May Term Courses
May Term courses offered by CLA departments during Summer 2024:
Organize an exhibition—together with classmates, museum professionals, and instructors—that spotlights local Black art, artists, and narratives.
Learn about public communication processes, elements, and ethics as you practice individual speaking designed to encourage civic participation.
In an era when almost everybody's a content creator, learn what makes mass communication different.
Study the central problems and methods of philosophy through culturally diverse texts to learn a range of U.S. philosophical traditions.
Study one of the fastest-growing sectors of the entertainment media industry that has a wide-ranging impact on our culture and society.
Study what it means to examine issues systematically and then apply interpersonal communication theories to real life examples, such as meeting people and dealing with unexpected encounters.
Survey the historical development, current issues, and problem areas in electronic media technologies and programming.
Examine popular culture in modern and historical contexts through various mass communication, sociological, and cultural theories.
Pose questions such as: How do we determine what is right and wrong? How should we live our lives? What do we owe others?
Analyze media images and messages as you study principles of literacy, media content and industries, and media effects.
Learn how social media, mobile phones, artificial intelligence, drones, and digital games have shaped and been shaped by global society.
Analyze eight films to see what they tell us about political and legal culture, and what messages they have for contemporary politics.
Analyze various texts in Spanish (popular press, business, academic) as training to communicate with accuracy in different contexts.
Explore how advertisements influence memory, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors and how humans actively process and resist persuasive messages.
Understand the impact the rise of social media has had on organizations and orient social media management from a communication strategist’s standpoint.