Core Courses (12 credits)

NEW CORE FOR 2019 AND BEYOND

OLD CORE

Core Curriculum Courses

1.  Communication and Society Overview Course

• 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


• Digital Media Innovation (17:194:509): For the digital media specialization, OR


• 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.