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COM 100 - Intro Mass Communications |
Introduction To Mass Communications Prerequisite: None This course grounds students within the study of social science through a historical and cultural analysis of mass communication. Students will gain knowledge and acquire tools for thinking critically about the process of media creation and the influence of media on individuals and society, including the economic, political, and cultural systems and institutions. Knowledge of theories and methods of the social sciences including social construction of media and how the media help us to socially construct our world are emphasized. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: CSUS Common Course, GER IVA-Social Sciences, Public Policy Skill Courses, LAC T1SS-Social Science |
COM 101 - Interpersonal Communication |
Interpersonal Communications Prerequisite: None Course compliments the introductory course to mass communication. The purpose is to focus the attention of the student on the most basic element of all communication: the human sender and receiver of messages. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations |
COM 120 - Television Production I |
Television Production I Prerequisite: None An introduction to the fundamentals of studio television production. Course emphasizes multi-camera production techniques and procedures. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 190 - Newspaper Practicum |
Newspaper Practicum Prerequisite: ENG 100 One semester of supervised work for the Campus Lantern. May be taken three times in different semesters. 1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 6.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Practicum Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Writing For Media |
COM 191 - Yearbook Practicum |
Yearbook Practicum Prerequisite: None One semester of supervised work on the University yearbook. May be taken three times in different semesters. 1.000 TO 2.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Practicum Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Writing For Media |
COM 1XX - Communication Elective |
Communication Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
COM 201 - Nonverbal Communication |
Nonverbal Communication Pre-requisites: None Explores nonverbal communications in multiple contexts, including leisure, education, and workplace settings. Focus on the role of gestures, facial expressions, use of space and time, clothing, and other environmental influences on expression. Students will become skilled senders and receivers of nonverbal communication and will perform systematic data collection in naturalistic settings. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 210 - Photography I |
Photography I Prerequisite: None An introduction to the topic with a historical overview of discoveries leading to photographic technology; from the earliest to current digital imaging. This course is for an absolute beginner but is also information rich for students with experience. Lab demonstrations focus on the properties of light and exposure, learning to exploit available light conditions for portraiture as well as studio lighting for copying flat art-work. Comprehension of visual perception skills regarding light conditions. Digital camera function regarding ISO sensitivity, exposure controls, White Balance and use of shutter and aperture controls for creative expression, are covered in lecture and hand-on lab activities. Composition theory and visual communication are emphasized at the start of the semester and throughout. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 215 - Media Aesthetics |
Media Aesthetics Prerequisites: None Students will explore media aesthetic variable - light and color, space, time and motion, and sound - involved in the production of media messages under contextuallistic aesthetic perspectives (Sewey, Pepper and Aett1). The systematic examination of these fundamental aesthetic elements will provide students with an understanding about the importance of evaluating art within its historical and cultural contexts. Special attention will be given to film and video as art as they use the same aesthetic elements as all other art forms. In addition, students will be introduced to basic aesthetic theories and approaches and their principal adherents: objective (Plato and Aristotle), subjective (Hume), and realism and formalism theories. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Cultural Representati, LAC T1A-Arts in Context |
COM 220 - Video & Film Production |
TV II - Video Field Production & Editing Prereq: LAC student with T1M course or ELAC student An introduction to the fundamentals of field video production and editing. Course emphasizes single-camera, "film style" production - from conception to finished product and video editing. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Television, New Media Digital Applications, LAC T2IT-Applied Info Tech |
COM 230 - Public Speaking |
Basic Speech Prerequisite: None Original speeches; emphasis on rhetoric and audience psychology. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations |
COM 241 - Intro Radio & Audio Production |
Intro To Radio, New Electronic Media and Audio Production
Prerequisite: None This course presents an intorduction to the second century of radio broadcasting. Programming, sales, promotions, engineering, the internet and digital technologies will be explored. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Radio |
COM 242 - Intro to Social Media |
