Communications Major Program

The concentration or minor in Digital Media Innovation puts graduates in a solid position to best utilize digital media in a variety of organizations and types of professions, ranging from business, non-profits, and media organizations. Students focus both on hands-on production skills across digital media while gaining a deep understanding of underlying trends taking place across information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Students graduating with a concentration in Communications will be able to:

• Communicate effectively in oral, written, and media forms of discourse;

• Employ relevant technologies in the production, and presentation of texts;

• Demonstrate an ability to work effectively in collaborative learning and problem-solving environments;

• Craft thoughtful, and creative texts that demonstrate a keen sensitivity to language, form and effect;

• Analyze media texts closely and critically, demonstrating how languages, style, form, and genre create effects and shape meanings;

• Articulate an understanding of how cultural, historical, and ideological contexts condition both the creation and the reception of texts across time and in today’s complex, diverse world;

• Know and understand various methods and research frameworks to explore and answer critical Communication questions as well as explain study results via scholarly dialogue;

• Reflect on how the knowledge, skillsets and abilities developed in the Communications Department transfer meaningfully to other academic and non-academic, real-world situations.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Communications Major Foundation Courses		24
Media Innovations in Practice:
COMM 314	Storytelling Across Digital Media II	3
CSCI 288	Web Page Design	3
Choose One:		3
BADM 170	Marketing
BADM 384	Marketing Communications
COMM 250	Radio News: Reading and Reporting
COMM 260	Podcasting
COMM 315	Social Media Strategies
COMM 323	Publication Design and Typography
COMM 396	Public Relations
COMM 415	Media Meaning-Making: Theory/Practice
CSCI 236	Web Development
Global Communication and Media:
COMM 302	Communicating Across Cultures	3
Choose One:		3
ANTH 306	Cross-Cultural Documentaries
COMM 319	Global Issues in Communication
COMM 400	Intercultural Communication
COMM 410	From Semiotics to Significations
GIST 150	Introduction to Global and Intercultural Studies
IDST 351	Race and Racism from a Global Perspective
MODL 310	Language & Indigeneity in Latin America
Electives: Choose one from below list or any course not taken in above categories		3
AMGT 245	Arts and Culture Marketing
COMM 205	Introduction to Photography
COMM 240	Sports Journalism
COMM 306	Business Writing and Presentation
COMM 337	Advanced Photography
COMM 338	Photojournalism
COMM 481	Advanced Special Topics in Communications
DATA 350	Practicing Data Science
ENGL 153	Introduction to Visual Culture
HLTH 200	Health Promotion and Planning
HLTH 350	Health Communication
Total Hours		42