COMM 101Presentational Speaking2
COMM/ART 115 Foundations of Digital Communication 2
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 2
- Credits (max)
- 2
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
Houghton University · Courses
COMM
45 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 105Introduction to Human
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- COMM
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- course
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- 2025-2026
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 111Oral Interpretation and Drama
3-F Designed to help students understand drama, create captive audiences, and communicate a message effectively through oral interpretation and dramatic performance. Students gain skill in comprehending literary texts, communicating with an audience, sharing faith through storytelling, and writing creatively. 245
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- COMM
- Type
- course
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 115Foundations of Digital
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- COMM
- Type
- course
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 205Introduction to Communication Theory3
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 207Introduction to Pro Tools
3-F Introduction to Pro Tools sound and recording software. Foundational skills necessary to record, edit, and mix at a basic level using a DigiDesign Pro Tools system. Focus: fundamental tools and techniques through demonstrations, real-world examples, and frequent hands-on assignments. Successful completion prepares students to take the Pro Tools 101 DigiDesign Certification exam. This course has a lab fee. By permission of instructor.
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- COMM
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- course
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 208Pro Tools Production I2
3-S Continued study of Pro Tools, expanding range of tools and techniques. Focus: expanded hardware and software configurations, developing versatile tools for manipulating and editing both audio and MIDI data, and implementing various techniques to facilitate larger and more sophisticated mixing scenarios through real-world examples and frequent hands-on assignments that will enhance your capabilities in all aspects of Pro Tools production. Successful completion prepares students to take the Pro Tools 110 DigiDesign Certification exam. This course has a lab fee.
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 2
- Credits (max)
- 2
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
- Prerequisite
- COMM 207
COMM 214Intro to Mass Media3
Total 11 Required Art and Communication Courses Credits ART/COMM 224 Motion Media Design and Animation or COMM 232 Intro to Web
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 215Interpersonal Communication3
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 216Organizational Communication3
Total 12 Concentration Electives Credits 121
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 218Marketing Principles
3-F&S, Summer Comprehensive examination of terminology, concepts, and practices of the field of marketing used by businesses and other organizations to create value and promote long-term consumer relations. Topics include strategic planning, research, product development, price-setting, promotion, distribution, branding, digital and social media marketing, and search engine optimization and search engine marketing. 46
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- COMM
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 224Motion Media Design and
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- COMM
- Type
- course
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 225Intercultural Communications
3-WSP Explores theory and practice of communicating interculturally. Recommended for those with an interest in international vocations or working with ethnic or cultural groups within the United States. Fulfills part of General Education Global Competence requirement. Liberal Arts.
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- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 228Digital Video I4
4-F Introduction to the movie-making process using digital tools. Students learn the basics of managing digital workflow and software interface, using a digital video camera, editing in Final Cut Pro, and saving final output to DVD. Also covered are basic principles of storytelling, location production, integration of titles and audio, critique and production skills, and output and archiving. Fulfills General Education Art & Music requirement. This course has a lab fee.
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 4
- Credits (max)
- 4
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 232Introduction to Web Communication4
COMM 243/ART 245 Graphic Design I 4 COMM/ART 284 Introduction to Digital Imaging 4
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 4
- Credits (max)
- 4
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 240Introduction to 3D Computer
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- COMM
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- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 243Graphic Design I4
4-F&S Introduction to theory and practice of graphic design communication. Emphasis on techniques for exploration of two-dimensional problems and interpretation of verbal to visual form. Computer design is introduced. Fulfills General Education Art & Music requirement. This course has a lab fee.
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 4
- Credits (max)
- 4
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 244Techniques of Oral Performance3
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 258Visual Personal Narrative
3-S A creative project-based course intended to guide students in reflective expression of their own perspective on any narrative aspect of human life. Using readings, demonstrations, practice exercises, and project assignments, students will learn how visual communication can deliver themes and stories that combine thoughts, words, concepts, experiences, and pictures in a narrative framework. Students will be guided to link ideas and events together to give insight or expression to their unique perspectives and experiences. Topics covered will be the emotional strength of images, the power of themes, the value of personal identities and points of view, and other aspects of communication. Liberal Arts. 47
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- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 270Effective Information Design
3-F Introduces the basics of the field of Information Design from a visual communication perspective, by building skills to communicate complex information in graphic forms. Basic design concepts enable creating visualizations through the mode of infographics (charts, maps, explainers, info- sheets, etc.), whose purpose is to guide viewers toward meaning and understanding. Fulfills General Education Art & Music requirement.
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- COMM
- Type
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 275Photo Documentary and Cultural
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- COMM
- Type
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 283Introduction to Digital
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- COMM
- Type
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- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 284Introduction to Digital Imaging4
4-S Introduction to the tools and concepts of creating and manipulating images with digital technology. The primary software application is Adobe Photoshop. Instruction is project- based and relies on class critique. Students also learn to recognize digital equivalents of traditional art styles, techniques, and forms. Fulfills General Education Art & Music requirement. This course has a lab fee. COMM 289, 389, 489 Communication
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 4
- Credits (max)
- 4
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 295395 Special Topics in
Communication: Lecture- or Studio-Based 2–4-WSP Opportunity for study of issues and problems not covered elsewhere in the curriculum. Liberal Arts.
