May Term Courses
A sampling of May Term courses offered by CLA departments during Summer 2022:
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.
Learn about the styles and forms of "popular" music in the context of European and American cultures.
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.
Learn about cinematic representations of Latin America in context of other narratives and the experiences of Latinos in Hollywood.
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?
Learn about the social, visual, cultural, economic, historical, and ethical dimensions of reality television.
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.
Learn the logic of scientific communication theories in interpersonal, small group, organizational, intercultural, and mediated communication.
Analyze various texts in Spanish (popular press, business, academic) as training to communicate with accuracy in different contexts.
Study the functions of communication in work groups, in organizational hierarchies, and between organizations.