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Communication and Media Studies (COME)

The mission of the Communication and Media Studies (COME) discipline is to provide an excellent education that is personally, intellectually, and spiritually challenging. By personally, we mean the development and appreciation for those qualities that enable students to foster meaningful relationships in their academic, personal, and professional lives. By intellectually, we mean the development of those qualities which enable students to recognize, describe, analyze, synthesize, and critique those elements in the global society that are shaped and influenced by human symbol systems. By spiritually, we mean the evolution of those qualities that enable students to look within themselves at their role in the microcontext of St. Norbert College's Judeo-Christian values, and the macrocontext of a diverse world of opposing and complementary perspectives.

The program is designed to meet three major objectives: (1) an integrated study of several areas of communication, with special attention to theory and principles; (2) the development of scholarly and technical communication skills, and (3) the development of professional values through an understanding of ethical issues in communication.

The objectives are met by courses focusing on the process and effects of various kinds of communication, by those which develop particular skills (for example, courses in media writing, business and professional speaking), and by history and analysis courses dealing with a variety of communication issues. The skills courses, in particular, are designed to help students prepare for professional careers.

Students select an area of concentration (communication or media), but have contact with the other area through required and elective courses. This accomplishes a major purpose of the program, that of providing a degree of specialization within a general communication curriculum. In addition, the content of the program's courses draws students' attention to the many connections between communication and the content of other disciplines in the College.

2007-2008 Communication and Media Studies Program Requirements

2005-2007 Communication, Media & Theatre Program Requirements

2003-2005 Communication, Media & Theatre Program Requirements

2001-2003 Communication, Media & Theatre Program Requirements

Communication and Media Studies Course Descriptions

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