Communication Liberal Arts Transfer Majors

Introduction to Mass Media presents elements of the mass communication process with emphasis on the forms, functions, regulations, and social impact of the various media. This course helps students understand how media influence their lives.

Composition I emphasizes fluency, thesis-driven organization, the use of supporting details, and research techniques. Writing is approached as a recursive process that includes prewriting strategies, drafting, revising, and editing. The course helps students shape writing to serve readers' needs and define a sense of purpose in their writing. It also gives students strategies for reading college-level material.

Prerequisite(s): Appropriate placement scores or equivalent.

This course introduces students to the oral communication process and how it affects human interaction There will be an emphasis on developing interpersonal, small group, and public speaking skills. Students will be involved in activities that provide opportunity for the understanding and improvement of their oral communication skills.

Intercultural Communication explores basic principles and theories of intercultural communication with opportunities to gain communication competence through immersion experiences and cross-cultural interactions.

Interpersonal Communication applies communication theories and concepts to real world friendships, romantic partnerships, families and workplace relationships. The course focuses on improving interpersonal skills and increasing communication competence.

This course focuses on the principles, theories, and processes of small group communication. The primary goal of this course is for students to apply content to group communication situations to function more effectively.

Diversity and the Media presents a historical perspective and current analysis of various minority groups and how the media depicts these groups. This course helps students understand why and how stereotypical media portrayals have been produced and how the under-representation of diversified images affects their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors toward others.

This course introduces the basic acting techniques with emphasis on concentration, movement, voice, and play script analysis. Students will experience the acting process by engaging in various exercises and performing monologues and scenes.

This course studies the fundamentals of public speaking, emphasizing the process of speech preparation and delivery in various contexts.

This course will explore literature through performance. Students will learn to select, analyze, interpret and perform literature of various types using vocal and physical techniques.