CMS专业

CMS 101/ Introduction to Communication and Media Studies

CMS 250/ Intermediate Communication Theory

CMS 301/ Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies

CMS 450/高级研讨会

CMS majors complete seven additional elective 课程. 学生可以选择这样做 complete a concentration within the major by selecting their elective 课程 from a list of 课程 designated within that concentration.  

The 高级顶点经验 (SCE) is the culmination of training in CMS. 规划 for the SCE begins the spring semester of the student’s third year. 虽然有 a set of universal SCE requirements, each project is customizable and includes the opportunites to do creative production work. SCE的成绩分为及格，不及格， 或荣誉.  

The 艺术与制作 concentration combines medium-specific 课程, applied skills, 创造力和批判性思维.

Includes 课程 like: Visual and Critical Thinking, Digital Storytelling, Game Design, Intro to Journalism, and Music Production & 记录

The Business and Organizational Communication concentration focuses on applied skills and communicative structures in corporations, nonprofits, or small businesses.

Includes 课程 like: Principles of Marketing, Advertising, Intro to Nonprofit Management, Persuasion: The User Experience, and Global Media and Technology

身份与文化的集中considers how we understand the world we live in, the people we share it with, and the ways in which identity and culture inform that understanding.

Includes 课程 like: Visual Anthropology; Race, Class, and Gender in Popular Media; Media and Power, Social Inequalities, and Media and Politics

电影研究专业考察电影如何对我们的生活做出贡献 understanding of the world, offers critical analysis 电影的历史和理论，并提供 发展动手技能的机会.

Includes 课程 like: Contemporary Popular Film & 电视，世界电影，电影理论， 视频编辑和中国电影

CMS 101/ Introduction to Communication and Media Studies

CMS 250/ Intermediate Communication Theory

未成年人 complete four additional elective 课程. 有各种各样的课程 供学生使用. Any course listed or cross listed in CMS counts as do a number of other 课程 in American Studies, Anthropology, Art & 艺术史、商业管理、 Computer Science, English, International Languages and 文化s, Music, Sociology, 和戏剧. For a complete list of the 课程 that count for the minor each semester, 请与项目主任联系. 

To declare the CMS major the student must have completed at least 16-credit hours and have a cumulative grade point average of 2.00或更高. 转学分和高级 Standing credit cannot be counted toward this 16-credit hour requirement.

To declare the CMS major or minor, students should contact the Program Director.  专业 are assgined a CMS advisor at the time of declaration.

学生的平均成绩必须保持在2分以下.00  and may not count more than two four-credit 任何专业成绩为D的课程.

Students must achieve a cumulative grade point average (“GPA”) of 2.总体上 the 128 credit hours offered toward graduation. 不超过六门四学分的课程 with “D” grades will count toward the 128 credit hours required.

CMS majors are encouraged, but not required, to participate in internships and/or 校外实习期. The Career Center has a robust roster of 机会 for CMS students. CMS emphasizes quality over quantity when considering internship and/or externship 机会. 

CMS offers students 机会 to participate in on-campus practica. 学生 acculumlate 4 practicum credits can count this as one of the major or minor elective 课程.