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3.00 Credits
3 credits Children’s interactions with popular culture are varied and complex, yet theories about those interactions are often oversimplified. In this course, students examine a variety of theories about the relationship between children and popular culture, looking at such media as television, film, popular music, books, and magazines, and computer-based media.
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3 credits This course gives students an understanding of the foundations of American journalism, exploring important journalistic concepts such as freedom of speech, the relationship between the press and government, and the press as an agent of social reform. The course will also familiarize students with the characteristic features of print and broadcast news, the differences between the two, and the biases of each.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an introduction to journalistic writing. Students will learn the basics of researching and writing news stories through in-class writing workshops, outside reporting assignments, regular newspaper reading, and analysis.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: COM 208. This course is a continuation of COM 208. Students will refine their journalistic writing abilities through reporting projects where they find and develop ideas for stories, conduct research and interviews, then write and edit their own stories.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course focuses on the history, theories, techniques, and technologies of persuasive communication. It explores a variety of forms of political persuasion, including those of election campaigns and of campaigns by incumbents and interest groups to shape public opinion. It also examines the persuasive strategies of advertising and public relations. Emphasis is equally divided between historical and contemporary case studies.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is a multi-dimensional study of narrative genres and stylistic movements that have shaped the cinema as we know it. It examines American forms like film noir, the Western, and science fiction, as well as international movements such as French New Wave, Italian Neo-Realism, and New Asian cinema.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Permission of instructor required. Preparation of feature-length works for newspapers and magazines; techniques of research and documentation; human interest stories and column writing; practice in writing articles for the print media.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an introduction to the basic methods, theories, and processes of moving-image making using a variety of moving-image media. Emphasis will be placed both on acquiring technical skills and on becoming thoughtful about aesthetic issues involved in expression through moving images.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits It is impossible to live in contemporary society without being bombarded by the products and messages of popular culture. This course will examine popular culture through the use of a variety of critical frameworks. Students will study the critical works of media theorists from each of the selected frameworks, and then write critical works of their own in each style of media criticism.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course develops writing skills for a wide range of contemporary media, including fiction and non-fiction movies, personal documentaries, video poems, and multimedia programs. It uses in-class examples of successful writing in these forms as a springboard into discussions of student projects. “Writing” will be viewed as using words, images, and sounds to communicate effectively within the options of a given format.
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