COMM-ST 378WI      Computer Mediated Communication
Examination of the nature of human communication on the internet. Design, function, content innovations of computer mediated communication discussed, with emphasis on technology as a means of interpersonal communication. Research, essays, and participation in online environment required.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 379      African American Images in Film
This course examines the historical and social evolution of African Americans in film from the early 1900s to the present. The course will provide an overview of contributions from African Americans in cinema and trace their impact in Hollywood through critical analysis. Films show what a society accepts and rejects, therefore the course will consider major themes, historical movements, and how films capture societal issues. Most of the discussions will focus on images in front of the camera, although works from African Americans behind the camera may be explored as well. Offered: Fall & Winter.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 380      Contemporary Media Topics
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 381      Narrative Production
This course covers the creative, technical, and practical aspects of short-form narrative film production.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 382      Advanced Media Topics
Variable content: Media Arts and Media Studies Topics will be addressed in this course including film/video production and post-production techniques, and analytical evaluation of recent trents in media. Prerequisite: Topic Dependent Restrictions: Approval of instructor Offered: Winter
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 383      Cross-Cultural Journalism & Mass Media
Cross-Cultural Journalism & Mass Media provides journalistic tools for traditional and new media coverage of diverse ethnic, gender, ability and ideological groups inside and outside the United States. The critical role of diverse voices in a democracy will be discussed.Students at UMKC and the Missouri School of Journalism participate in joint lectures transmitted by UMKC and MU instructors from their respective campuses.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 384      Documentary Film
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the history, terminology, film making techniques, film makers and cultural/societal influences of documentary film. Five distinguishing characteristics will be examined in terms of 1) subjects, 2) purposes, points of view, or approaches, 3) forms, 4) production methods and techniques and 5) experiences they offer to audiences. Prerequisites: None. Offered: Every winter.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 385      Documentary Production
This course is designed to familiarize students with the basics of documentary production from an artistic, ethical, and practical results-oriented perspective. Prerequisite(s): COMM-ST 250 or Consent of Instructor. Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 386      Animation
This course provides an introduction to animation production techniques and an overview of the history of American animation arts. We will address both stop-motion and computer animation using industry standard software.
Credits: hours
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COMM-ST 388      Media Ethics
This course is designed to sensitize the ethical considerations the underlie the conventions and practices of print, broadcast, and internet media. By placing traditional and new media in a wider intellectual context than is generally possible under the daily demands of producing news, information, and entertainment, it seeks to produce a larger sense of media as industry and as a career choice.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 390      Forensic Activities
Participation in the intercollegiate forensic program. A practicum in debate, discussion, oratory and other forensic activities. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Offered: Summer, fall, winter.
Credits: 1-4 hours
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COMM-ST 391      The World(S) Of Alfred Hitchcock
The course offers an historical study of the film art of Afred Hitchcock. The course gives special attention to the director's work in the silent cinema of the U.K., Hitchcock's early major British sound films, his arrival in the United States, his major World War II propoganda films, the directors maturing into a major influence on world cinema in the 1940s, and Hitchcock's ""masterworks"" of the 1950s-1960s. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 392      Great Directors Of Foreign Film
The course is an introduction to the major films and directors of the international cinema. Particular attention will be given to the influence of German Expressionism, Italian ""Neo-Realim,"" the ""French New Wave, the ""New German Cinema"" of the 1970s, post-Franco Spanish cinema, and the national cinemas of South America, India, China, and Japan. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 393      History Of The Hollywood Musicals
The course offers an historical survey of the development of the film musical as a major Hollywood film genre from the introduction of the sound film in 1927 to current manifestations of the genre. The course gives particular attention to the development of the studio musicals of the 1930s, the role of the musical during World War II, the ""Golden Age"" of the MGM musical in the 1950s-60s, and the effects on the traditional Hollywood musical of the Vietnam Era social upheavals. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 394      The World Of ""Film Noir
The course offers an historical survey of the development of ""film noir"" as a major film genre. The course examines the major characteristics that define ""film noir"" and offers an introduction to the historical roots of this genre in German Expressionism, as well as the social and political context for the development of ""film noir"" as a hollywood studio genre in the late 1940s. Particular attention is given to the social/ political conditions of the 1950s that contributed to both the rise and decline in popularity of ""film noir"" during the Cold War, as well as the film genre's revival in the ""neo-noirs"" of the 1970s. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 400      Special Studies
(A-N) This is an upper-level course on a subject which is not a part of the regular department offering. The course results from one or more of the following: (1) the expressed desire of students (2) the broadened or refocused scholarship of a member of the communication studies faculty (3) the temporary presence of a scholar whose specialization is not reflected in the department's regular offerings (4) the conclusion by the department that the course meets a community need (5) the effort of the Communication Studies faculty to provide an interdisciplinary approach to an era or topic. The course is experimental in the sense that it is a ""one-time"" offering with the potential of repetition or modification, depending upon student, faculty and community response. On demand.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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COMM-ST 400CB      Cc:The African Diaspora In The Arts And Culture
This new cluster course will examine the expression of certain aspects of African culture in the African Diaspora. Black culture in the area now popularly termed ""The Black Atlantic,"" and in particular Western Africa, the Caribbean and certain parts of South and North America, will be examined. Special attention will be paid to visual and material culture, feminist and anti-apartheid literature, and religion and spirituality. African culture is a multi-layered and complex phenomenon. An understanding of African Diastolic culture involves an analysis of the effects of historical and sociological movements, the interpretation of written culture and the effects of Africa's response to colonial intrusion. Questions concerning the transmission and transformation of African cultures will be addressed by a close investigation of visual and material culture, literary texts, and cosmological constructions of African peoples. Students will be exposed to methodologies garnered from the Arts, Literature and Religious Studies. Offered: Fall Restrictions: Sophomore or above
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 400CT      Cluster Course: Healing And Cultural Diversity
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 400G      Special Studies In Communication Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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COMM-ST 400M      Special Studies In Communication Studies
Special Studies In Communication Studies
Credits: 1-6 hours
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