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COMARTS 449 introduces sound studies, exploring sound's role in media and culture while teaching digital audio recording, editing, and podcasting skills.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is moderately difficult, with reviewers noting the final project is tough but fair, and clear information is provided throughout.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleCOMARTS 458: Global Media Cultures analyzes media systems, practices, and uses from a global perspective.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMARTS 459 explores the political, economic, and cultural relationships between new media and society.
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Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sampleCOMARTS 465 teaches video editing, post-production, and narrative techniques for film and media.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026COMARTS 466 teaches the elements of dramatic screenplay writing, focusing on story concept, structure, character, dialogue, and visual storytelling.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026A workshop teaching sync-sound moving image production fundamentals by rotating students through key film set roles to produce scenes from scripts.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026COMARTS 478 explores Internet communication as a force of power, using rhetorical analysis to assess media content's impact on politics, social issues, and justice.
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COMARTS 518 explores communication's role in health inequalities and theories for reducing them through public discourse analysis.
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Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sampleCOMARTS 570 studies major rhetorical theories from ancient Greece to Bacon, covering Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others.
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Spring 2025–Spring 2025 · limited sampleCOMARTS 573 introduces global and transnational rhetorical studies and analytic tools for examining discourses by global actors.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course content was new to the reviewer, but Baishya ensures individual understanding through dedicated time.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2024 · limited sampleCOMARTS 605 is the Digital Studies Capstone where students create an online portfolio integrating certificate program material.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Special topics in advanced film, video, or digital media production.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026COMARTS 613 covers specialized topics in film history, theory, and criticism.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
A historical review describes Kelley Conway as a nice and wonderful teacher who is approachable for questions.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2025Field experience in Communication Arts applying communication concepts to professional settings like business, media, and government.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Second field experience applying communication concepts to professional settings like business, media, and government.
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COMARTS 681 is a senior Honors thesis course focused on research and writing preparation under faculty direction.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMARTS 682 covers the writing and completion of a senior Honors in the Major thesis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleCOMARTS 691 is a senior thesis course focused on research and writing preparation under faculty direction.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMARTS 692 covers the writing and completion of a senior thesis under faculty direction, following COMARTS 691.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMARTS 698 is a directed study allowing students to complete advanced independent projects, such as research papers or productions, under faculty guidance.
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COMARTS 699 is a directed study allowing students to complete advanced independent projects, such as research papers or productions, under faculty guidance.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sampleCOMARTS 760 covers advances in communication theories through in-depth review and evaluation of behavioral and social scientific perspectives on human communication.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2024 · limited sampleCOMARTS 799 is an independent study course focused on independent research and writing under instructor supervision.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleIntroduction to Communication Arts graduate studies, core areas, and resources
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMARTS 902 is a film colloquium focusing on advanced research in film history, theory, and criticism.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMARTS 903 explores current research in cultural studies, audience effects, and broadcast regulation.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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COMMUNICATION SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM applies social scientific approaches to study interpersonal communication and media effects.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Advanced research in rhetorical theory, criticism, and the history of public address.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Advanced review and exploration of theoretical and methodological developments in media studies.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026A graduate seminar reviewing recent and ongoing theoretical developments in rhetorical theory.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026No released grades for this term.
Offering snapshots currently cover Fall 2026. Earlier grade records do not provide a complete offering history.