Introduction to Social Media Prerequisites: None This course will provide an introduction to social media concepts as a required tool in today's communication environment. Students will examine the evolution of communication technologies and focus on how social media users communicated effectively using diverse social media platforms. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 245 - Digital/Analog Audio Product'n |
Digital/Analog Audio Production: Radio/Video/Internet Prerequisite: None Provides a hands-on workshop for planning and producing audio programming for distribution over a wide range of media platforms. Analog and digital technologies are explored and applied, including computer and Internet-based systems. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Radio, NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 252 - Social Media Strategies |
Social Media Strategies Prerequisites: None Looks at management and marketing of social media. How to: Drive traffic to a site, cross list and cross promote sites, understand what increases precedence of listing in search engines. The value of metatags, frequency of posting and the difference between narrow and broad focus of site content. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Cultural Representati |
COM 260 - Intro To Public Relations |
Introduction To Public Relations Prerequisite: None This is a survey of the field of public relations and the practices and strategies for designing PR plans using problem solving skills. Students explore the theories that influence the practice of public relations and the relationships that exist between theory and practice of public relations. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations, Public Policy Skill Courses |
COM 262 - Social Media Content Creation |
Social Media Content Creation Prerequisite: None The course is designed to build practical skills in the creation and publication of digital technologies. The class focuses on workshops where students learn and apply these skills. This cutting-edge curriculum facilitates intensive learning and maximizes the opportunities for the students to practice. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 270 - Advertising Essentials |
Advertising Essentials Prerequisites: None This introductory course in advertising teaches the basic elements of advertising and other marketing communication tools. Students learn about print, broadcast, outdoor, and electronic media and the strategies employed in message creation about products and services. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 285 - Studio TV - Sports |
Studio Television Production - Sports Prerequisite: COM 220 Current industry practices focused on all aspects of sports studio production including content ideation and execution. Execution of content includes editing professional archival video footage, shooting video in the field, and conducting interviews. Production of standard audio and video assests required for a studio based sports programming. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 290 - Television Practicum |
Television Practicum Prerequisite: COM 225, Permission of Instructor and Department chair. One semester of supervised experience with ECSU TV. May be taken three times in different semesters. 1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 6.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Practicum Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Television |
COM 291 - Radio Practicum |
Radio Practicum Prerequisite: COM 241 One semester of supervised experience with the University radio station. May be taken three times in different semesters. 1.000 TO 2.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Practicum Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Radio |
COM 292 - Applied Comm. Practicum |
Applied Communication Practicum Prerequisites: None One semester of supervised experience in executing special projects and/or events in Communication. May be taken three times in different semesters. Department Permission Required. 1.000 Credit hours 1.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Field Instruction Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 2XX - Communication Elective |
Communication Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
COM 300 - Communication Law and Ethics |
Communication Law and Ethics Fulfills Stage Two Writing Requirement for COM Majors Prerequisite: COM 100 Examines contemporary issues relating to the First Amendment, including censorship, incitement, libel, copyright and privacy law. Legal and ethical dimensions of policy decisions are emphasized. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Mass Communications, Middle Level Writing Intensive |
COM 301 - Persuasion |
Persuasion Prerequisite: None This course explores the fundamental elements of the process of persuasion, both via interpersonal communication and through the mass media. Case studies of coercive persuasion, advertising, political persuasion and the communication of cultural ideology are discussed. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 310 - Advanced Photography |
Advanced Photography Prerequisite: COM 210 Focus is on venues of publication in mass media communication, including photojournalism and marketing techniques. Fundamental camera concepts of exposure and camera operation are reviewed. Lecture/lab topics include image protocols and techniques for photojournalism. Adobe Photoshop basics are reviewed before learning advanced techniques, such as Beauty retouching and photomontage are introduced along with ethical issues regarding image manipulation with photojournalism and Marketing images. Photographer ownership protections of U.S. copyright law is covered. Students compile digital portfolios of their lab work for display in a web portfolio. 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 312 - Professional Presentations |
