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3.00 Credits
Students study film and television as it has developed throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Screenings of classic films and television are complimented by class analysis and discussion of how the moving image has changed over time. This is not a production course, as students will focus instead on understanding film theory and aesthetics.(Prerequisites: COM103 or COM212, COM222)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students intermediate to advanced experience in Adobe Premiere Pro as well as basic experience in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Encore DVD. Students are responsible for shooting and editing several projects over the course of the semester. (Prerequisite: COM103 or COM212, COM222, COM224)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students both theory and hands-on experience in television news gathering. Students will learn the theories and means of putting a news program together and put that experience to use by taping and airing a news program for the campus cable channel on a weekly basis. (Prerequisite: COM103 or COM212)
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2.00 Credits
Students study and practice conducting interviews in professional activities such as: diagnostic interviews (as related to sexual harassment), discipline and termination interviews, performance appraisals, and focus groups. The interviewing skills used to develop those activities include preparing and developing a guide, questioning, probing, listening, recording, and concluding the interview. (Prerequisite: COM103 or COM212)
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2.00 Credits
Students study and practice interviewing skills as interviewee and interviewer in the job selection process. Interviewee skills will focus on resume writing and building, informational interviewing, interview preparation, verbal and nonverbal responses to questions, and assessing one's fit in an organizational culture. Interviewer skills will focus on creating a job interview guide, legal and illegal questions, nonverbal variables, and professionalism. (Prerequisite: COM103 or COM212)
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4.00 Credits
Students examine communication patterns in functional families and interpersonal relationships. Reading and discussion are combined with experiential activities. Course units include diverse family systems, communication patterns, family roles, power, decision-making, conflict, stress and coping, ecology, and improving family communication. (Prerequisites: COM103 or COM212, or consent of instructor)
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a broad overview of the study of conflict from a communication perspective. It introduces students to current theoretical and applied issues in the study of conflict management using social science theories to help explain the process of interacting with others. Specifically, the course examines the nature, causes, and techniques for managing conflict across a wide variety of situations including societal clashes, psychological turmoil, group decision-making, intimate relationships, and organizational interaction. While each of these situations differs in important ways, there are commonalities in how conflict functions across them. We will look at those commonalities to understand the role of communication in conflict. The assignments and class activities focus upon the theories, models, principles, and concepts of conflict and their application to a variety of relationships. (Prerequisite: COM103 or COM212)
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2.00 Credits
Students study and explore special topics in intercultural communication in this advanced seminar course. Students apply intercultural communication concepts, theories, and models to various contexts, including educational, political, social, and religious institutions. The seminar format allows students opportunities to discuss ideas in depth and to cater projects and papers to individual areas of special interest. (Prerequisite: COM309 or consent of instructor)
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3.00 Credits
Students will produce a full-length capstone project on a topic/genre of their choice. Students will develop a pre-production plan, implement it in the production phase, and edit it in post-production. Projects will be screened to the campus community. (Prerequisites: COM103 or COM212, COM224, and COM324)
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4.00 Credits
Students study and apply human communication theories to the study of interpersonal relationships including small groups, gender studies, work relationships, friendships and marital relationships. Perspectives on and methods of critical inquiry and research are an integral part of the course content. Research projects are presented to the rest of the class as well as submitted to professional organizations for review. (Prerequisites: COM103, COM212, COM205, COM222, COM309) COM442 and COM443 are intended to be a yearlong capstone sequence
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