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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
4 Credits Designed to improve the student's reading and writing abilities through focusing on critical thinking. All three skills are approached as facets of each other and as processes that the student learns to control and take responsibility for. The fundamentals of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure are strengthened when students write and revise multiparagraph expository essays. A grade of C is required to pass this course, and it may not be dropped. (Credit is not applicable to any degree.)
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Preparation of formal and informal technical reports, abstracts, resumes, and business correspondence. Major emphasis placed on the long technical paper and the acquisition of advanced writing skills. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits An introduction to effective business communication. Topics in oral, written, nonverbal, and intercultural communication are covered. Research methods, effective speaking, and the preparation of letters, memoranda, and reports are emphasized. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course introduces the practices of communicating news and issues in science and technology to a variety of publics through magazine-style writing and public speaking. Guest speakers will present research questions, methodologies, and issues within the sciences. Coursework also includes readings from successful science and technology communicators, illustrating various solutions to writing about complex subjects. Special topics include identifying science and technological stories, evaluating sources and information, and communicating findings clearly, comprehensibly, and accurately for publication and speaking engagements. Prerequisite: COM 221.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course introduces fundamental photographic skills through digital technologies. Emphasis is placed on the tools, techniques, and aesthetics of a range of photographic applications pertaining to graphic design and interactive media. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of the program coordinator.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits The structure of, professional opportunities in, and social issues arising from, media industries. Required of all Communication students. Must be taken within the first year of entering the program. Prerequisite: COM 122.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits COM 265 offers Communication majors theory and practice in the fundamentals of various journalistic genres: news reporting, features, interviews, spot news, page layout, interpretive journalism, and more. This course introduces students to use of the AP Stylebook, libel law, and ethical issues in journalism. Prerequisite: COM 122 or permission of instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Training in interviewing, research, and writing skills and strategies employed by print sports journalists. This course involves rigorous practice in a variety of sports articles, including game stories, features, advanced-depth writing, opinion and hard news sports stories using Associated Press style. Prerequisite: COM 122.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course is based on case studies introducing students to the legal and ethical environments underpinning First Amendment rights in the United States from the nation's founding to the present. Topics in law include intents of the framers, prior restraint, libel, privacy, hate speech, freedom of information laws, shield laws, and copyright. Topics in ethics concentrate on models for decision-making in difficult situations. Practices of journalists, media relations practitioners, and Internet communicators will be examined. Topics in ethics concentrate on models for decision-making in difficult situations. Prerequisite: COM 221.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course introduces the practices of communicating news and issues in aviation and aerospace to a variety of publics through magazine-style writing and public speaking. Students will learn how to recognize the news value of contemporary aviation issues, to gain an understanding of those issues through research and interviews with experts, and to write about and discuss the issues. Coursework also includes readings from respected aviation writers that illustrate aviation's economic and social impact on society. Special topics include safety, airport security and congestion, emerging legal issues, and international aviation trends. Prerequisite: COM 221.
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