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CINE 612 Long Form Narrative Package
This course is a hands-on approach based on the principles learned, and materials developed, in Acquisition, Development and Presentation, and Long Form Narrative Development, concentrating on a final pitch and oral presentation with a thesis binder consisting of multiple projects and corresponding selling strategies. Coursework will include professionally-modeled research that identifies project-specific buyers, talent, and financing tactics. Students will package at least one project from their slate developed in course Long-Form Narrative Development.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6619L
Prerequisites CINE 602 Long-Form Narrative Development
Requirements Permission Required (DP) Creative Producing MFA Students Only (G244)
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 624 Advanced Post Production Applications
This advanced post-production course guides the completion for Year 1 projects. Then, using their cumulative knowledge of postproduction and finishing strategies, students will engage in planning and production for their Thesis project with a focus on editing and post production requirements.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites CINE 509 Editing Theory and Practice or CINE 514 Post-Production
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 625 Applied Postproduction
In this course producers and directors apply their knowledge of post-production and finishing strategies to their thesis production or another advanced project. Teams schedule and budget the specific post-production requirements across multiple workflows and platforms and continue to apply professional collaboration as a creative team. Site visits to local post-production facilities are included.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-6618
Prerequisites CINE 509 Editing Theory and Practice or CINE 514 Post-Production
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 631 Writing and Producing the Series
In this advanced workshop, students will serve as writers and directors for a new fiction series. Students will have the opportunity to experience all phases of production from concept and development through filming and finalizing the program.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites CINE 512 Story Development
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 632 Writing and Directing the Series
In this advanced workshop, students will serve as writers and directors for a new fiction series. Students will have the opportunity to experience all phases of production from concept and development through filming and finalizing the program.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites CINE 513 Ideation and Development
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 634 Cinema Studies III
This is the third of three courses designed to investigate key historical moments of cinema and media through close critical analysis. The goal is to develop a sophisticated approach to the aesthetics of cinema and media as the basis of a professional vocabulary and methodology for creative producing. Particular attention will be paid to dramatic structure, meaning, subtext and authorship within specified film movements or niche markets.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6605C
Prerequisites CINE 535 Cinema Studies II
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 640 Career Management
Cinema and Television graduate students will prepare for their professional careers after graduation. Students will learn about talent management, LLCs, freelancing, business plans, portfolios, promotional vehicles and revenue streams in motion picture industries.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites CINE 681 Thesis Workshop
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 645 Screenwriting II
This course has been developed to provide graduate students with a variety of experiences designed to hone observation, problem-solving, creativity and writing skills as they apply to developing long-form works, either feature-length screenplays or show bibles for series. The class operates as an intensive workshop. The goal is to help students produce longer and more complex screenplays; to facilitate a deeper understanding of the screenwriting process for both features and series; to assist students in better developing character, story and linear structure; to assist in developing systematic work habits to carry the student from idea development through revisions to completed script; to provide students with the opportunity for critique of their screenwriting.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6710
Prerequisites CINE 507 Screenwriting I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 665 The Entrepreneurial Producer
This Los Angeles-based advanced workshop will provide a detailed examination of the producer’s role of packaging with a practical emphasis on attaching talent, calibrating trends in international co-productions, soft monies and tax incentives, international sales and pre-sales, and film marketing.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites CINE 604 Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition
Requirements Permission Required (DP) Creative Producing MFA Students Only (G244)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 681 Thesis Workshop
This is an advanced directing workshop in which students will further develop material generated in Ideation & Theme. Students will explore that material through a series of rehearsals, pre-visualization exercises, exploratory shoots, critique and discussion. These will provide the students with the opportunity to develop and sketch material from character-based, theme-based, traditional and nontraditional narrative perspectives as ways to test out active creative decisions that will help them prepare a strategy and finished script for their thesis film.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-6363
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Prerequisites CINE 603 Directing for the Screen II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 682 Written Thesis for Directors
In this course, Cinema Directing students will research and write a graduate thesis essay. Based on individual interests, research, and interactions with the instructor, each student will produce a research-based thesis. This is a third semester graduate directing capstone course. This course is required of all Cinema Directing students. Students are introduced to graduate level research methods and become acquainted with cultural theories that currently influence the study of cinema. This course stresses the critical skills needed to think and write effectively, with the immediate purpose of preparing students for the culmination of the graduate program.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites CINE 535 Cinema Studies II
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 690 Internship: Graduate Cinema
This course provides graduate students with practical work experience that places them in training positions related to their academic studies. The college awards academic credit in internships based on a ratio of credit hours to hours worked. Even though the internship takes place outside the classroom, there are institutional and departmental requirements for students seeking and taking internships.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-6089
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 691 Graduate Thesis: CTVA
