Core Curriculum
Courses
1.
Communication and Society Overview Course
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Communication and Society
(17:194:510): For specializations in communication and media studies, leadership, public relations, strategic organizational communication, and communication
and media research, OR
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Digital Media Innovation (17:194:509): For the digital media specialization, OR
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Health Communication
(17:194:560): For the health communication specialization
2.
Communication Research (17:194:514): Focuses on literacy in reading
original research
3.
Organizational Communication (17:194:511)
4.
Mediated Communication (17:194:512)
- Digital media students take as
an alternate Media Studies: Theory and Practice (17:194:517)
5.
Capstone (17:194:519) or ePortfolio (17:194:508): This is a 3-credit
faculty-supervised project completed by all M.C.M. students in or near the
last semester of study.
Options
A.
Capstone paper requires students to integrate what they have learned in
the M.C.M. program through the completion of a clearly focused case study,
literature review, or empirical project. The projects can be of an applied or
scholarly nature. Projects are supervised by the course instructor as well as
through faculty mentors.
B.
ePortfolio is a 3-credit online course in which students develop a
professional electronic portfolio that showcases:
- A résumé
- Academic work
- Professional development
courses
- Certifications and/or
military service
- Social media and other
digital assets
- Relevant audio/video material
- Professional, community, and
school activities
- Writing samples
The
class will leverage theory, research, best practices, and current thinking to
help each individual determine the most effective approach to reach relevant
stakeholder groups and to identify critical steps to reaching career goals.
Assignments will help students prepare their eportfolios, which will be of use
in career searches. Feedback from the instructor and peers will provide an "outside" perspective of eportfolios.
