JOUR304: Social Media and Society
This course examines principles and implications of social media. Social psychological perspectives of social media will be examined, but the subjects of discussions and readings are not limited to those perspectives.
JOUR404/604: Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Surveillance Society
This course examines theoretical frameworks and implications of cybersecurity, privacy, and surveillance in society. Social scientific perspectives will be major focuses in the course along with some basic knowledge on cybersecurity technologies. The subjects of discussions and readings will provide social scientific frameworks viewing contemporary cybersecurity, privacy, and surveillance issues in our global society.
JOUR703: Innovation
Students will learn about theoretical concepts of media and innovation. The concepts related to media innovation such as media technologies, network, internet, surveillance, interactivity, anonymity, and others will be assigned as readings and discussed in classes. Students will write a term paper on a topic of their choice as a result of taking this course.
JOUR755: Engagement
The role of engagement and participation in journalism. We will study examples of community engagement, learn tools for engagement and create and run a participatory journalism project. (Formerly JOUR 655; implemented SP2010).
Tcom2640: Interactive Online Media
Syllabus
This class will discuss many practical and conceptual issues of interactive media which can help students to posses broad pictures of the interactive media issues and, also, acquire in-depth knowledge on one of the topics of interactive media field. The course topics and examples are mostly related with current interactive media such as email, World Wide Web, Web software applications, Web search, computer games, DVR, etc. For general understanding of interactive communication, this course includes some basics of web design. However, discussions on web design and its features are intended to advance students' knowledge on interactive communication field rather than to limit class topics to web design skills.
A combination of lectures and class discussions will be used throughout the semester. The goal is a balance of your learning practical skills, such as web design, and analytical thinking. This course will attempt to provide knowledge which will help students to survive in the seemingly unpredictable interactive media environment.
Tcom4640: Practicum in Interactive Online Media Production
Syllabus
This class is designed to provide advanced level Web design experience. Course topics, examples, and assignments are related with contemporary Web design skills. However, this course does not limit the course content to the technical skills of Web design. The instructor of the course will expect students to contemplate the effects of their Web design strategies on users' Web experience.
This course includes a plenty of assigned practices of Web design. The instructor will lecture on many aspects of Web technologies and students are expected to take notes, practice and complete provided assignments. In the end, this course aims at providing fundamental and advanced technology understandings and practices. Students will be self-sufficient in advancing their Web design skills in their future Web design projects after completing this course.
Tcom3520: Online Social Media
Syllabus
This course examines applications and implications of online communities. First, students will read literatures related with online communities. Social psychological perspectives of online communities will be primarily examined, but the subject of discussions and readings are not limited to those perspectives. Students are expected to develop one's own theoretical and practical perspective on online communities during the course.
Tcom3600: Media Research Method
Syllabus
This course will provide an introduction to media research for students who have little knowledge of the area. As most decision-oriented positions in media require that a person have a general understanding of what research is and how it can help answer questions, this course sets out to provide the beginning students with a working knowledge and feel for important research concepts and skills. A combination of lectures and class discussions will be used throughout the semester. The goal is a balance of your learning research skills and analytical thinking. This course will attempt to make you an informed consumer of social research, a skill that will be useful in all facets of life.
MC6300: Social Science Research Methods: Graduate Class
Syllabus
This is a basic research methods course for those with little or no previous experience or course work in communication research. The goal of this course is to provide students with a critical framework for evaluating communication research and some hands-on experience in the process of empirical research. A combination of lectures and class discussions will be used throughout the semester.
MC7800: Web Surveys & Experiments: Graduate Class
Syllabus
This class will deal with practical and hands-on skills on building elaborate Web survey and experiment. To accomplish this goal, students will first learn conceptual understandings of Web site development. However, the primary focus of this class will be about how to build and conduct complex Web survey and experiment. Students will learn how to use script languages and database to build Web survey and experiment and it will provide understandings and hands-on skills to researchers who would like to use Web survey or experiment in their research. At the end of the class, students will be able to build their own Web survey and Web experiment. The knowledge they acquire during the class will provide a tool that they can be applied in various Web research environment with a full control of their research design.
MC7370: Seminar in New Media Research: Graduate Class
Syllabus
This course will investigate many different issues related to new media. Because of evolving nature of new media, readings and discussions will focus on developing research ideas. Many theoretical and methodological approaches on new media will be carefully examined for the students to develop their own research frameworks. However, the new media research area is vast and, thus, it is difficult to cover all related topics. The instructor will carefully select some important perspectives and the class will primarily discuss those topics. In sum, this class will provide a training ground for students to devise their own research questions related to new media research.