Introduction to concepts and techniques of television production, through lectures, lab exercises, and guided production projects. All three sections will meet together once a week for a 50-minute lecture with the course director. Each section will then meet once a week for a 3-hour lab session.

Introduction to concepts and techniques of television production, through lectures, lab exercises, and guided production projects. All three sections will meet together once a week for a 50-minute lecture with the course director. Each section will then meet once a week for a 3-hour lab session.

Practical communication in one-to-group contexts. Theoretical bases for structuring and presenting public speeches. Application of theory to the development, presentation, and evaluation of public speeches.

Practical communication in one-to-group contexts. Theoretical bases for structuring and presenting public speeches. Application of theory to the development, presentation, and evaluation of public speeches.

Practical communication in one-to-group contexts. Theoretical bases for structuring and presenting public speeches. Application of theory to the development, presentation, and evaluation of public speeches.

This course introduces non-majors to a variety of competing theories of interpersonal behavior and everyday social interaction and provides them with new ways of thinking about the social situations in which they participate and interact (and observe others doing so). Theoretical frameworks may include Cultural Discourse theory, models of Relational Communication, Coordinated Management of Meaning, Identity Management, and the Ethnography of Speaking. (Gen.Ed. SB)

An introduction to the social role of mass media in advanced industrial Western societies, focusing on how relationships between mass communications and the surrounding economic framework affect cultural, political, and ideological processes in society. An examination of social and historical contexts within which newspapers, radio, and television developed and how they are structured with attention to both the domestic and international implications of treating mass media as just another industry.

Focus on acquiring a principled understanding of everyday, face-to-face interaction as the process by which we create, maintain, and manage social experience. Vocabulary and concepts to enable the student to account for, analyze, and evaluate current interpersonal communication practice. Limited enrollment.

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