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Core Courses
HU 2820 | Communication and Culture
Introduction to the ways that communication creates and maintains culture. Considers a variety of perspectives on the significance of communication. Explores the importance of communication for understanding culture.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2830 | Intro to Speech Communication
Introduces the diversity of perspectives in speech communication with emphasis on public speaking. Topics include the nature of the public sphere, co-cultural contexts, speaking anxiety, conventional and non-western models of structure and evidence, and speaking/listening competencies.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F/S
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 4895 | Project in Communication and Culture
In-depth research project in communication on topic approved by faculty advisor. Topics such as gender and communication, environment and communication, sound and communication, violence and communication. Project completed under direction of faculty advisor.
Credits: 4
Term(s) Offered: F/S
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU XXXX | Language Course
Credits: TBA
Term(s) Offered: TBA
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU XXXX | Language Course
Credits: TBA
Term(s) Offered: TBA
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
Humanities Courses
HU 2130 | Introduction to Rhetoric
Examines the classical origins, cultural contexts, and contemporary relevance of rhetorical traditions.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2324 | Introduction to Film
An introduction to the concepts, terminology, history, and criticism of film. Emphasizes a critical examination of film within its social, cultural, and historical contexts. Assignments may include essays, short writings, or exams in which students demonstrate their knowledge of concepts and issues introduced through readings, screenings, and discussions.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F/S
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2631 | Fundamentals of Photography
Students will explore the history, theory, and applications of traditional black and white photography through readings, lecture, student presentations, and hands-on camera and darkroom work. Students will learn in-depth camera techniques and darkroom processes while also having an opportunity to explore related areas such as digital photography, color slide photography, and other photographic processes through special projects.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2645 | Graphic & Information Design
A computer-intensive introduction to the principles for creating clear, effective graphic communication. Students critique the work of other designers in terms of the work's audience and intended effect, and they construct and critique their own design projects as well.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2650 | Intro to Web Site Design
Provides experience in planning and constructing web pages. Discusses historical, ethical, and social implications of the Internet and digital culture. Students will develop a balance of technical and aesthetic knowledge and an understanding of some of the problems and limitations of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: HU 2645
Restriction: None
HU 2702 | Ethical Theory and Moral Problems
An introduction to the major concepts and theories of normative ethics and metaethics and an examination of a variety of issues in applied ethics including poverty and economic justics, lying and truth-telling, euthanasia, sexual conduct, and issues in communication ethics.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2910 | Language and Mind
Introduction to the linguistic study of structural and cognitive aspects of language. Topics may include examination of sounds, words, sentences, and discourse: oral, written, and electronic variation: the comparison of human ability with animals and computers: first and second language acquisition: brain architecture: the classification and distribution of world languages.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 2920 | Language and Society
The study of how societies regard, use, and organize themselves with respect to language. Topics may include dialect variation based on geography, class, ethnicity, gender, etc.: language distribution and multilingualism around the world: the history and future position of English: language standards and attitudes towards minority language variants of bilingualism.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 3130 | Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
A study of contemporary theories of rhetoric and their application to understanding and critiquing various forms of persuasive discourse.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3150 | Reading and Writing
A study of how and why different groups of people use reading and writing differently in varying situations and in varying textual media. Topics may include: the various ways texts function and reading is used: the authority of texts: access to reading and writing and to various textual media.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: (UN1002 or UN1003) and UN2001
Restriction: None
HU 3151 | Rhetoric of Everyday Texts
The examination and production of everyday texts such as image-texts, e-mail, web pages, signs, museum exhibits, architecture, and fashion in terms of their theoretical, historical, cultural, and technological contexts. Students should expect to produce "everyday texts" of their own as well as write about texts examined in the course.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3261 | Communicating Across Cultures
Comparative study of interpersonal communication across cultures by both foreign and American students, with emphasis on cultural patterns, attitudes, values, and nonverbal behaviors. Instructor selects cultures for study from Third World, Western, or nonwestern regions are selected by the instructor.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: On Demand
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: Sophomore, Junior, Senior standing
HU 3262 | Topics Francophone Cultures
An introduction to Francophone cultures (in English) in a comparative perspective. Includes a survey of French history and its influence on modern day French and Francophone societies through movies, media and recent technologies, and a critical examination of cross-cultural differences between French and American cultures.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: On Demand
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: Sophomore, Junior, Senior standing
HU 3263 | Topics German Cultures
An introduction to German-Speaking cultures (in English) in a comparative perspective. Includes a survey of Central-European history and its influence on modern day German-Speaking societies through movies, media and recent technologies, and a critical examination of cross-cultural differences between German and North-American cultures.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: On Demand
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: Sophomore, Junior, Senior standing
HU 3264 | Topics in Spanish Speaking Cultures
An introduction to Spanish-speaking culture (in English) in comparative historical perspective. Includes a survey and a critical cross-cultural examination of Latin-American culture and Spanish-speaking societies (European, Caibbean, and North, Central, and South American) through literature, music, film, art and other media. Spanish-speaking cultures and North American society.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3324 | Visual Media Analysis
Introduction to selected topics in contemporary visual media. Topics may
include genre studies, national cinema, independent film and video, auteur
approaches, and other contemporary issues. Students are expected to
examine critically the theoretical, industrial, cultural, and aesthetic
challenges posed by particular visual media and the contexts from which
they emerge.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: Permission of instructor required; May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
HU 3545 | Literature Across Borders
Students of literary genres, themes, and movements, with emphasis on comparing and contrasting perspectives reflected in literatures from Western and non-Western cultures. Topics may focus on historical, social, aesthetic, and cultural factors as they influence these literatures. Film may be used.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 3621 | Introduction to Journalism
Introduction to the history and practice of journalism. Includes critical analysis of journalistic coverage, journalistic style and editing, and ethical issues in journalism.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3642 | Intro to Multimedia Development
A hands-on and theoretical introduction to multimedia development. Students construct a prototype multimedia project: they plan a project; form a project team; design and test an effective interface integrating color, sound, and graphics. Students analyze multimedia projects and writings about multimedia.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3701 | Philosophy of Technology
A study of philosophical aspects of technology. Topics may include technology and progress: technology and ideology: technology and nature: technological determinism: ethics and technology: technology as a world view: gender, race, class, and technology: and the relationship between technology and dystopias, utopias, and the "good life."
