HCI 470 – DIGITAL PAGE FORMATTING:
I’m guessing this class is pretty straight forward in its approach. True funny story: when I was in high school a million years ago, I used to work on the newspaper (oh my, I’ve been a media geek for a million years? Some things never change) we used to use PageMaker to layout our pages, then print quadrants and proceeded to use scissors and paste them onto the proof sheets. Pretty nifty, huh? For some strange reason, whenever I see the cover of the Macaulay Culkin movie, Pagemaster, I think of the good old days.
I like that this class employs “problem-based applications of perceptual and communication principles to the presentation of on-line and off-screen pages.” It seems to me that HCI 470 won’t be too tutorial-y because I can just go buy Digital Page Formatting for Dummies.
ENG 490 – WRITING FOR MAGAZINES:
The word “skills” caught my eye in the description of this course. I haven’t taken a writing course, again, since the good old days of high school. I probably need a reminder course. ENG 490 covers “the elements of style, humor, research, concept and imagery that characterize the literature of fact,” which frankly, sounds dang motivational because I want to improve my writing. Also, they force you to submit original work for publication and I think that would be good for me because right now I tend to shy away from rejection.
CMN 524 – PERSUASION:
Since I want to rebuff mass media and advertising, I think I’d better be aware of their means of persuasion. This course will examine “theories of persuasive communication… at interpersonal, group, and societal levels.” Of course, when I want to be the one selling my ideas, I will want to be ethical in my conniving. In CMN 524, “students also will consider the ethical considerations important in any discussion of persuasive communication.” I, for one, am sold.
MCS 530 - NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE:
One without the other!? Surely you jest! The description of this seminar uses the phrase “cultural ramifications of new media in shaping life experience and opportunity.” Theoretical culturist approaches to new media are fascinating to me and I would like to delve more into “how these new technologies impact identity formation, creative participation and concepts of public culture.” I would really like to figure out exactly what influenced me to be a New Media geek. I’m going to hedge my bets on the media itself.
CMNS 541 - CORPORATE COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE:
You know what would be really cool to examine? Corporate communications and culture IN a media corporation! In this course, I would ask questions such as: How do major networks communicate internally and/or other media outlets? What is the difference between corporation communications in relationship between a network as a whole and its local channel? What is the role of brand management within its own corporation? If I’m mad as hell, do I have to take it anymore and who is going to manage this Howard Beale-like crisis situation through effective communication?PRAD 553 – ADVERTISING:
I think this course will help me be well rounded in the production/design sphere of New Media Studies. Of course, I like that PRAD 553 “examines the theories, principles, applications and standards of advertising in multiple contexts, both from the perspectives of the practitioner and the consumer.” It was formerly CMN 553, so I think that the course will have a good angle into the effects of advertising on the consumer through the communicator’s lens.
PRAD 555 - PUBLIC RELATIONS:
I haven’t really taken any classes in the PR and Advertising fields and I would like to establish some groundwork in this sector. PRAD 555 combined with the PRAD 553 will hopefully give me the edge I need when it comes to using key terminology in an interview and make myself sound like the hot-commodity that I know I am and for others to believe it, too.
CMNS 563 - MULTICULTURAL MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS:
Since my undergraduate degree is in Media Studies, I think this may make me a master in “representational practices and theories that are informed by multicultural perspectives.” Here I can use my “epistemological” practices of finally understanding what role media plays in my ideology. I like to say that I see the world in pixels and color correct my dreams. Everything I read, see, hear and quote influences me in someway. Yes, I take my media with a polemical stance that it is the root of all evil, but when it comes down to it, I want to be influential, too. I decided to become a master in the art of communication as it relates to our informational era because I probably just want a lifestyle like the rich and famous… which all adds up to how I am going to personify and represent myself in this new media mediated world.
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