Courses

COMS 125 - Oral Presentation and Media (3)

This course is designed to enhance your ability to construct and deliver speeches in a public forum or front of a camera. The method for improving your public speaking will be a combination of theory, critical analysis and practice. By the end of the semester, students should be able to construct and deliver three different types of speeches in front of an audience and be able to critically analyze other speeches. Satisfies Area A1 (Written & Oral Analysis).

COMS 160A - Humanities Learning Community (4)
COMS 160 A/B is a year long course, which features weekly lectures and small seminars. It constitutes a Humanities Learning Community (HLC) for any first-year student. The learning objectives of the HLC will satisfy A3 (Critical Thinking) and C3 (Comparative Perspectives and/or Foreign Languages)
COMS 160B - Humanities Learning Community (4)
COMS 160 A/B is a year long course, which features weekly lectures and small seminars. It constitutes a Humanities Learning Community (HLC) for any first-year student. The learning objectives of the HLC will satisfy A3 (Critical Thinking) and C3 (Comparative Perspectives and/or Foreign Languages)
COMS 162A - Humanities Learning Community Media Literacy (4)
COMS 162 A/B is a year long course, which, features weekly lectures and small seminars. It constitutes a Humanities Learning Community (HLC) for any first-year student. The learning objectives of the HLC will satisfy A3 (Critical Thinking and C3 (Comparative Perspectives and/or Foreign Languages) GE categories. C- or better required in the second semester for A3 credit.
COMS 162B - Humanities Learning Community Media Literacy (4)
COMS 162 A/B is a year long course, which, features weekly lectures and small seminars. It constitutes a Humanities Learning Community (HLC) for any first-year student. The learning objectives of the HLC will satisfy A3 (Critical Thinking and C3 (Comparative Perspectives and/or Foreign Languages) GE categories. C- or better required in the second semester for A3 credit.
COMS 200 - Principles of Media Communication (4)
An introduction to the history of mass communication, the mechanics of the mass communication industries, and theories of mass communication as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon.
COMS 201 - Video Production (4)

A course for beginning video students. Assignments include: creation of skits and music videos; and conducting interviews using DV camcorders. Students also do a final creative project of their own.  Required pre-req for COMS 369 (Studio Blue)

COMS 202 - Methods of Media Criticism (4)
A survey of ways to analyze mediated texts, with a focus on film, television, magazines, music, news, and advertising. Methods and concepts include semiotics, structuralism, ideology, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism.
COMS 210 - Web and Print Journalism (4)

Introduction to a wide range of writing styles and formats, from hard news to features. Students learn to write for newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the internet.   Required pre-req for COMS 368 (The STAR)

COMS 240 - Public Relations (4)

An overview of the history, structure, and organization of public relations. Students also learn the basic public relations tactics of writing, presentation, event organization, and web communication (taught face-to-face during the semester, hybrid during winter and summer session). Required pre-req for COMS 340 (Primitivo Public Relations)

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