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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, lab (screening), discussion. A survey of key events and representative films that mark the history of motion pictures in the United States and other countries to 1950. In addition to identifying and providing access to major works, the course is designed to facilitate the study of the various influences (industrial, technological, aesthetic, social, cultural, and political) that have shaped the evolution of the medium to the advent of television.
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3.00 Credits
Key events and representative films that mark the history of motion pictures since 1950 worldwide. Emphasis on films made in the United States within the mainstream and at the margins during the last five decades.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of recent narrative fiction feature filmmaking from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. We will explore political, social, and economic circumstances that impact the production, exhibition, marketing, distribution, and reception of films. We will address the ways contemporary films construct images of nations, nationalism, and national culture(s). Feature films and clips will be screened regularly and analyzed using tools of film criticism and cultural studies.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the types of writing associated with the discipline of communication. Development and improvement of the student's writing, research, and critical thinking skills. Fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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3.00 Credits
This course will prompt you to use your internship experience as a springboard for thinking about your personal, academic, and professional development and to situate that reflection within a deepening analysis of Communication theory. We will look at the communication skills you practice in your internship (including interpersonal communication, public speaking, written communication, social networking, group facilitation, etc.) not only in terms of their value in the workplace but also as real-life data ripe for scholarly inquiry. NOTE: This course does not provide credit for doing the internship, rather it is academic credit that you pursue concurrently with an internship. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.
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0.00 Credits
This course is designed to allow you to engage with the methods of qualitative and quantitative research, to examine the possible research questions different methods allow, to understand both the limits and the potential of various methods, to be able to conceptualize and execute a research project and apply its methods, and also to reflect on the role of Communication research and the ways it helps us to know ourselves and to know the world. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course draws together theory and research from the discipline of Communication, skills and interdisciplinary understandings developed through students' various general education courses, and their own insights as students, emerging leaders, and collaborators in the Peer Advising Program. The seminar and its related activities are designed to serve two, complementary goals: 1) honing students' skills and expanding their understandings of the connections between a ?whole student? approach and undergraduates? academic success, and 2) building leadership competence and sensibilities that will extend well beyond the context of advising, preparing students to become insightful, skilled, and ethical leaders in a complex social world. We will examine modes of communication (including one-to-one communication, small group facilitation, social media use, and public speaking), identities (including race, culture, sexuality, gender, and social class), and late adolescent/adult development (including transitions into and out of college, shifting priorities across the lifespan, and the weave of cognitive, social, and emotional development). This is a service learning course designed to scaffold students' development as visionary professionals and engaged citizens able to analyze individual, group, organizational, and societal phenomena in nuanced and socially responsible ways. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the situation comedy from sociological and artistic perspectives. We will seek, first of all, to understand how situation-comedy is a rich and dynamic meaning-producing genre within the medium of television. Secondly we will work to dissect narrative structures, and the genre's uses of mise-en-scene, cinematography/ videography, editing, and sound to create specific images of the family through social constructions of race, class, and gender. In addition we will use various critical methods such as semiotics, genre study, ideological criticism, cultural studies, and so on to interrogate why the sitcom form since its inception in the 1950s has remained one of the most popular genres for audiences and industry personnel alike and assess what the genre might offer us in terms of a larger commentary on notions of difference and identity in the US and beyond. Satisfies the IE require for BA-Comm majors.
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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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