Professional Presentations Prerequisite: None This advanced course in presentation graphics, techniques, and theory is designed to provide the student with the skills and theory needed for creating individual and group presentations. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 320 - TV III -Adv. Television Prod. |
TV III - Advanced Television Production Prerequisite: COM 120 and COM 220 or Instructor Approval Advanced television production. Course emphasizes both field and studio television production, techniques and procedures. Course is project based. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Television, NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 321 - History Of Communication |
History Of Communication Prerequisite: COM 100 This course looks at the development of American newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and Internet with an emphasis on cultural, technological, and economic considerations. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Mass Communications, Radio, Television, Public Policy Skill Courses |
COM 330 - Organizational Communication |
Organizational Communication Prerequisite: None An investigation through theory and practice of formal and informal group communication in organizational settings. Students will apply major theoretical persepectives to communication in a variety of real-world setting. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations |
COM 331 - Conflict Communication |
Conflict Communication An introduction to non-violent conflict resolution and the various forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Methods and strategies used to manage violence and adversarial litigation will be explored. Subjects to be covered include non-violent resistance, conflict analysis, stress and anger management, conflict coaching, non-violent communication, negotiation, mediation, the collaboration process and arbitration. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 350 - Communication Writing |
Communication Writing Prerequisite: COM 300 Note: Fulfills writing-intensive requirement for COM majors Survey of various styles of writing commonly found in the communication field. Course will include practice in print journalism, electronic journalism, public relations, scripts and research writing. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations, Writing For Media, NewMedia Communication Conc, Writing Intensive |
COM 351 - Journalism Principles |
Journalism Principles Prerequisite: COM 350 Current practices in newspaper and news magazine publishing including reporting, editing, style sheets and legal considerations. Economic aspects of publishing such as advertising, circulation and the impact of telecommunication 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Writing For Media |
COM 352 - Emergent Media Reporting |
Emergent Media Reporting Prerequisites: None The class focuses reporting, writing across platforms, audience understanding and news storytelling in a variety of formats. The course also looks at innovative content delivery and investigative reporting through the use of data bases and statistical instruments to search large bodies of public data and find information on a particular subject. Govenment data bases, corporate filings, trends, and FOIA requests are all part of computer assisted reporting. (FOIA - Freedom of Information Act). Non-profit new associations such as ProPublica will be considered in their relationship to new emergent technologies. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 357 - Scriptwriting |
Scriptwriting Prerequisites: None This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to writing. It examines the essential elements of scriptwriting for radio, television, film, Internet, stage, performance art, and other venues. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 358 - Scriptwriting & Presentation |
Scriptwriting & Presentation Prerequisites: None This course focuses on the practical aspects of writing and presenting media scripts and on techniques, structures, and disciplines required to complete performance scripts. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 361 - Publication Design |
Publication Design Prerequisite: None This course is designed to provide basic training instruction and practice in the fundamentals of graphics in mass communication. Students will be introduced to the processes of preparing and printing verbal and visual materials. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations |
COM 362 - Social Media Design |
Social Media Design Prerequisite: None This class is focused on basic principles of publication design and production in tandem with the use of industry-standard software. Students will also be introduced to basic coding skills. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 364 - PR Writing Methods |
Public Relations Writing Methods Prerequisite: COM 260 This course examines the various forms of writing for public relations such as press releases, public service announcements, media alerts, interviews, video news release, and newsletters. This hands-on class requires students to keep finished writing samples in a presentable portfolio. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Public Relations |
COM 372 - International Advertising & PR |
International Advertising And Public Relations Prerequisite: COM 270 (Formerly COM 370) This course focuses on the basic principles of international advertising in our global economy. Students learn about the various factors that drive advertising in international markets by understanding the advertising strategies, consumer demographic and psychographic profiles, cultural nuances, and the techniques employed by major global agencies to capture world markets. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 373 - Advertising Copywriting |