Graduate students work with their thesis advisors on their required thesis deliverables including film, long form project or written thesis.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-6071
TH
Prerequisites CINE 512 Story Development or CINE 513 Ideation and Development
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 695 Directed Study: CTVA Graduate
Directed Studies are learning activities involving student autonomy within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. They are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in existing courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered by the College. Directed studies cannot be substituted for any existing course whether it is running or not, including canceled courses. Directed studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who assists in development and design of the study, oversees the student’s progress on a regular basis, evaluates the final results, and submits a grade.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing or CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 696 Independent Project: Graduate Cinema
Independent Projects are advanced, student-driven learning experiences involving substantial student independence in project design and project execution. Independent Projects are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject on their own beyond what is possible in regular coures offered by the college. An independent project must not be equivalent in content to courses offered by the college and should not be used to replace an existing or canceled course. Independent Projects must be approved by a faculty advisor who also evaluates the final results and awards a grade.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-6098
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 699A Graduate Topics in Cinema
This is a Graduate studies topics course in Cinema. Different sections will have differing areas of focus, so please contact the department for information on the content offered offered in this particular semester.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 699
Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing and CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 699B Graduate Topics in Cinema
This is a Graduate studies topics course in Cinema. Different sections will have differing areas of focus, so please contact the department for information on the content offered offered in this particular semester.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing and CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 699C Graduate Topics in Cinema
This is a Graduate studies topics course in Cinema. Different sections will have differing areas of focus, so please contact the department for information on the content offered offered in this particular semester.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing and CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 699D Graduate Topics in Cinema
This is a Graduate studies topics course in Cinema. Different sections will have differing areas of focus, so please contact the department for information on the content offered offered in this particular semester.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing and CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 699E Graduate Topics in Cinema
This is a Graduate studies topics course in Cinema. Different sections will have differing areas of focus, so please contact the department for information on the content offered offered in this particular semester.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing and CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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COLL 200 Internship
This course allows students to take a valuable internship experience in their desired industry. Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course. Participating in an internship allows the student to gain hands-on experience and explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a work setting. The experience also helps students gain a clearer sense of what they still need to learn and provides an opportunity to build professional networks. Students are responsible for securing their own internships and having them approved prior to registering for this course. Please contact the Career Center for assistance and resources.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 99-2000
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0
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COLL 210 Internship
This course allows students to take a valuable internship experience in their desired industry for academic credit. Each position is vetted and approved byCareer Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course. Participating in an internship allows the student to gain hands-on experience and explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a work setting. The experience also helps students gain a clearer sense of what they still need to learn and provides an opportunity to build professional networks. Students are responsible for securing their own internships and having them approved prior to registering for this course. Please contact the Career Center for assistance and resources.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 99-2100
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COLL 230 Internship: Professionalism and Creativity
This course allows students to take a valuable internship experience in their desired industry for academic credit. Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course. Participating in an internship allows students to gain hands-on experience and explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a work setting. The online, academic component of this internship fosters student understanding of how organizations operate and provides for structured reflection on their experiences and assessment of their knowledge and skills. Students are responsible for securing their own internships and should contact Career Center for assistance and resources to identify and apply for opportunities of interest.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 99-2300
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 232 Internship
This internship course allows students to gain hands-on experience within the Los Angeles entertainment and arts industries, bridging theory with practice. This real-world experiential learning opportunity allows students to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to an existing organization. The online academic component of the course allows students to deepen their understanding of how entertainment and arts organizations and professions are structured and operate while learning how to assess and apply the knowledge and skills learned to more effectively contribute to an organization’s success. The course features content specific to coursework and work experiences during the semester in LA.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 299 Topics in Creativity and Social Justice
This interdisciplinary rotating topics course explores creative practice across the breadth of disciplines offered at Columbia College Chicago and the myriad ways in which artists engage with issues of power, privilege, and justice through their work. Students will research and discuss social justice issues and artists’ creative interventions, as well as how these events are shared and communicated with others. Through this engagement with artistic cultures, communities, and histories, students will respond by creating their own new creative work, analysis, and commentary.
