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3.00 Credits
Hands-on introduction to single-camera filmmaking using 16mm film cameras and/or digital video camcorders (electronic field production) and non-linear (computer-based) editing. Students learn concepts of pre-production, shot composition, lighting, visual story telling, continuity editing, and production and post-production audio as they plan, shoot, and edit exercises and complete projects.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of films of a particular director or of films representing a particular genre, e.g. documentary films.
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3.00 Credits
Semiotics is the study of meaning within society. It deepens our understanding of culture, communication and philosophy, and provides us with a theoretical and practical framework for analyzing the world. The course will introduce and develop the semiotic approach, using literature, politics, film, TV, music, and our everyday surroundings and conversations.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture, discussion. An examination of the art, craft, and business of screenwriting from theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics include screenplay format and structure, story, plot and character development, dialog and scene description, visual storytelling, pace and rhythm, analysis of professional and student scripts and films, and more. Written work includes three screenwriting projects. The focus is on writing for narrative films and, to a limited extent, TV programs. Prerequisite: COMM film course.
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3.00 Credits
This course combines critical analysis with a hands-on introduction to producing a documentary. Students will view, analyze, and critique a range of documentary films, to further their understanding of the documentarian's craft and art. Students will also do pre-production (research and scripting) on their own short documentary, along with shorter hands-on exercises in writing narration, interview techniques, use of archival sources, etc. Prerequisite: COMM 240 or COMM 297D or COMM 340 or COMM 342 or COMM 493E or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Food matters. As the most material of substances, food literally matters for survival. While the need for food to satisfy hunger and strengthen the body is universally understood, what counts as food, its relative abundance or scarcity, and its relationship to the body, identity and culture are socially created and highly symbolic. Still for most people what we eat and why we choose to eat it seems the most common of ?common sense?. Meanings attached to what is edible or inedible, good or bad, nutritional or unhealthy, gourmet or junk food are highly subjective and deeply cultural. Throughout your university career you have had the opportunity to take courses that provided you with a variety of lenses for examining the ways people use language to make meaning of their worlds. How might you use some of the theories of concepts from these courses to examine your own food beliefs and practices and the consequences of those practices on your own and others' lives and livelihoods? Assignments in this course include self-reflection papers, wikipedia food map, and community-based group project. This is a team-based learning course and satisfies the integrative Experience requirement for Comm and BDIC majors.
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3.00 Credits
This Communication course draws on research and theory in communication, psychology, sociology, gender and cultural studies, education, and anthropology to examine how various forms of media shape our understandings of ourselves and others as gendered beings. We will discuss how media messages not only influence our behaviors, but also permeate our very senses of who we are from early childhood. Through a critical examination of fairy tales, text books, advertisements, magazines, television, movies, and music, students will explore the meanings and impacts of gendered messages as they weave with cultural discourses about race, class, sexuality, disability, age, and culture. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the concept of horror in contemporary public culture in the United States, reflecting on the nature of evil and human responsibility in the face of it. Topics for discussion include the rhetorical use of horror, the narrative creation of monstrosities, the responses to fear of the Other, the relationship between horror and terror, and the aesthetics of disturbing performances. Several weeks will be devoted to popular icons of monstrosity in order to examine the ethical and political ramifications of these metaphors lurking in contemporary culture. The major assignments include a portfolio encompassing the discipline of Communication and reflection upon ideas and methods from General Education. Satisfies the IE requirement for Comm majors. (No credit after Comm 397AM.)
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3.00 Credits
This courses focuses on the relationship between the rhetorical and the scientific, and will demonstrate the myriad ways in which they share investments, particularly in US American public culture. The course will: (1) examine the rhetoric of science, a decades-old subfield in rhetorical studies; (2) examine issues in which rhetorical studies and certain scientific work may collaborate; (3) examine the politics of science in the United States, especially concerning debates around evolution, climate change, and vaccinations; and (4) examine significant events around science that educated citizens should understand. Students will engage a number of scholars from rhetorical studies and social theory, as well as scientists writing in popular venues and public deliberations. The major assignment is a semester-long portfolio in which students will investigate and critically respond to the rhetoric surrounding a scientific issue in their local community. Satisfies the IE require for BA-Comm majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses tools from the study of everyday interaction to explore one-on-one interactions in the electronic media. The course focuses on two genres in two different media: television news and call-in radio. Alongside theoretical studies, the course uses data sessions to analyze different television and radio segments. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.
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