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Communications (COMM) 1 COMMUNICATIONS (COMM) COMM 99: Foreign Studies 1-6 Credits/Maximum of 6 COMM 1: Newspaper Practicum Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction. 1-3 Credits/Maximum of 8 This course may not be used to satisfy the basic minimum requirements for graduation in any baccalaureate degree program. A newspaper/print media practicum. Credits do not fulfill Communication major credits in all programs. COMM 100N: The Mass Media and Society COMM 2: Newspaper Editorial Staff 3 Credits 1-3 Credits/Maximum of 8 Mass communications in the United States: organization, role, content, A newspaper/print media practicum. Credits do not fulfill Communication and effects of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, books, and major credits in all programs. films. The Mass Media and Society is an overview of the interaction between mass media and society. By drawing from selected topics, the Enforced Prerequisite at Enrollment: COMM 1 course pays particular attention to the social influences (e.g., economics, politics, technology, law and culture) that shape media messages. Among COMM 3: Radio Practicum others, the course examines the nature of media controllers as well as 1-3 Credits/Maximum of 8 the character of users and consumers of media products. By so doing, students are informed about the overall structure and scope of the mass A broadcast media practicum. Credits do not fulfill Communication major media and led to understand the power and influences associated with credits in all programs. media messages and practices. By the end of the semester, each student should have a better understanding of the dynamic nature of the mass COMM 4: Television Practicum media in an information society. 1-3 Credits/Maximum of 8 Cross-listed with: AMST 106N Bachelor of Arts: Humanities A broadcast media practicum designed to provide students experience Bachelor of Arts: Social and Behavioral Sciences with TV and video production in a variety of contexts. United States Cultures (US) General Education: Humanities (GH) COMM 20N: Critical Media Literacy General Education: Social and Behavioral Scien (GS) General Education - Integrative: Interdomain 3 Credits GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think GenEd Learning Objective: Global Learning We live in a world in which we are surrounded with media messages GenEd Learning Objective: Integrative Thinking that influence how we think and act. Since we are so immersed in media culture, it is important that we know how to analyze media content, production and reception, so that media can become tools for liberation COMM 101N: Understanding and Enhancing Creativity and creativity, not control. In this course, we will learn to critically analyze work produced in different forms of mass communication. The course 3 Credits focuses on power, ideology and social inequality, analyzing relationships Creative work challenges the existing ways of seeing and understanding between media producers and audiences, and between information, the the world and is at the heart of many disciplines. This course will be an politics of representation, and power, including a focus on the crucial integrated general education course (GA-GS) that encourages students areas of gender, sexuality, class, and race. The course takes a dialectical to approach Creativity through the concepts, principles, and the methods perspective that focuses on both theory and practice, providing students of scientific inquiry. This course will begin with an overview of the various with the opportunity and knowledge necessary to produce their own short approaches and theoretical views of Creativity. This will be followed film using the resources of Penn State's media commons. by a module applying these to analyze the role of creativity in several Cross-listed with: SOC 20N global and cross-cultural works in the fields of art (paintings, sculptures), General Education: Arts (GA) writing (prose, poetry, comics),mass media (movies,recorded music, General Education: Social and Behavioral Scien (GS) magazines), strategic communications (advertisements, public relations, General Education - Integrative: Interdomain digital/internet marketing) science, and organizations. Students will GenEd Learning Objective: Effective Communication develop an understanding and appreciation of the comprehensive role GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think of creativity in the creative works, literature, and history of arts. In the GenEd Learning Objective: Integrative Thinking third module, students will be introduced to techniques and strategies GenEd Learning Objective: Soc Resp and Ethic Reason for creativity enhancement. During this module, students will learn of empirical investigations of how creativity enhancement has been studied COMM 97: Special Topics and apply those techniques to their own work. The course will conclude with students producing their own creative work. Over the journey of 1-9 Credits/Maximum of 9 this course, students will be sensitized and introduced to the science of creativity. Students will develop a better understanding of what is creative Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively and what is not. Students will learn to think in an integrative way across narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest. 2 Communications (COMM) disciplines, improve their critical thinking and analytical skills, while creating their own creative work. COMM 150N: The Art of the Cinema General Education: Arts (GA) 3 Credits General Education: Social and Behavioral Scien (GS) COMM 150 (The Art of Cinema): COMM 150 is an introduction to cinema General Education - Integrative: Interdomain studies which aims to provide students with media literacy for a world GenEd Learning Objective: Creative Thinking in which communication is increasingly visual and cinematic in its GenEd Learning Objective: Integrative Thinking form. The course assumes that films tell stories and make arguments as communicative forms by drawing on a visual language that can COMM 110: Media and Democracy be learned. As such, films can be interpreted and analyzed to reveal something about the cultural conditions that produced them. The course 3 Credits seeks to familiarize students with examples of films that speak to both the forms that they follow and the cultural context in which they were COMM 110 Media and Democracy (3) (GH) (BA) This course meets produced. Movies, from early silent films to contemporary blockbusters, the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements. COMM 110 seeks to are examined as formal constructs, market commodities, and cultural introduce students to the important role of the mass media in artifacts that aim to represent a world for the viewer. Topics include the developing conceptions of democracy and democratic participation in emergence of the cinema as a communications technology, business contemporary societies. Utilizing current events, popular culture and industry and cultural institution; the global dominance of classical the students' own relationship to media as the template, this course Hollywood cinema; American film industry organization (production, is designed to stimulate student thinking about the interrelationship distribution, exhibition, vertical integration, the studio system, the star between the dynamics of US culture, news, politics, and civil society system); analysis of film styles (national cinemas, historical movements); in order to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of what analysis of film genres (e.g., silent film melodrama, film noir, comedy, civic engagement and global awareness can do towards nurturing the war film, the western); consideration of film audiences (reception, democracy's principles and practices. spectatorship, criticism); introduction to film aesthetics (film art and Bachelor of Arts: Humanities appreciation); and alternative cinemas (independent, documentary and General Education: Humanities (GH) experimental cinemas). COMM 150 emphasizes media literacy and seeks GenEd Learning Objective: Effective Communication to help students develop critical thinking, reading and viewing skills while GenEd Learning Objective: Key Literacies providing them with a historical context for the media that they consume GenEd Learning Objective: Soc Resp and Ethic Reason on a regular basis. All sections integrate lectures and readings with viewing feature films during the weekly practicum period. Many sections also incorporate slides and film or video clips during the lecture periods COMM 118: Introduction to Media Effects to allow students to exercise their critical viewing skills regarding certain 3 Credits teaching points. Students prepare for film screenings by reading, listening to lectures, and analyzing examples of relevant works. Introductory COMM 118 Introduction to Media Effects (3) (GS) Aside from working and lectures seek to provide a critical and historical context for each week's sleeping, individuals in the United States spend more time consuming screening; follow-up lectures offer critical analysis and examinations media than any other single activity. By the time the average person reward close viewing. The core purpose of the course, therefore, is to reaches the age of 65, he or she will have spent over six full years make film viewing a conscious, critical and analytic activity. of life watching television - not to mention the additional time spent reading newspapers and magazines, listening to the radio, using the Bachelor of Arts: Arts