis, research, writing and discussion, in the dialogues of our discipline.
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4.00 Credits
The course is designed to introduce intermediate research methodologies to a student's critical analysis of large-scale media events. It involves the practical analysis of a media event, including circumstances, details, historical perspective and reactions by journalists, officials and the public. Archival coverage, documentaries, feature films, print articles and Internet sites relating to a singular or series of events will encompass a majority of the analysis. Particular attention will be given to events with international implications. Students will review the previous exposure of related topics in an effort to compare the attention given to a subject in a comparison of ''before and after.''
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the politics of representing women, particularly in film, television, advertising, popular literature and the popular press. The critical background includes texts on political economy, semiotics, feminist theory and cultural studies. The student completes a major research project during the course.
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4.00 Credits
This course familiarizes students with key theories, techniques, and media forms that will enable them to produce creative, well-researched and thought-provoking projects that embody critical media practice. Each student will select and examine an issue of social importance, and research media platforms and rhetorical approaches suitable for that issue. Combining scholarship with media skills, the student will create a final media project. Laboratory fee required.
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