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- COMM
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- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 304Social Media Marketing
3-S The objective of this course is to understand consumers’ social interactions, examine the various social media channels available to marketers, learn how to build social marketing strategies, and how to track their effectiveness. Topics include social marketing campaigns, influencers marketing, crisis responses, social media analytics and ROI.
- Subject
- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
- Prerequisite
- BADM/COMM 218
COMM 312Advertising Principles for Digital
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- COMM
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- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 314New Media and Society3
Total in major 38–44
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 315Public Relations in the Digital Age
3-S An examination of the development, implementation, and management of professional public relations programs in environments characterized by online communication and the use of digital media. Explores historic and contemporary public relations principles and practices used in business and nonprofit contexts and offers students the opportunity to create digital PR content. Prerequisite: BADM/COMM 218
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- COMM
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- course
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- 2025-2026-graduate
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- www.houghton.edu
COMM 316Advanced Presentational Speaking2
2-F25 Preparation and delivery of various kinds of problem-solving presentations including problem analysis, policy justification, policy rejection, and hostile audience. Emphasis on content, structure, and delivery. Liberal Arts. permission
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 2
- Credits (max)
- 2
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
- Prerequisite
- COMM 101 or instructor
COMM 319American Public Address2
3-S26 Public discourse of political speeches and popular culture from the Colonial era to the present. Careful analysis of speech texts and the historical contexts in which they were delivered helps students become more careful consumers of public messages, build critical skills, improve understanding of key issues in American history and how those issues were debated, and increase appreciation for the importance of rhetoric in a democratic society. Liberal Arts.
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 2
- Credits (max)
- 2
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 321Environmental Communication
3-WSP Examines the unique challenges and realities of communicating about environmental issues with an emphasis on contemporary American culture. Addresses environmental communication by exploring such topics as advocacy, social change, partisan politics, sociocultural identity expression, and “green” marketing. Also critiques various case studies relevant to public communication about environmental issues. Liberal Arts.
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- COMM
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- course
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- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 323Motion Media Design and
Animation 2 4-S25 Building on core animation principles, students expand their repertoire of tools and techniques for creating original time-based multimedia work. Students consider video as an element of motion design that can be integrated with graphics for effect. Class includes lecture, demo, studio projects, and a group production. This course has a lab fee. Prerequisite: ART/COMM 224
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- COMM
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- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 328Digital Video II4
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 4
- Credits (max)
- 4
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 330Conflict Management3
191
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- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 335Integrated Marketing
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- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 345Graphic Design II
4-S Further development of conceptualization and visualization skill within graphic design media, including computer design. Assignments directed towards professional practice. This course has a lab fee.
- Subject
- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 360Applied Video Projects
4-F25 Students are invited to contend with a specific professional creative video challenge over the course of a semester, through which they will gain focused, practical experience developing quality work in a particular style of video storytelling. Genre and style of video production varies by semester. This course has a lab fee. Prerequisite: COMM/ART 228 or instructor permission.
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- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 380Lighting for the Still and Moving
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- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 382Advanced Topics in Photography
4-S25 Continued exploration of photographic techniques and concepts emphasizing digital workflow, including digital camera operation, digital output, and strobe lighting. Intensive, conceptually driven studio assignments reinforced through readings, discussions, critiques, and lectures. This course has a lab fee. Prerequisite: ART 283
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- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 384Digital Imaging II2
4-WSP Advanced techniques in compositing, painting, graphics, and content expression using two- dimensional digital computer software such as Adobe Photoshop. Creative studio lab work focuses on individual and collaborative digital imaging projects for print or electronic distribution. Coursework conceptualizes the image as a powerful artistic and communication mode of discourse. Presentations, demonstrations, and intensive group critiques offer a chance for students wishing to pursue more advanced skills in using the computer as an expressive imaging tool. This course has a lab fee. Prerequisite: COMM 284
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 2
- Credits (max)
- 2
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 410Media Arts: Advanced Projects
COMM/ART 479 Professional Practices in Photography
- Subject
- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 417Seminar in Public Communication3
Total 19 Concentration Courses – Required Core Credits COMM/BADM 218 Marketing Principles 3 COMM/BADM 304 Social Media Marketing 3 COMM/BADM 312 Advertising Principles for Digital Media 3 COMM/BADM 315 Public Relations in the Digital Age 3
- Subject
- COMM
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 430Digital Portfolio and Personal
- Subject
- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 479Professional Practices in
- Subject
- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
COMM 496Honors in Communication
4-S Liberal Arts. COMP 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 302, 401, 402
- Subject
- COMM
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026-graduate
- Source
- www.houghton.edu
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