Interested in taking a summer class? The following COM classes will be online for Summer 2021:
COM 117 INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES
Offered during Summer Session 2 (6/14/21-7/15/21)
Instructor: Susan Ryan
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of film analysis. Students will examine how formal elements like cinematography, editing, mise en scene, and sound are used to create meaning in film. Students will also consider how genre, authorship, film history, ideology, and gender, among other critical approaches, can be used to analyze films. This class satisfies the Literary, Visual & Performing Arts liberal learning requirement.
COM 342 LIFESPAN COMMUNICATION
Offered during Summer Session 1 (5/24/21-6/11/21)
Instructor: Keli Fazio
This course examines how communication processes (social support, language skills, interpersonal relationship management) can change across one’s existence. Students will map out both normative and unexpected demographics and health events across a lifespan (schooling, pregnancy, marriage, health issues, parenthood) and acknowledge how our communication processes influence and are influenced by these social experiences.
COM 343 LOOKING AT WOMEN:REP, FEM & FILM
Offered during Summer Session 2 (6/14/21-7/15/21)
Instructor: Anita Allyn
This course explores the impact feminism has had on film theory, criticism, and production. Various approaches to the study and production of the cinematic apparatus will be explored including psychoanalysis, issues of representation, spectatorship, ethnicity, and hybrid sexualities. This courses satisfies the Gender and Literary Visual, & Performing Arts liberal learning requirements.
COM 390 METHODS OF COMM RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
Offered during Summer Session 2 (6/14/21-7/15/21)
Instructor: Yachao Li
This course is an introduction to several methodologies for analyzing, discovering, and testing observations about communication processes and effects in both print and electronic media. Perspectives include experimental, survey, and content analysis. Students completing this course should be able to critically evaluate communication and other behavioral and scientific research. This class is writing intensive and satisfies the Quantitate Reasoning liberal learning requirement.