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BWS 297 - Postcolonial Literature 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ENGL 297
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature and multicultural studies.
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BWS 298 - African-American Literature 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ENGL 298 and AMST 298
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature and multicultural studies.
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BWS 299 - Community-based Learning 1 Credit Hours
Taken in conjunction with a regularly listed black world studies course, this fourth credit-hour option involves community service and multicultural reflection.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor and black world studies program director.
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BWS 304 - African-centered Pedagogy 3 Credit Hours
Pedagogy-the science of teaching-has an ancient and unique format in African experience. Researchers have found evidence of African pedagogy in the ancient rock paintings of Zimbabwe (Mshaya Mvura Cave). This course will examine the whole-system-based pedagogy that emerged from and is still being implemented in many locations on the continent of Africa. We will search for its retentions in the Diaspora. The lives and teachings of great African teachers (Ptahhotep, Imhotep, Cheikh Anta Diop, Boukman, Mortimer Planno, Malcom X) will be fully explored.
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BWS 311 - Black Spirituality 3 Credit Hours
The African worldview has produced a particular set of assumptions about reality. This collective consciousness about reality informs the way African people speak about and interact with seen and unseen elements. The African worldview distinguishes black spirituality from other religious and spiritual traditions. This course will delineate the African world view, and it will make inquiries into the similarities and common themes found in some of the major black spiritual traditions (Vodou, Ifa, Ausarian, Akan, Izangoma, charismatic black churches, and Rastafarian).
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BWS 318 - Intercultural Communications 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CAS 321
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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BWS 320 - From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Experience from 1619 to 1877 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as HIST 320 and AMST 320 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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BWS 321 - From Jim Crow to the White House: The African-American Experience Since 1877 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as HIST 319 and AMST 321 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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BWS 350 - Special Topics in Culture and Civilization 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SPAN 350
Prerequisite(s): See SPAN 350 .
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BWS 366-367 - Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa 18 Credit Hours
Listed also as STA 366-367
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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BWS 372 - Law and Society 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CRIM 372 and SOC 372 .
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BWS 380 - Contemporary Africa 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as HIST 380 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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BWS 381 - Social Inequality 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SOC 380
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BWS 385 - Critical Theoretical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SOC 385
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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BWS 386 - Diversity, Language, and Culture 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as EDUC 386
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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BWS 390 - Atlantic Africa 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as HIST 390
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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BWS 400 - Black World Studies Capstone; A Synthesis of Knowledge 3 Credit Hours
This is a senior/junior integrating class. It is an attempt to help students synthesize what they have learned in the course of their interdisciplinary studies. It is also a re-examination of students’ learning goals (and outcomes) for Black World Studies.The culmination of this ocurse is a formal presentation of a research paper to the BWS faculty and students. This course is highly recommended to all BWS seniors and to juniors with explicit permission from the director of the program.
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BWS 401 - Topics in Black World Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to cover topics that do not get enough attention in a regular class setting, and so, need to be explored further. Guest speakers, experts in various aspects of the realities of life in the black world will be featured. Students may select approved topics to research and present to the class for discussion.
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BWS 410 - Black World Seminar 3 Credit Hours
This course is usually taken in the senior year. Students will be asked to synthesize their knowledge of black world experience from various disciplines and the book club. They will also be using their multicultural techniques to demonstrate their skills in research and presentation.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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BWS 450 - Independent Study 1-8 Credit Hours
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BWS 455 - Internship 1-8 Credit Hours
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CAS 130 - Introduction to Design Applications 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ART 208 .
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CAS 146 - Multimedia Web Production 3 Credit Hours
Students will learn about multimedia software applications and tools for the manipulation of text, image, audio, and video data. J
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CAS 155 - Introduction to Public Speaking 3 Credit Hours
This class is an introduction to the principles and effective practices of oral communication. This class will familiarize students with both the hows and whys of effective speechmaking. The students will deliver speeches in a variety of basic forms. Through this class students will become better consumers and providers of public communication.
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CAS 160 - Voice and Diction 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEA 160 .
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CAS 170 - Introduction to Film Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to basic concepts that will enable them both to appreciate and to analyze films on their own. Lectures will illustrate techniques such as editing, camera movement, composition, sound, lighting, color, and special effects. The course will demonstrate how these techniques create meaning.
