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CommunicationCOM 1010 Fundamentals of 3 creditsCommunicationFall and Spring SemestersThe theory and practice of communication from one person to another,in small groups, and before larger audiences. This course allows studentsto gain a basic understanding of the field of communication and developskills and self-confidence in a variety of settings.COM 1030 Career Speech: 3 creditsVoice & ArticulationFall and Spring SemestersDesigned to help improve your vocal presentation, this course will introduceyou to the development and production of American Career Speech.Individual progress will be charted through prepared presentation andclass exercises. We will train the ear as well as the voice; the listener as wellas the speaker. The dedicated student will notice enhanced vocal versatilityand personal projection.COM 1300 Introduction to Mass 3 creditsCommunicationFall and Spring SemestersThe historical, political, and social background of the mass media. Reviewsorganization, current status, and future trends.COM 2007 Sign Language 3 creditsFall and Spring SemestersSign Language is a basic course in American Sign Language and othersign communication used by Deaf people and some hard of hearing peoplein the United States. This course will help students: 1) acquire a basicskill level expressing and receiving American Sign Language, and 2) acquirea general knowledge and sensitivity to communication issues andhuman rights issues involving deaf and hard of hearing people, and anunderstanding and appreciation of Deaf culture in America.COM 2010 Public Speaking 3 creditsFall and Spring SemestersAn introductory course in public speaking. Chief emphasis is placed uponthe delivery of carefully prepared speeches and major attention is givento collection of materials, style, audience analysis, and outlining.COM 2015 Advanced Public Speaking 3 creditsSpring 2012This course is designed to build and expand upon COM 2010: PublicSpeaking. The chief emphasis is placed upon the understanding and applicationof the principles of effective speech communication and publicspeaking by preparing carefully delivered speeches that are appropriate foryour audience, the speech purpose, and the assignment. Attention will begiven to public speaking strategies, research, the "3 Vs" of message impact(visual, vocal, verbal), supplemental media use (e.g. PowerPoint), and theeffective delivery of different types of speeches used extensively in businessand the professions.Prerequisite: COM 2010 or permission of instructor.COM 2020 Intercultural Communication 3 creditsSpring SemesterThis course will emphasize what happens when members of different culturesinteract face-to-face, either casually or in organizational settings. Itwill focus on the communication behaviors and values common to allcultures and on the differences that divide people. Students will learn toovercome intercultural communication problems by learning how to understandand respect these cultural differences. This course meets the international/multiculturalrequirement.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2030 Oral Interpretation 3 creditsOffered PeriodicallyThis course introduces students to the process of taking a piece of literatureand presenting it to an audience by reading it aloud. The focus ofthe course will be on the basic physical and vocal performance techniquesused in oral presentation, as well as on techniques for understanding literature.Students will experience new and interesting ways of approaching,appreciating, and performing stories, poems, and plays.COM 2070 Broadcast News 3 creditsFall 2011A study of broadcast journalism, including the wire services freelancenews sources, governmental news sources, and correspondence. Newscastwriting and reading are included, along with methods of composing editorialsand investigative reporting.Prerequisite: COM 1010 or permission of instructor.COM 2100 Managerial Communication 3 creditsFall and Spring SemestersThe study of (1) how communication affects organizational behavior; (2)how motivation and perception affect communication; and (3) patternsof miscommunication and their correctives. The course uses principles,case studies, role play, and group experiments.Prerequisite: COM 1010 or sophomore standing.COM 2112 Conflict Management 3 creditsFall 2012Understanding the basic concepts involved in the management of conflictsituations, such as understanding attitudes about conflict and messagepatterns in conflict interactions, and exploring a variety of methods designedfor effective conflict management in interpersonal and organizationalcontexts.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2130 Nonverbal Communication 3 creditsFall 2012This course will help the student develop an awareness of how nonverbalcues are used in both the sending and receiving of communication messages.Students will examine nonverbal topics such as physical appearance,movement, gestures, artifacts, facial expressions, eye contact, vocalcues, time and touch.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2150 Health Communication 3 creditsFall 2013, Spring 2015Effective communication plays a key role in every aspect of the healthcare delivery process. This introductory course explores the communicationneeds of health care and health promotion and examines current issuesand problems in the modern health care system. It identifies strategiesand tactics that health care communicators, health care providers,and others employed in health care or related fields can use to improvecommunications with patients, families, other health professionals, themedia, and the general public.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2180 Leadership Communication 3 creditsSpring SemesterThe purpose of this course is to equip students with the understandingand application of communication competencies and communicator stylenecessary to engage in ethical leadership/followership among familymembers, the college community, and employment settings. Focus is oncommunication, specifically the rhetorical style of leaders’ abilities to negotiateand inspire people. The course is divided into three sections: basicleadership communication theories and concepts, rhetorical analysis ofwritten and verbal speeches, and self assessment of communication andleadership styles. The course will involve lectures, videos, case studies, research,and written and oral assignments.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2200 Writing for Broadcast Media 3 creditsFall and Spring SemestersStudy and practice in writing for a variety of formats in TV and radiobroadcasting, cable and other electronic media. Focus is on techniquesand formats used in production of public service announcements, promotions,commercials, news, and editorials.CURRY COLLEGE 2011 – 201230 CURRY COLLEGE CE Course Catalog 2011 – 2012 Rev. 3/2012
