Course Descriptions for the Communications Department
Communication
List of all courses and their descriptions
List of all courses, their descriptions and offerings in the schedule book
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COMM1030 - Intro To Communication
Summer 2013 This course is an introduction to the field of communication and focuses on understanding the breadth of the field by examining communication concepts, models, and theories. Students are also introduced to the various areas of the communication discipline: rhetoric, interpersonal communication, small group communication, organizational communication, mass communication, intercultural communication, and public speaking. 3 Credits |
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Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM1030
| Intro To Communication | ||||||
| 8 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | ONLINE | ||
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Location: | Internet/Online | Room: | |||
| Time: | - | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 7 (06/03 - 07/27/13) | Term: | Summer 2013 | |||
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| Course is taught Fully Online. | ||||||
| Additional fees apply. See Details for more information. | ||||||
| Intro To Communication | ||||||
| 17 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M W F | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 10:00-10:50 am | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Intro To Communication | ||||||
| 25 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 03:30-04:45 pm | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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COMM1050 - Survey Of Mass Communication
Summer 2013 Survey of Mass Communication examines the relationships between mass media, culture and some of the institutions that help make up American society. The course reviews the origin, development, nature and functions of newspapers, magazines, books, sound recordings, television, radio, film and the internet. Through the use of lecture, group work and interactive exercises, the course will survey the history of mass media, analyze media messages and study the influence of media on our daily lives and perspectives. 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM1050
| Survey Of Mass Communication | ||||||
| 10 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | ONLINE | ||
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Location: | Internet/Online | Room: | |||
| Time: | - | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 7 (06/03 - 07/27/13) | Term: | Summer 2013 | |||
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| Course is taught Fully Online. | ||||||
| Additional fees apply. See Details for more information. | ||||||
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COMM1080 - Rock and Rhetoric
Summer 2013 This course will serve as an introduction into the critical analysis of popular music as a communicative device. The class will focus on the rhetoric used in the text, image, and sound of rock and roll. These devices successfully connect social issues with a mass audience through the organized form of music. Although a form of entertainment, popular music is also a response to the social/political eruptions in American history. We will explore those conditions in society that provided the foundation for creative musical collaborations, resulting not only in communicating a message to a mass audience but also those collaborations that conditioned popular taste to that which is now culturally accepted. 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM1080
| Rock and Rhetoric | ||||||
| 0/0 | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M W F | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 12:00-12:50 pm | Instructor: | Pinson | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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COMM2000 - Foundations In Publ Relations
Summer 2013 This course, we will begin the first phase of building the public relations foundation. Students will develop an understanding of how these different public relations roles evolved, and perhaps, a sense of which role you hope to attain upon graduation. Students will become familiar with the key figures building and promoting the theoretical foundation on which this specialization is built. They will also explore how the practice of public relations has evolved and adapted to our current global economy instigated by technological innovation. 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM2000
| Foundations In Publ Relations | ||||||
| 18 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M W | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 04:00-05:15 pm | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Foundations In Publ Relations | ||||||
| 0/ | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 11:00-12:15 pm | Instructor: | Park | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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COMM2008 - The Music Of Ireland
Summer 2013 Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services. Please try again at a later time 3 Credits |
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COMM2010 - Communication and Sport
Summer 2013 This course is designed to integrate the concept of sports and the field of communication at multiple levels. We will be examining sports in terms of how it is impacted by interpersonal communication, group communication, organizational communication, and mass communication. We will explore concepts such as sports fan cultures, gender in sport, race and ethnicity in sport, the performance of identity in sport, communication and sport in parent-child interaction, team communication, and crisis communication is sports organizations. 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM2010
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COMM2020 - Interpers Small Group Commun
Summer 2013 This course introduces students to the principles of interpersonal communication, including strategies for creating and responding to verbal and nonverbal messages; presenting and disclosing the self to others; forming, maintaining and disengaging from interpersonal relationships; and applying course principles and strategies to interpersonal contexts. Prerequisite: COMM1030 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM2020
