The Courses

(All courses carry 3 credits unless otherwise noted.)

101 Communication-First Year Introduction (both sem) 1 cr.

118 Introduction to Interpersonal Communication and Culture (both sem)

121 Introduction to Media and Culture (both sem)

122 Introduction to Media Programming and Institutions (both sem)

125 Introduction to Rhetoric Performance and Social Action (both sem)

140 Introduction to Film Studies (both sem)

212 Cultural Codes in Communication (SBG) (2nd sem) 4 cr.

226 Social Impact of Mass Media

228 Visual Communication

231 Film and Television Production Concepts

250 Interpersonal Communication (SB) (both sem)

260 Public Speaking (both sem)

265 Democracy and Discourse

287 Advertising as Social Communication (1st sem)

288 Gender, Sex and Representation (1st sem)

297A Introduction to Global Communication

297G Media, Governance and Power

297P Career Workshop (both sem) 1 cr

297S The Action Film

297SS Communication for Sustainable Social Change

297Z Performance and Social Theory

310 Persuasion Theory

318 Comparative Communication Theory (2nd sem)

320 Culture, Communication and Social Identities

331 Program Process in Television (both sem)

334 Media History and Communication Policy

336 Consumer Culture

337 Media Audiences

338 Children, Teens, and Media

339 Media and Public Policy

340 History of Film I (1st sem)

342 History of Film II (2nd sem)

345 Contemporary World Cinema

352 Group Dynamics

355 Behavioral Research in Communication

375 Writing as Communication (both sem)

387 Media, Public Relations and Propaganda (1st sem)

391B Communication and International Development

397A Media, Culture and Global Citizenship

397AB Convergent Media for Social and Political Mobilization

397AE Media and the Global City

397AG Critical Folklore Studies

397AI International Film Stardom

397AK Rhetoric and Social Theory

397AM Horror and Public Culture

397B Introduction to Studio Production

397C Global Communication I

397CA Participatory Communication: Hip Hop for Social Change

397E Comparative Telecommunication and New Media Systems

397F Media Effects

397FF Myth, Ritual and Performance

397LL Health Communication

397M New Media Technology and Social Change

397N Interracial Communication

397NN Race, Gender and the Sitcom

397OO Performing the Public Sphere

397S Asian Pacific Cinema

414 Studying Everyday Talk

426 Media Violence (2nd sem)

428 Freedom of Expression

433 Advanced Television Production and Direction (2nd sem)

441 Principles and Techniques of Film-style Production (both sem)

444 Film Styles and Genres

491A Media and Construction of Gender

491B Digital Media and the Built Environment

491C Media and Children’s Culture

491GS Media and Politics in the Global South

491S Introduction to Semiotics

493E Screenwriting (both sem)

493F Film Documentary

493I American Cinema in the 1960s

494P Advanced Popular Culture

494S Conflict/Mediation

494W Dialogue, Discourse, Identity and Community

495A Performance Ethnography

495K Rhetorical Criticism

497A Native American Culture and Communication

497AB Hollywood Film, Diversity and Adaptation

497AE Global Communication Theories and Issues

497AF Political Economy of New Media

497B Video Art Production

497D International Women Filmmakers

497E Advanced Interpersonal Communication

497F Spanish-Language Media (1st sem)

497K Communication and Nature

497N Asian Pop Culture

497NN Telecommunication Law

497O Music, Culture and Communication

497OO Arab Cinema

497P Humor Communication

497Q Global Communication II

497T Advanced Issues in Information Technologies and Society

497U Film and Society

497UA Future of the Information Society

497UD Utopian/Dystopian Media and Communication

497Z American Cinema in the 1970s

514 Social Uses of Language

546 Film Theory and Criticism

593D Advanced Screenwriting

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