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This faculty-led travel course takes students abroad to co-create short documentary films with local changemakers solving problems in their own communities. Students spend the first seven weeks on campus doing preproduction planning and equipment training. They then travel over Spring Break to meet the changemakers, shoot footage on location, and engage with local culture, history, and traditions before returning to campus to edit the films over the last seven weeks. Students will develop production skills, cross-cultural understanding, and collaborative media advocacy techniques. There are no language or production prerequisites for this course.

In this class, students will be asked to explore their own creative processes and develop identities as creative thinkers and producers of media. Students will research theories about creativity; explore aesthetic principles relating to two-dimensional, interactive and time-based media; and experiment with traditional and experimental narrative techniques. The focus will be on developing creative concepts in pre-production phases (e.g., sketching, storyboarding, storytelling, writing treatments and artist statements, experimenting with electronic media). Students will work both individually and in groups; research and synthesize substantive ideas from outside influences; and effectively present ideas in oral, visual and written forms.

Studies the fundamentals of communication theory to provide a foundation for understanding how the media work, how they influence us, how we can analyze them and how we can effectively use them. Students can apply these critical skills to their roles as responsible consumers and communication professionals.

This is a CORE foundation course for all communication majors.

An introduction to the principles and practices of writing for major types of mass communication media, with an emphasis on content, engagement, organization, conciseness and clarity. Students learn various styles of writing for print media, social media, broadcast media, the Web, advertising and public relations. This course also discusses the ethical and legal implications of writing for the media.

Students learn and practice the principles behind the art and craft of scriptwriting for short, single-camera "motion picture" format, and multi-camera, live audience television (such as situation comedies).

Media in the Americas travels abroad to engage with Latin American media producers, regulators, scholars, and audiences. Students will experience first-hand how media policies, institutions, and technologies intersect with the politics and processes of media production, distribution, and consumption.

This course introduces students to game culture. In it, students will explore how games have and are shaping media. Students will learn critical frameworks for engaging with games, the prototyping process for games, audience analysis, world-building and research-based design. The course covers multiple game genres including video games, casual games, tabletop, and role-playing games.

It is one of the great ironies of contemporary existence that we are beset, informed, controlled and constructed by images, yet we receive almost no formal training in understanding and creating visual communication. Visual Literacy addresses this issue through interdisciplinary study of the terminology and theory of visual communication, with special emphasis on the relationship of visuality and cultural practice. Considering ideas from art history, photography, film, mass media and cultural studies, students are asked to analyze visual rhetoric, begin to see critically, articulate meaning and author visual rhetoric of their own.

This is a CORE foundation course for all communication majors.

Produce broadcast news packages for UTTV: Spartan News, the University of Tampa’s student-run campus news channel. Students work in teams to research newsworthy stories and then use smartphone production kits to conduct on-camera interviews with experts and citizens, shoot b-roll on location, and write and record stand-ups and voice-overs before editing, revising, and posting their short videos to UTTV's social media feeds.

Digital Citizenship teaches digital media production as a means of identity exploration, ethical formation, and civic engagement. Through sound and image capture, editing, and distribution, students will learn to better recognize and more effectively advocate solutions to social problems and thereby develop the necessary skills to go from casual users of contemporary technologies to digital rhetoricians practicing active, engaged citizenship.

This is a CORE foundation course for all communication majors. Laboratory fee required.

Produce radio for WUTT: Spartan Radio, the University of Tampa’s student-run radio station (1080am, RadioFX, and TunedIn Radio). Students learn about radio regulations, marketing, licensing, DJing, interviewing guests, news, and sports while producing live, on-air radio shows both from the WUTT studio and on location during campus events.

This course introduces students to the field of fan and fandom studies.  Students will learn to study fan culture within various contexts, such as business, fan culture controversies, participatory culture (fan impact on media), and fans as creators. Students will research and participate within the fandom of their choice.

A basic introduction to film studies. Surveys the history of American narrative film with an emphasis on the cultural impact of film in society.

An examination of world cinema movements.

This course introduces students to the historical, cultural, economic, and social aspects of advertising. Students will discuss advertising’s relationship to marketing as well as its role in traditional and new media landscapes. This course also provides an overview of advertising management, advertising planning, advertising creativity and concepts, global advertising, and laws affecting advertising.

This is an introductory course to public relations communication. The primary objectives of this course are to help students recognize the basic concepts and principles of public relations, to help them gain an understanding of the social importance of public relations in our community and organizations, and to help students personalize these concepts to their professional career interests.