The practical aspects of the course emphasize communications theory, reporting techniques, news writing, editing, feature writing, journalistic responsibility, and ethics. This course illustrates how public relations has evolved in the 20th century. Students will learn practical techniques of public relations that can be used in print, radio, and television. Students examine various theories of meaning and how they impact on the many aspects of communications. There is also a unit on speech.
Communication skills is a required course for secretarial science students.
Students will study how humanity has viewed art through the ages and how art has become an integral part of the modern media. COM-131 Desktop Publishing 3 credits Students will learn to produce a publication, from laying out the grid to printing the final version on a laser printer. This course will give an overview of the broadcast industry, including some history and law, along with present day make-up and problems. It will also discuss the future and employment opportunities in an exploding information age. This course will continue the overview of the broadcast industry begun in Broadcasting I, plus identify significant past, present and future events and issues of the industry.