Three Credits Offered Periodically Opportunity to practice argumentation and public speaking skills under the individual supervision of the Instructor in a laboratory setting. Examination of reasoning and rhetoric in advertising, political campaigns, and social movements. Fall 1999 Theory and practice of communication in small groups. Highlights the communicative dimensions of decision-making, leadership, cohesiveness, and conflict in the small group setting. Three Credits Spring Semester Survey of media industry structure, operation, and regulation.
Course addresses relationships between old and new media technologies.
Prepares students for CO 314. This course focuses on developing skills of public debating. Practice in making a video composition. This course treats the history of the mass media in the United States in the 20th Century with particular emphasis on non-print media as transmitters of popular culture. A consideration of the First Amendment and governmental restraint in personal, social, and mass communication.