Repeatable: Y
CC
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 330 Advanced Internship: Professionalism and Creativity
This course provides students with an in-depth opportunity to deepen the knowledge and skills gained from their coursework and the Internship: Professionalism and Creativity course in a professional environment. Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course. In the online, academic component of the course, students will analyze their work experiences, conduct industry research, explore the possibilities of freelance work, and engage questions around workplace ethics, cultures, and employee rights. Students are responsible for securing their own internships and should contact Career Center for assistance and resources to identify and apply for opportunities of interest.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites COLL 230 Internship: Professionalism and Creativity
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 399 Advanced Topics in Creativity and Social Justice
This interdisciplinary rotating topics course explores creative practice across the breadth of disciplines offered at Columbia College Chicago and the myriad ways in which artists engage equity-focused innovation that can drive sustained social, economic, and cultural impact. Through active engagement with artistic cultures, communities, and histories, students will collaborate in the creation of creative work and/or plan for a new social or business venture.
Repeatable: Y
INIM
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 410 Interior Architecture Internship
Students are required to obtain and complete a 225-hour internship in the interior architecture field during their studies in the program. Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites INTA 252 InArch: Surface Manipulation Studio and INTA 232 Digital Media for InArch III
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0
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COLL 411 Interior Architecture Internship
Students are required to obtain and complete a 225-hour internship in the interior architecture field during their studies in the program. Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites INTA 252 InArch: Surface Manipulation Studio and INTA 232 Digital Media for InArch III
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COLL 480 Undergraduate Research Mentorship
The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in conducting academic research with faculty. This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to share the intellectual excitement of inquiry into new questions, the solving of scholarly and creative problems, and the creation of knowledge with faculty mentors. Students learn research and scholarly techniques as they assist faculty practitioners in their academic and integrative disciplines, gaining valuable experience in pursuit of professional fields or higher academic degrees. Prior to the project semester, the supervising faculty and student must submit a joint proposal outlining the project.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP) and Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 480H Undergraduate Research Mentorship: Honors
The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in conducting academic research with faculty. This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to share the intellectual excitement of inquiry into new questions, the solving of scholarly and creative problems, and the creation of knowledge with faculty mentors. Students learn research and scholarly techniques as they assist faculty practitioners in their academic and integrative disciplines, gaining valuable experience in pursuit of professional fields or higher academic degrees. Prior to the project semester, the supervising faculty and student must submit a joint proposal outlining the project. This is an Honors course and in addition to any pre-requisites, students need a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or greater to register.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP) and 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP) and Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COLL 600 Graduate Internship
In this course, students with internship opportunities gain valuable, hands-on experience in an industry of interest while receiving mentorship, critical feedback and educational supervision. This is an individual experience and is different for each student. Students cannot take this course without prior authorization from their Internship and Career Advisor. There are several steps to getting approval for an internship for credit.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0
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COMM 102 Communication Essentials
This hands-on interactive course explores communication perspectives and challenges (verbal and non-verbal) in our diverse culture. Students will practice management of creative communication issues and opportunities we all encounter working with others and in small group settings. Coursework will also investigate particular challenges facing us as ethical and responsible communicators in public, mass, and digital communication settings. Lastly, course will give students a glimpse of the wide range of creative career possibilities in communications fields.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 45-1300
DEI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 107 Social Media and Digital Strategy Foundations
This introductory course provides foundational knowledge to enable students to become better social media users and producers. Students will focus on diversity, inclusiveness and accessibility as they learn about the applications, ethics and effects of social media, as well as the impacts of corporate ownership.
