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Communication Studies

Spring Semester 2010

COMM 120: Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication

This course is an introduction to communication theory, research, and practice in a variety of interpersonal and organizational contexts. This course examines the role of communication in both personal and professional relationships.

Required Textbook

  • Wood, Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters (2009), ISBN 978-0495567646

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Katy Bodey, PhD
  • Department: Communication Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

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COMM 140: Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism

This course is an introduction to the critical analysis of film and television. Students become familiar with the concepts on which humanistic understandings—as opposed to social scientific understandings—of media and culture are currently based. The course surveys the filmic, televisual, photographic, musical, and digital texts of which the contemporary international mediascape is composed. Students also study the analytic techniques available for making sense of, appreciating, and taking issue with individual media texts, groupings of media texts, and the overall “media ecology,” as understood in their proper cultural and historical contexts.

Required Textbook

  • Grossman, Wartella, and Whitney, MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture, 2nd edition (2006)

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Required Films

  • Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944, US)
  • His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1939, US)
  • Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959, France/Japan)
  • Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977, US)

These films can be rented at most video stores. Students are required to have access to a VCR or DVD player.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Young Eun Chae, MA
  • Department: Communication Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
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COMM 249: Technology, Culture, and Society

This course focuses on selected aspects of communication studies. This course will cover the role of communication in technology, culture, and society. The course moves historically, exploring the cultural impact of technology in the mid-1800s (telegraph), the early 1900s (film, telephone), World War II (commercial radio, television), and the 1960s (transnational information technologies, computer, VCR, walkman). The second half of the course focuses on the current implications of the Internet for democracy, privacy, community, art, entertainment and other concepts central to US society and culture.

Required Materials

Texts

Fall and spring semester: Three books are required:

  • Branscomb, Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access (1995)
  • Paul, Digital Art (2003)
  • Aoki, Boyle, and Jenkins, Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain (2006)

Summer term: One book is required:

  • Branscomb, Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access (1995)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Film

Required for fall, spring, and summer:

  • Modern Times, directed by Charles Chaplin (United Artists, 1936).

A version of this film can be rented at most local video stores or purchased from Amazon or other online sellers. You are required to have access to a VCR or DVD player.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Joyce Rudinsky, MFA
  • Department: Communication Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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COMM 251: Introduction to American Film History and Culture, 1965–Present

An introduction to some key connections between US film history and US cultural history from 1965 to the present day.

Required Texts

  • Monaco, The Sixties, 1960–1969 (History of American Cinema, Vol. 8)
  • Prince, A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989 (History of American Cinema, Vol. 10)
  • Wood, Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan … and Beyond

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Required Films

Films are listed in the order they will be studied. You must rent or purchase each film in advance of the associated lesson, but you are not required to rent or purchase any films before the start of the semester except High School Confidential, which will be studied in the first lesson. Because of the number of films required in this course, it is strongly recommended that you join Netflix unless you have some other reliable source for films.

  • High School Confidential (Arnold, 1958)
  • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldridge, 1962)
  • Psycho  (Hitchcock, 1960)
  • Medium Cool (Wexler, 1969)
  • In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
  • Portraits of My Lai Veterans (Strick, 1971)
  • High School (Wiseman, 1968)
  • The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974)
  • Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
  • Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1977)
  • Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
  • The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
  • Mr. Mom (Dragoti, 1983)
  • The Verdict (Lumet, 1982)
  • Gremlins (Dante, 1984)
  • Sex, Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh, 1989)
  • Bubble (Soderbergh, 2005)
  • Solaris (Soderbergh, 2002)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Giliam, 1998)

Course Details

  • Instructor: Richard Cante, PhD
  • Department: Communication Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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COMM 330: Introduction to Writing for Film and Television

This course is an overview of the literary, theatrical, filmic, and televisual knowledge needed by screenwriters. It deals with narrative forms in film and television and the formatting of scripts.

Required Text, Films, and Software

Textbook

  • Field, The Screenwriter’s Workbook, revised edition (2006) ISBN 978-0-385-33904-9

You may purchase this text at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Films

  • Chinatown by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski, 131 minutes, 1974
  • The Piano, written and directed by Jane Campion, 121 minutes, 1993

These films are not available through Friday Center Books & Gifts. They can be rented through local or online video rental services, or they can be purchased from local or online stores. Students will need access to a VCR or DVD player for viewing the films. They can also be viewed at the UNC-Chapel Hill Undergraduate Library.

Software

  • Final Draft Professional Screenwriting Software. This industry standard screenwriting software will help students enormously with format and organization. Students should make sure they are purchasing the screenwriting software and not the AV version or other production-oriented software packages by the same company.

This software is available for purchase at a discount through UNC Software Acquisitions. You will need to enter your Onyen and password to place your order. If you do not have an Onyen, you will be able to create one after you enroll. If you are unable to pick up the software in person at the UNC-Chapel Hill Undergraduate Library, please type your name, shipping address, and phone number into the Comments box when you place the order.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Elisabeth Corley, BA
  • Department: Communication Studies
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • A sample course syllabus is not yet available.

link How to Enroll

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