Previously numbered as CAS 226
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 200 - Business and Professional Speech 3 Credit Hours
Student participation in realistic communication activities, giving presentations in various communication situations. CC
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CAS 204 - Introduction to Communication Theory and Practice 3 Credit Hours
This survey course introduces students to the underlying assumptions and theories used to explain communication in a variety of everyday contexts, including rhetorical and communication studies, mass communication and journalism, and organizational communication and public relations. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between theory and practice so that students will understand the implications of communication in their individual lives and in their communities.
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CAS 205 - Masterpieces of the Cinema 3 Credit Hours
This course will be devoted to works that have withstood the test of time. Films will be such works as Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Casablanca, as well as works from European cinema. The course will focus on the merits of each work, as well as what the films reflect about society and individual values.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 207 - Contemporary American Film 3 Credit Hours
This course covers landmark films from the 1960s through the 2000s. Included are works by Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, and others. Attention will be given to the reworking of older genres and the sociopolitical aspects of new cinema.
Listed also as AMST 207 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 208 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture 3 Credit Hours
This course uses a rhetorical lens to examine the impact popular cultural texts-including everything from film and television to the Internet and comic books-have on our daily lives. That is, rather than assuming popular culture is “merely entertainment” this course examines how these “texts” act to persuade and influence us by studying theoretical bases for the study of popular culture through a rhetorical lens and teaching skills for how to critically engage with that which surrounds us every day. RC/CS
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CAS 217 - Race and Communication 3 Credit Hours
In this course, students will learn that race and culture are related concepts but not necessarily synonymous, and this crucial distinction can inform and impact the way individuals from different racial backgrounds communicate with one another. This course utilizes a foundational standpoint that historically situates race as both a sociocultural construct and (to a lesser extent) a biological reality in an effort to examine and explore issues of privilege that often arise from the rhetoric surrounding the concept of race. In an effort to help students understand how prevailing notions of racial identity can affect communication of all kinds, they will be asked to engage with and analyze public discourses regarding interracial communication from a variety of cultural and historical contexts. Ultimately, students will learn that while interracial communication functions as one aspect of the larger field of intercultural studies, such communication must nevertheless be considered through various lenses, such as ethnic and national identities. CC
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CAS 218 - Family and Health Communication 3 Credit Hours
Family and Health Communication will provide an opportunity for understanding how communication around health; develops, maintains, enriches, or limits family relationships. Class members will be exposed to the interconnection and communication complexities of family and health communication. CC
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CAS 220 - Film Criticism 3 Credit Hours
This in-depth course gives students an advanced understanding of film as a complex cultural medium of mass communication through the discussion of a variety of important theoretical and critical approaches. This class emphasizes the complex social and psychological roles film plays in society and the interrelationships between films and audiences. RC/CS
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 222 - Mass Media and Society 3 Credit Hours
An examination of the production, construction, and consumption of mass media in American society and the role that media forms and representations play in the production and reproduction of systems of inequality, culture, and ideology; emphasis on the critical/cultural analysis of the ways in which class, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexuality are shaped, reshaped, and represented in popular culture and media. RC/CS
Listed also as SOC 222 and AMST 222 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in social sciences.
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CAS 224 - Radio Broadcasting 3 Credit Hours
This is a hands-on course in radio broadcasting, management, writing, and production. J
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CAS 225 - Fans and Fan Communities 3 Credit Hours
Understanding who the recipients of a message are is important in a variety of professional contexts. Increasingly, the recipients being communicated to are “fans”. Knowing fans and keeping them happy can be the difference between success and failure. Why is that? What is the power that fans, and the communities they form, hold? This completely online course will work to answer these questions by delving into questions such as what are fans, what are fan communities, and what is their role in the modern world of media, pop culture, and consumerism. The course will cover topics of defining fandom, creating and maintaining fans, understanding fan activities, and exploring how being a fan impacts society, culture, economics, and more. RC/CS
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CAS 227 - Deconstructing Disney 3 Credit Hours
This course will look at all aspects of the Disney empire: early cartoons, classic fairytales, and recent animated features. Attention will also be given to the commercialization of Disney products and the development of theme parks. Focus will be placed on what the creative works reveal about American ideology, gender, race, and nation.
Listed also as AMST 227
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 229 - Magazine Writing 3 Credit Hours
Students will learn to write in a range of magazine and newspaper feature styles. J
Prerequisite(s): CAS 256 and sophomore standing.
