COMM-ST 400N      Special Studies
Special Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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COMM-ST 400Q      Special Studies In Communication Studies
Special Studies In Communication Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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COMM-ST 400W      Special Studies in Communication Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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COMM-ST 400Z      Special Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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COMM-ST 402CD      Cluster Course: American Social Film:Silver Screen&American Dream
This course will combine American social history and American film history. Using Hollywood entertainment films, the course will look at Hollywood as an indicator of social, political, and economic conditions in the U.S. from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. The main topics are war and the threat of war, poverty and affluence, racial tensions, censorship, and political zealotry. A paper is required, and a social history textbook, a film history textbook, a play by Arthur Miller and a collection of articles constitute core readings.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 403CE      Cc: Radical Changes Since 1945
This cluster course will focus on modernism, post-modernism and expressionism in the visual arts and literature since World War II. Lectures address intellectual movements-such as existentialism and formalism-and cultural development-such as increased impact of technology and mass media-in contemporary society. By focusing on these movements, we hope to provide an integrated view of the literature and visual arts of the period and to draw upon analogous developments in contemporary architecture, music, philosophy and film. This course is offered as a cluster with ENGLISH 300CE.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 404CD      World War I in Film: The World made Modern
This cluster course examines World War I and its legacy through the lenses of international history and film studies. It explores the origins and conduct of the ""Great War,"" as it was called at the time, as well as its transforming effects on the modern international relations and the ongoing process of globalization. It also examines how the war spurred the growth of an infant motion picture industry, and how movies produced during the decades that followed helped shaping popular memories of the conflict-reflecting and shaping cultural discourses regarding the myth or reality of modern civilizational progress; the ethics of modern weaponry; the individual's placed in mass society; constructions of class, race, and gender; and the meaning of national identify in a globalizing world. The class will draw on selected history texts and an array of films and film clips. Cross listed with History 420CC
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 405CD      Cluster Course: Race in American Film
This course examines representations of race and ethnicity in American film from the silent era onward in mainstream and countercultural traditions. It explores how social, political, and economic conditions contribute to constructions of race and ethnicity. This course is offered as a cluster course with English 300CQ and history 300CF.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 406CD      CC: Film Adaptation
The class will explore the process of adapting both fiction and non-fiction literary works into motion pictures. Students will examine the original literary source, then the interim screenplay and finally the completed motion picture. Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 421P      Multimedia & New Media Streaming
This course is designed to teach students the technology of streaming multimedia on the web and analyze the components of interactivity on the web. Students will examine the process of streaming, as well as the various advantages and disadvantages of streaming. Students will study the hardware, software, and technology involved in the different types of streaming media. Prerequisites: COMM-ST 100, COMM-ST 105P or equivalent is recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 422P      New Media Writing For The Web
This course is designed to teach students new media writing and the technology of reporting for online publications. Students will analyze the components of online writing, including the design, creation, and transfer of online digital media. Students will be introduced to digital formats and production tools. Students will examine the technology of writing for the web and the particular needs of new media writing for users of the web, techniques to transfer writing electronically, and how to use resources on the web for online reporters. Prerequisites: COMM-ST100,COMM-ST 105P or equivalent is recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 423P      Shooting Digital Video For The Web And New Media
This course is designed to teach students the fundamental concepts of digital video, with special consideration given to shooting the new media and the web. Students will learn the process of digital video, the types of file formats, technical considerations of displaying video on the web, and technical features of the digital video camera. This class will enable students to maximize the use of video in various new media digital formats (CD-ROM,DVD, etc.), as well as its use on the web. Prerequisites: COMM-ST 100 COMM ST 105P or equivalent is recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 424P      Web Radio
This course is designed to teach students the technology and underlying concepts in producing Web radio. A general overview of radio techniques and historical context, as well as practical and technical information will be given. Legal and copyright implications of making Web radio will be reviewed. Prerequisites: COMM-ST 100, COMM-ST 105P or equivalent is recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 426      History And Criticism Of American Public Address I
This course examines American Public Address from 1630 to 1900, with an emphasis on the connections between rhetoric and social change. Students analyze how texts function within specific historical contexts.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 428      History and Critisism of American Public Address II
This course examines American Public Address from 1900 to present, with an emphasis on the connections between rhetoric and social change. Students analyze how texts function within specific historical contexts.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 431      Colloquium In Interpersonal Dynamics
An examination of the practical application of communication principles and theories, with focus on one of the following: health, organizational, nonverbal, intrapersonal, conflict management, computer0mediated, or intercultural communication. Prerequisite: None Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 432      Press, Politics And Public Policy
Undergraduate component of Comm Studies 532. An advanced course in the study of the press and political establishments in the formation of public policy. Lecture, discussion and research.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 444WI      Intercultural Communication
A consideration of communication phenomena in multicultural settings. A study of the public forum with an emphasis on the interpersonal aspects of international, intercultural, and co-cultural communication. Lecture and discussion.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 446      Principles Of Advertising
A survey of advertising as an industry and a career field, examining its history and development in America, and its application in mass and special media. Specific procedures are studies for linking the development of advertising strategies, messages and campaigns to the marketing process, and for evaluation and selection of appropriate media to carry the advertising message.
Credits: 3 hours
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COMM-ST 447      Interactive and Social Media Advertising
This course examines advertising on the Internet as a form of interactive communication, with a special focus on social media and search engines. It addresses basic concepts, current issues, and the development of interactive advertising strategies and plans. The coverage includes interactivity, pricing models, online targeting strategies, search engine optimization and advertising, social media advertising, and online video advertising.
Credits: 3 hours
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