As a senior seminar, this class is designed to culminate the accumulated skills, wisdom and theory from previous communications courses. Assignments are designed to reflect the learning outcomes of the course. Topics include:
· Ontology and epistemology: the nature of knowledge in social science
· Communication theory
· Create a digital portfolio
· Summarize paper topics and themes from past four years of undergraduate work
· Research traditions in media studies (presentations)
· Critical discourse analysis, metaphor analysis and visual methods
· Research topics
· Doing qualitative media analysis
· Annotated bibliographies