Introduction to how communication builds community by creating and sharing meaning. Examination of communication practices at the interpersonal level (friends and family), the group level (teams, classrooms and organizations) and the societal level (citizenship, social change, mass media). Department enforced: restricted to students in the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program.
Engages key principles and practices in the fields of media, communication and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. Two semester sequence required for all CMCI students; 4 credit hours each semester.
Engages key principles and practices in the fields of media, communication and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. Two semester sequence required for all CMCI students; 4 credit hours each semester. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMCI 1010 (minimum grade D-).
Explores the relationship between visual images and cultural values, including how we process visual information, the evolution of conventions in various media, common visual portrayals, and ethical issues. Department enforced: restricted to students in the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
Studies theories and perspectives of mass communication and explores the role of mass media in society. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduction to concepts, theoretical approaches and research methods of media criticism. Students apply these frameworks in research on mediated communication. Covers qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering and analyzing data. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies free-speech issues in the context of current and historical philosophical foundations for freedom of expression. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores therelationships involving media and politics. Incorporates normative and empirical perspectives on the media-politics complex. Areas covered include media effects on public opinion and policy, uses of media ingovernance, journalism sociology, coverage of elections, and implications of interactive media for governance and civic participation. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Develops a theoretical framework with which to recognize and analyze ethical issues as they arise in the media. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Visual communication involves understanding both perception of messages and construction of them. Students analyze their visual thinking abilities and develop habits of visual analysis and criticism, as well as visual communication skills. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines various methods of qualitative data gathering and analysis in the mass and social media context. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines various methods of quantitative data gathering methods and analysis in the mass media context. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
