15 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 111Human Communications4
This course focuses upon the functions and processes of communication as well as the various communication techniques used in modern society. Students explore basic theories and examine the characteristics and social effects of verbal and non-verbal human interaction. Application of theoretical concepts include observation and analysis of communication methods used in interpersonal, group, and media forums.(PtK:SS)(Public Speaking)
This course exposes students to Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shugendo, Chinese divination and geomancy, and contemporary expressions of Asian religions. Students learn not just from the content and narrative of film, but also about its meta-narrative, or narration in form and structure, including editing, lighting, musical arrangement, and implicit ideologies. Students will watch clips and short films in class, and feature-length films before class. ( PTK: CRE) (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)(Critical Reading)
From early Peking-opera inspired silent films to gangster and gunfu (kungfu, but with guns!) blockbusters, the evolution of Chinese cinema both reflects and shapes the rapidly changing historical, social, and cultural conditions of the Chinese speaking world. Born in a Shanghai tea house in 1896, only one year after the invention of film in the West, Chinese cinema has taken a unique path compared to its western counterpart. This course introduces students to the cinema of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, from the late 19th century to the present day. Through weekly film viewings, online and in-class discussions, and assigned readings, students will survey Chinese films in terms of historical contexts, major themes and genres, and aesthetic forms (especially artistic influences originated from Chinese and other Asian cultures, such as opera, drama, novel, landscape painting, shadow play, etc.). Particular attention will be given to questions of nationhood, class, gender, race, and their complex relationships in the formation of Chinese cinema. Throughout the course, students will also develop the skills and vocabulary of analyzing films, articulating their own critical views, and presenting their film analyses (written and video essays).
An entry-level course where students will explore the history and role of social media in public relations, marketing, advertising and other related fields. Students will develop knowledge and skills relevant to digital communication with a focus on social media marketing. Students will investigate professional, theoretical, cultural and societal aspects of social media while gaining tactical skills to produce digital content for a semester-long social media campaign project.
Basic theory of public speaking with emphasis on developing skills essential to effective interpersonal communication in industrial, business, and academic settings.
Students evaluate major theories and develop the skills to critically interpret data pertaining to communication. Course topics include cognitive processes involved in communication, social standards of communication, systems of communications, and media environments. Through guided field interactions, students apply relevant principles and analyses to communication contexts. By focusing upon the interrelationship between communication theory and research, this course prepares students for courses in specialized areas of communication and media studies and for upper-level general communications courses.
This course will consider the social, political, and cultural record of black country music styles, i.e. ‘the blues,’ that initially takes shape in the 1890s as a culturally through the efforts of a burgeoning recording industry. We will look to analyze and demythologize many of the pre- and ill-conceived assumptions regarding its development, diffusion, and role as a chronicler of post-Reconstruction African American life by initially examining its place in the rural and agrarian American South before it pivots toward its more modern iterations in Chicago and other industrialized and urban northern and western settings resulting from The Great Migration.
Topics will focus upon particular concepts and theories in media studies, important scholars, notable developments and contributors to the various fields, as well as relevant debates and controversies. (Repeatable)
This course offers a grounded approach for tracing and interpreting how the language of 19th century post-bellum America continued to shape and ultimately preserved systems that historically justified inequality by institutionalizing difference. Investigating the Jim Crow system as a set of communication practices and habits, we will revisit the period before comparing it to the other regions of the country, which will then allow us to draw upon more critical examinations of the political, economic, and social forces that continue to underscore discussions of race, class, gender, and power in the whole of American life. (U2). Open to juniors and seniors only.
Students shadow employees and participate, when requested, in the operations of a local marketing or mass media agency (or the marketing or public relations department of a large organization) for two hours each week. Through this experience, students become familiar with the media industry. The course also includes two 50-minute classroom sessions per week as well as presentations and written work that demonstrate recognition of principles applied in professional settings.
This course is designed to help students reflect and/or synthesize knowledge gained throughout the communication and media studies major. The underlying objective of the course is to get students thinking about reviewing and applying concepts covered in their previous classes through the construction of a senior project that demonstrates students’ mastery over the subject matter based on individual student interest.Required of all communication and media studies-related majors. Intended to be taken in the Spring semester of the senior year.