| Interpers Small Group Commun | ||||||
| 17 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 09:30-10:45 am | Instructor: | Edwards | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM1030 | ||||||
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COMM2030 - Communication Theory
Summer 2013 This survey course examines the origin and development of significant theories in the communication discipline that helps to explain and predict behaviors in various communicative contexts. Prerequisite: COMM1030 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM2030
| Communication Theory | ||||||
| 20 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | ONLINE | ||
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Location: | Internet/Online | Room: | |||
| Time: | - | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM1030 | ||||||
| Course is taught Fully Online. | ||||||
| Additional fees apply. See Details for more information. | ||||||
| Communication Theory | ||||||
| 1 Seat! | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M W F | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 11:00-11:50 am | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM1030 | ||||||
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COMM2040 - Impact Of Hip Hop In Amer Soc
Summer 2013 This course explores the communicative, aesthetic, political, and literary fundations of Hip Hop, a well as its role in popular culture and mass media. Students will be required to demonstrate conceptual and analytic skills in deconstructing meaning from text, music, behaviors, artistic expression, cultural artifacts, and cultural customs. Written and oral explication of the key tenets of Hip Hop as a cultural phenomenon will be required. 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM2040
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COMM2500 - Instructional Media Design
Summer 2013 This course focuses on the management of instructional design. The text provides a comprehensive "survey" of the field that will allow learners to prepare and implement traditional and contemporary media strategies more effectively for educational and organizational environments. The integration of theory, application, personal experiences, and the needs of present and future audiences will be addressed. Prerequisites: COSK2220 and 45 Credits. 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM2500
| Instructional Media Design | ||||||
| 11 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M W F | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 03:00-03:50 pm | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225 and 45 Credits. | ||||||
| This course satisfies part of the Communication Skills graduation requirement. | ||||||
| Communication Skills Section. | ||||||
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COMM2510 - Communications/English Studies
Summer 2013 This course is designed to familiarize students with significant issues in communication theory, and to give them the opportunity to apply those theoretical perspectives in practice. Prerequisites: COSK1221 and 45 Credits. 3 Credits |
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COMM3020 - Organizational Communication
Summer 2013 This course will be the first primary Organizational Communication course our students will have. They will have been introduced to some of the concepts (e.g., group communication, interpersonal communication) in other introductory courses. This course will enable students to understand more clearly how communication processes work within structured organizations. Prerequisite: COMM1030 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM3020
| Organizational Communication | ||||||
| 3 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 12:30-01:45 pm | Instructor: | Edwards | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM1030 | ||||||
| Organizational Communication | ||||||
| 23 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 02:00-03:15 pm | Instructor: | Edwards | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM1030 | ||||||
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COMM3030 - Professional Writing
Summer 2013 This course is designed to introduce students to a set of advanced intellectual and rhetorical skills. The course explores theories in writing as well as prepares students to handle applied situations in the field of professional writing. The projects required in this course form a sequenced set of conventions that will enable students to work through practical situations that occur in the workplace. These projects are designed to assist students in developing analytical and persuasive skills which employers see as both necessary and challenging. Prerequisite: COSK2220 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM3030
| Professional Writing | ||||||
| 6 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | W | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 06:00-08:50 pm | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COSK2220 or COSK2225 | ||||||
| This course satisfies part of the Communication Skills graduation requirement. | ||||||
| Communication Skills Section. | ||||||
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COMM3050 - Adver/Communicatns Strategies
Summer 2013 This course is designed to give students skills which will enable them to more effectively participate in the process of developing and managing advertising and integrated marketing communications programs. The course will include instructor lectures, guest lectures, exercises, class discussion, a group project that includes practical interaction with business partners in the Pittsburgh region, program evaluation and execution, student presentations, and applicable course reading. Prerequisite: COSK1221 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM3050
| Adver/Communicatns Strategies | ||||||
| 0/ | Credits: | 3 | Days: | W | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 02:00-04:50 pm | Instructor: | Bland | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COSK1221 | ||||||
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COMM3065 - Comm & Society In The Gambia
Summer 2013 This course will allow students from all majors to learn about contemporary society and development issues in West Africa, through background study and then through a 15-day trip to the nation of The Gambia. 3 Credits |
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COMM3110 - Strat In Adv/Pr and Promotions
