96 courses with the subject COMM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
COMM 1205Introduction to Communication and Media Studies3
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course surveys the communication field its major theories and history as well as examines, professionally and critically, the current structure of the media industries and their cultural, economic, regulatory, social and technological systems.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course introduces visual communication for the development of visual literacy. Students become involved with a variety of activities in previsualization, planning, designing, making and evaluating visual messages. This course specifically relates to the communications concentrations taught in Phase II, including professional communication, video, photography, theater, film, technical theater and graphic design.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Fall This course addresses the practical, personal and professional transition from university to the business life of an artist entrepreneur. Topics include: income tax preparation, loan repayment, leases vs. sublets, agents & managers, contracts & negotiations, unions and their fees, selfpromotion, graduate schools or training programs, interviewing skill development, independent contracting (pros and cons), etc. Cross-listed with THEA 1250
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Fall This course is an introduction to photography as a visual language. Students will explore conceptual imagemaking through digital and analog photographic processes while surveying contemporary photographic artists and social issues relating to their work. A digital camera is necessary to complete this course; modern cell phone cameras are permitted and fill the camera requirement. Cross-listed with ART 1500
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
COMM 1510Introduction to Film and Video Production3
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Intro to Film & Video is the introductory course in the Film & Video sequence where students are exposed to the basics of production and post-production for both digital and photochemical media. Topics include understanding and using visual language, camera operation, understanding the film and video production process, basic editing, production crew structure and interpersonal communication. Students shoot and edit both 16mm film and digital video.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
COMM 1520Pre-Production Planning for Film and Video3
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Pre-Production Planning for Film & Video is an intermediate level course that considers the intent, social and cultural implications and purpose of a message as the first step in media production. The course focuses on clearly defining message content, intent and audience as a precursor to an exploration of how particular film and video techniques communicate and are interpreted. Teams will subsequently develop the pre-production planning needed for a short film, including idea development, script treatments, story development, script writing, rewriting, storyboarding, script breakdown, production scheduling and resource planning.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Introduction to Photography is the beginning course in the Photography sequence and covers the various facets of analog photography such as film exposure, dark room processes, and the fundamentals of 35mm camera operation. Students will also experiment with aesthetic and formal principles such as framing, composition and contrast.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: spring The focus in this course is on the role of managed communications in public relations unique to industry, human services and educational institutions. Definitions and concepts, history, potential careers and research methods are examined.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Students learn the foundations of graphic design and visual literacy while developing proficiency with digital production tools and processes. Aesthetic principles of form, tone, color, typography, composition, imagery, narrative, motion, and interactivity are examined through print and screen-based projects. Students explore the relationship between form and content while employing the design process to solve problems creatively.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Students create graphic design projects that cultivate a deep understanding of Typography—the art of designing with text so that it is understandable and visually appealing. Topics will include; how to choose fonts/typefaces, typeface categories, legibility, hierarchy of content, composition and layout, experimental typography, and text and image relationships.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Spring Color is the most relative medium in visual communication. In this course students experience color through visual experiments to understand its perceptual, emotive, communicative, and technical aspects in both analog and digital (interaction and motion) forms. Students will develop a critical eye toward form as well as gain relevant digital competencies to work with it effectively.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years Students experience the role of graphic designer as photographer as image-maker who solves visual communication challenges through combining various techniques including digital imaging, photo montage, and vector graphics. Projects could include animation, illustration, publication design, visual narrative, pictograms, and icons.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course examines the history and historiography of interactive media. Students will explore what “interactivity” has been, is, and might become. This class provides a wide-ranging history of the uses, effects and design of interactive media from their beginnings to the present. Students will study the history of the functions and forms of interactive systems thereby better equipping them as users as well as potential designers of interactive media.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course provides an overview of how digital technologies have augmented humanistic inquiry. Students will especially consider the challenges of preservation and ethical data use and structuring while they explore and build digital resources. Core outcomes of the course will be conducting archival research, digitization and metadata creation, digital textual analysis, textual markup, and web and document production and design. Each semester course projects will focus on a major concept or collection (i.e. gendered language in 1970s newspapers and magazines or mental health in the social media landscape). Cross-listed with ENGL 2325
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) This basic course in script writing for film, television and multi-image productions includes information on the preparation of proposals, treatments, storyboards and scripts. Script formats include documentary, educational, corporate and dramatic film/video writing. Cross-listed with ENGL 2320