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CAS 230 - Television Production 3 Credit Hours
This is a basic laboratory experience in television production. J
Prerequisite(s): CAS 170
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CAS 232 - Corporate Communication 3 Credit Hours
This course has two areas of concentration. It examines through case studies the corporate communication function within organizations, including topics such as managing image, corporate advertising, media and investor relations, and government affairs. It also provides experiential learning in the critical interpersonal skills needed to manage.
Previously numbered as CAS 426
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CAS 234 - Digital Communication: Technology and Criticism 3 Credit Hours
This class critically examines the current and future digital technologies used for interpersonal and mass communication. Students will learn how these technologies are designed, how their design impacts how they are used, what impact they have on society and culture, and what impact we can have using them. J
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CAS 236 - Web Design I 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ART 227 .
Prerequisite(s): CAS 130 .
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CAS 237 - Introduction to Graphic Design I 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ART 240 .
Prerequisite(s): CAS 130 .
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CAS 238 - Games and Game Design 3 Credit Hours
From social games and virtual worlds to board games and card games, games are increasingly being used for purposes other than entertainment. But what has to be considered to design a game for entertainment versus for education? This blended course will tackle these questions by focusing on how to design games. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own ideas for a game. In online readings and discussions, students will explore the theories and concepts behind games and game design, such as game mechanics and game motives. In weekly class meetings, students will play and discuss various types of gaming media. RC/CS
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 239 - Television Production II 3 Credit Hours
Advanced laboratory experience in television production. J
Prerequisite(s): CAS 230 .
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CAS 240 - Self and Society 3 Credit Hours
An examination of the social science paradigms that address how human action and human actors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. This course emphasizes the social construction of self and the social context of everyday behavior in terms of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and age and will address the following themes: the development of the social self, socialization and identity, attitude formation and change, prejudice, conformity, and the determinants of attraction. CC
Listed also as SOC 240 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in social sciences.
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CAS 241 - Family Communication 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the communication concepts of effective interaction in the family, including verbal and nonverbal communication, family meetings as a mode of communication, and casual barriers to effective communication. CC
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CAS 244 - News Media Editing 3 Credit Hours
Students will learn the essentials of managing news media organizations, editing stories and photos, and packaging news. J
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and CAS 256 .
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CAS 246 - Art of Leadership 3 Credit Hours
An analysis of the field of leadership and achievement of organizational goals in business organizations, as well as in non-profit and educational institutions. Students will learn the steps to super leadership and the practices of exemplary leadership. CC
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CAS 250 - Interpersonal Communications 3 Credit Hours
Concepts and insights for better understanding of the dynamics of face-to-face interpersonal relations. Students experiment and practice ways of improving communication patterns. CC
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CAS 251 - Interpersonal Skills: Managing People at Work 3 Credit Hours
The course is designed to provide both theoretical and practical learning, as students analyze case studies and role-play solving work-related communication issues. CC
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CAS 256 - News Media Writing 3 Credit Hours
Students will study the basics of journalism and the media business, and practice fundamental news writing and reporting skills. The class will include lecture, discussion, and deadline news writing exercises on a range of topics. Students also will report stories on campus events and issues using photos and video as well as text. J
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101 .
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CAS 262 - Communication Research Methods 3 Credit Hours
This class applies the basics of quantitative and qualitative research methods to address questions about communication. Students are encouraged to conduct research about a communication topic that interests them. With guidance, students will develop a research study, conduct the study, analyze the results, and present the findings in print and orally.
Prerequisite(s): CAS 204
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CAS 264 - Journalism Practicum 1 Credit Hours
Students will write for the school newspaper, the Dominican Star, putting to use the knowledge gained from CAS 256 - News Media Writing and gaining valuable published samples of their work for their portfolios. The practicum can be taken four times. J
Prerequisite(s): CAS 256 .
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CAS 265 - Documentary Film 3 Credit Hours
This course will help students learn the different techniques, genres, and cultural approaches to making documentaries. The course intends to present documentary films as a non-fiction storytelling form that can present truths and perspectives to empower people in their lives, their communities, and their societies. At the same time, documentary films can be used to present biased perspectives on reality that may mislead or create a false narrative. Students in this course will learn how to analyze and critique all such films by examining the history of documentary filmmaking and the types of documentaries that have emerged in different historical periods and global cultures. Overall, students will come to learn how to engage with documentary films as records of peoples and events that can reinforce or challenge traditional conceptions of the world.
