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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits A study of the communicative and aesthetic characteristics of graphic design and typography. The course focuses on the organization of visual space employing graphic design principles and strategies. Through the use of various digital techniques, students will produce graphic and typographic design projects. Prerequisite: COM 115
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1.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits A study of strategies in digital imaging production and treatment. Students will learn and employ digital design applications to composite images for print. Design exercises and projects emphasize problem solving, creativity, and presentation. Lectures focus on production and theory, referencing both historical and contemporary work as examples. Prerequisites: COM 115
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits The emphasis is on studio production and the application of controlled studio techniques to the production of video programs. Increasingly complex projects will be planned, scripted, and carried through to a final edit. Prerequisites: ENG 111 and CIN 111
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits This course is designed to give the student an understanding of radio production, theory, and practice. This includes audio principles and aesthetics; the purpose and operation of primary (microphones, tape machines, consoles, turntables) and secondary (compressors, equalizers, delays) studio equipment; and the techniques of the production process.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits This course provides students with an understanding of newscasting through an evaluation of the impact of broadcast news, and investigation of journalistic tenets and applications that include organizing, writing, and producing news programs. Prerequisite: COM 261 or COM 270
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4.00 Credits
(Also ENL 277) 4 hours; 4 credits A general introduction to the principles of journalism. Work on reporting, editing, and layout, and an examination of distribution/feedback systems. Prerequisite: ENG 151
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4.00 Credits
(Also ENL 312) 4 hours; 4 credits A survey of contemporary communications theory defining the language, structure, systems, effects, and rhetoric of the mass media. Practical examples in journalism, advertising, publishing, radio, television, and film will be analyzed. Prerequisite: ENG 151
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Emphasis on the integration of publication design, graphics, information organization, and language. Course topics focus on various formats of multi-page layout design for print, their meaning and significance; editorial concepts, and the publication process. Further emphasis is placed on group organization, collaboration, and co-authorship. Prerequisites: ENG 151 and COM 250 or COM 317, or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits An intensive theory and writing course introducing students to diverse approaches to media analysis, from semiotics, psychoanalysis, intertextuality, and discourse analysis. Students explore ways to read and understand different kinds of media texts, including print, audio, visual, and digital texts. Students will also learn to explore and explain their ideas and arguments in writing about media texts. Prerequisites: COM 203
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits An exploration of the relationship between form and information. This course examines systems for organizing and presenting effective, efficient, and understandable information. Students will learn and employ vectorbased computer illustration software to complete their assignments. Prerequisite: COM 250
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