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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the basic concepts of how communication processes work in organizations. The first section of the course focuses on theories of organizations, including classical theory, humanistic theories, systems theory, cultural theories, and critical theories. The second section focuses on the challenges and misunderstandings that face organizations, such as recruitment and socialization of members, conflict management, and superiorsubordinate communication. Four Credits Anderson Spring Semester
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the complex and rich process of leadership in two main ways: 1) by studying the main theories of leadership, including traits, skills, styles, situational and transformational leadership, as well as leadership ethics; and 2) by teaching the essential competencies leaders need to be effective, through personal assessment and group projects. This course helps students develop leadership skills, practice critical thinking, engage the local community and integrate their faith with their understanding of leadership. Junior standing or permission of the instructor required. Four Credits Anderson Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the field of media literacy and examines critical issues in media education that include, but are not limited to, sex and violence in the media, media ownership concentration, media stereotyping, and the impact of advertising on adolescent attitudes and behavior. The course helps students to become familiar with issues in media literacy and equips them with advanced video techniques for broadcast-quality production. Students should expect to spend at least three hours per week of self-directed production/practice/research time in addition to the designated class meetings. For the final project, each student will produce a digital video project with a Web presentation that can be distributed widely for media education in high schools and universities. Prerequisite: Media Production I or permission of instructor. Four Credits Park Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to advanced techniques for communicating through print media. Students will learn to write news feature and public relations articles, edit and rewrite copy, generate story ideas, develop sources, and use technology for effective information-gathering. Prerequisite: Communication 255. Four Credits Housel Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to documentary film and video from both theoretical and practical perspectives. By combining theoretical/analytical work with a series of production exercises, the course encourages students to develop a critical understanding of creative, theoretical, and practical dimensions involved in documentary representations. In the first part of the semester, students will learn different approaches to the documentary, including ethnographic documentary, activist documentary, and the politics of representation. Discussion will focus on such issues as insider accounts, processes of othering, reflexivity, realism, the ethics of consent, the politics of editing, and the role of the intended and non-intended audiences in documentary production. The course will cover simultaneously the technical and practical aspects of documentary production that enable students to produce their own projects. During the final part of the semester, each student will produce a broadcast-quality documentary video. Prerequisites: Media Production I and II or permission of instructor.. Four Credits Park Fall Semester
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive view of persuasion by analyzing how persuasion operates at both an interpersonal and a social level. The analysis of persuasive contexts includes discussions of popular culture, news media, advertising, cults, social movements, politics, law, families and interpersonal relationships. The study of persuasion will be applied to personal communication skills such as: the production of ethical persuasive messages, and critical media literacy skills. Four Credits Johnston Spring Semester, Odd Years
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses the social construction of inequality, specifically focusing on how communication processes are the means by which gender, race, class, nationality, culture and ethnicity are created, and are also the means by which individuals can resist personal participation in perpetuating systems of inequality. Through encountering multicultural experiences, interviewing people in different social positions, and engaging in exercises and simulations, we will learn to broaden our self-identities and our understanding of others by learning about the experiences, feelings, and views of people in social situations different from our own. Note: This course is cross-listed with Women's Studies. Four Credits Johnston Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
An independent study is a program providing advanced students in communication an opportunity to broaden their perspectives or intensify study in a communication area of unique interest. Prerequisites: junior standing, submission of departmental Independent Study Application, approval of instructor, and final approval of research proposal by department. One to Four Credits Both Semesters
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3.00 Credits
A seminar in a special topic of the discipline offered for majors in the department and other interested/qualified students. The course will focus on a particular aspect of the discipline and reflect theory, research and application to the extent expected for the course level and credits assigned. Topics occasionally offered include Family Communication, Film Criticism, Black Images in Film, Political Communication, and Advanced Research.. Two to Four Credits Occasionally
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4.00 Credits
Students secure an internship with an organization, agency, or communication media industry to observe, assist, and assume regular duties, or engage in special projects under the supervision of skilled professionals. Students are expected to maintain approximately 4 hours of placement per week for each credit granted. Up to 4 hours of internship credit may be applied to fulfill the communication major 300-level requirements only if the internship constitutes a "field placement" through an established semester-long internship studyprogram. Approved field placement programs include: The Philadelphia Center, the Chicago Semester, the Arts Program in New York Semester, and the Washington Honors Semester. Prerequisites: communication major, junior standing, submission of departmental Internship Application, approval of instructor, and final approval of internship placement by department. One to Four Credits Anderson, DeWitt-Brinks, Herrick, Housel, Johnston, Spielvogel Both Semesters
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