Immerses students in the process of creating successful communication and deepens their understanding of current industry standards and practices. Students will learn, develop and execute all aspects of the communication process under the guidance of professionals. Offered Maymester only. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of APRD 1000 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Strategic Communication (STCM) majors only.
Emphasizes composition of criticism for the performing arts and other areas of entertainment. Same as JRNL 5702. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of JRNL 2001 or JOUR 3001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Journalism (JRNL) or Program in Journalism and Mass Communication (JOUR) majors only.
Offers the opportunity to both observe and experience what is required to work in the world of intercollegiate athletic media relations and professional sports public relations. Covers how to write and how to budget the vital components of publications, media bias and crisis management. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of JRNL 3704 (minimum grade C-).
Design and implement projection-based media projects and explore projection practice as a distinct field. Through individual and collaborative projects, this course explores projection for live events, installation, moving images and site-specific or community-based projects. Students will be introduced to emergent software and hardware for projection design. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Teaches students how to do live sports television production. Students will learn the sports TV business from the ground up and be responsible for participating in the broadcasting of three to four live sporting events. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Focusing on live image and sound processing in constructed or natural environments, students will work individually or collaboratively on an installation project that engages with the intersection of performance and media. Potential models include site specific work, illustrated lecture, gallery installation, movement and dance with projection mapping, participatory media and virtual environments. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 4620 (minimum grade D-).
Teaches students about sports talk and sports announcing, how to interview sports celebrities and the legal considerations and ethics of the business. Students will be doing play-by-play and color of live sporting events.
Explores digital artistic practices across contexts and disciplines in various contexts. This course emphasizes web and networked media as it applies to digital practices in sound, image, language, spatial and time-based arts. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2600 (minimum grade D-).
Equips students for taking on leadership roles in the interdisciplinary context of information science. Students will learn to facilitate learning among students with diverse backgrounds and expertise, developing communication and mentoring skills and gaining exposure to a variety of learner-centered design strategies and pedagogical approaches. Enrollment is by invitation and at the discretion of the instructor. Requisites: Restricted to Information Science (INFO) majors only.
Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JRNL 5802. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of JRNL 2001 or JOUR 3001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Journalism (JRNL) or Program in Journalism and Mass Communication (JOUR) majors only.
Combine research and production to produce short documentary media projects, which explore the world we live in. Focusing on practice, this course explores stylistic options employed on documentaries that give voice to different perspectives on the world. Students will be able to identify the tactics and strategies of documentaries in a variety of media, and will include visits with professional documentary makers. Students will complete a final documentary project. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 3810 (minimum grade D-).
Explores emerging creative documentary practices through visual research, fieldwork, oral histories and the construction of innovative ethnographies. Through ethno-fiction, eco-ethnography, photography, indigenous media and cinema, students explore the development of ethnographic documentary and visual anthropology in both traditional and experimental forms. Projects are developed with an emphasis on the ethical and political challenges of representation through media technologies. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 4810 (minimum grade D-).
Involves reporting and writing about the environment by taking into account the scientific, technological, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of environmental subjects. Same as JRNL 5822. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of JRNL 2001 or JOUR 3001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Journalism (JRNL) or Program in Journalism and Mass Communication (JOUR) majors only.
Note that the 14-hour limit in the major applies to any combination of independent study and internship credit. This course does not count toward the 33 credit hours required for the major. Recommended prereq., COMM 3210 and COMM 3300. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Communication (COMM or COMN) majors only.
Exploration of issues, techniques and tools of music and sound technology. Topics vary and may include: interactive systems for performance; music and mobile media; electronic music instrument design; digital synthesis and signal processing; music in multimedia; sound practices and analysis. Lecture during work sessions will support student projects. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CMDP 3860 or MUEL 4081 (minimum grade D-).
Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCIU), Program in Journalism & Mass Communication (JOURU) or Strategic Communication (STCM) majors only.
