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Graduate Certificate in Mass Communication

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Graduate Certificate

Courses Offered in MASS COMMUNICATION

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Mass Communication Research

  • This course provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to communication research methods. This course helps you become a more knowledgeable and competent consumer of scholarly research and of the everyday research to which they are exposed by the mass media. It details communication research is conducted from start to finish.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Visual Communication

  • This comprehensive course is a consistent, clear, and orderly presentation of best engineering design methods and practices. Topics are presented in a timely and orderly fashion; each new topic progressively builds on concepts and terminology introduced in earlier sections.

  • 6 Credits

Mass communication Research

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to the research culture.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Asking questions about communication.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Finding, reading, and using research.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Observing and measuring communication variables.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Designing valid communication research.
    Research ethics and politics.
    Experimental research.
    Survey research.
    Textual analysis.
    Naturalistic inquiry.
    Describing quantitative data.
    Inferring from data: estimation and significance testing.
    Analyzing differences between groups.
    Analyzing relationships between variables.
    Epilogue: concluding research.

Introduction to Visual Communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    To sense. to select. to perceive.
    Light.
    The eye, the retina, and the brain.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    What the brain sees: color, form, depth, and movement.
    The sensual and perceptual theories of visual communication.
    Visual persuasion in advertising, public relations, and journalism.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Images that injure: pictorial stereotypes in the media.
    Typography.
    Graphic design.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Informational graphics.
    Cartoons.
    Photography.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Motion pictures.
    Television and video.
    Computers.
    World wide web.
    The more you know, the more you see.
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