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Summer 2009
COM 8206 - Leadership & Diversity
Instructor: Dr. Maurice Hall
Tues, 6:30-9:30pm
Study of effective leadership for diverse groups and organizations. Cultural diversity's impact on communication environment and organizational politics. Participants model of leadership; group/team observation and participation.
COM 8300 - Public Relations Writing
Instructor: Jill Flanagan
Wed, 6:30-9:30pm
Journalistic style of writing, media ethics, targeting audiences, practice in fundamentals, media relations techniques; create portfolio writing samples, e.g. industry standard news releases, pitch letters and features, Q & A documents, crisis statements and position papers.
COM 8306 - Media Production
Instructor: Seth Mulliken
Thur 6:30-9:30pm
Provides hands-on production experience for educators who want to include media production in teaching the analysis of media form, content, organizational structures and audience reception.
COM 8312 - Ind Study: Media & Culture
Instructor: Emory H. Woodard
TBA
COM 8314 - Photoshop: Digi Rlty & Fantasy
(1-credit course)
Instructor: Seth Mulliken
Friday June 12th, 6-9pm, and Saturday June 13th, 9am-5pm
Introduce students to Adobe Photoshop software. Learn how to use Photoshop to alter existing images, to create new material, such as banners or logos. Focus on 'new' possibilities of Photoshop, that is, the two ends of the digital manipulation spectrum: creating a non-existent but believable readity, or constructing an impossible fantasy. COm 8100, COM 8001 or COM 8002, or permission of Grad. Director.
COM 8315 - Video Shooting Lab
(1-credit course)
Instructor: Seth Mulliken
Friday July 24th, 6-9pm, and Saturday July 25th, 9am-5pm
Designed to give students who already have a basic understanding of video shooting a chance to explore issues of lighting, framing, lens choice, white balance, and shutter speed. Pre-reqs.: COM 8100, COM 8001 or COM 8002 or permission Grad. Director.
COM 8317 - Basic Web Design
(1-credit course)
Instructor: Seth Mulliken
Friday July 18th, 6-9pm, and Saturday July 19th, 9am-5pm
Aesthetics of making quality websites through HTML coding and Adobe Dreamweaver software. Conformity with W3C standards and website architecture. Pre-reqs.: COM 8100, COM 8001 or COM 8002 or permission Grad. Director.
Fall 2009
COM 8002 - Quantitative Research in COM
Instructor: Dr. Qi Wang
Tues, 6:30-9:30pm
Fundamentals of quantitative communication research. After reviewing the philosophy and practice of scholarly inquiry, students engage in research design and execution, thematic and statistical inference, and presentation of research results.
COM 8005 - Spec Topics in Strategic Com
: Critical Studies in Advertising
Instructor: Dr. Susan B Mackey-Kallis
Mon, 6:30-9:30pm
Contemporary topics in communication. Taught on an occasional basis to reflect critical and changing debates and inquiries in the discipline.
COM 8100 - Strategic Communication Theory
Instructor: Dr. Bryan Crable
Wed. 6:30-9:30pm
Grounds students in communication theory orienting them to theoretical and ethical issues involved in strategic discourse. Beginning with controversies over rhetoric (public communication), course then examines meaning-making, and its consequences in various contexts. Assignments include a midterm essay and final paper analyzing an instance of strategic discourse (i.e. public relations, advertising, or marketing campaign; in-house organizational communication; news coverage; health campaign; political discourse; films/television/internet).
COM 8207 - Organizational Communication
Instructor: Dr. Stacey M. B. Wieland
Tues. 6:30-9:30pm
Centrality of communication to organizaing and practices of organizational life. Theoretical and historical perspective on org. com. Topics: org. structure and culture, communication networks, decision making, socialization, training, consulting, and workplace democracy.
COM 8307 - Visual Communication & Culture
Instructor: Dr. Gordon W. Coonfield
Thur. 6:30-9:30pm
Theoretical and methodological introduction to the study of images as communicative and cultural phenomena. Theories of the image; implications for visual communication and culture; analysis and production of images in a variety of media and contexts.
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