Student Learning Outcomes
Entertainment Technology & Theatre Students Will:
- Demonstrate a foundational knowledge and application of disciplines in theatre and entertainment technology.
- Devise creative solutions through an understanding of various disciplines to support story-telling, narrative, and other content structures.
- Accomplish professional assignments through collaborative work and/or organizing collaborations among various disciplines.
- Understand what is effective, artistic, efficient, usable, and desirable as it relates to audience- centered creative work.
- Identify and demonstrate best practices in safety, industry regulations and standards, and ethical considerations and practices related to live entertainment.
Media Arts Production Students Will:
- Develop an in-depth historical and conceptual understanding of the nature and function of the media
- Critically examine media products and the interplay between media, culture, society, and political systems
- Produce media projects with sophisticated content
- Produce media projects with sophisticated technical process
- Acquire knowledge and skills to write for different genres and environments including broadcast and new media
- Understand clearly the dynamics of a production team and work effectively as a team member
- Acquire knowledge and skills to work within media institutions
- Develop leadership skills in directing and producing a wide range of media projects
Digital Communication and Cultural Studies Students Will:
- Demonstrate skills in critical thinking and analysis to evaluate scholarship and messages
- Become aware of principles of communication competence, and apply these principles in constructing messages, understanding contexts, and making meaning
- Explain the ways in which culture influences human communication patterns and behaviors
- Consider human signifying practices in specific social and cultural circumstances, and recognize meaning making as a social practice
- Acquire a basic understanding of the principles and theoretical concepts of perception such as what we see, how we assign meaning to what we see, and what makes images memorable
- Develop an understanding of how community life is created, maintained, repaired, and transformed through communication
- Clearly articulate written and spoken ideas and arguments showing above average command of language, evidence, and disciplinary writing and speaking conventions
- Develop a rich understanding of the production and reproduction of cultural systems by exploring the interdependent relationship among factors (i.e., media, interpersonal interaction, and ideology) that constitute the systems
- Use knowledge gained in coursework to diagnose and develop strategies to address communication problems
- Develop a personal code of communication ethics for personal and professional life
Journalism Students Will:
- Master the craft of journalistic writing across all media platforms
- Articulate the responsibilities the field of journalism has to society at the local, national, and international levels
- Recognize the ethical challenges journalists face and articulate a range of solutions to those challenges
- Employ thorough research methods, a basic understanding of statistical concepts, and the verification of facts, for accurate reporting
- Gain professional experience through service in internships and student media
Public Relations Students Will:
- Demonstrate the application of relevant theory in message planning and campaigns
- Demonstrate the application of relevant theory in research methodology and reporting
- Demonstrate formative and summative research skills in their campaign planning
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of the public relations planning process (goals, objectives, strategies and tactics, as well as budgets and timelines)
- Demonstrate effective oral presentation of program and/or campaign plans
- Demonstrate effective written presentation of program and/or campaign plans