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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.  Cross-listed with ART 20123 Color, Layout & Typography.

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/Co-requisite: COM 23263 News and Feature Reporting or consent of instructor.

Develops the understanding that performances are a separate paradigm of communication. Class emphasizes the use of performance as a cultural artifact, a tool for persuasion and a method for processing information. Students research and analyze performances; they develop and create their own.

History of Design traces the discipline of design from prehistory through the modern era as correlative to societal progress and as integral to the fabric of human communication and relationship. Themes focus on experienced needs and their reflection/expression in early forms of craft and symbol as well as the technologies developed to promulgate the migrations and movements of ideas they represent (ed). Cross-listed with ART 23020 History of Design.

Instruction in basic print news gathering, reporting and writing techniques. Emphasis given to methods of research and dissemination for twenty-first century news styles and delivery modes.

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 film-making, 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 back-grounded.

Introduces career strategies in the discipline.  Supports the development of professional tools such as Communication-specific student resumes and cover letters, portfolios and e-portfolios.  Applies theories of the discipline to practical strategies for job-pursuing, networking, internships, mentoring, etiquette and interviewing.

Course approaches the role of media in contemporary and historical lives. Students learn to discern how the different modes and methods of communication inform, entertain and persuade. Special attention is paid to how the entrenched role of media effects individual minds and culture, writ large.