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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students the fundamentals of sports reporting from game coverage to column writing. Students will cover a beat by doing weekly features, live games stories and advances and learn about issues in sports including race, gender and performance enhancing drug use.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyses of the writing, editing, and production of both internal and external organizational publications, including newsletters, magazines, reports, manuals, brochures, and promotional materials. The emphasis is on effective writing, research, design, and support of organizational objectives. Outcome: Students will broaden their production, research and writing skills for trade publications.
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3.00 Credits
Students will get practical experience in the analysis, criticism, and application of persuasive discourse across a wide variety of contexts. This course is designed to explore theories related to persuasion, social influence, and compliance-gaining.
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3.00 Credits
This course is about street-level China, as it is seen and as it happens. This course is a practicum, in which students, through a mix of lectures, briefings and discussions, will delve into nature of observation and engagement with and in China. Outcome: Students will have a deeper understanding of how journalists and documentarians observe and write (or film) China, and over the course of the semester will make some efforts of their own to do original journalism and essay writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines contemporary U.S. American culture from a critical-theoretical standpoint while examining popular icons and social practices with particular attention to their influence on individual and collective identities. Outcome: Students will learn critical cultural theories and do projects where they reflect upon the influences of contemporary cultural texts and practices with an eye for their economic, social and political influence on individual and collective identities.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to intercultural communication theory and research. Students explore how differences in ethnic, religious, economic, and geographical experiences produce social biases and engender conflict. Students are expected to explore their own cultural histories to understand how they create meaning and adopt attitudes.
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3.00 Credits
Students study speech to understand its role in human relationships. This course focuses on self-exploration of communication patterns by asking life's big questions about self and other. Students will gain competence in interpersonal communication through the development of perceptual accuracy, and clarification of values with regard to relational goals.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of cinema as a complex medium of communication. This course will provide students with the basic terminology, observational skills and theoretical background for the study of film aesthetics, language, cultural analysis, history and the production of cinematic texts. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the basic approaches to film studies such as formal analysis; critical practices, and narrative studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the design and usability of websites from several perspectives: how they look (aesthetics), how they work (navigability and usability), and how they are made (tools and software). Lectures, demonstrations, and in-class lab time will introduce students to the creative tools and software that power contemporary web design and usability. Emphasis will be on using a variety of tools and resources to meet one¿s own goals, rather than achieving the level of expert in any one piece of software.
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3.00 Credits
Media and Society explores the psychological, political, social, and economic impacts of modern mass media as they affect individual and collective lives. Students examine print, electronic, and film media from theoretical and critical perspectives. Outcome: Students will gain a broader understanding of the role various forms of media play in society.
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