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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to welcome first years in to the major and inform them of opportunities for their advancement in the department and beyond. The course introduces students to the subject area clusters of courses offered in the major and the faculty members in the department who teach in each of the clusters. It provides a brief overview of the field of communication and the major issues and topics that motivate the inquiries conducted in courses and in research. Finally, this course identifies and helps students access opportunities for enrichment of their experience they may encounter in their coming years at the University.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the social role of mass media in advanced industrial Western societies, focusing on how relationships between mass communications and the surrounding economic framework affect cultural, political, and ideological processes in society. An examination of social and historical contexts within which newspapers, radio, and television developed and how they are structured with attention to both the domestic and international implications of treating mass media as just another industry.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an introduction to the entire media programming process, with a special focus on the institutional structures and constraints that shape the content of electronic media. We will consider a variety of historical, technological, cultural, legal, political, economic, ethical, and other factors which influence programming, especially in terms of how they are playing out on the currently unfolding media scene. We will explore dynamic interactions among communications institutions and industries, new technologies, and governmental and other regulatory bodies, all in terms of their impact on the production, distribution, and consumption of electronic media content.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the major ideas and concepts of rhetorical and performance studies and their contributions to social action. Students will be introduced to the thinkers and movements in rhetoric and performance most significant to how we understand ourselves: the ways we represent and remember our pasts, live our presents (presence), and imagine our futures. Theories of rhetoric and performance will be connected to each other and to our communication practices to examine how theories can be deployed as part of the art of living our lives. Assignments in this course will also connect theory and practice: students will be quizzed on readings to assess knowledge of concepts and theory and will complete out of class assignments that require practical applications of concepts/theories to community contexts. Students will also be expected to be able to engage in critical assessment: of the theories and their applications, as well as of their own (students') commitment to the work of education and personal growth.
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0.00 Credits
The nature and several functions of film, including narrative and nonnarrative approaches to film communication. Topics include: the components of film expression (composition, movement, editing, sound, setting, and acting); designs in screen narrative; film's relationship to other arts and media; and its role as an instrument of social reflection and change.
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1.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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4.00 Credits
Communication as it creates, maintains, and transforms cultural identities, and, in turn, culture as it creates, maintains, and transforms communication. Grounded in the substantive patterns of communication from areas such as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Polynesia, and the Far East. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces analytical and theoretical tools used to make sense of visual culture. Topics include the relationship between real-life vision and looking at images, persuasive images, images as evidence.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to film and television production principles and processes from script to screen in lecture format as preparation for hands-on production courses. The art and craft of film and video, including scripting, pre-production, production and post-production phases are explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces non-majors to a variety of competing theories of interpersonal behavior and everyday social interaction and provides them with new ways of thinking about the social situations in which they participate and interact (and observe others doing so). Theoretical frameworks may include Cultural Discourse theory, models of Relational Communication, Coordinated Management of Meaning, Identity Management, and the Ethnography of Speaking. (Gen.Ed. SB)
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