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is an examination of the major and influential works, artists, and movements in world cinema from its beginnings to World War II, with emphasis placed on aesthetic, historical, technological, social, and cultural contexts.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: annually Multi-Camera Television Production is an introductory level course that covers traditional multi-camera live and live to tape studio production. The course covers control room operations including teleprompters, broadcast switchers, instant replay and slow motion capabilities, digital audio boards and lighting control panels. Additionally, studio functions such as floor direction, camera operation, studio lighting, studio sound techniques and studio staging and the basics of directing a multi-camera production are explored. Students will be involved over the course of the semester as talent and crew for several student productions. Class is held off the university campus at a local community broadcast television facility.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course is an examination of the major and influential works, artists, and movements in world cinema from World War II to the 1980’s, with emphasis placed on aesthetic, historical, technological, social, and cultural contexts.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years The course provides a comprehensive analysis of television broadcasting from its inception to the present. The social and technological aspects of the medium are presented and examined in a lecture and seminar format. Particular emphasis is placed on television’s sociological influence and impact on the communication process.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Spring The course undertakes an examination of the history and evolution of non-fiction film with an analytical emphasis on voice, form, and style as the modes by which the possibilities of mediating reality can be explored.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: once a year Video Production Fundamentals is a hands-on introduction to motion picture theory and technique. Working with HD video, students will obtain introductory and fundamental skills in cinematography, non-linear editing, directing; as well as script and documentary proposal development. The course requires students to work both collaboratively and individually. Students complete and critique production exercises for technical and aesthetic aspects of form and content. Cross-listed with COMM 1510
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Fall Intro to Video Editing is an introductory-level workshop course that explores the editing and delivery of short non-fiction video content. Editing and motion graphics software will be utilized in the production of works such as human-interest profile, news reportage, and promotional content. Basic motion graphics and audio mixing will be integrated in finished work.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Sophomore standing and either COMM 1205 or COMM 1220
COMM 2480Podcasting3
Credit(s) Offered: every Spring In this course, students will conceptualize, develop, and produce an original podcast.The course will examine audio storytelling and podcast design aesthetics. Students will research an idea and target audience, and practice the craft of interviewing, audio recording, editing, mastering, and distributing the podcast.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Intermediate Digital Cinema Production is an intermediate level course that covers professional production techniques used in modern narrative production environments. In addition to achieving competency in lighting, exposure, composition and framing, students master the basics of audio acquisition, location management, and the editing of the dramatic narrative. Creative narrative skills such as scriptwriting, storyboarding, direction and management are employed in the practical setting of a modern digital cinema production setting.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Intermediate Documentary Production is an intermediate level course that covers professional production techniques used in modern documentary production environments, across a variety of nonfiction styles and genres. In addition to achieving competency in exposure, composition and framing, students master the basics of audio acquisition both on location and in studio environments, interview lighting and technique, and the editing of the documentary short film.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Intermediate Film Production is an intermediate level course that covers professional production techniques used in 16mm narrative production environments. In addition to achieving competency in lighting, exposure, composition, and framing with film cameras, students master the basics of dual system audio recording, working with a film lab for processing and scanning, and the editing of the dramatic narrative. Creative narrative skills such as scriptwriting, storyboarding, direction, and management are also explored in the practical setting of a modern Super-16mm film production setting.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Fall This course explores serialized storytelling, including television, streaming and web series. Students will develop an understanding of serial story archetypes and utilize these models to define their own series creation. Students will conceptualize and develop a serialized story, write the series bible, and the pilot episode of the series.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: fall Intermediate Photography introduces students to the use of digital camera systems, as well as refining the photochemical production techniques covered in Introduction to Photography. Additionally, students begin to explore the various modes of documentary photo production, from the basic tools of photojournalism to the development of narrative series work. Basic Adobe Lightroom manipulations and RAW file processing are covered along with narrative sequencing and documentary subject treatment.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: fall Color Photography is an intermediate-level course that introduces color theory for analog and digital photography. Students will investigate the similarities and differences between color films and digital sensors and will implement color management techniques to capture, view, process, and ink-jet print photographs. Students will also explore creative image-making, implementing color theory as a conceptual and psychological component in their work.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course covers central principles and practices of journalism. Students will study ideas of credibility, accuracy, the First Amendment, the roles and responsibilites of the press, and the function of the journalist within a democratic society. Students will discuss the challenges facing the industry, the impact of changing priorities, and consumption of news products. This course will provide a foundation for students interested in professional news writing. Cross-listed with ENGL 2800
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course will introduce students to the integrated role of social media in professional environments. Content includes the history, technologies, psychologies, cultural influence, and production processes behind modern social media. The course will use topical discussions regarding life, culture, and society to assess how social media have affected them.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
