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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course gives students an in-depth understanding of communication and social justice issues, emphasizing issues of power, privilege and difference. This course will study communicating across cultural differences by critically analyzing verbal, written, and visual expressions (social movements, digital activism, organizing and mobilizing campaigns) of our diverse and global society. Emphasis is placed on gaining experience with difficult dialogues about race, gender, diversity, and inclusivity.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the secondary variables that influence communicational interaction. Emphasis is placed upon developing a concept of communicational context, situation, and circumstance, as well as developing skills of interpreting the unspoken messages which underlie communicational transactions.
Prerequisite:
CMST111 AND CMST250 AND ENGL103
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a variety of television genres, allowing the student to develop an understanding of the nature of American formulaic television through critical analysis of programming. Accepted for general education.
Prerequisite:
CMST126 AND CMST136 AND ENGL103
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3.00 Credits
This course will familiarize the student with the vast array of methods employed in the field of mass communication research and to provide him/her with a basic fluency in each of these methods.
Prerequisite:
CMST111 OR CMST126 AND CMST222 OR CMST250 and completion of 60 credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide an introduction to the special type of persuasive communication that characterizes both advertising and other forms of propaganda. Advertising, other forms of sociological propaganda, and political propaganda will be studied in terms of their relation to society, their techniques, and the ethical issues that they raise.
Prerequisite:
CMST126 AND CMST250 AND ENGL103
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3.00 Credits
These courses will analyze significant films of either one or two genres in an attempt to define the characteristics of each genre and understand their cultural meaning. Readings will focus on the genres' historical development with emphasis on their relation to the social currents of the times. Representative films will be screened. Selected genres will vary with each offering of the course. Genres studied will include: the comedy film, the science fiction film, the musical film, the documentary film, the film noir, and the horror film.
Prerequisite:
CMST126 AND CMST163 AND ENGL103
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3.00 Credits
This course will expose students to media from around the world. Students will learn how to compare media content, formats, systems, and ownership structures in an effort to better understand underlying assumptions that help shape our perceptions of the world.
Prerequisite:
CMST126 AND CMST310
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine one or two rhetorical genres to define the characteristics of each and understand its nature, meaning, and influence within a particular cultural movement. Students will apply classical and contemporary rhetorical theories to genres such as presidential, war, feminist, and environmental rhetoric. Representative examples of speeches, letters, essays, advertisements, and demonstrations will be analyzed.
Prerequisite:
CMST111 AND CMST329 AND ENGL203
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop and enhance the student's critical response to rhetorical discourse in the area of public address. The course includes a survey of rhetorical theory and opportunity to evaluate critically examples of rhetorical discourse from these various theoretical points of view.
Prerequisite:
CMST111 AND CMST329 AND ENGL203
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover ethical and legal issues that confront broadcasters in their daily routine. Topics include programming decisions, FCC regulation, community standards, personnel management and precedent-setting court cases.
Prerequisite:
CMST126 OR CMST229 AND PHIL110 OR PHIL231
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