Exploring contemporary commercial media; analyzing the business and creative forces behind motion pictures, television, radio and new media; examining regulatory and ethical issues; identifying visual components of persuasive media and the communication strategies involved.
Fall and Spring.

Application of statistics to problems of the social sciences and of statistical techniques in problem definitions; hypothesis construction; and data collection, processing and evaluation.
P: Concurrent enrollment in Comm Sci 97 or WPT:MFND test score >=416; or Post-baccalaureate status
Fall and Spring.