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1003 or UN2002
Restriction: None
HU 3820 | Interpersonal Communication
Examines practices and issues of relational communication and encourages critical awareness of common assumptions. Topics include verbal and nonverbal cues, conflict models, friendship, intimacy, and the interpersonal significance of race, gender, class, and disability.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3840 | Organizational Communication
An approach to understanding organizations in their socio-historical contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives in communication. Explores meanings, roles, relations, interactions and structures from a communication perspective.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3850 | Cultural Studies
Examines the way that culture communicates values, feelings, beliefs; structures differential relations of power and possibility; creates difference and hierarchy; considers struggles over meanings that open up possibilitie for diversity and change.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3860 | Popular Culture
Explores specific examples of popular culture that reveal how popular values, feelings, and beliefs are created and maintained. Considers the historical, social, political, and economic contexts of popular culture from a communication perspective.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction:
HU 3871 | Media and Communication Theory
Examines relationships among changing communication technologies and communication theories. Emphasizes issues involving emerging technologies and emerging theory.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3880 | Communication and Community
Examines community building as a communicative process. Students develop an awareness of themselves as cultural beings whose practices and world views influence the contours and possibilities of community.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F (Alternating Years)
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3890 | Documentary
Considers representations of cultural experience, focusing on written, photographic, filmic, and audio approaches to documentary in an effort to better understand the ways people struggle to grasp and explain the contradictions and instability of cultural life.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 3910 | Language Issues in the World
A consideration of particular issues of language use in the world today. Topics considered may include endangered languages and the future of English; how technology relates to discourse; how language is used in academia; how power is created, enacted and maintained through language; gender variation in language, etc.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
HU 4625 | Risk Communication
Examines models for communicating risks associated with environmental, safety, and health hazards. Considers the diverse roles assumed by the public under each of these models and means of ensuring that risks are communicated fairly, honestly, and accurately.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN2002
Restriction: Junior, Senior standing
HU 4630 | Teaching with Technology
Designed to explore use of technology-rich environments in improvement of teaching and learning and how such environments should be designed, implemented, and assessed. Includes introduction to internet, video and audio, presentation, and online assessment/portfolio technologies.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: None
Restriction: None
HU 4642 | Topics in Advanced Media
Critical and practical topics in the quickly changing media of our time. Topics may include digital photography, advanced multi-media development, advanced graphic design, color theory, or three-dimensional modeling and rendering.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: S
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: Instructor Perm. Reqd.
HU 4890 | Topics in Communication
In-depth examination of selected issues or problems in the study of communication, such as gender and communication the environment and communication, sound and communication, violence and communication.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: On Demand
Prereq: UN1002 or UN1003
Restriction: None
Fine Arts
FA 3730 | Sound Design
Introduction to designing sound through design projects. Focuses on fundamental technical understanding, practical design presentation techniques, specific drafting conventions, exploration of sound equipment, designer/ director/artist relationships, script analysis and design concepts, and design history.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: F
Prereq: UN 1002 or UN 1003
Restriction: None
FA 3740 | Recording
Hands-on learning in the art of the recording engineer. Students develop an understanding of pop and classical recording approaches, skills to decide which approach is appropriate for a given task, and the technical knowledge necessary to implement the chosen approach.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: Spring - Offered alternate years beginning with the 2006-2007 academic year
Prereq: FA 3730 and FA 1702
Restriction: None
FA 4730 | Advanced Sound Design
A study of the musicality of noise and texts and their integration in theatrical sound design, mixing, and mastering. Emphasis is on student creativity and critical listening. Develops further applications of artistic concepts introduced in FA 3730.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: Fall - Offered alternate years beginning with the 2006-2007 academic year
Prereq: FA 3730 and FA 1703
Restriction: None
FA 4740 | Transducer Theory
In depth study of Microphone and Loudspeaker design as it applies to usage in recording and live sound reinforcement with an emphasis on interaction with the acoustical environmental.
Credits: 3
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Summer - Offered alternate years beginning with the 2005-2006 academic year
Prereq: FA 3730 and FA 1702
Restriction: None