Preproduction and postproduction strategies will be included. The course emphasizes developing scripts and producing features, documentaries, educational, and informational programs. The major emphasis will be on affecting humanistically the content and style of programs. This course is designed to enable students to examine the relationship between the representation of women and the development of personal and social identity. Issues of gender and reception, cultivating consumerism, body image, and developing relevant new images are explored through theoretical readings as well as the analysis of various media, including television, film, magazines, and advertisements.
Additional attention is given to alternative media systems.
The Capstone Course developed to provide students an opportunity to demonstrate their expertise as communication scholars through discussion and evaluation of contemporary research in communication. The course involves examination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in understanding the research design process. Capstone' course for the major. Training and Consulting Course examines selected aspects of the practice, resources and issues surrounding communication training and development. Course focuses on the techniques and strategies used by business and professional communication trainers, internal and external consultants, to assess and diagnose communication problems as part of an overall process of organizational growth and change.