COMM 2825Social Media Advertising and Public Relations3
Credit(s) Offered: every Spring Explores and defines content creation strategies for various media and platforms. Students will propose portfolio pieces that match advertising packages across multiple modalities, and will draft material that illustrates how to shift messaging across social media and advertising packets across platforms. Students draft marketing strategies, social media campaigns, PR outreach strategies, and learn to leverage relationships to craft materials that reflect holistic and engaged social media strategies.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings. This course considers the designer’s role as visual storyteller across media and platforms. Foundational principles are reinforced, and continued emphasis is given to critical thinking, concept development, typography, and visual relationships between typography and images by using an artistic problem solving approach to design. Further, students explore the critical role of motion graphics and interactivity in today’s complex visual environment in order to meet the high standard of excellence that is needed to thrive in today’s dynamic, professional workplace.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: spring In this course, students design web sites and web-related visual elements while learning the fundamentals of prototyping, user experience, accessibility, screen-based typography, HTML, CSS, and content management systems. Emphasis is placed on web design as an iterative process.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every third semester In this course students design an uppercase sans serif font. Students will learn traditional letterform proportions, foundation concepts in font design, and the unique aspects of letterform design for optimal screen-reading. The final font will be presented in a poster design that explains the background research and design rationale. Lectures on the history of typography and experimental typography will augment the course.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
COMM 1900 , COMM 1920 or permission of instructor.
COMM 2930Illustration3
Credit(s) By concentrating on technical and creative illustration, students have an opportunity for advanced study in graphic design. Students work in various media, including pen and ink, water color, marker and colored pencil. Students are responsible for illustration supplies.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall Choreography of the movement and transition of images and typography over time and across space is investigated. Students explore a variety of techniques including frame-by-frame animation, keyframe interpolation, and compositing using Adobe AfterEffects and Photoshop. Assignments include storyboarding, kinetic typography, vector-based animation, rotoscoping, and live-action images. Students will explore how these techniques are applied to motion graphics productions in the film, television, and interactive media industries.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course presents the history of typography and its pertinence to graphic design from the beginning of written history to the present. Emphasis is placed on various movement of avant garde typography of the early 20th century and its influence on present day graphic design.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Critical making posits that playful engagements with materials are effective means to produce and acquire new knowledge. This course explores how the combination of critical thinking and hands-on making creates new opportunities for learning that exceed what is possible through either path alone. Students will use tools including, but not limited to, 3D printing, microcontrollers, and augmented reality to reconnect their lived experiences with technologies to social and conceptual critique. No previous technical knowledge is required, but the course will involve basic programming and electronic circuitry. Tutorials and instruction are provided, and students will be expected to develop basic skills in each of these areas in order to complete the course projects.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Creative coding employs computer programming as a means of creative expression using algorithmic and generative art, data visualization, and storytelling techniques for applied projects. These skills are learned in the context of critical and cultural media studies and the digital humanities. No prior programming experience is needed; students will learn basic coding.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This class explores the uses of data in Communications Media, including tailoring professional communication advertising campaigns, green-lighting film productions, creating profitable micro-transaction mechanisms in video games, and more. How is data leveraged to form arguments about society, make decisions, and generate profits? Through hands-on projects, students will analyze ethical challenges related to data visualization, algorithms, privacy, citizen and employee surveillance, and more.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course explores rhetoric’s origin and evolution in classical Greece through two primary lenses: the relationship between rhetoric and democracy and the contrasting understanding of truth in Sophistic rhetoric and Socratic philosophy. Students begin by investigating the transition from orality to literacy in Ancient Greece before moving on to explore how Plato’s critique of rhetoric still impacts the field of communications media today. On a spring break trip, students explore historical locations in Greece associated with these debates in order to develop a deeper appreciation of their historical and cultural context. Finally, students will explore how the Greek intellectual tradition informs contemporary rhetorical and democratic practices, with an emphasis on fake news and post-truth.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester In this course we will explore intercultural communication through communication theory that differs from other social science disciplines. The course will equip students with tools to understand and think about intercultural communication methods so they may develop the skills to call upon in episodes of intercultural interaction. Students will work through a range of theoretical, methodological, descriptive and interpretive critical readings to reach the goal of understanding the multiple perspectives and theories of intercultural communication.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester This course introduces central concepts and topics in gender studies in communication. It provides analytical tools for understanding how we create a sense of self as gendered and sexual beings, and how various forms of communication reflect and construct cultural understanding of sex and gender. Students critically explore the ways in which we all – through communication in families, schools, media, workplace and other spheres of society – create, perpetuate and/or challenge gender roles.
