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COMD-400
Digital Media Economics & Budgeting
Digital and social media, media convergence, connectivity and immediacy have disrupted media business models, created space for few major players in social and digital media, changed the way content is produced and distributed and altered advertising and public relations messaging and profit centers. This course explores the broad economic issues impacting digital and social businesses within today ' s media landscape. We will discuss key economic principles influencing the communication and media industries including broadcasting, newspapers, motion pictures, music, video games, advertising and public relations. Opportunity to earn Hootsuite
Certification
3.00
COMD-4000
Digital Communications Capstone
This capstone course is project oriented and will require students to apply skills in strategic planning, messaging
to audience, gathering information, and producing content.
3.00
COMD-405
Digital Communications Internship
This is a 120-hour work experience designed to afford the student a practical experience in social and digital
media fields, content production techniques and / or analytic practices.
3.00
COMD-437
Special Topics
This course provides opportunity for investigation of a selected topic or topics designed to integrate and deepen
the student ' s comprehension and application of digital and social media theory and practice.
3.00
CRJ-102
Introduction to Criminal Justice
A survey of the American criminal justice system and its components: police, courts and correction. The course is designed to describe the functions of the system from arrest through trial, appeal, sentencing, correction and parole. The object of the course is to provide the student with a procedural framework of the criminal justice
process.( Also SOC 102.)
3.00
CRJ-205
Stalking & Domestic Violence
This course will introduce students to the topics of stalking and domestic violence from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective. In this course students will look at the social factors that contribute to the incidence and prevalence of both stalking and domestic violence. Students will examine victim outcomes and the criminal justice response to these crimes. Students must be at least a sophomore or receive permission of the
Instructor.
3.00
CRJ-207
Drugs Society & Criminal Justice
The American justice system has struggled to confront the problems related to drugs in our society, which include increased criminal activity, drug use by children and adolescents, and prison overcrowding. Throughout the semester, students will learn and understand the nature of drug use, and the psychological and physiological effects of various legal and illicit drugs. Additionally, this course covers the relative influence that drug use has on both the criminal justice system and larger society. This includes analysis of the various components of domestic and international drug production and trafficking, as well as the efforts made by our government to curtail these
criminal initiatives.
3.00
CRJ-211
Constitution of the United States
This course provides a basic understanding of the philosophical, historical, and political roots of the United States Constitution, its structure, provisions and interpretations and includes a study of notable Supreme Court
controversies.
3.00
CRJ-212
Counseling & Communication Skills
The course is an integrated theory and practice approach to the study of communication styles, communication skills, basic counseling skills and elements of helping relationships. Students will explore the nature and dynamics of the helping encounter, develop interpersonal communication skills, and engage in opportunities for skill
development through peer helping practice sessions.
3.00
CRJ-215
Criminology
An introduction to crime and criminality, the course examines types of crime, such as violent and property crime, white-collar, organized and victimless crimes, as well as theories of crime and the collection of statistical crime
data.
3.00