Communication in Technology (B.S.)

Student Learning Outcomes

 

Goals

Students should have understanding of or competency with:

 

• Broadcasting and TV production concepts, strategies, and technology.
• The principles and technology of Web, graphic and print design.
• Communication as a dynamic and culturally interactive process with social, cognitive, and rhetorical dimensions.
• Mass communication phenomena, their relationship to popular culture, and the role of technology in the information age.
• The practice, process, and ethics of contemporary journalism, as well as an understanding of the news media landscape.
• The contemporary, historical, social and political contexts of mass media.
• Different goals and modes of oral presentation and the ability to competently express ideals.

 

Objectives

 

• Demonstrate critical thinking and expression in oral, written, and visual modes.
• Demonstrate competence in vocabulary, concepts, and issues in the mass media, as well as an understanding of the interplay between media and culture.
• Demonstrate conceptual development and oral presentation in various rhetorical and expository modes.
• Demonstrate applied skill sets in areas of graphic and Web design and television production.
• Demonstrate competence in solving problems of graphic design and composition using distinct forms of visual media and production modes.
• Exhibit professionalism as well as a universal and advanced set of communication skills that are consonant with the contemporary communication workplace.