Summer 2013 This course introduces students to the strategies of successful communications program development and execution. Students will have the opportunity to explore each aspect of the external communications process. Prerequisites: COMM2000 and COSK2230 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM3110
| Strat In Adv/Pr and Promotions | ||||||
| 25 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 06:00-08:50 pm | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisites: COMM2000 and COSK2230 | ||||||
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COMM3130 - Public Relations Research
Fall 2013 This course is designed to review the latest principles of public relations with emphasis upon the crucial role of research to develop informed strategy, monitor communication programs, and to evaluate overall campaign effectiveness. The course imparts a managerial perspective rather than a technical skill approach to the use of a wide range of research methods. Students begin the semester with an extensive orientation to the types of research essential at various stages of campaign planning. Lectures and class exercises help the student to understand specific research techniques. Prerequisite: COMM2000 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM3130
| Public Relations Research | ||||||
| 17 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 09:30-10:45 am | Instructor: | Park | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM2000 | ||||||
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COMM3160 - Communication and Gender
Summer 2013 This course explores the role of communication in the rhetorical construction of gender and how communication reflects, refracts, shapes, and revises our understandings of gender and what it means to be gendered. Students are introduced to current theories of gender communication, communicative behaviors of men and women, and the impact of gender in specific contexts including interpersonal relationships, the media, the workplace, and education. Prerequisites: COSK1221, COSK2220, and COSK2221 3 Credits |
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COMM3180 - Risk and Crisis Communications
Summer 2013 his course is designed to aid students understanding of the similarities and differences surrounding risk and crisis communications and the planning, managing and response strategies in both contexts. The course will explore through case studies, current events and pseudo events the contexts and uses of diverse communication tools when developing information campaigns that inform the public about the potential risks associated with health or business practices as well as how to plan, implement, monitor and manage a crisis communication situation. Finally, Risk and Crisis communications students will learn how to test risk and crisis communication messages, identify what media works best for distribution to target audiences, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of the communication effort. Prerequisite: COSK2230 3 Credits |
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COMM3220 - Devl, Coord & Executing Events
Summer 2013 Students will explore the communication skills necessary to successfully coordinate minor and major events and develop the skill set to execute the planning of an event. No event can be coordinated without a solid professional relationship between the client and the event planner. Students enrolled in this course will learn the theories driving effective facilitation, conflict management and resolution and negotiation, all of which are skills necessary to cultivate, build and maintain the client-event planner relationship. We will explore the audience the event is targeted to attract and the appropriate promotional techniques to entice the audience to participate based on available funds. Another area of theoretical exploration will be nonverbal and visual communication. Events communicate strong messages about people, causes and organizations. Thus, the verbal and nonverbal messages constructed by event planners will be deconstructed, analyzed and redesigned. Students will explore the communication skills necessary to create binding relationships and maintenance of those relationships, budgeting, proposal writing, use of social media and other technologies to solicit, promote and publicize events as well as event evaluation techniques. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of such skills through student engagement activities and/or a service learning activity. Prerequisite: COSK2230 3 Credits |
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COMM3300 - Special Topic/Comm:Oral Interp
Summer 2013 This Course introduces students to the selection, analysis, and performance of literature. Genres performed include poetry, prose, and drama. Prerequisite: COSK1221 3 Credits |
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COMM3301 - Special Topic/Writing Adv/Pr
Summer 2013 This course focuses on the issues, strategies, and tactics for writing advertising and public relation messages. The course is provides students with the opportunity to evaluate, discuss, and integrate areas critical to understanding and utilizing the various key elements associated with public relations and advertising. Prerequisite: ARTM2050 or JRNL3020 3 Credits |
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with COMM3301
| Special Topic/Writing Adv/Pr | ||||||
| 27 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | W | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | Wheatley Center 112 | ||
| Time: | 06:00-10:00 pm | Instructor: | Roberts | |||
| Session: | 7 (06/03 - 07/27/13) | Term: | Summer 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: ARTM2050 or JRNL3020 | ||||||
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COMM3302 - Special Topics: Political Comm
Summer 2013 This course will examine the rhetorical discourse and methodology employed by candidates for public office-both challengers and incumbents. The course will focus on rhetoric of both, with the intent that the analysis will reveal the strategies employed by the candidates. Prerequisite: COSK1221 3 Credits |
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COMM3520 - Document Design
