Spring 2010 Semester COM 4490 Special Topics Course Offerings Course Name: COM 4490/01 Health Communication (CRN 10971) Course Name: COM 4490/02 Investigative Reporting (CRN 11313) Course Name: COM 4490/03 Creative Advertising (CRN 12283) Creative Advertising is a special topics course designed to introduce students to the strategies, design, and copy used to develop effective advertising campaigns. COM students are paired with ART students to work in teams that simulate an advertising agency environment. Through class lecture, guest speakers, and individual and team assignments, students will learn how to identify and research target markets; target copy/design messages; generate creative ideas, write and design effective ads for print, broadcast, and the Internet; select from traditional and nontraditional advertising media for ad placement; and work with a budget. The course culminates in an advertising campaign for a non-profit client.
Instructor: Emily Holler
M W 11:00-12:15PM (Social Science building #2032)
Prerequisites: COM 1109 Human Communication and 60+ credit hours
This course will introduce theoretical and applied aspects of health communication. Current health issues will be examined in varied communication contexts, such as interpersonal, group, organizational and mediated communication. This Health Communication course will analyze provider-patient communication, intercultural communication and health beliefs, and health messages in the media. Using identified communication strategies, students will create prevention messages for contemporary public health issues.
Instructor: Jeremy Redmon
F 11:00AM-1:45PM (Social Science building #5105)
Prerequisites: COM 3330 News Reporting & Writing
Students will learn how to dig deep for documents and use open records laws to their advantage. They will study how to cultivate sources, profile people and hold government officials accountable. Students will learn how to mine databases, spreadsheets, government agencies, courthouses and the Internet for information. News articles will be written from these investigative resources.
Instructors: Tricia Grindel & Jeanne Sperry
TR 3:30-4:45PM (Visual Arts building # 207)
Prerequisites: COM majors = COM 2135 Writing for Public Communication; ART majors = ART 3020
The center’s mission is to discover innovative ways to produce financially sustainable, high quality and ethically sound journalism. This generous gift from The Harnisch Foundation will help underwrite applied research‚ build collaborations and advance innovative journalism projects regionally and around the country. [continue reading]
$1.5 million gift from Harnisch Foundation establishes Center for Sustainable Journalism
The Harnisch Foundation in January awarded a $ 1.5 million gift to the Kennesaw State University Foundation to establish the Center for Sustainable Journalism, which will be overseen by Leonard Witt, Distinguished Chair in Communication and eminent scholar.
Welcome to the Department of Communication at Kennesaw State University. If you are new to our community, this site will tell you about our mission, focus and curriculum and guide you to some useful resources to investigate the dynamic field of communication.
We offer courses that expose students to the art and science of communication and prepare them to achieve fulfilling careers in media, journalism, public relations, organizational communication and other communication areas. Our courses lead to Kennesaw State University's Bachelor of Science degree.
If you are a prospective communication student, we are especially pleased that you are here. We urge you to use this website to discover what we are about and what we can offer you. You can use this site to contact us to ask questions. For an application, please contact the Office of Admissions.
We are one of Kennesaw State University's largest departments, with more than 800 majors. Our majors choose to specialize in one of four program concentrations: Media Studies, Organizational Communication, Public Relations or Journalism and Citizen Media.
Quickly evolving communication techniques, technology and institutions are redefining today's society. They affect our lifestyles as well as our economy and politics. Our department keeps pace with evolving knowledge, skills and applications, even as we root our courses in the solid theoretical perspective afforded by the liberal arts.
Our courses emphasize projects that prepare our majors to translate knowledge and skills from the classroom to applied activities in which they may seek to make their mark. Our faculty are proud of developing challenging courses that capitalize on our location in one of the world's premier communication markets. The Atlanta region, a media hub and the economic powerhouse of the South, provides a useful laboratory into which students can extend their classroom experiences.