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CAS 269 - Advanced Public Relations 3 Credit Hours
In this class students will build on the skills acquired in CAS 274 and design strategies and campaigns for corporations, nonprofit agencies, and advocacy groups. CC
Prerequisite(s): CAS 274 .
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CAS 274 - Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communication 3 Credit Hours
A study of basic functions, principles, and techniques of advertising, including the role of advertising in the marketing system and as a process of mass communication. CC
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CAS 275 - Advertising Strategy 3 Credit Hours
Students will learn how to plan advertising accounts and develop advertising campaigns, with an emphasis on research, analyses of consumer behavior, strategic planning, and creative execution. Much of this course will consist of case studies and hands-on team applications. CC
Prerequisite(s): CAS 274 .
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CAS 277 - Women and Film 3 Credit Hours
This course will examine the images of women in Hollywood film and new possibilities offered by independent female directors. This course will relate film to social, political, and personal issues, including work, marriage, motherhood, sexuality, and violence. Discussions will focus on stereotyping, the male ‘gaze,’ and new images.
Listed also as SWG 277 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 278 - Seeing Hitchcock 3 Credit Hours
This course will analyze the personal vision and visual style of Alfred Hitchcock. Films include black-and-white works and his color masterpieces such as Rear Window and Vertigo. Topics include the transfer of guilt, the “wrong man” theme, voyeurism, black humor, and gender.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 286 - Masculinity and Communication 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the concept of masculinity across various historical and cultural contexts in order to determine how masculinity impacts communication practices and behaviors such as self-presentation, interpersonal and intercultural communication, and public and political discourse. Students will engage with a variety of texts in order to consider how prevailing notions of masculinity impact the way individuals communicate. CC
Listed also as SJCE 286 and SWG 286 .
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CAS 289 - Introduction to French and Francophone Cinema: From Pictures to Pixels 1890 to the Present 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as FREN 289 , BWS 289 , and MFL 289
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 or CRWS 102
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 290 - Hong Kong and Asian Cinema 3 Credit Hours
This course will showcase the extraordinary films coming from Asia, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Students will be exposed to the cultures of Hong Kong, China, and Japan through a wide range of films, including martial arts masterpieces, Jackie Chan comedies, historical melodramas, and contemporary dramas. The course will provide historical and cultural background to prepare students to better appreciate these works.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 291 - Film Noir 3 Credit Hours
This course will focus on one of the most fascinating areas of American cinema: crime films and suspense thrillers, such as Double Indemnity and Gilda. These films haunt the imagination, combining stunning visuals with twisted plots. Lectures will discuss the themes and psychological/political significance of these works.
Listed also as AMST 292 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 292 - Communication and Social Justice/Ethics 3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to promote a greater understanding of how communication concepts, theories, methods, and forums, such as organizational and corporate communication as well as the media industry (TV, radio, print, film) can be applied to address important global (personal and corporate) issues and problems impacting ethical frameworks and social justice. This course is designed to heighten that awareness as well as give students analytical tools they can use to help themselves with ethical decision making and improving overall the ethical foundation and social justice in communications. CC
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CAS 293 - Communication Law 3 Credit Hours
This class will study the philosophy and practice of laws relating to free speech and free press in American society. Students will examine First Amendment protections as well as censorship, copyright, libel, privacy, and government regulation. J
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.
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CAS 294 - American Mass Media History 3 Credit Hours
This class analyzes the sources of American news and entertainment media and examines their development up to the present day. J
Listed also as AMST 294 and HIST 296 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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CAS 295 - Italian Cinema 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ITAL 295
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 298 - Global Media 3 Credit Hours
This class will explore the tension between local and international forces in the world’s news and entertainment media. The course begins with a comparison of the major national media systems and traditions, and then moves on to an exploration of the globalization of the media through satellite communication, transnational media corporations, and the exports of the American culture industry. J
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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CAS 299 - Community-based Learning 1 Lab Hours
Taken in conjunction with a regularly listed communication course, this 1 credit-hour option involves community service and guided reflection.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
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CAS 302 - Special Topics in Health Care Communication 3 Credit Hours
Students will understand the key distinctions in communication tactics in health care organizations. This understanding will help students to facilitate appropriate action and or problem solving for themselves, their families and their community. The course concentrates on nine arcs from the circle of health care communication. CC
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CAS 306 - Human Resources and Career Development 3 Credit Hours
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Listed also as MGMT 362 .
