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Introduction to digital communication covering its impact on daily life, development of digital skills, exploration of media tools/trends, and analysis of online power dynamics.

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Examines reboots, remakes, and retellings across film, TV, literature, games, and digital media to analyze narrative persistence, cultural significance, and artistic style.

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Introduction to Contemporary Media covers key concepts for critical analysis of television, film, radio, and digital media, focusing on meanings, aesthetics, technology, industries, representations, and audiences.

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Communication and Human Behavior covers communication inquiry, face-to-face interaction dynamics, and the pragmatic and artistic functions of public communication.

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Argumentation and Debate course focusing on constructing and evaluating arguments in democratic societies, discussing differences, and examining advocate/audience roles.

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Introduction to interpersonal communication covering concepts, theories, and research across relationship phases with theoretical and practical applications.

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Directed Study is an intermediate-level project under faculty direction, involving independent reading, production, or research, graded on a credit/no credit basis.

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Directed Study: intermediate-level project under faculty direction, such as independent reading with research paper, production project, or membership in a research team.

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Film Comedy explores the comedy genre by examining theories of humor in film, introducing conceptual tools for critical appreciation, and investigating subgenres across popular film traditions.

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Explore various topics in rhetoric, politics, and culture. Students explain the role of a rhetorical perspective in interpreting emerging topic areas.

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Explore various topics in film and media studies, history, and theory.

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The Rhetoric of Reproductive Justice studies US reproductive justice activism, legal bases for rights, and Supreme Court decisions on birth control and abortion.

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Rhetoric and Health investigates how health is rhetorically constructed and deployed across various contexts.

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Explores the landscape of communication technologies with a focus on generative AI, discussing its role in communication contexts and examining its transformative effects on individual, social, and professional lives.

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Examines how personal relationships unfold in online communication contexts including social network sites, online dating, and mobile computing. Covers impression management, deception, trust, identity, and social support.

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Critical Internet Studies traces the Internet's history, reception, audience, industries, rhetorics, fictional and filmic narratives, and its role in transmitting culture.

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Introduction to Film explains how films work using classics like Citizen Kane and Vertigo. It covers major film types, film criticism approaches, and techniques like mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound.

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A critical overview of U.S. television cultural industries, covering broadcast to streaming, with focus on economic/regulatory structures, programming, labor, and digital adaptation.

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A hands-on introduction to creating film, video, and television content from script to screen, covering media production principles and visual storytelling approaches.

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Explores fact/fiction in documentary film, analyzing experimental techniques and filmmakers’ portrayals of reality.

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Introduction to rhetoric in politics and culture, exploring the interrelationship of theory, criticism, and practice as a social force emerging from political and cultural contexts.

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Analyze the persuasive communication of demagogues, dictators, and extremists across various media to understand how they exploit uncertainty and gain power.

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Study social influence and persuasion to improve skills, reduce audience resistance, and critically consume messages in contexts like influencers and marketing.

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Explores communication science and rhetoric with a digital focus, analyzing digital media through historical, technical, cultural, social, or political lenses.

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New Media and Society explores political, economic and cultural relationships between new media of communication and society, including history, race, gender, class, globalization, national identity and everyday life.

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Covers video editing and post-production theory and practice, including narrative editing, color correction, and audio for film, music videos, and television.

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Introduction to dramatic screenplay writing for television and film, focusing on story concept, structure, character, dialogue, and visual storytelling.

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Filming on Set: Film & Television Workshop teaches fundamentals of sync-sound moving image production, covering directing, cinematography, lighting, sound, design, color grading, and logistics.

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A survey of rhetorical criticism methods. Apply methods to landmark historical and contemporary texts - from presidential war discourse to women's suffrage rhetoric to timely political debates.

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Examines problem solving in complex organizations by studying communication pitfalls, decision-making biases, and blind spots. Learns to innovate in teams and make high-quality decisions.

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