Repeatable: N
DEI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 120 Truth, Lies and Accuracy in the Digital Age
In this media literacy class, you will examine and develop multiple strategies to access, evaluate, create and reflect on various media texts. You will critique current case studies from economic and cultural perspectives using various analysis tools and reliable sources. Your final research project will include a paper, a presentation and a media product that showcase your skills at locating reliable information, analyzing various points of views, and composing a media text reflecting your perspective and social responsibility.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 53-1610
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 140 Smartphone/photo
This is a hands-on class focusing on the technical, aesthetic and multimedia skills needed to produce images with a smartphone for professional communication and storytelling.
Repeatable: N
Formerly JOUR 140
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 141 Smartphone/video
This is a hands-on class focusing on the technical, aesthetic and multimedia skills needed to produce professional video with a smartphone.
Repeatable: N
Formerly JOUR 141
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 143 Smartphone/audio
This is a hands-on class focusing on the technical, aesthetic and multimedia skills needed to produce professional audio with a smartphone.
Repeatable: N
Formerly JOUR 143
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 202 Applied Communication Research
This course introduces students to best practices in communication research design and process. Students develop a mixed research methodology encompassing contemporary digital research and consumer collaborative creative methodologies to make better decisions for their audience’s needs. It emphasizes translating research into actionable insights and applicable plans. The final project is an applied communication research project for an organization, non-profit, association, or brand, suitable for inclusion in the student’s portfolio.
Repeatable: N
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 203 Social Media Strategy
This course teaches students how to connect brands (ranging from business to nonprofits and initiatives) to their critical audiences by developing targeted strategies on social media. Through real-world best practices, examples, and hands-on projects, students will learn about previous social media strategies and develop the strategic components of a social media communication plan that blends aspects of advertising, public relations, and branded content.
Repeatable: N
Formerly COMM 103
Prerequisites ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 210 Visual Communication
A theoretical and a hands-on course that immerses students in all aspects of visual communications, including typography, photography, illustration, informational graphics, design, and layout. Students will create visual projects according to their related fields.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 53-2220
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 215 Typography for Multimedia
Students are introduced to the language of typography and how it can aesthetically and creatively reflect the content of a film, video or multimedia product. Through lectures, practical assignments and critique, students develop their ability to assess and produce appropriate typographical compositions for opening and closing credits, including subtitles.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 299A Topics in Communication:
This is a topics course in Communications for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly COMM 299
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 299B Topics in Communication:
This is a topics course in Communications for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 299C Topics in Communication:
This is a topics course in Communications for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 299D Topics in Communication:
This is a topics course in Communications for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 310 Oral Traditions
This foundational course introduces students to the study of oral tradition - the verbal transmission and preservation of information from one generation to the next - and its history and processes. Taking a multi-dimensional perspective, students study a range of verbal sources starting with the known origins of oral communication up to the modern application of spoken word performance.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 45-3410
Prerequisites COMM 102 Communication Essentials
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 325 Data Storytelling & Visual Strategies
This class combines theory and practice on strategies of communicating data through digital graphics and various media platforms. It focuses on visual and media literacy, research, narrative storytelling, and media design. Students will gain experience in translating data into public visual stories by designing various digital media infographics and collaborating on a transmedia storytelling project, including images, explanatory charts, maps, animation, and/or diagrams.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 53-3230
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 326 Semiotics for Creators of Popular Culture
Writing-intensive course explores the study and use of semiotics (or symbolic meaning) in the development of advertising and other creative works that contribute to the content of popular culture. Interdisciplinary in scope, the course explores how advertising uses symbolic language from diverse disciplines such as literature, cinema, television, performing arts, architecture, fashion, and other fields that shape the overall popular culture.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 54-3670
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Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 326H Semiotics for Creators of Popular Culture: Honors
Writing-intensive course explores the study and use of semiotics (or symbolic meaning) in the development of advertising and other creative works that contribute to the content of popular culture. Interdisciplinary in scope, the course explores how advertising uses symbolic language from diverse disciplines such as literature, cinema, television, performing arts, architecture, fashion, and other fields that shape the overall popular culture. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 54-3670HN
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Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 420 Media Ecosystems
In this capstone project, students work in teams to analyze the civic impact and the reciprocal relationships between a media outlet and a local community. By applying media theories of public sphere, media ecology, and audience studies, the group conducts a social power analysis to explore the information flow, power relationships, and impact of all participants in the media ecosystem. Each team will deliver a professional media kit to their industry partner.
