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  • COM 314: Photojournalism

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    This course provides a study of the basic elements of photojournalism through still photography and words. Students are presented with equipment fundamentals, composition, and lighting, along with producing pictures using both darkroom and digital techniques.
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  • COM 315: Power of Media

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    Media is a source of information, entertainment, and persuasion. Being able to analyze, interpret, and understand the messages, tools, and impacts of the mass media is essential for both producers and consumers of media. This course helps students develop a critical understanding of media messages and forms of media that create and disseminate those messages. The emphasis will be on the impact of media on ourselves and society, and exercises will focus on the student's own experiences and media exposure. This course will help the student answer the following questions: How does media represent reality? How can individuals or groups be empowered or disempowered by media exposure and/or agendas? How can I be aware of how media affects me and how I can use the media?
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  • COM 316: Power of Data

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    Measuring the impact of media and its messages is important when creating and consuming media. This course helps students develop an understanding of research methodologies, as well as learning how to interpret the data and statistics used in communications research and how research affects media outcomes. The emphasis will be on research in media and communications, but students will also be introduced to how these methodologies are used in all social sciences.
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  • COM 317: Power of Writing

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    Clear, concise writing is of tremendous value in all communications careers. This course will help prepare students for writing for a wide range of publications and audiences. Students will learn the basics of writing for diverse media, including print, public relations, broadcast, the Internet, and advertising. They also will learn revision and editing strategies, get practical experience in information-gathering and interviewing, and learn to adapt information to specific audiences.
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  • COM 318: Power of Speaking and Listening

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    Public speaking is both an art form and specific skill. Inherent in public speaking is the power to foster and promote ideas through the formation and delivery of content-specific messages. Understanding cultural and gender-specific contexts is also key to effective public speaking. This course assists students in developing a critical understanding and awareness of message construction, listening, and delivery, with emphasis on situational, gender, and cultural implications and consequences. Students will learn public speaking skills and strategies in order to effectively articulate both verbal and non-verbal messages to a particular audience for a particular purpose.
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  • COM 319: Interpersonal Communication

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    This is a core course that deals with interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution, and verbal and nonverbal communication.
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  • COM 320: Organizational Communication

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    Organizational communication is the sum of many unique contributions, all influenced by a group dynamic. Understanding the successes and challenges of organizational communication begins with a closer look at how we all communicate as individuals, moving on to a broader awareness of effective communications systems. This course helps students develop a heightened awareness of how individual behaviors impact organizational outcomes and how organizational structures impact group members. Elements covered in the course include: human relations; conflict management; emotion in the workplace; change and leadership processes; decision making; and organizational diversity. Students will learn skills and strategies to effectively communicate with groups and individuals across varying organizational cultures, adapt to system change, function effectively on teams, and build strong relationships within organizations.
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  • COM 321: Mass and Niche Communications

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    Advertising conveys compelling messages in order to sell goods and services. Due to its effectiveness as a means of influencing opinion and behavior, the methods and strategies of advertising have come to be deployed in other forms of mass communication. During this course students will closely observe, analyze, and interpret advertising to discover how persuasive messages are constructed and operate. Students will explore the methods and the practices of advertising, marketing and propaganda as persuasive messaging. This approach will give students an understanding of advertising and persuasion in mass communications.
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  • COM 401: Politics and Mass Media

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    An analysis of the political contents of mass media and the consequences they have for American democracy. Students will study the ideological range of media content, the detectable political meaning in media messages, public cynicism about government and politics, governmental leaders' disapproval of media portrayals of their institutions, and the tools people in public life use to influence media content.
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  • COM 402: History of Mass Communications

    5.00 Credits
    City University of Seattle

    This course introduces students to an expansive study of the relationship between human history and communication history. Contemporary media and communication technologies are studied as extensions of basic, innate human communication capacities. Readings will come from classic and contemporary sources that cover communication in societies from early civilization to the Internet era. Study will also examine how media have been influential both in maintaining social order and functioning as powerful agents of change.
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