Places sports in a social perspective and teaches students to study and apply skills required of sportswriters, sportscasters and sports information specialists.
Instruction in the principles, theories and applications of typography, layout, design, editing and production of print and electronic dissemination of business publications, newspapers, magazines, websites and other new media. The course is designed to help develop desktop printing and online publishing skills.
An intensive advanced-level audio production course. Advances the students' broad audio knowledge and production abilities in creative sound recording/mixing/ processing/editing and sound design. Emphasizes audio for media, applied media aesthetics, sound design, and creative and artistic approaches to various types of sophisticated audio production including music recording, radio production and audio for other media (video, film, new media).
Study of the role of the manager as a communicator at various organizational levels. Students study various communication strategies available to managers. Topics include information processing; presenting, receiving and gathering information; goal setting; decision making and change
Characterization of family styles of communication as they reflect values, attitudes and perceptions of family members as a group. Examination of effects of individual communication strategies on development of family patterns of interaction. Selected readings, field research, two exams.
Attain practical, real-world experience by producing a biweekly program for SU's campus and community access channels. Create seven bi-weekly, half-hour programs (in the "soft news" genre) that highlight campus-related achievements, events and interests of students' choosing. All oncamera and behind-the-scene crew positions are filled by students.
The study and practice of strategic communication principles guiding social media strategy planning, integration, monitoring and measurement over a range of platforms and its systematic application
Explores the art of filmmaking using digital technology. Requires producing a short film from script to screen. Students write, produce, direct, cast, shoot and edit a short film in a genre of their choice. Film theory and techniques are explored and applied in the production. HD equipment is used for acquisition and finishing.
Study of programming at the systems level, mostly in a UNIX environment. Topics include processes, threads, sockets, basic I/O operations, interprocess communication and use of Shell and Perl scripts.
Applications of discrete mathematics to computer science and introduction to the theory of computation. Topics include automata and formal languages, computability by Turing machines and recursive functions, undecidability and computational complexity.
