COMM 391

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Credit: 1 TO 3 hours.

(COMM 291) Presents special projects, research, and independent reading in communications for students capable of individual work under the guidance of a faculty advisor.

Prerequisite: Registration in the College of Communications or consent of college.

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COMM 391 class schedule data for spring 2005
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10548	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/05-05/04/05 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
31431	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:50PM	MW	136 Armory	McCarthy, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/05-05/04/05 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Info: *New Course in Cultural Studies for Undergraduate Seniors* COMM 391/575 To all undergraduate students, especially seniors majoring in communications, the humanities, the social sciences, education, the fine arts or law, the ICR/Media Studies program is offering a great opportunity to be mentored in the study and analysis of contemporary culture. COMM 391/575 is a new, exciting course seminar in cultural studies that will pair undergraduates with graduate students from many disciplines and departments across campus. Undergraduates will have the opportunity to sit in on course lectures, to participate with graduate students in vigorous discussion on the topics raised in class and in the course readings, and to have intensive one-on-one talking sessions with the course instructor, Professor Cameron McCarthy. Besides, undergraduate students will meet together separately with the course instructor for their own weekly tutorial session that will address their questions about the course topics and broader issues of popular culture as they arise in contemporary advertising, television, film, newspapers, and popular music. COMM 391/575 will offer undergraduate students a comprehensive introduction and overview of cultural studies and mass communications theories and research approaches to the analysis of contemporary media. The course will both call attention to and examine the implications of the extraordinary ability of television, film, popular magazines, popular music, and commercial advertising to produce, generate and circulate pleasures and meanings about contemporary youth, their needs, interests, desires and constraints. In addition to the discussion of these research traditions, most classroom sessions will also include screenings of segments from popular film, television programs and commercial advertisements for visual analysis in the classroom.
41100	Conference	PR	3:30PM -5:00PM	TR	106B1 Engineering Hall	Riismandel, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/05-05/04/05 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: COMM 391--Understanding and Producing New Media Provides students both a theoretical and practical understanding of new media. Studies the history and foundations of digital audio and video, network technologies and the Internet in order to develop a better understanding of the limits and possibilities of new media. These concepts are applied in hands-on demonstrations and assignments in producing new media, such as streaming audio and video on the web, CDs and DVDs. No prior production experience is expected or required.