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:
· Create a digital portfolio
· Summarize paper topics and themes from past four years of undergraduate work
· Research traditions in media studies
· Video essay
· Critical discourse analysis, metaphor analysis and visual methods
· Research topics
· Doing qualitative media analysis
· Annotated bibliographies and literature review