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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 101 or consent of instructor. Covers the origin, growth, and development of the communication and entertainment media in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 101 and ENGL 103. Survey of principles, policies, and practice of public relations. Focus will be on planning, determining publics, creating messages, researching and understanding and managing public opinion. Students will participate in actual public relations projects.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. The first course in the broadcast journalism sequence, this course offers hands on skills focusing on the fundamental of broadcast journalism. Topics include videography, digital non-linear editing, lighting and audio production. Course objectives include creating news packages for the student run Dolphin Channel broadcast. Students will work to demonstrate competency in lighting, composition, framing, microphone placement and recording. Special emphasis is placed on the basic skills identified by the broadcast television industry.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Admission is by permission of instructor. An introduction to the principles of effective interpersonal communication explored in a multi-cultural, experiential context. Emphasis is on putting into practice theory and skills in perception, listening and verbal and nonverbal message construction. Also included is an exploration of power and conflict in communication and the development, maintenance, deterioration and repair of relationships.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 201SI. is course will require students to demonstrate competency in the structure and delivery of persuasive speeches. Students will be taught to develop and display skills in debate activities. Attention will be given to each student regarding the benefits of persuasive speaking. Assignments will include class discussion in addition to speeches. Students will deliver speeches in class and will be given constructive evaluation in order to become better communicators. Students will be taught speech delivery techniques, organizational patterns and content. COMM 301 prepares student who intend to pursue further studies in speech communication and serves as a prerequisite to COMM 322 Argumentation and Debate.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 207WI. Human interest stories focusing on the arts, education, health, crime and the environment. Students develop both news-feature and magazine-length pieces to be submitted to local media outlets and for publication in Frontiers, a magazine developed by the class containing original features.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 207WI and COMM 215. Introduction to promotional, advertising, and public relations writing. Emphasis is on writing news releases, brochures, speeches, reports, proposals, memos, scripts and print and broadcast ad copy. Students will prepare promotional material for actual clients.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 217. Students participating in this class work in the "news" class. Students function as part of a team producing a weekly newscast. Students write, report, shoot, edit, anchor and produce television news. Students in this class must have mastery of the basic skills taught in COMM 217. Throughout the semester students will have opportunities to explore news story ideas and cultivate leadership skills through the role of executive producer. Television roles are rotated to provide opportunity in a variety of roles. Students present their weekly work in the format of a student television broadcast.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 207WI and COMM 101. Editing and preparation of news for print media. Includes study and laboratory work in newspaper and magazines. Focus is on editing for audiences, evaluation of news, editing principles, photo uses and editing, typography and layout principles, news packaging, and ethical considerations.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 201SI or permission from the instructor. This course offers the opportunity to analyze a large variety of current issues, and includes the use of reasoning, the making of argument briefs, refutation, cross examination goals and techniques and persuasive rhetorical tools. This is a communication class and therefore students will use effective content, organization and delivery techniques as required.
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