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CAS 307 - Advanced Public Speaking, Argument, and Debate 3 Credit Hours
This class examines persuasion, or argument, both as a form of communication and a competitive process. It focuses on developing research, critical thinking, and oral communication skills. Students will study the role of argument in public policy debate, and the part argument plays in sustaining a vibrant and engaged civil society. Students will learn how to use a set of systematic strategies to develop both informal and formal arguments. RC/CS
Prerequisite(s): CAS 155 or CAS 200 and sophomore standing.
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CAS 308 - Rhetorical History and Criticism 3 Credit Hours
This course is an in-depth introduction to the long tradition of rhetoric, the various arts of rhetorical criticism, and the theories that underpin this approach to analyzing communication-from the influence of classical thought and the Christian Church to the Enlightenment and postmodern thought. Students will be introduced to a broad range of ideas, topics, artifacts, issues, problems, perspectives, positions, and readings so that they can then apply that knowledge to more confidently craft arguments regarding real-world persuasive communication. This class is writing, research, and critical-thinking intensive. RC/CS
Prerequisite(s): CAS 204 and sophomore standing, or admission to the honors program.
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CAS 311 - Health Care Communication 3 Credit Hours
As medical advances make it easier for us to live longer, the ability to communicate in a healthcare setting is increasingly relevant in our daily lives. Whether from the perspective of wellness or disease control, health care can be complicated to navigate. This introductory class will examine the various models of health care communication, marketing, quality assessments, regulatory oversight groups, dealing with patient complaints, methods for measuring patient satisfaction, disability and the medical model, and culture and diversity in healthcare. CC
Listed also as MGMT 364 and HLTC 755 .
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CAS 312 - Health Communication Messaging, Interventions, and Campaigns 3 Credit Hours
This class focuses on designing effective, theory-based health communication messages for interventions and campaigns while addressing the diverse characteristics of audiences and delivery medium. The work in this course will acquaint you with a broad understanding of core health communication principles as they apply to campaign and intervention planning, development, execution, and evaluation. Our readings and discussions will emphasize text and research that explore an array of theoretical health messaging processes and practices. We will study applied, best practices in message design across media and contexts. CC, CS
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CAS 320 - Organizational Communication and Behavior 3 Credit Hours
An experimental learning laboratory for developing skills associated with the responsibility of leadership, learning to contend with others on a face-to-face basis, understanding the human needs of others, learning to motivate others to action, and exercising authority in a just and satisfactory manner. CC
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CAS 321 - Intercultural Communication 3 Credit Hours
The course is aimed at demonstrating how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology and communication can positively influence the conduct of global business. World culture and economic geography are also included. CC
Listed also as BWS 318
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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CAS 325 - Introduction to Hispanic Cinema 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SPAN 325
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 320 , or consent of the instructor.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 330 - News, Disinformation and Truth in the Digital Age 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the political, economic and structural roots of the current crisis of truth and accepted knowledge in American political discourse. Why do so many people believe things that aren’t true? Conventional wisdom blames Social Media and nefarious trolls and bots. We will examine them, but also will look deeper for answers in the legal, regulatory, business, political, and social choices and trends of the past 25 years. These have fundamentally changed long-standing patterns and practices in the news media industry and the journalism profession that had helped establish a common body of factual knowledge.
Listed also as POSC 330 , SOC 332 , and SJCE 330 .
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CAS 336 - Cult Cinema 3 Credit Hours
In this class, students will view and analyze several b-movies and cult films produced in various national cinemas and different historical periods to uncover what they reveal about prevailing sociocultural conditions and attitudes. B-movies and cult films tend to exist on the fringes of mainstream cinema, and therefore they often have more leeway to explore and critique controversial issues that are frequently ignored by major studio releases. This course uses films to explore issues surrounding feminism, authoritarianism, interracial relations, and queer identities. This course utilizes online discussions and critique papers to interrogate these issues and many others.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 340 - Identity and Storytelling Through Documentary Film 3 Credit Hours
The power of documentary storytelling comes alive as we look at it through a lens of social activism and personal transformation. Students will be exposed to interviewing and transcription techniques, learn the value of active listening in interviewing and engage with the local community by serving at a human services agency that works with immigrants. At the completion of the course, student work will be showcased through an exhibit to complement the Lund-Gill Lecture.