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course investigates the design of interactive interfaces for multimedia and World Wide Web presentation. Students explore how the conceptual and aesthetic aspects of graphic design apply specifically to non-linear interactive digital environments.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: fall A look at select recent trends in U.S. and/or world cinema, including the best and/or most influential works, artists, movements, technologies, cultures and industries. Particular developments will be considered in social and historical, as well as aesthetic, contexts through a process that engages the relevant modes of inquiry and discursive formations practiced in film theory, history and criticism. Evaluation is based on critical/analytical essays, a weekly journal, and/or a research paper.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Spring Students will engage in a hands-on study of the methods and practices involved in the research and development of documentary films and other non-fiction media, across a variety of representational styles and formats. Students will uncover a topic of interest and immerse in the conception, planning, research, and writing stages that precede the production phase of non-fiction filmmaking and other forms of the genre.
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COMM
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
ENGL 1200 or HON 1200 and Junior or Senior standing. Meets
COMM 3500Writing for Film and Video3
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Writing for Film and Video is a Phase III or Phase IV Comm/Media elective writing intensive course that builds on the foundation of dramatic narrative film writing and narrative theory covered in COMM 1520 - Pre-Production Planning for Film and Video. Students are instructed in narrative and character development, as well as, the art of cinematic dialog and proper writing technique. Emphasis is on creative and compelling storytelling, as well as, developing the strategies and discipline for long form narrative. Additionally, the course covers marketing, sales strategies, legal issues and copyright including registration with the WGA (Writers Guild of America).
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COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: annually Short Film Story Development is a specialized elective that examines short form narrative development in detail. Students will work to gain a solid understanding of the principles of cinematic storytelling and put that knowledge into practice by writing several short screenplays. Specifically, students will study short screenplay plot structure, character development, writing for mise-en-scéne, and dialogue. The course will include writing assignments, film analysis, and in-class workshops.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester Audio Production for Film & Video is a specialized elective that covers audio acquisition for field and studio production. The course places emphasis on developing best practices for production audio recording in both scripted and unscripted production environments. Students will strengthen techniques in recording dialogue, Sound Effects, Foley, and Voiceover – and apply these skillsets creatively in course projects. By the end of the course, the student will be able to capture the highest quality audio for integration into film or video productions.
