This course provides students with an introduction to communications theory. Surveying historical and contemporary theories, the course will offer a critical examination of the ways people communicate with each other via print and/or new media, orally, interpersonally, and visually. Students will analyze meaning-making in a range of mediated contexts, including advertising, television, film, popular culture, and the Internet.
This course provides students the opportunity to develop reading, writing and editing skills suitable to a professional context. Students will learn writing fundamentals such as clarity and conciseness, sentence and paragraph structure, summary, synthesis and analysis.