9 courses with the subject MAC, 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.
MAC 601Foundations of Communications3
This course provides an introduction to the various fields in communication, including religious, business, digital, interpersonal, mass, professional, strategic, and religious. Students will have opportunities to read about and further explore their chosen fields.
This course is designed to prepare students for writing in professional settings by having them engage with different genres and mediums of writing utilized by professionals in an increasingly digital world. This course requires students to produce documents that address a wide range of target audiences and purposes and to understand the process of rhetorical decision making that allows a writer to perform successfully in a given writing situation.
This course introduces students to a practical approach to social media writing. Students will explore and critically analyze various social media platforms, including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other platforms. Assignments in the course are multimodal, and students will utilize various social media platforms.
This course emphasizes the study and application of the principles and techniques involved in taking both print and on-screen documents from conception to production. Students gain understanding of how to effectively develop presentation of content for specific audiences. The course emphasizes actual document creation and presentation through various media in a variety of settings including religious, business, and personal. Students apply concepts to varied situations, audiences, assignments, and tasks to prepare them for the world of professional design and presentation.
This course focuses on how information is organized graphically to Communicate and how website usability is employed to improve human interaction with online information. Students will explore techniques and tools of user experience (UI/UX), including user and task analysis, user-centered design, and usability testing.
The course is designed to introduce students to a combination of creative techniques and technical skills that will enable them to take advantage of the increasingly digital nature of the workplace. Students will apply principles of visual rhetoric in creating print and online professional documents. Students will develop integrated skills in writing, design, and technological and oral communication.
This course is designed to help students learn about the various opportunities in research, conference presentations, and publications that exist in the Communication field. Students will have the opportunity to prepare a conference proposal for the college graduate research conference.
In this course, students will learn to tailor effective grants and proposals. Attention will be paid to identifying the target audience of written communication in both for-profit and non-profit settings. Types of documents will include Grant proposals, statements of work, and requests for proposals.
The capstone course is designed for students to apply their acquired knowledge in a measurable and meaningful way. Students will create a project that focuses on a chosen topic within the field of communications. Students will develop a proposal for their project, complete the project, and then make an oral presentation on the completed project