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COMARTS 373 explores intercultural communication and rhetoric, examining how culture, history, and power shape identities and cross-cultural engagement.

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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.

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COMARTS 458: Global Media Cultures analyzes media systems, practices, and uses from a global perspective.

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COMARTS 459 explores the political, economic, and cultural relationships between new media and society.

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COMARTS 465 teaches video editing, post-production, and narrative techniques for film and media.

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COMARTS 466 teaches the elements of dramatic screenplay writing, focusing on story concept, structure, character, dialogue, and visual storytelling.

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A workshop teaching sync-sound moving image production fundamentals by rotating students through key film set roles to produce scenes from scripts.

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COMARTS 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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COMARTS 570 studies major rhetorical theories from ancient Greece to Bacon, covering Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others.

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COMARTS 573 introduces global and transnational rhetorical studies and analytic tools for examining discourses by global actors.

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COMARTS 605 is the Digital Studies Capstone where students create an online portfolio integrating certificate program material.

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Special topics in advanced film, video, or digital media production.

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COMARTS 613 covers specialized topics in film history, theory, and criticism.

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Field experience in Communication Arts applying communication concepts to professional settings like business, media, and government.

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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.

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COMARTS 682 covers the writing and completion of a senior Honors in the Major thesis.

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COMARTS 691 is a senior thesis course focused on research and writing preparation under faculty direction.

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COMARTS 692 covers the writing and completion of a senior thesis under faculty direction, following COMARTS 691.

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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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COMARTS 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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COMARTS 799 is an independent study course focused on independent research and writing under instructor supervision.

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Introduction to Communication Arts graduate studies, core areas, and resources

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COMARTS 902 is a film colloquium focusing on advanced research in film history, theory, and criticism.

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COMARTS 903 explores current research in cultural studies, audience effects, and broadcast regulation.

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COMMUNICATION SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM applies social scientific approaches to study interpersonal communication and media effects.

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Advanced research in rhetorical theory, criticism, and the history of public address.

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Advanced review and exploration of theoretical and methodological developments in media studies.

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