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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the composition and delivery of informative, persuasive, and ceremonial speeches, with attention to speech design, delivery, and organization.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introduction to writing for news media, including the techniques and functions of reporters. The essentials and types of writing for the media are examined, as well as appropriate ethical and legal issues. Emphasis is on both real and hypothetical writing assignments and class discussion of the results.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers practical experience in editing and the exploration of its function in modern journalism. Prerequisite: COMM 0106
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students write, edit, design, sell advertising, take photographs, and prepare artwork for The Source, the official student newspaper of the campus. This is an activity credit course that may be repeated for up to six credits.
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3.00 Credits
As a popular art form, cinema plays a major role in what we see as contemporary artistic expression. This course examines the artistry of technique, the creative depth of various films, with an emphasis on how the story gets told. Cinematography, editing, lighting, sound, and other creative elements that make each film unique are explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to “rock and roll,” arguably the most important form of mass media generated popular art from the middle of the 20th century until the present. Specifically, this course will use certain developments in mass media technology as a lens through which to examine popular songs as “texts” of cultural, social, political, and artistic significance. These technological innovations include Edison’s phonograph and Berliner’s gramophone, to be sure, but we will also consider developments such as the long playing (LP) album, the transistor radio, the 45 rpm record, jukeboxes, and wall boxes. The bulk of the course, however, will explore the rise of what came to be called “rock and roll” between Elvis Presley’s national emergence in 1956 to the point when the Beatles stopped recording in 1969. GE: Cultures/
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of trends in American popular music culture from 1970 to today. While we will examine rock songs as social, political and musical documents, a principal concern will be how the mass media in general and technological innovation in particular have affected – if not determined – the nature and kinds of popular music that have characterized the last quarter of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. This course’s title derives from the belief that after rock and roll became the dominant form of popular music after World War II, the age of rock held center stage from about 1970 until the mid-90s. At that time, peer-to-peer file sharing and the rise of hip-hop culture combined to fundamentally alter the landscape, inaugurating a new phase of popular culture and signaling the "fall" of rock
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of major theories and research in interpersonal communications and their application in various settings, including the small group. Units of instruction include self-concept, stages of relationship building, types of relationships, power, and conflict. GE: Behavioral Sciences, Economics, Political Science.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the dynamics of culture and communication, and the social effects generated by their interaction.? This course emphasizes the establishment and maintenance of student understanding of intercultural dynamics in a manner that positively impacts life outside the classroom. GE: cultures/non-western
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3.00 Credits
This is a survey of the role of the mass media in American society and exploration of the uses of these media. Special emphasis is on methods of examining the control, content, audience, and effects of the press, radio, television, motion pictures, and the Internet. GE: Behavioral Sciences
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