A required course for all students with focus upon the skills of sending and receiving clear messages. Audience analysis, the organization of the message, listening awareness, and the management of communication apprehension are foremost among the course objectives. Students participate in communication exercises and deliver a variety of speeches of different formats.
HISTORY OF FILM
Historical and critical survey of the development of motion pictures as an industry, art form and a distinctive medium of mass communication.
PRESENTATIONS FOR MEDIA
This course emphasizes improving the individual's nonverbal communication and vocal skills for the broadcast media. Students combine broadcast theory with practical skills to enhance understanding of and performance of all types of broadcast material.
RADIO PRACTICUM
A course in which students work with the campus radio station, WSHC-FM, staff to produce our broadcast schedule for airwave and internet broadcasting. May be taken three times.
SOUND DESIGN
Sound provides the depth to "visual" media such as film and television. Sound Design is a course in aural communication and audio production for web, radio, television, theater and cinema. The course examines how sounds communicate ideas, context, and emotion, and students learn how to record and edit voice, music and sound effects.
MUSIC VIDEO
This course outlines the history, significance, and impact of music video as a commercial commodity and aesthetic style. Music video constitutes a style of videography whose presence can be traced across the contemporary scene. It is a form of video (and cultural) production whose surface of sights and sounds, imagery and music has transformed and reorganized the limits of television and music, film and video, advertising and fashion. We will discuss the cultural impact of music videos and popular culture, and engage in music video production as a form of "writing" and inscribing experience.
ANIMATION AND COMMUNICATION
Computer-generated animation has become standard fare in TV, film, advertising, forensics/court-room reenactment, education/training, gaming, web design and on-line media. This course explores the history and craft of computer animation via animation production with an emphasis on the discourses of animation as art and entertainment. Topics include Key-framing, story-telling, story-boarding, lighting, compositing, movie-making as well as working with motion capture, particle effects, dynamic simulation and sound design.
SINGLE CAMERA PRODUCTION
A course in video production that investigates the theory and practice of single camera projects such as the news piece, the documentary, the teleplay, the commercial, the music video, the industrial video, and the public relations video.
COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
This course focuses on the study, practice, and criticism of computer-mediated communication. Students will develop projects using a variety of digital technologies, focusing primarily on the Web. The course is designed to teach students to effectively use these technologies, to study the impact on society, and to think critically about that impact.
STUDIO PRODUCTION
Overview of the functioning of the studio production system, production equipment, and the functions of production personnel.
MEDIA LAW AND ETHICS
Examination of legal and ethical issues in the media. Emphasis on freedom of the press, censorship, libel, privacy, information access, copyright, media regulation and ethical standards.
MEDIA STUDIES
A course that investigates the significance of contemporary media, cultural ideals, beliefs, and values. The course considers the significance and impact of media on our experience of self, community, culture, society, and world.
ADVERTISING AND IMAGERY
This course explores the significance and influence of advertising, public relations, and public opinion on contemporary culture . The history, institutional practice, and aesthetics of advertising, public relations, and public opinion will be studied. The course will consider the social, political, cultural, and personal dimensions of interpreting advertising, public relations, and public opinion.
ADVANCED PRODUCTION
Advanced principles and practice of short film production including digital cinematography, sound, lighting, and editing.
SENIOR CAPSTONE
A required course for all communication seniors that brings together communication theory and practical experience into a final project and presentation. Original projects may include, but are not limited to, videos, audio tapes, papers, web pages, and multimedia presentations. Projects will be presented before the communications faculty and students. Two faculty members, selected by the student, will serve as advisors for the project. The course will serve as a final assessment of communications skills. This course is to be offered in the spring semester; students are expected to register in their last year of study.
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGAPY I
Fundamentals of black and white photography and dark room techniques. Topics include basic film processing and printing, basic light and exposure selection; composition and visual thinking; use of auxiliary lenses.
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY II
A continuation of black and white I. Topics include processing and printing of 120 and 4x5 size film; zone system of exposure and development; filters; and advanced printing techniques.
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
An introductory course that explores , through student emulation and experimentation, the compositional sensibilities and aesthetics strategies of both historic and contemporary photographers.
STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY
This course serves as an introduction of the methodology and technology of studio photography. Emphasis is placed upon product and portrait photography, tabletop design, and lighting techniques.
COMPUTER DIGITAL IMAGERY
Introduction to the technology and use of the computer for photographic purposes. Emphasis is placed upon working knowledge and creative use of the computer in order to develop and execute aesthetic solutions to photographic digital problems.
FOUNDATIONS OF DESIGN I
Examines the concepts and nature of visual image making. The fundamental skills and knowledge of two- and three-dimensional design as related to the visual arts are explored.
FOUNDATIONS OF DESIGN II
More extensive examination of the concepts and nature of visual image making. The fundamental skills and knowledge of two- and three-dimensional design as related to the visual arts are explored in further depth.