Summer 2013 This course prepares students to explore practical applications of verbal and visual rhetoric for specific subjects, audiences and purposes. Students will examine various theories of writing, layout, color, design, iconography and typography. By applying the principles of invention, arrangement, style and delivery, students will develop strategies to create, analyze, test and critique documents. A user-oriented approach will be stressed in all design practices from planning through production. 3 Credits |
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| Document Design | ||||||
| 23 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | Wheatley Center 112 | ||
| Time: | 06:00-10:00 pm | Instructor: | Locke | |||
| Session: | 7 (06/03 - 07/27/13) | Term: | Summer 2013 | |||
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| Document Design | ||||||
| 16 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 06:00-08:50 pm | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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COMM4010 - Public Relations Campaigns
Summer 2013 This course simulates the "real world" at a safe distance. The course is presented in an experiential, problem-based learning format where students work with clients on perfecting public relations skills and techniques. Students apply their theoretical foundation to work place scenarios to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and continual development of their public relations skills in a safe and collegial environment. Students will create their own public relations firm devoted to recruiting and servicing clients in a professional and intellectually stimulating manner. Prerequisite: COMM2000 3 Credits |
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| Public Relations Campaigns | ||||||
| 2 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | T R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 02:00-03:15 pm | Instructor: | Park | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: COMM2000 | ||||||
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COMM4020 - Mgmt Technol/Content Creatn Pr
Summer 2013 This course focuses on demonstrating proficiency in basis public relations writing techniques. Additionally, focuses on the application of public relations writing techniques, creative development, construction and placement in appropriate traditional and non-traditional media outlets, audience centered messages designed to solve public relations problems. Students will be required to work with a non-profit organization for the duration of the semester as a member of a public relations team. Thus, students will refine writing skills and message placement strategies while enhancing leadership, conflict resolution, and team skills. Prerequisite: 60 credits and COMM2000 3 Credits |
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COMM4030 - Public Relations Prac Glob Soc
Summer 2013 Globalization has propelled mainstream organizations to rethink business plans and conduct strategic planning from a new perspective. As a result, the practice of public relations requires a new dimension: understanding the culture, media, economy and political structure of the country in which the organization operates or seeks to operate. Students enrolled in "Public Relations Practices in a Global Society" can earn credit by taking the course at RMU or through participation in an international experience and preparing a research document reflective of an international PR issue. Prerequisite: COMM2000 3 Credits |
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COMM4060 - Communication Seminar
Summer 2013 This course is a three-credit capstone course for Communication majors that bridges theoretical communication training with career and personal development. Through discussion and activities, students will gain hands-on and experience in engaged learning, leadership and job search preparation. Prerequisite: 90 Credits 3 Credits |
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| Communication Seminar | ||||||
| 0/1 | Credits: | 3 | Days: | R | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 06:00-08:50 pm | Instructor: | Jabro | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: 90 Credits | ||||||
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COMM4800 - Media Management
Summer 2013 This course, a capstone course in the communication sequence, requires students to confront issues in broadcast, corporate, and non-profit environments from the viewpoint of the media manager-producer. Topics include facility planning; the impact of developing technologies and trends; project administration; and such issues as producer roles, audience analysis, proposal writing, budgets, funding, research, talent selection, scheduling, ethics, liability, copyright, and regulatory bodies (the FCC and BMI/ASCAP). Media distribution and marketing are examined, including transmission modes, duplication, market share, rating point systems, evaluations. Academic Media Center projects are used as case analyses and hands-on experiences for the class. Prerequisite: 90 credits, including 30 in the major 3 Credits |
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| Media Management | ||||||
| 0/ | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 02:00-04:50 pm | Instructor: | Jabro | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: 90 credits, including 30 in the major and COSK2220 or COSK2225 | ||||||
| This course satisfies part of the Communication Skills graduation requirement. | ||||||
| Communication Skills Section. | ||||||
| Media Management | ||||||
| 12 Seats | Credits: | 3 | Days: | M | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | 06:00-08:50 pm | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 1 (08/26 - 12/14/13) | Term: | Fall 2013 | |||
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| Prerequisite: 90 credits, including 30 in the major and COSK2220 or COSK2225 | ||||||
| This course satisfies part of the Communication Skills graduation requirement. | ||||||
| Communication Skills Section. | ||||||
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COMM4913 - Internship/Co-Op
Summer 2013 Course description unavailable, please contact Academic Services. Please try again at a later time 3 Credits |
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| Internship/Co-Op | ||||||
| APPT | Credits: | 3 | Days: | APPT | ||
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Location: | Moon | Room: | |||
| Time: | - | Instructor: | ** Staff ** | |||
| Session: | 7 (06/03 - 07/27/13) | Term: | Summer 2013 | |||
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