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4.00 Credits
Refines an understanding of video/television concepts and operations through the application of advanced production techniques. Provides handson experience beginning with the development of a professional project, treatment, script, and storyboard. Focuses on production tools and skills, class workshops, and outside exercises that facilitate becoming comfortable with camera and editing equipment and with the overall production process. Conceiving, coordinating, shooting, and editing the project, production teams will encounter realtime pressure and problemsolving situations. Prerequisite: COM 251 Fundamentals of Visual Communication
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the tools, techniques, and principles of radio production. Students develop awareness of sound, the ability to structure information on the radio, and the capacity to sustain attention and build an audio documentary. Students will plan, produce, and evaluate audio projects in a variety of modes, including news, documentary, dramatic, and commercial.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on emerging electronic interactive media. Through an exploration of cyberspace, virtual reality, and electronic multimedia applications such as video game playing, the class examines the conceptual dimension of interactive media and its production. Each student will conceive, design, and produce an interactive project in a digital environment. Prerequisite: COM 230 or 231 Documentary Research or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of popular forms with emphasis on the ways that social class has structured access, use, and creation of cultural artifacts and practices. Topics explored include both commercial and noncommercial forms of amusements, leisure, and entertainment. Prerequisite: COM 101 Introduction to Communication or COM 201 or 202 Media & Society recommended Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 371.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the social construction of the concept of race and barriers to communication erected by prejudice, discrimination, and marginalization of minority voices. Examines topics in multicultural, crosscultural, and interpersonal communication as well as analysis of documents, personal narratives, and media images. Primary emphasis is placed upon AfricanAmerican experience in the U.S. Meets general academic requirement D (and W which applies to 373 only).
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4.00 Credits
Examines gendered forms of communication: differences in how women and men are socialized to think, talk, and make sense in American culture the implications of these differences for communication the ways race and social class intersect with these differences and the ways commercial mass media both cultivate and undermine gendered forms of communication. Prerequisite: COM 101 Introduction to Communication or COM 201 or 202 Media & Society recommended Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 375.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the cultural artifacts, historical developments, and related systems of power that comprise sport media. Students observe, document, and analyze mediated sport and its prominence in our cultural environment. Includes analysis of the conventions of sports journalism (electronic and print) and transformations in those arenas. Prerequisite: COM 101 Introduction to Communication or COM 201 or 202 Media & Society recommended Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 379.
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4.00 Credits
Develops advanced skills in documentary inquiry and practice. Provides tools and opportunities for developing skills in interviewing for archival, journalistic (print and electronic), social scientific, and administrative purposes. Course is organized around the design and development of individual or group documentary projects in selected media. Completed project(s) will be exhibited in some campus or public forum, e.g. submitted to campus newspaper, aired on campus radio or television, or displayed on the department website. Prerequisite: COM 230 or 231 Documentary Research and instructor permission
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the principal theories of film, considering the film text as a mode of communication, as an art form, and as an ideological practice. Explores how film and video control the production of pleasure and meaning during reception. Students view a variety of films representative of specific cultural and historical contexts and are introduced to relevant theories and their application. Prerequisite: COM 240 or 241 Methods of Film & Video Analysis or permission of instructor. Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 441.
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the meanings of media in children's lives. The course adopts a cultural historical approach to understanding the role of media in children's cognitive, social, and moral development. Looking at children's interactions with media artifacts, the course considers how childhood is constituted by the languages and images of media and situates these interactions within the broader political economic context constructing the child consumer. Children's media studied include television programs, video and computer games, films, books, and toys.
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