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CAS 344 - Health Literacy and Communication 3 Credit Hours
The work in this course will explore the role of communication in matters of health literacy, acquaint students with a broad understanding of health literacy in the United States, and examine the lived experiences of patients, families, and providers through theoretical constructs from the discipline of communication. This class focuses on applying health literacy principles to real life health phenomenon, in clinical encounters, as well as in community and public health contexts with an emphasis on underserved and vulnerable populations. CS
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CAS 349 - Photojournalism 3 Credit Hours
In this course students will learn the basic elements of visual communication, reporting, and storytelling through digital photography. J
Listed also as ART 359 .
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.
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CAS 350 - Persuasion 3 Credit Hours
This class applies social psychological theories to the construction of persuasive messages. Students learn how to conduct qualitative and quantitative audience analysis and to design visual and oral persuasive messages based on their research and social psychological theories. Analysis, synthesis, and communication skills are stressed. CC, RC/CS
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.
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CAS 351 - Propaganda 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the nature, use, history, and ethics of propaganda in modern society. Students will study how governments and movements harness the mass media to further their agendas, and how others try to resist and subvert it. J
Listed also as SOC 351 .
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
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CAS 352 - Social Media Campaigns 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on a discussion of production practices that use multiple media technologies for strategic communication goals. During the course, case studies of these practices are discussed for journalism, marketing, and entertainment. Students will learn how to produce a strategic communication message across different media technologies. CC, J
Prerequisite(s): CAS 234 and sophomore standing.
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CAS 353 - Film and Fairytales 3 Credit Hours
This course will look at films like The Red Shoes, Beauty and the Beast, and Edward Scissorhands. Topics include the history and purpose of fairytales and how they have changed over time. The films will be approached in terms of politics, psychoanalysis, and gender.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 356 - Reporting 3 Credit Hours
This class builds on the reporting, writing, and editing skills learned in CAS 256 - News Media Writing . Students will report real stories on deadline and publish their articles, photos and videos on the web. J
Prerequisite(s): CAS 256 .
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CAS 358 - Gender and Media 3 Credit Hours
All cultures recognize differences between the sexes. Yet “masculinity” and “femininity” are understood by anthropologists to be culturally determined. This course looks at theories and instances of gender differences as they are articulated in mass-mediated popular culture discourses. It considers the relationship between gender and genre, explores advertising and consumer ideologies, and considers historical and contemporary film, television, and print media texts. RC/CS
Listed also as SWG 358 .
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CAS 361 - Industrial/Organizational Psychology 3 Credit Hours
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Listed also as PSYC 360 .
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 290 or QUAN 201 , or consent of instructor.
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CAS 364 - Special Topics in Health Communication 3 Credit Hours
The course will focus on special topics of interest in health communication. Topics for this course will vary.
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CAS 373 - Film Comedy 3 Credit Hours
This course is an overview of film comedy beginning with silent clowns like Charlie Chaplin through the sound pictures of the Marx Brothers and ending with a look at contemporary black and female performers. Discussion will include the unique aspects of film comedy, political implications, bromance, the use of obscenity, parody, and other topics.
Listed also as AMST 386
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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CAS 385 - Politics and Film 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as POSC 262
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CAS 406 - Strategic Risk and Crisis Communication 3 Credit Hours
This course highlights the role of theory in risk communication, issue management, crisis communication, and image repair discourse. Students will learn to think strategically about the role of media in crisis communication planning and gain appreciation for the value of preparing for a crisis. Collaboration, team-learning and problem solving in risk and crisis situations will all be explored through inclass exercises and simulations. Students will also consider the legal and ethical issues that are often present and managed by crisis communication professionals.
Listed also as HLTC 753 .
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CAS 411 - Newspaper Practicum 3 Credit Hours
Students will lead the Dominican Star newspaper and related online productions. J
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
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CAS 435 - Communication Capstone 3 Credit Hours
This capstone course will provide students in the communication department with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired in their courses to engage in practical communication-related activities and an advanced capstone project related to their major. Additionally, this course will provide students with the opportunity to explore potential careers and post-undergraduate opportunities.
Prerequisite(s): Communication studies and corporate communication majors need to have completed CAS 204 and CAS 262 . Digital Journalism majors need to have completed CAS 204 and CAS 356 . Students must have successfully completed a minimum of 15-credit hours in the communication arts and sciences department before they can enroll in this class.
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CAS 450 - Independent Study 1-8 Credit Hours
Open to majors with the consent of the instructor.
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