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  • COMM 339: Critical Perspectives in Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Zelizer/Delli Carpini. This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of journalism. It combines theoretical perspectives on the making of news with primary source material produced by and about journalists. Students will analyze theoretical material on journalism -- about how news is made, shaped, and performed -- alongside articles and broadcasts appearing in the media, interviews with journalists in the trade press, and professional reviews. Topics include models of journalistic practice, journalistic values and norms, gatekeeping and sourcing practices, storytelling formats in news, and ethical problems related to misrepresentation, plagiarism, and celebrity.
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  • COMM 340: Basic Communication Research

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hennessy. This course is a general overview of the important components of social research. The first third of the semester presents a conceptual basis for assessing research quality based on the four "types of validity." We also cover the standard elements of research design including sampling, measurement, and causal inference. These concepts are then illustrated through reviews of four research areas: surveys and field studies, qualitative/ethnographic studies, content analysis, and policy/evaluation studies. The last third of the semester focuses more on descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of association for categorical and continuous variables, and the language of data analysis. For these classes, we make use of SMALL STATA, a PC program useful for learning statistics. Most modules are illustrated through class exercises based on published articles, this year focusing on the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program. This course fulfills the undergraduate quantitative requirement.
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  • COMM 362: Visual Communication Lab

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Messaris. Prerequisite(s): COMM 262. Follow-up to Comm 262, Visual Communication. The laboratory provides an opportunity for students to explore through actual media production many of the conceptual principles and research findings discussed in Comm 262 and other communication courses. Permission of instructor required for enrollment.
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  • COMM 374: Communication and Congress

    24.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Felzenberg. This course will examine how Congress goes about the business of translating the public's concerns into legislation and keeps the public informed of its progress. It will examine how the two chambers interact in this process, what role the media plays in shaping Congress's agenda and vice versa, and what impact the advent of 24 hour news, C-SPAN and the internet have had on Congressional deliberations. A historical approach will be taken in considering the evolution of both chambers and the media's coverage of them. Students will examine differences between the House and Senate in both their institutional development and how they go about communicating with each other, the general public, and the other branches and levels of government.
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  • COMM 375: Communications and Emergency Response

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Felzenberg. A series of unforeseen and unprecedented emergencies in recent years have posed steep challenges to private businesses, non-profit institutions, and local,state and federal government. Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, hurricanes, financial collapse and other crises have posed unique communications challenges to people in positions of authority. Increasingly, they have had to implement plans, make announcements, and order evacuations, often on short notice, and strategies that have minimized damage and enhanced the security of the greatest number of people as well as those that have not. On occasion, guests, who have had been on the front lines in emergency situations will appear in class to enhance students appreciate of the extent of these challenges and to share their ideas as to how they might best be handled. Readings will focus on case studies of historical and contemporary emergency situations and how policy makers addressed them.
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  • COMM 393: Chinese and US Persp.395.Communication and the Presidency

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Eisenhower. This course will examine the vital aspect of communication as a tool of the modern Presidency. Reading and class discussions will focus on case studies drawn from modern Presidential administrations (beginning with FDR) that demonstrate the elements of successful and unsuccessful Presidential initiatives and the critical factor of communication, common to both. This course is also an introduction to primary research methods and to the use of primary research materials in the Presidential Library system. Applications for course available in the Undergraduate Office. Preference given to ComPS students. Majors only.
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  • COMM 396: Media Events

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Katz. Live broadcasts of historic events - contests, conquests, and coronations - constitute a new form of ceremonial politics whereby television joins the establishment and audience to declare a holiday. The course will analyze this genre - its diffusion, politics, aesthetics, ethnography, and effects.
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  • COMM 399: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Prerequisite(s): Written proposal signed and approved by faculty supervisor. The independent study offers the self-motivated student an opportunity for a tailored, academically rigorous, semester-long investigation into a topic of the student's choice with faculty supervision. Its structure and purpose is different from the internship experience. Students must also complete and file a designated form, approved and signed by the supervising faculty member and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, which includes a topic proposal. This form must be received in the Undergraduate Office during the Add period of the semester during which the independent study will be conducted.
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  • COMM 405: Facing Race:Race and Caricature in the Historical Imagination

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Pearl. Is race imaginary If so, who invented facial distinctions and why can we see them Do pictures change the way we think How do artists think about the people they draw and satirize This course will explore the relationship between caricature and perceptions of racial difference in modern western culture. We will interrogate the role that visual images play in framing our perceptions of groups and their defining characteristics. Broadly historical, this interdisciplinary course will introduce students to scholarship in visual culture, media studies, science studies, and race theory. Students will develop skills in primary source analysis, historical methodology, and visual analysis. Assignments will include a visual analysis, 4 short papers, and a final exam.
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