COMM 203 - Communication and New Media
New media are changing the ways we live and work. Communication professionals must be fluent across media platforms and ready to embrace perpetual change. Communication and New Media is a course that examines media technologies and their cultural implications. The course is designed to provide students with a survey of the field and an introduction to digital media production and media literacy.
COMM 304 - History of Film
Historical and critical survey of the development of motion pictures as an industry, art form, and a distinctive medium of mass communication.
COMM 326 - Radio Practicum
A course in which the student, assigned a specific musical format, prepares and executes weekly programs complete with musical selections, news headlines, announcements, and a program guest. To qualify, the student must be capable of operating all studio equipment.
COMM 343 - Graphic Novel
Once the domain of sticky-fingered kids clutching nickels and dimes, comics have grown up and are establishing themselves as a fast-growing and respected literary genre. Even the New York Times has recognized the power of the art form by including a regular section devoted to graphic novels in its Sunday magazine. Students enrolled in Graphic Novel will explore this cultural phenomenon by analyzing works such as Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series and Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan. Students also will write and design their own graphic novels. And contrary to common belief, you don’t have to draw to create. Even non-artists can produce compelling content using imaging and animation software provided in class.
COMM 345 - Animation and Communication
Computer-generated (CGI) animation has become standard fare in TV, film advertising, forensics/courtroom reenactment, education/training, gaming, Web design, and online media. This course explores the history and craft of computer animation via animation production with an emphasis on animation as a means of expressing perception (i.e., communication) and the discourses of animation as art and entertainment. Topics include key-framing, storytelling, storyboarding, lighting, compositing, and moviemaking as well as working with motion capture, particle effects, dynamic simulation, sound design, automation, and other facets of digital animation as they emerge.
COMM 349 - New Media Practicum
New Media Practicum is a course in which students practice new media production.
COMM 352 - Computer-Mediated Communication
This course focuses on the study, practice, and criticism of computer-mediated communication. Students will develop projects using a variety of digital technologies, focusing primarily on the Web. The course is designed to teach students to effectively use these technologies, to study the impact on society, and to think critically about that impact.
COMM 360 - Studio Production
A course in video production that investigates the theory and practice of studio productions, such as news and talk shows. Attention will be given to directing and producing audio and camera for multi-camera production.
COMM 402 - Seminar in Communications: Media Management
This course focuses upon topics faculty believe are of interest to those who intend to continue advanced study in the field.
COMM 403 - Media Studies
A course that investigates the significance of contemporary media, cultural ideals, beliefs, and values. The course considers the significance and impact of media on our experience of self, community, culture, society, and world. The course will engage students in the critical practices of reading, decoding, and interpreting cultural texts and practices.
COMM 406 - Advertising and Imagery
This course explores the significance and influence of advertising, public relations, and public opinion on contemporary culture. The history, institutional practice, and aesthetics of advertising, public relations, and public opinion will be studied. The course will consider the social, political, cultural, and personal dimensions of interpreting advertising, public relations, and public opinion.
COMM 447 - Advanced Internet Media
This course expands on the study, practice, and criticism of computer-mediated communication.