Courses

Historical survey course that examines advertising from the printed page to commercials to augmented and virtual realities using multiple analytical perspectives with an emphasis on semiotics, linguistics, and aesthetics.

This course examines critically who is left out or seen as a second-class citizen in a society steeped in consumer culture. Included in this analysis are demographic groups such as minorities, children and the elderly, immigrants, and gender minorities as well as areas of social impact such as the environment.

Study of the development, production, placement, and evaluation of advertising as a form of business communication which also reflects and influences consumer and popular culture in the United States.

An overview of the commercialization of American society and culture via the widespread use of advertising and sophisticated marketing techniques.

An overview of the commercialization of American society and culture via the widespread use of advertising and sophisticated marketing techniques.

Design for the promotion and marketing for consumer products, business services, and not-for-profit organizations.

May be repeated for a maximum of six credits with permission of the department. Special Projects courses are designed for students who want more intensive work in any studio discipline, or to strengthen or advance their basic skills in advertising design.

The politics of emergent diseases, the controversies and conflicts among various social groups -- communities of sufferers, "disease champions," medical specialists, and their disciplinary organizations, biomedical researchers and their institutions, politicians and political institutions at the local, state and federal levels, and governmental bureaucracies -- and their impact on whether or not an emergent disease is recognized as a legitimate ailment, and if it is, what level of priority or

The student with gain experience in applying the theoretical concepts of training to create cardiorespiratory, resistance, and flexibility programs. Students will develop proficiency in the implementation, modification, and evaluation of training programs to improve goal-oriented outcomes. A minimum grade of B- is required to apply this course to the major.

Examination of contemporary and historical cultural production on and from Africa across a range of registers, including literary, musical, and visual arts, material culture, and science and technology.