Repeatable: N
Formerly COMM 320
DEI
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 465 Communication Portfolio Seminar
In this class, students will build their online portfolio of work from previous courses to get ready for the job market. With a series of workshops, interview trainings, and guest speakers, students will reflect on their learning at Columbia College Chicago as a Communication major and prepare for their careers. By the end of the course, students will be ready for their job search with a finalized portfolio to showcase their skills, experience, and education.
Repeatable: N
Prerequisites COMM 310 Oral Traditions or COMM 420 Media Ecosystems
Requirements Senior Standing (SR)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 470 Digital Content and Analytics
This course focuses on digital communication tools utilized today to strategically plan, create, execute, and evaluate strategic communication programs across contemporary platforms, both well-established and emerging. Industry tools to be explored include: Google Analytics, social media, search engine marketing, and email marketing. Students will explore strategically planning, creating, and analyzing digital content outcomes.
Repeatable: N
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 495 Directed Study: Communication
This is a Directed Study course in Communication. Directed studies are learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. All directed study course proposals must be approved by the school and department administration.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 496 Independent Project:
This course is an independent project designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, to study an area that is not presently available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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COMM 499A Advanced Topics in Communication
This is an advanced topics course in Communication for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly COMM 399A
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 499B Advanced Topics in Communication and Media
This is an advanced topics course in Communication for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly COMM 399B
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 503 Civic Media and Participatory Culture
This seminar course introduces students to the core theoretical principles and historical underpinnings of civic media derived from theories of participatory culture and media, open data, connected learning, and emerging social media and justice movements.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 505 Participatory Action Research
This applied qualitative research course seeks to provide students with a contextualized understanding of local civic initiatives through collaborative inquiry, data gathering, and relationship-building with communities and city partners. Students learn to form partnerships built upon trust, empathy, and cultural awareness while using participatory action research to conduct investigative inquiry and discovery that results in a sharable report to stakeholders.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 509 Nonviolent Communication Seminar
Featuring emerging and enduring scholarship and community-involved social justice and change guest speakers, this seminar style course will introduce humanistic psychologist and activist Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg’s principles of nonviolent individual and group communication; consider the value and application of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence principles and steps in the current civic media ecosystem; and serve as an introduction to the MA in Civic Media program, college resources, and academic research best practices.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 519 Workshop in Social Change Communication
This graduate workshop explores the role of current developments in communication to support, challenge, and accelerate social changes in contemporary global societies as they manifest in urban neighborhoods such as Chicago. In a workshop format with featured guest speakers, students will engage in critical reflection to examine the complexity of social issues that involve various citizens, communities, and organizations. Applying an intersectionality framework, topics may include digital divide, politics, race, gender, sexuality, religion, status quo, or such other subjects that invite critical discussion and application of different communication frameworks to drive social change.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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COMM 520 Media Ecosystems
In this capstone project, each graduate student will lead a team of undergraduates to analyze the civic impact and the reciprocal relationships between a media outlet and a local community. By applying media theories of public sphere, media ecology, and audience studies, the group conducts a social power analysis to explore the information flow, power relationships, and impact of all participants in the media ecosystem. Each team will deliver a professional media kit to their industry partner.
