Exploration of the types of writing associated with the discipline of communication. Development and improvement of the student's writing, research, and critical thinking skills. Fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement.

Exploration of the types of writing associated with the discipline of communication. Development and improvement of the student's writing, research, and critical thinking skills. Fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement.

In this class, we will examine the role of communication in the construction of race as a basis for similarity/difference, the ways that communication about race intersects with other social group categories to form a basis for individual, social, cultural and national identities. We will look at race as a dynamic of power that is both embedded and performed in contexts and institutions, in relation(ship) to others.

Interactions, either face-to-face or over the phone, are the basis of social life. The goal of this course is to learn how to study interactions. The course combines theoretical topics with data sessions of real interactions. We will discuss how to collect data, how to transcribe it, and how to analyze it based on the common structures of human interaction. Structures such as turn-taking, repairs, and story-telling will be covered.

This course prepares you for professional entry into a variety of fields connected to the study of Communication. This course will review and practice practical and theoretical career and professional planning. This course has two interconnected goals: 1) Personal, professional development and 2) Understanding of career options connected to the study of Communication.

This course examines how language and culture (broadly defined) are implicated in our everyday communication. We will examine how preconceived beliefs, taken for granted cultural norms, and the language we speak shape how we experience the world and thus shape our "reality." The class will consider several approaches to the study of language, culture, and communication, including sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, language socialization, conversation analysis, and politeness theory.

Students will learn and practice principles of set design, lighting design; sound design, pickup & mixing; graphic design in the TV studio environment. We will analyze various programs and their corresponding formats. Then, we will work on studio projects pertaining to the types of programs discussed. The course will be a combination of analytics, technical understanding, and a hands-on learning experience.

Students will learn the process of directing programs in a studio environment, as well as practice principles of set design, lighting design; sound design, pickup & mixing; graphic design in the TV studio environment. The course will be a combination of analytics, technical understanding, and a hands-on learning experience. We will analyze various programs and their corresponding formats. Then, we will work on a long show format project as a class.

Lecture, lab (screening), discussion. A survey of key events and representative films that mark the history of motion pictures in the United States and other countries to 1950. In addition to identifying and providing access to major works, the course is designed to facilitate the study of the various influences (industrial, technological, aesthetic, social, cultural, and political) that have shaped the evolution of the medium to the advent of television.

Lecture, lab (screening), discussion. A survey of key events and representative films that mark the history of motion pictures in the United States and other countries to 1950. In addition to identifying and providing access to major works, the course is designed to facilitate the study of the various influences (industrial, technological, aesthetic, social, cultural, and political) that have shaped the evolution of the medium to the advent of television.