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COMM
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester Directing is a specialized elective that examines the role and practice of the film and television director. Topics covered in the class include script analysis and breakdowns, casting, blocking the camera and the actors, acting and directing actors. The class focuses on the relationships between the director and producer, actor, writer and editor, as well as between the director and the cinematographer.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester Editing is a specialized elective that covers film and video editing tools, techniques, procedures and standards. Course work includes editing theory and practice, standard cutting techniques, post-production workflow, and stem sound mixing. Students will create finished films through the strategic and formal use of coverage and the incorporation of lined scripts and editorial notes.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester Cinematography is a specialized elective that provides an immersive study of the technical and aesthetic elements of motion picture photography. Topics include filmstocks, imaging sensors, focus theory, laboratories, lenses, RAW workflows, lighting, cameras, composition, continuity, color and special processes. Throughout the semester, students work in both film and digital media.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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COMM 2510 or COMM 2520 or COMM 2530 or COMM 3630 or COMM 3645
COMM 3550Producing3
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester Producing is a specialized elective that examines the fundamentals of production management. Topics covered in the class are production budgets, production scheduling, contracts and agreements, union regulations for actors and crew members, shooting permits, legal implications and financial structures.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Sound Design is a specialized elective that examines the elements of post-production sound within the context of film and video production. This course blends the artistic and the technical, while examining the work of past and current sound designers. Activities include conceptualizing, planning, gathering sounds, sound editing, and sound mixing. Students will use digital audio workstations and sound libraries to design soundtracks for a variety of projects.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every fourth semester Compositing and Visual Effects is a specialized elective that covers modern effects and workflows. The course delves into advanced visual effects and finishing techniques using modern acquisition and post-processing tools. Topics covered in class include matte generation and clean plate techniques, chroma key shooting and post-production, pre-visualization for effects shooting, rotoscoping and keyframing techniques and project workflow and management. Students will master a minimum level of competency with a range of advanced compositing applications, producing a final project of complexity and quality from pre-visualization through output to target medium.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Lighting is a specialized elective that covers cinematic lighting technique and method. The course provides an intensive, hands-on approach to the practice of lighting for film and digital media. Topics covered include: the nature and theory of light, lighting control, lighting technique, studio and location shooting, color theory and lighting equipment and use.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Film Styles, Genres and Movements is a Phase III Comm/Media elective course that blends theoretical and historical concepts within a production course setting. Students will study a selected genre, style or movement, and then, in groups, will write and produce a short film or digital video, based within the historical and/or theoretical framework that the class has studied. The course structure will be split between production technique and tutorials and the viewing/studying of the chosen style, genre or movement.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
COMM 1520 and either COMM 2510 , COMM 2520 or COMM 2530 .
COMM 3620Studio Photography3
Credit(s) Offered: spring Studio Photography is an intermediate level course that provides students with refined knowledge and application of controlled lighting within the environment of the professional photography studio. Students will explore both Medium-Format photochemical and DSLR photography. Emphasis will be on commercial studio lighting techniques, as applied to product, advertising, and portrait photography.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
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Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course specializes in 4 x 5 view camera analog photography. Pre-visualization and the use of the Zone System is introduced for a direct manipulation of tonal range and image detail through an exploration of advanced exposure and development techniques. Students will gain an appreciation of the inherent flexibility of the view camera’s adjustments, approaching photography through a more refined control over image perspective, focus and detail.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Spring Advanced Photo Editing provides students with more advanced digital still image acquisition, scanning systems and digital format exchange. Additionally, post-camera image manipulation and the rudiments of color management are covered for the successful translation to screen display technologies and ink printing processes to prepare the student for a modern approach to the integrated use of photography in video display and ink-based print systems.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course studies photographic space design for private, commercial and educational use. The class promotes an understanding of flow, function, equipment inventory, record keeping and budget control.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every Spring Photography Portfolio Development allows upper-level students to develop a highly focused and organized portfolio suitable for professional and artistic domains. In addition, the course looks at promotional strategies for a photography career, engaging students in developing components ranging from business plans, niche brand identity, logos, and websites to collateral and professional resumes specific to a professional career in Photography.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester Addresses communicating design strategies for delivering digital media content. Student teams propose solutions to a client problem in formats to include some combination of concept maps, site maps, flowcharts, personas, marketing strategies, social media campaigns, scheduling documents, wireframes, competitive analyses, budgets, and treatments to achieve client goals and enhance user experience.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course provides an introduction to the principles, strategies and ethical issues in writing advertising for various media. Students create written copy for individual unified media campaigns.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course provides students with the experience of developing a client project from inception to production to the final hand-off of professional caliber work. Working in small teams, students gain valuable experience in teamwork, group communication, collaborative leadership, and client management as they guide the production process, facilitate weekly meetings with their client, and ultimately complete a real world client project.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Fall After learning and applying multiple marketing research methodologies to better understand a real world client, students apply their research findings to produce a Marketing Communication Research Report, a Marketing Communication Plan, and a wide range of professional media that address the needs and challenges of their client.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course looks into the distinct rhetorical situation (audience, purpose, voice, etc.) of writing for organizations such as corporations and non-profits, both large and small, publicly traded and closely held. Coursework will extend beyond producing documents such as annual reports and codes of conduct, to also develop and practice literacies and skills that are flexible enough to be applied to a variety of situations and prepare students not only to succeed, but also to innovate. Cross-listed with ENGL 3860
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every fourth semester This writing studio course covers all aspects of developing, writing, and crafting articles that demonstrate effective use of slant, theme, voice, and viewpoint. Students practice interview and research techniques and write in several major sub-genres of magazine features such as profiles, Q&A’s, op-eds, and service pieces. () Cross-listed with ENGL 3870
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: less than once a year In this course students explore the visual and narrative dimensions of book and magazine design for print and e-publication. Topics will include advanced typography, grid systems, interactivity, and the role of designer in the editorial process. Students will produce portfolio quality work.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester Students develop a comprehensive range of projects in print, motion graphics, and web design. Emphasis will be given to research, ideation, aesthetics, and execution of design solutions that span across media. Students develop print and portfolio-quality screen-based prototypes resulting in a body of work that sports a high level of diversity and sophistication. Projects reflect the range of work and practices that designers encounter in the profession. Areas of graphic design such as publication design, data visualization, motion graphics, and user experience design will be explored.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every third semester This advanced course will develop a deeper understanding of how images, typography, and live-action elements are choreographed to create effective motion graphic design solutions. Animation techniques including frame-by-frame, stop-motion, interpolation, and compositing will allow students to improve upon and add to their professional portfolio.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course provides for the study of human communication theories, concepts, contexts and skills with the intent of developing an understanding of everyday interaction. Through the study of human communication theory, students will develop the vocabulary and concepts to evaluate communication practices. The class pays particular attention to achieving self-presentation and relational skills that apply to a variety of social contexts students encounter. Class discussion, activities and assignments are designed to develop both knowledge and competencies necessary to understand the relationship between communication patterns and social order.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: Spring Located at the interface between theory and production, Aesthetics is a writing intensive Communication Studies course that capitalizes on this vantage point to critically examine the professional arts comprising our curriculum, namely film, video, graphic design, photography, interactive media, and professional communication. Through weekly readings and writings, seminar discussions, presentations, and a term length qualitative research project, this writing intensive course bridges the theory/production dichotomy.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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course
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every other semester An in-depth examination of particular theories of communication. The focus may vary depending upon student need and/or faculty interest or expertise.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every other semester This course provides a broader framework for understanding the elements of the media system – the industry, users, content and technology – and how they interact in a larger social context. The topics draw upon current debates about the economics of the media industry, the blurring lines between media producers and users, the importance of independent media, the politics of media representation, the push towards regulation of social media, and the future of media in the context of globalization.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every Fall Examines knowledge visualization theories and principles. Surveys and evaluates the effectiveness of visual systems and information structures, such as checklists, dashboards, databases, diagrams, questionnaires, and timelines. Students research a complex area of study and propose a mediated delivery solution in the form of an infographic.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every other semester Students learn to write and think like professional artists in this writing intensive course. Students develop a docent presentation; become fluent in the written genres used by artists within their own professional medium; explore the relationships between writing and artistic production in other mediums; evaluate, interpret, and synthesize the work of others using the written and spoken word.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary concepts about organizational communication functions, the structure of organizational communication systems and organizational levels at which communication occurs. Student research and field study will consist of a communications audit of a selected organization and the analysis at the related human, hardware and software interfacing.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course introduces communications media law and ethics. Students participate in civic engagement by hosting a public discussion about a contemporary issue in communication ethics. Legal topics discussed in the class include copyright law, libel, censorship, media regulation, privacy, and the U.S. legal process.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Credit(s) Offered: every semester Mainly in the context of film, students examine the major perspectives of aesthetic criticism, including formalist, realist, auteurist, generic, structuralist, poststructuralist and cognitivist.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other semester This course introduces various research methods in the field of Communication and Media studies. Students gain hands-on experience with developing research questions, conducting literature reviews, writing research proposals, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting research findings.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: as needed This interdisciplinary production course combines the talents of students from two or more concentrations. Students learn to work in a production team with a client to produce professional quality video, film, print, graphic and/or interactive materials.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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Completion of five courses within a concentration.
