COMM 105 - Digital Design (1 Credit Hours)
This course starts with principles of good design relevant for print and ends with active learning through the prepress creation of professional communication items like fliers, posters, and brochures. It includes digital prepress techniques and orientation to software used by industry practitioners for layouts. Please note that access to the Adobe Creative Cloud version of InDesign is required for this course.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321
COMM 107 - Intro to Web Presentation & Publishing (1 Credit Hours)
This course is an introduction to the use of Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) for creating Web sites. It will provide students with the basic knowledge required to design, build, and maintain an informational Web site.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321
COMM 150 - Interpersonal Communication (4 Credit Hours)
By using applied critical and creative thinking, students in this course will develop a set of communication skills that will enhance their personal and professional relationships and endeavors. This course will focus on skill development in key areas such as self, perception, listening, verbal messages, conversations, relationships, conflict management, persuasion, and public speaking.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321 and ENG 101 or higher
COMM 202 - Introduction to Mass Media (3 Credit Hours)
In this course students learn how to critically engage and make sense of the media around us and become media literate consumers who are knowledgeable and self-critical of mass media content. In addition to introducing students to the use of media, in both contemporary and historical contexts, this course will help students develop the analytical tools that they can use to examine media content, intent, context, and subtext in order to explore what and how we learn from the media, and how media shape our perceptions in regard to race/ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, and education as well as how media operate and exert their influence on individuals and society.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120
COMM 205 - Professional Communication (2 Credit Hours)
In this course students will learn how to apply principles of intelligent visual design to professional communication and self-presentation. The focus will be on helping students reframe how to look outward to the professional world, and how to get professionals to view them as great employees and collaborators. How do you seek information to better understand organizations and professional opportunities' How do you present yourself to employers or prospective clients' Throughout the course students will receive professional mentoring and participate in an informational interview. Students will enhance their skills in impression management and communication through social media such as Linked In, blogs, and digital portfolios. Each assignment is tailored to fit the students' professional goals and career path. This course is intended for all academic majors.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120
COMM 211 - Theories of Communication (3 Credit Hours)
In this course, we address what communication theory is and learn more about several specific theories applied in current communication research. Students analyze communication artifacts like songs and movies, also exploring how theories of communication and media can be useful in practice in the context of relationships and organizations.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120
COMM 215 - Journalism and Media Writing (3 Credit Hours)
In this course, students learn how to write news, editorials, features, scripts, and press releases for various types of traditional and broadcast formats. They also explore the processes associated with the marketing of those endeavors. In addition, the class serves as an introduction to the legal and ethical aspects of what to print/broadcast as well as the historical and contemporary contexts which influence these modern journalism and storytelling approaches.
Course Prerequisites - ENG 120, PF 121 or PF 321
COMM 241 - Media Design (3 Credit Hours)
This course teaches the theories and practices associated with visual design principles, and layout for professional communication in traditional and new media formats. The focus of this course is on the creation of media content for use in promotion as well as a cursory overview of the Adobe image and web, creation and editing applications. Specifically, students will learn to utilize PhotoShop, InDesign, and Spark in the completion of these endeavors.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120, COMM 105, GRPH 117
COMM 261 - Video Production (4 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the professional production of video content. Students learn the basics of the production process from start to finish, including writing scripts, lighting, audio, camera basics as well as directing and shooting. They also learn to use professional editing software and how to deliver their final work for use on television, mobile devices, websites and physical media.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, ENG 120
COMM 315 - Communication Ethics (4 Credit Hours)
This course examines the strategies involved in effective, ethical communication in professional contexts. Students explore principles of ethical organizational communication and the temporal, cultural, and social forces shaping those principles. Comparing values and perspectives from diverse cultures, students explore ethical communication issues in the professions. Assignments include the creation of multimedia deliverables such as an infographic and a pitch for a proposed training on a selected ethical communication topic. Infographics are evaluated as a means of visual communication grounded in ethical perspectives and supported by data. Students will also analyze the use of AI in professional contexts, providing recommendations on ethical communication related to AI applications.
Course Prerequisites - PF 121 or PF 321, COMM 150 or SPCH 100, ENG 120