4 courses with the subject COM, 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.
Introduces students to the fundamentals of human communication in its verbal and nonverbal manifestations. Students explore communication theories and techniques used in interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass media contexts to become a more flexible, engaged, and discerning individual in all forms of communication.
Examines how media works and the role it plays today. In addition to surveying the historical background on media in the United States, students explore the influence media has on the moral, social, and political mindset of individuals and groups. The course teaches media literacy, media criticism, and media repurposing.
This course on interviewing will prepare beginning journalists, bloggers, social media professionals, public relations professionals, and researchers to conceive, set up, and execute interviews. The course covers interview and question preparation, source selection, techniques and exercises to gain effectiveness, conduct of the interview itself, and how to make the highest and best use of the material that sources provide. It also covers what can go wrong in an interview, how to ask hard questions, when to go off the record, and the ins and outs of difficult interviews.
This course examines mass communication, highlighting its importance and limitations in today’s environment. Their cross-functional deployment is also explored in support of emergency management, homeland security, and public health emergency operations. In addition, this course assesses the role of the internet and social media within a larger media/public relations context, both as a mass notification/information-sharing platform and as a communications strategy for crisis/disaster response. 506
Source: Berkeley College-New York's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
