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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A writing course exploring journalistic, expository forms, and stylistic techniques appropriate for periodical publications and their diverse audiences. Cross listed with ENG 227. Prerequisite: ENG 101. (Offered fall semester of even calendar years.)
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Provides students with experience in news writing, sports writing, feature writing, photojournalism, graphic design, desktop publishing, editing, advertising sales, theme implementation, budget management and other experiences related through the production of a campus newspaper and yearbook. May be repeated up to a total of six hours credit. Cross listed with ENG 231/331. Prerequisite: COM 226, 227, or instructor permission. (Offered every semester.)
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3.00 Credits
Study of principles of writing copy for broadcast use for both radio and television. The student will prepare scripts for a wide variety of broadcast applications such as commercials, editorials and commentaries, promotional and public service announcements, news, sports reports, informational features, interviews, and music radio shifts. Cross listed with ENG 232. (Offered fall semester of even calendar years.)
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3.00 Credits
The primary focus of inquiry is on play production and backstage crafts. The course includes a study of the organization, materials, and skills necessary to produce a play. Consideration is given to costuming, make-up, publicity, management, scenery, properties, and lighting for the theatre. (Offered fall semester of odd calendar years.)
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2.00 Credits
This courses investigates the basic principles and techniques for analysis of dramatic texts. Using Aristotle's Elements of Drama as a foundation, the course examines diverse ways of analyzing scripts for dramatic performance including historical, psychological, and cultural approaches. (Offered spring semester of even calendar years.)
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Application of learned skills in news, production, sports, music, or advanced announcing at WGRN (FM). The student may choose any one section to pursue during a given semester. Students must have completed COM 240 in a particular area (e.g., news, production, etc.) before they are eligible to enroll in COM 340 in that same area. These courses may be repeated to a maximum of six credit hours. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. (Offered every semester.)
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the historical development, functions, and structures of the primary mass media: books, magazines, newspapers, recorded music, motion pictures, radio, television, and the internet. The course also looks at how such fields as journalism, public relations, and advertising use mass media to accomplish their ends. (Offered fall semester of odd calendar years.)
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3.00 Credits
The theory and practice of persuasion for the purpose of developing critical thinking and reasoned advocacy. A study of how people persuade the media and how the media persuade people, as well as application to other practical techniques, including debate. Prerequisite: COM 101 or consent of instructor. (Offered spring semester of odd calendar years.)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of interpersonal communication as it applies to group discussion. Specific areas of study include effective leadership, participation, dealing with conflict, fostering cohesiveness, and applying a reflective thinking process to problem solving. These goals are accomplished through task force groups, learning/personal growth groups, and social groups. (Offered spring semester of even calendar years.)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of selected theories in all aspects of communication, and the application of those theories in the analysis and criticism of social and public discourse in today's world. This course is the basis of all communication aspects and it allows students to better understand the entire discipline.. Prerequisite: COM 101 or consent of instructor. (Offered fall semester of even calendar years.)
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