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This course will introduce students to a wide range of narrative, experimental and documentary strategies. Students will gain experience in basic production techniques and will learn to think about and lookCourse requirements include the completion of three video production assignments and one longer final project. The course will include workshops in lighting, final cut pro, and sound recording and mixing.

This course aims to inspire the development of a critical vocabulary for analysis of the formal
conventions of film, especially as they bear on literary discourse. In addition, this course will focus on cinematic and literary works that articulate or express specific notions of American identity in terms of race, class, and gender. This class will look specifically at how the film industry negotiates specific literary narratives about identity within American society as a means of adapting the texts to the big screen. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.

This course combines critical analysis with a hands-on introduction to producing a documentary. Students will view, analyze, and critique a range of documentary films, to further their understanding of the documentarian's craft and art. Students will also do pre-production (research and scripting) on their own short documentary, along with shorter hands-on exercises in writing narration, interview techniques, use of archival sources, etc. Prerequisite: COMM 240 or COMM 297D or COMM 340 or COMM 342 or COMM 493E or consent of instructor.

This course examines the situation comedy from sociological and artistic perspectives. We will seek, first of all, to understand how situation-comedy is a rich and dynamic meaning-producing genre within the medium of television. Secondly we will work to dissect narrative structures, and the genre's uses of mise-en-scene, cinematography/ videography, editing, and sound to create specific images of the family through social constructions of race, class, and gender.

Cultural approaches to the study of language behavior and communication. Focus on ethnography. Concepts such as ritual, myth, code, and discourse; enactments such as verbal duels, song challenges, communicative use of silence, and jokes; approaches include empirical, theoretical, and comparative study.

This course combines reading and discussion with application of theoretically informed methods in the study of everyday social interaction. We will: 1) Read and discuss representative studies of social interaction and communicative behavior in cultural context. 2) Do graduated classroom and field exercises to assemble methodological tools and accumulate data for your final paper. The final paper will be based on accumulated data?observations, transcripts, and interviews?and analyses from your field site/activity. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.

Communication as it creates, maintains, and transforms cultural identities, and, in turn, culture as it creates, maintains, and transforms communication. Grounded in the substantive patterns of communication from areas such as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Polynesia, and the Far East. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)

Communication as it creates, maintains, and transforms cultural identities, and, in turn, culture as it creates, maintains, and transforms communication. Grounded in the substantive patterns of communication from areas such as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Polynesia, and the Far East. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)