Advertising Copywriting Prerequisite: COM 270 (formerly COM 370) This course is designed to teach students how to create and evaluate effective advertising copy, apply marketing and advertising objectives, translate features into benefits, and write from the consumer's point of view. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 375 - DigitalMedia Branding&Politics |
Digital Media Branding & Politics Prerequisite: COM 275 There is an increasing wave of popularity of digital MEDIA and new media for political purposes resultnig in a shift from the traditional message delivery tools like television and newspapers. This course presents an overview of how politicians use this new medium to launch their messages to trigger political discussions, makets and sell themselves and their agenda to their constituents. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 380 - Dramatic Video & Film Prod. |
Dramatic Video & Film Production Prerequisite: COM 220 or FLM 220 A short dramatic film script will be made into a short dramatic video. Students will take on specific roles in the production process and work in tight collaboration as part of a production team. The principles of story telling, dramatic structure, and technical aspects of dramatic digital video field production will be the basis for this class. The building blocks of narrative production including visual storytelling, casting and directing actors for the screen, art direction, sound recording, lighting, videography and postproduction will be taught and executed. 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 382 - Social Media Analytics |
Social Media Analytics Prerequisite: COM 242 The course represents an introduction to analyzing social media data with an emphasis on the implications and applications for market research, communication strategy, and technology history. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 3XX - Communication Elective |
Communication Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
COM 400 - Communications Research |
Communications Research Prerequisite: None Designed for students of senior standing. Deals with analytic as well as descriptive research in the field of communication. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Mass Communications |
COM 401 - Advanced Interpersonal Comm |
Advanced Interpersonal Communication Prerequisites: COM 101 Advanced Interpersonal Communication extends the study of both functional and dysfunctional aspects of human interaction with particular emphasis on the most commonly employed empirical theories of interpersonal communication across a variety of relational contexts. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 403 - Mass Communication Theory |
Mass Communication Theory Prerequisite: COM 100; and LAC student with at least two Tier II courses or ELAC student An advanced course that is designed for students of senior standing. Deals with diverse scientific theories about the mass communication process. This course meets the Tier 3 LAC requirements for student learning outcomes and assessments. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Mass Communications, LAC T3-LiberalArts Experience |
COM 420 - Television Directing |
Workshop In Television Prerequisite: COM 120 and COM 220 An advanced course applying principles and practices learned in earlier courses. Selected programs will be written and produced including topics of community interest for distribution over the community access television channel. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Television |
COM 425 - TV Advanced Workshop: News |
Advanced Television Workshop: News Prerequisites: COM 120, COM 220 A course designed to get students acquainted with the various aspects involved in the production of television news broadcasts. The workshop will familiarize students with the management of a newscast in studio and the techniques of Electronic News Gathering (ENG). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Workshop Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 430 - Advanced Avid Editing |
Advanced Avid Editing Prerequisite: COM 120, COM 220, COM 320 This course is designed for students who have already mastered the use of common editing techniques including continuity, montage, pacing and audio mixing. COM 430 will provide a framework for advanced skills like media management, off-beat and innovative cutting techniques, emerging individual editing styles and cutting long form projects - continuing through sound sweetening, color correction, and other online related processes. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 435 - Documentary Production |
Documentary Production Pre-requisite: COM 120 Elective course for the Film Studies minor. This course will provide instruction and experience in aesthetics, story telling, and technical aspects of digital video field production and post production in the process of making a video documentary. A basic understanding of the genre and its history will be gained by viewing and analyzing key documentary work. Students will produce broadcast quality documentaries to be aired on the ECTV Channel. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Studio (3 Hours) Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 440 - Film & Video for Clients |
Producing Film & Video for Clients Prerequisite: COM 220 or FLM 220 This class will build on skills learned in prior film and video production classes in the conception and construction of an original commissioned film project. This course will also involve creating proposals and presenting/pitching those proposals to clients and completing a film project that meets the needs of a client in a timely fashion. Clients may include non-profit organizations and/or small businesses. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 450 - Advanced Journalism |
