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  • 4.00 Credits

    (Also ENL 412) 4 hours; 4 credits An introduction to the theory, history, and practice of modern newscasting. Special emphasis will be placed on preparing material for broadcast on radio and television. Readings will explore the economic realities of broadcasting, legal sanctions, and social impact. Students will monitor newscasts, analyze them, and write copy suitable for broadcast. Prerequisite: ENG 151; COM 100 is recommended
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours; 4 credits A comparison of industry and scholarly approaches to understanding media audiences and media effects, focusing on the medium of television. This course also draws cases from film, radio, and new media. We will examine the tools of media industry audience research (such as audience measurement, ratings systems, and focus groups), as well as critical scholarship on the social impact of the fragmentation of the mass audience, and the results of ethnographic audience research. Prerequisite: COM 315
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours; 4 credits An examination of contemporary media as global phenomena, stressing the multidirectionality of media flows, influences, power, and practices. Students explore global connections in different media, including print, electronic, audio, visual, television, film, as well as the interconnectedness of these media on a global scale. Prerequisite: COM 315
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours; 4 credits A survey of the regulation of media, including print, film, and telecommunications in the United States. The course examines the history of media regulation in terms of both the structure of media industries and their contents, including the First Amendment rights extended to individual expression and print, censorship and the limitations placed on broadcasting; the governance of intellectual property, in copyright and fair use laws; the role of the Federal Communications Commission, trends in deand re-regulation in recent decades, and the role of regulations in developing new media such as the Internet. Prerequisite: COM 315
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours; 4 credits An extensive examination of corporate communications and public relations approaches, and their application. Case studies and examples of a variety of corporate communications practices will be analyzed in terms of their meaning, purposes, and targeted publics to study and develop skills in building communications strategies, tactics, and execution techniques. Students will work on projects dealing with the planning and execution of strategic communications. Prerequisite: COM 332
  • 4.00 Credits

    (Also ENL 438) 4 hours; 4 credits Techniques of copyediting and proofreading for both the reporter-writer and the editor. Prerequisite: ENG 151
  • 4.00 Credits

    (Also ENL 445) 4 hours; 4 credits Learning to “read” and write the news. Analysis of the ways in which news storiesdefine our understanding of society. The course will consider both the effect of print and broadcast journalism on politics, values, and social standards and the pressures on the press that define its values. Topics vary from term to term. Prerequisite: ENG 151
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours; 4 credits The capstone class for communications majors. The course provides an overview of communications research and introduces students to basic research procedures, paradigms, and methods. Students learn research goals, methodologies, and strategies in communications. They use these tools to formulate a research problem of their own and to conduct research in libraries, through media resources, and through fieldwork. Prerequisite: COM 315
  • 4.00 Credits

    4 hours; 4 credits Workshop course designed for advanced students to complete extended projects. The students will apply their mastery of the concepts and skills of design and digital media to one large project or body of work; this work will be proposed by the student and agreed upon by the professor. Prerequisites: COM 250 and COM 370 Pre- or corequisite: COM 314 or COM 341 or COM 317 or COM 320 or COM 351 or COM 380
  • 4.00 Credits

    (also ENL 465) 4 hours; 4 credits Developing skills in writing for traditional electronic media (such as radio and television) as well as new media (such as the Internet). This writingintensive course emphasizes the translation of ideas into written text or spoken dialogue appropriate to the medium, genre, and target audience, as well as treatments, proposals, and other forms of pre-production writing. Prerequisites: 200-level COM course and ENG 151 or permission of instructor
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