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Students participate in media production, editing, design, publication of various digital media including web writing, web design, as well as video and sound for online media outlets. Course may be repeated for a total of 8 semester credit hours.

Provides students with active training in speech communications and includes traveling on the competitive speech and debate team. May be repeated for a total of 8 credit hours (cumulative with COM 30121). Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Introduction to journalism editing skills, newsroom leadership and  design of newspapers and magazines, including typography, graphics and photographs.  Work related to production of web-based news pages.

Study of communication skills to diagnose and solve personal and professional communication problems. Learn interviewing skills; listening and responding creatively; give and take productive criticism; use feedback to analyze and enhance communication.

Covers fundamentals of news reporting and writing for broadcast media, public relations, advertising, and the Internet.

Studies the principles of argumentation and practice in debate techniques with special emphasis on reasoning and research, case construction, refutation and rebuttal. Use of the collegiate debate question to give practical experience in various forms of debate. Prerequisite: COM 11023 Speech Preparation and Delivery.

Participation in news gathering, production, editing and publication of the campus newspaper. May be repeated for a total of eight credit hours (cumulative with COM 30361). Prerequisite/Corequisite: COM 23263 News and Feature Reporting or consent of instructor.

Participation as a photographer, caption writer, and limited layout designer of campus yearbook.  May be repeated for at total of 8 credit hours (cumulative with COM 30461).  
Prerequiste/Corequisite: COM 23563 Personal and Professional Photography or consent of instructor.

Development and understanding of prose, poetry and dramatic literature from selection through analysis to performance, both individually and in groups.

Participation in pre-production, production, and post-production of film and visual media, video web streaming, broadcasting, pod casts, and other original video projects. May be repeated for 8 credit hours (cumulative with COM 40561). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or COM 31163.

Study of the speech organs and their functions, building awareness of the individual speaking voice. Study of the International Phonetic Alphabet with the goal of achieving Standard American speech. Training and development of articulation, projection, voice quality, rate, and pitch.

Instruction in basic print news gathering, reporting and writing techniques. Work on the campus student newspaper and/or yearbook provides laboratory component.

Introduction to basic photographic techniques with emphasis on technical skills and aesthetic principles.

Examines the elements of cinema, terminology of film production, and introduces the field of film analysis. Focuses on film literacy including the awareness of the development of this medium and its genres, the audio and visual process of filmmaking, trends in the film industry and the analytic tools to learn to read films as informed and framed viewers.

Course examines how environments are constructed to inhibit listening.  Poor listening habits lead to poor interpersonal and intercultural skills in both relational and leadership roles.  This course does not address the biological process of listening (i.e. hearing) but topics instead focus on the social and communicative nature of how we come to know, embody, and share meaning as well as research in Listening Studies to discover factors that cause information to be passively backgrounded.