Advanced Journalism Prerequisite: COM 351 An advanced course applying principles and practices learned in earlier courses. Students assume various roles found on newspapers to gain an understanding of how the editorial side of the contemporary newspaper functions. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Writing For Media |
COM 460 - Topics In Communications |
Special Topics In Communications: Prerequisite: None Seminar in specialized topics in communication for advanced students. 2.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 464 - PR Crisis Management |
Public Relations Crisis Management Prerequisite: COM 260 Students learn to identify and prepare responses under a PR perspective for the different types of crises that an organization can face. In applied case study analysis students assess ethical perspectives and develop organizational responses to crisis. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 471 - Communication Study and Travel |
1.000 TO 12.000 Credit hours 1.000 TO 12.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 474 - Exp. Digital Media Production |
Experimental Digital Media Production Prerequisites: LAC student with at least two Tier II courses or ELAC student Selective aesthetic and digital media production readings and class discussions about media production models and techniques. Involves students in individual inquiry and group dynamics in the management of a digital media production project in a real-world context. We will explore and critically analyze past and current traditional and new media productions, such as classic films, computer animated features and video games, with special emphasis in deconstructing and understanding their aesthetic manipulations, their technical solutions, and ultimately their production values will be explored. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: NewMedia Communication Conc, LAC T3-LiberalArts Experience |
COM 475 - Global Field Course |
1.000 Credit hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 476 - Advertising & Media Planning |
Advertising Media Planning Prerequisite: COM 270 This course prepares students for the important task of selecting and buying media for advertising purposes. Students learn various methods and criteria for media selection, and budget matters. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 478 - Integrated Mktng Communication |
Integrated Marketing Communications Prerequisites: COM 464 or COM 476 This course is designed to teach the application of key elements of marketing promotion mix, using integrated approach. The objective is to ensure success of advertising campaign for the client. The course will acquaint students with the intersection among marketing communication tools and how they can be applied synergistically to meet the sale objectives for the clients. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 480 - Independent Study |
Independent Study 1.000 TO 9.000 Credit hours 1.000 TO 9.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 490 - Internship |
Internship 1.000 TO 6.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 12.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Internship Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Liberal Arts Work, NewMedia Communication Conc |
COM 491 - Internship |
Internship 6.000 Credit hours 12.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Internship Communication, Film, & Theatre Department Course Attributes: Liberal Arts Work |
COM 4XX - Communication Elective |
Communication Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
COM 512 - Organizational Presentations |
Organizational Presentations Prerequisite: None A course in the theory and application of advanced individual and group presentation techniques. The course is designed to provide experience in the computer graphics needed to enhance management presentations. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 530 - Organizational Communication |
Organizational Communication Prerequisite: None This course emphasizes the acquisition of organizational communication skills through the application of theoretical concepts in authentic organizational contexts. The course utilizes both the applied body of knowledge developed by organizational communicators (what strategies are effective in actual organizations) and the theoretical underpinnings of the field (why those strategies work). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 550 - Video In Ed: Media Convergence |
Video In Educ: Media Convergence Experiences In Education
Prerequisites: None This course has three basic components to it: (1) An overview of the theoretical foundations of distance education and the technologies involved in the delivery of educational material, especially television and streaming video; (2) An introduction to basic concepts of aesthetic and technical principles of television production in order to understand their role in the construction of effective educational content; and (3) A critical analysis of the various educational television formats and a review of educational television (video) as implemented by different institutions across the nation and the way in which technological convergence has become an added value to his educational delivery system. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 596 - Independent Study |
Independent Study 1.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 1.000 TO 3.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Communication, Film, & Theatre Department |
COM 5XX - Communication Elective |
Communication Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture |