30 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.
This course provides opportunities for examining communication studies areas not covered in the regular offerings. Topics vary each semester. Credits 1-4
An introduction to communication studies in a variety of contexts: intrapersonal; interpersonal; small group; and public speaking. The class improves the student's understanding of communication as a process and facilitates day-to-day interactions. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog
ART 232 or ART 339 4
This course provides opportunities for examining communication studies areas not covered in the regular offerings. Topics vary each semester. Credits 1-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
Shifts in media technologies; corporate structure and the organization of public life have transformed the practice of journalism. This course explores journalism’s changing role in society; offering conceptual and practical tools. Students wil learn the basic reporting and writing skills needed by all media professionals against a broad background of media law; history; and global diversity. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities
This course is designed to increase students' awareness of interpersonal communication theories; practices; and impact. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science 424
Learn how to read a film; rather than simply watch a film. This course is an examination of fundamental film techniques and basic methods of film analysis. Students engage with core concepts like genre; cinematography; directors; star culture; documentaries; special effects; and cinema's place in the 21st century. (Fall) Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts
Digital Video Production focuses on merging practical video production techniques with the art of creative storytelling; facilitating collaboration in group-based projects. Students explore various modes of digital content creation; including thematic montage; narrative shorts; documentary filmmaking; and a capstone project. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts l COMM 217: Social Media and Society This course examines the relationship between digital media and society. In particular; we examine various social media (lnstagram; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; etc.) from a cultural perspective with emphasis on the construction of social relationships and identities while also providing students a practical users manual for the 21st century technologies that encroach upon our daily lives. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog
We often refer to popular entertainment as escapist without fully considering what we are escaping from; where we are escaping to; or in what ways the experience affects us. This class ponders these topics through an introduction to the core concepts and approaches associated with critical/ cultural studies. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts CoB: Social Science SoAD: Humanities-'Other'
This course examines U.S. popular culture and the media and their sociological; economic and political influence on cultures at home and abroad. It offers students a deeper understanding of globalization and its effect on their lives. (Fall) Credits 4 Degree Attributes AU: Global Perspective CoB: Social Science
This course examines the relationship between mass media and politics. We will explore the ways in which mass communications media shape the politics of elections; daily governance; U.S. foreign policy; interest groups; social movements; and identity. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
This course provides opportunities for examining communication studies areas not covered in the regular offerings. Topics vary each semester. Credits 1-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
An overview of television and radio broadcasting and advertising in the United States. The course examines how a variety of factors--historical; cultural; political; legal; economic; and technological--affect the content and character of American broadcasting. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
Public relations is the values-driven management of relationships with groups of people that can influence an organization's success. This course examines how organizations can ethically and systematically build productive; mutually beneficial relationships with such groups. To accomplish this; we discuss (1) the historical antecedents and contemporary practice of public relations in America; (2) the day-to-day tasks and communication responsibilities of public relations practitioners; and (3) the various challenges PR practitioners encounter in their careers. *No prerequisite; COMM 205 recommended. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science AU: Service Learning Courses
In this course; we will explore the shift from print to digital cultures; along with the development of generative AI; and their impacts on how we write; learn; work; interact with others; and know things about the world. Students will gain the skills to responsibly leverage digital composition and generative tools for a variety of writing situations. (Every other spring) Credits 4 Semester Offered Every other spring 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog
This film history course presents a chronological survey of the motion picture industry. The course focuses on cinema’s origins and its major developments by examining historical periods; movements and genres in the American studio system and on the global stage. (Offered on demand) Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts Semester Offered On demand
Sub-Total Credits 4 Take one of the following; not duplicated in the core: Course Code Title Credits
Students will work together to produce the annual newsletter of the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Along the way; we will analyze media representation of feminist issues; brainstorm topics; conduct research; and write feature articles; formulate questions; conduct interviews; and write profiles; workshop; copyedit; and proofread; and reflect on what it means to be part of the WGST community. Credits 2
Global Communication introduces students to communication and media issues impacting the global community in the digital age; including: international telecommunication networks; transnational media corporations (based in America; Asia; the Middle East; etc.); global news; global advertising; the Internet and information flow. Credits 4 Degree Attributes AU: Global Perspective CoB: Social Science
This course provides opportunities for examining communication studies areas not covered in the regular offerings. Topics vary each semester. Credits 1-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog
In this course we explore historical and contemporary questions raised by the introduction of new communication technologies with particular emphasis on the social; economic; and aesthetic impact of these emerging technologies. We examine how emerging technologies configure and drive globalization; capitalism; and democracy itself. Prerequisite: junior/senior standing; or permission of instructor. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
This course introduces students to major concepts regarding communication in organizations; including the professional environment. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
Sub-Total Credits 24 148 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog
This course is an advanced writing workshop that concentrates on the principles and techniques of industry standard three act screenplays. Credits 4
Academic inquiry into an area not covered in any established course; and carried on outside the usual instructor/classroom setting. Approved Plan of Study required. Credits 1-4
Students work through all aspects of the process to publish an edition of an out-of-copyright text: conducting market research; selecting and editing the primary text; researching and writing an introduction; creating appropriate timelines and appendices; laying out the book using InDesign; designing the cover; procuring ISBN and Library of Congress numbers; submitting the text to the printer; and publishing the book using a print-on-demand model. Credits 4
This course investigates how women and minorities (including sexual minorities) are covered/portrayed by the news and entertainment media and how underlying economic; political and sociological factors affect such coverage. It explores how media portrayals influence the public's views regarding women and minorities and how women and minorities view themselves. And it examines critics' charges that the media portray women and minorities in a negative light and strategies used to counteract possible resulting harm. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Social Science
A workshop course in which students select and pursue an area of interest. Students; working in a simulated newsroom environment; will cover beats ranging from the courts to the Arts. Emphasis on developing quality beat coverage. Credits 4
This course entails a workplace experience that extends what is learned within the Communication Studies curriculum. Interns report to their COMM advisor and a counselor from the Career Development Center throughout the process. Interested COMM majors and minors should consult with their advisor for additional information prior to enrolling in this course. Maybe be repeated up to a total of 8 earned credit hours. Credits 1-4
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