COM 2210 Writing for Online and 3 creditsPrint MediaFall SemesterExamines the role and history of print and online media in American society.Provides students with the opportunity to write for a variety of media,including newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Students researchand write an article for submission to a publication.Prerequisite: Six credits of 1000-level English, including ENG 1280.COM 2220 Screenwriting for Film and 3 creditsTelevision Fall 2011, 2013An introductory course in the form and function of film and televisionscripts. Narrative fiction scripts and story development in several genreswill be examined. Students will learn film and TV screenwriting techniquesand terminology through individual writing projects, and throughthe study and critique of works of others.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2230 Writing for Communication 3 creditsFall and Spring SemestersThe communication field requires specialized reading and writing skills.This course will equip students to thrive in any of the varied fields withinthe area of communication. Students will sharpen skills used in absorbing,analyzing, and processing information and develop a clean and clearwriting style.Prerequisite: ENG 1280/1290 and ENG 1380/1390.COM 2300 Mass Media Criticism 3 creditsSpring 2012A critical study of the mass media, including electronic, print, and nontraditionalforms of media. Focus will be on the application of principlesof broadcasting, journalism, film and emerging media.Prerequisite: COM 1300.COM 2310 Interviewing 3 creditsFall SemesterExplores the interviewing process in business and the helping professions.Personality, informative, persuasive, employment, in-depth and problemsolvinginterviews are studied. Sample interviews on videotape, case studies,role play and group experiments are used.Prerequisites: COM 1010 and sophomore standing.COM 2320 Effective Listening 3 creditsFall SemesterExamine the importance of listening in daily life. Learn to set appropriatelistening goals for various content and relational communication situations.Identify, analyze and appreciate your own personal strengths. Workon ways to minimize weaknesses. Learn to cope with anxiety, listener apprehensionand negative self-fulfilling prophesies. Learn the healthy communicationtechniques of breathing for relaxation, changing personalnegative self-talk and using positive visualization.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2330 Communication 3 creditsin RelationshipsSpring SemesterStudents will develop knowledge and skills for better relationships athome, work and in the community. They will explore beliefs and expectationsfrom past to present and how they affect them in the relationshipsthey have now. Participants will learn to respond in their current relationshipswith more options, more awareness, greater confidence and morecontrol. This course will use creative classroom activities such as relaxationexercises, discussion based on videos, dramatic role-playing and interviewing.Prerequisite: COM 1010.COM 2390 Writing About Sports 3 creditsSpring 2013, 2015“Writing About Sports” requires students to write, edit, and share withthe class, in a workshop setting, 12-14 papers. In the past, students havewritten game stories, parodies, poems, fantasies, op-ed pieces, etc. Requiredreading comes from an anthology of the year’s best sports writing.(Same course as ENG 2390).Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.COM 2400 Dramatic Literature 3 creditsSpring SemesterAn exciting glimpse into the cultures of the world as viewed through theirtheatres, actors, playwrights, and audiences. Includes a survey of historyof world theatre as it has evolved to this day. Fulfills the literature requirement.(Same course as ENG 2400). This course meets the CLAC I Literaturerequirement.Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.COM 2492 Introduction to Film: 3 creditsThe History of FilmFall SemesterAn introductory course in film, as an art form and an industry. Throughthe screening and analysis of several films, studentswill be introduced to various genres (film noir, the western, the gangsterfilm, documentary, suspense, the musical, etc.). The major focus of thecourse will be the history and development of film from 1895 to the present,especially in the United States, and significant advances in film technology.COM 2493 Introduction to Film: 3 creditsArt and FormSpring SemesterAn introductory course in film aesthetics and theory. Films willbe analyzed in terms of narrative structure and mise-en-scene(cinematography, sets and costumes, performance). The coursewill focus on the ways that film communicates, examining formand function, technology, film criticism, and examples ofsignificant genres and directors – especially those of the 1950’sthrough the 2000’s. Six-to-eight American and internationalfilms will be screened.COM 2496 Italian Cinema 3 creditsSpring SemesterThis course will examine the artistic, historical, and cultural themes ofItalian cinema from neo-realism to the present. It focuses on film as a vehicleof communication through which themes in Italian culture are explored.Taught in English. All films have English subtitles. (Same courseas ITAL 2496). This course meets the international/multicultural requirement.Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.COM 2498 Film Criticism 3 creditsOffered PeriodicallySurveys representative examples of motion pictures, including the “ShortSubject, Single Concept” genre of film as well as feature films, and focuseson visual presentation; examines several types of film criticism, and enablesstudents to recognize and evaluate the unique creative process infilm. (Same course as VA 2498).Pre- or Co-requisite: FA 1000 or sophomore standing.COM 2642 Rock and Roll Radio: A History 3 creditsSpring 2014This course will introduce students to the format that saved radio fromthe “invasion” of television in the early 1950s. There will be an analysisand examination of early radio formats, from radio’s inception throughcurrent themes. Discussion and audio examples will be provided to determinethe changes in “rock” formats that occurred as radio evolved fromAM to FM. Students will be responsible for developing a research paperwith an audio project as an option.Prerequisite: COM 1010 or COM 1710.COM 2645 1960s Radio: A Revolution 3 creditsFall 2012The course will introduce students to the program formats that changedthe course of radio and rock and roll music forever in the 1960’s. Therewill be an analysis and examination of those radio formats which will includediscussion, air-checks, and films. The main focus will be on the radiostations, DJs, and the music that reflected a chaotic time in our history.Prerequisite: COM 1010 or COM 1710.CURRY COLLEGE CE Course Catalog 2011 – 2012 Rev. 3/2012 31
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