COMM 4510Advanced Cinema Production3
Credit(s) Offered: annually Advanced Cinema Production is the final course in the narrative production sequence. Working as a crew, students write, shoot and edit a thesis project using Super-16 film or a digital cinema format, and based on a pitched and faculty-approved proposal. Additional topics will include, post-production workflows, color grading, RAW, proxy and deliverable formats. Students are expected to share production costs including travel, expendables and any other expenditures.
Subject
COMM
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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COMM 2510 or COMM 2530 or and one of the following courses: COMM 3500 , COMM 3507 , COMM 3510 , COMM 3525 , COMM 3530 , COMM 3540 , COMM 3550 , COMM 3560 , COMM 3570 , COMM 3580
COMM 4520Advanced Documentary Production3
Credit(s) Offered: annually Advanced Documentary Production is the final course in the documentary sequence. The course is a workshop in advanced motion picture production for documentary, news, and reality-based media. Topics covered in the class include documentary research, location shooting & sound recording and non-linear post-production techniques. Each production group will devote the entire semester to the production of a significant work of non-fiction video. As foundational preparation for production work, the class will also investigate the documentary from historical, ethical, theoretical, formal, and aesthetic perspectives. Students must share production costs, including travel and expendable production materials.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
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2025-2026
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COMM 2520 and one of the following courses: COMM 3500 , COMM 3510 , COMM 3525 , COMM 3530 , COMM 3540 , COMM 3550 , COMM 3560 , COMM 3570 , COMM 3580
COMM 4870COMM Internship6
Credit(s) Offered: every Spring The 6-credit Communications Media Internship is an 18 hours per week, semester-long, pre-professional learning experience that is designed to link academic preparation with successful entry into a student’s career path. Interns must successfully complete an Internship Qualification Program in the semester immediately prior to the internship.
Subject
COMM
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6
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6
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course
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2025-2026
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Completion of all Internship Preparation requirements, senior status, and a cumulative Communications Media Grade Point Average of 2.5 or better at the time the Application for Internship is due.
COMM 4880Internship12
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The Communications Media Internship is the capstone graduation requirement for all department majors. It is a full-time, semester-long, pre-professional learning experience that is designed to successfully link academic preparation with successful entry into a student’s career path.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
12
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12
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) The Independent Study provides an opportunity for highly self-motivated students to explore areas of Communications Media not provided within the departmental curriculum. Research methodology is to be used and a written monograph is to be presented to the faculty sponsor.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
1
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1
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) The Independent Study provides an opportunity for highly self-motivated students to explore areas of Communications Media not provided within the departmental curriculum. Research methodology is to be used and a written monograph is to be presented to the faculty sponsor.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
2
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2
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Credit(s)
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) The Independent Study provides an opportunity for highly self-motivated students to explore areas of Communications Media not provided within the departmental curriculum. Research methodology is to be used and a written monograph is to be presented to the faculty sponsor.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Credit(s)
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) The Independent Study provides an opportunity for highly self-motivated students to explore areas of Communications Media not provided within the departmental curriculum. Research methodology is to be used and a written monograph is to be presented to the faculty sponsor.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
6
Credits (max)
6
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Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The Field Study provides an experience that permits students to develop the knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom. A portfolio of the work completed is to be presented to the faculty sponsor.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The Field Study provides an experience that permits students to develop the knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom. A portfolio of the work completed is to be presented to the faculty sponsor.
Subject
COMM
Credits (min)
6
Credits (max)
6
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Credit(s)
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course
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course investigates common ground between theory and practice, emphasizing life-long skills of research, ideation, and critical thinking to meet the expectations of a changing multidisciplinary and global profession. Students refine and self-assess their work to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas of design they are passionate about. Students develop a resume, assemble their portfolio, write a design statement, and develop a personalized project informed by research and theory for inclusion in their portfolio. Topics relating to design practice include client relations, budgeting, contract and brief writing, and time management. Students explore opportunities for graduate study.
Subject
COMM
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6
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6
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Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