Repeatable: N
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 521 Radio and Audio Documentary
In this course, students will 1) hone their individual and collaborative research, interviewing, writing, editing, and audio production skills; and 2) learn how to produce sound-rich documentary features and professional-caliber nonfiction audio stories about the important issues of the day. Topics may include news/public affairs, social justice, narrative non-fiction, and arts/culture.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 530 Communication Research
This class focuses on core strategic communication research tools and methods, including consumer profile databases, social media listening, mobile consumer diaries, digital and physical focus groups, in-home studies, and co-creation and projective techniques. The final communication research project for an organization is suitable for inclusion in the student’s portfolio.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 550 Organizational Communication
The most effective organizations build brand loyalty across all stakeholder groups, internal and external, as a method of achieving business strategy. Through open discussions, case studies, research, readings and guest speakers in the discipline, students will learn how some of the world’s most successful organizations including Southwest Airlines, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Apple, grow market share and build world-class brands through effective organizational communication. Students will gain insights into the design and strategy of the organizational communication function, and the profile, character traits and strategies of the effective leader communicator. Students will also learn how organizational communication unlocks the potential and passions of key stakeholder groups, particularly internal stakeholder groups; builds loyalty and trust; enhances the reputation of the organization; and drives the achievement of key performance indicators (KPIs).
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 555 Data Activism and Impact Communication
This course provides students with an overview of the ways advocates can use and apply quantitative data to systematically analyze and create social actions. Students will learn to access, analyze, and evaluate pre-existing and collected data. By observing current civic movements and identifying needs, students will be able to design and conduct a quantitative study that addresses a social issue. By the end of the semester, students will engage in digital storytelling of their applied research to drive a social change.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 570 Digital Content and Analytics
Course focuses in on digital communication specific industry tools utilized today to strategically plan, create, execute, and evaluate strategic communication programs across contemporary platforms, both well-established and emerging. Industry tools to be explored: Google Analytics, HubSpot CRM, YouTube Advertising, social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and newer platforms), search engine marketing and email marketing. Students will explore strategically planning, creating and analyzing digital content outcomes.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 589 Communication Practicum
In this course, graduate students function as strategic communication specialists (account management, creative, media, project management, production) in a team working with an actual client on an integrated marketing campaign. They participate in client meetings, generate contact reports, conduct research, develop strategies and communication planning, write media plans, and contribute to concepting and production.
Repeatable: N
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 599 Advanced Topics in Communication and Media
In this course, students explore the topical issues, scholarship, and theories driving emerging communication and media industry practice. Topics change as appropriate and necessary.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 601 Civic Media Practicum
Serving as the final capstone, this course will enable students to engage thoroughly in the complete cycle of a civic media project, including iterative design through user testing, documentation, assessment, impact sharing, and sustainability planning. Students will complete, implement, document and assess a collaborative civic media project in a real-world community context. Drawing from strategic framework analysis sustainability studies and systems thinking, collaborative student teams will design a communications plan that connects their findings and impact stories with broader issues and contexts to cultivate meaningful and long-term community adoption.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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COMM 610 Communication Planning
Course explores core communication planning theories and methods to arrive at distinguishing and powerful strategic insights for brands, associations, and organizations. Students will construct research-based communication briefings and strategic plans across digital and other communication platforms for all intended publics.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 620 Public Relations Seminar
This course enables students to develop strategic communications skills and real-life media relations for responding to various issues and crisis with an emphasis on ethical public relations management. Students analyze, critique, discuss, and develop media outreach strategies and assess media placement outcomes. Students learn a range of effective public relations methods for handling various events with respect to target audiences.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 630 Advertising Seminar
This course enables students to delve into strategic issues facing modern advertisers and develop a strategic advertising planning campaign across many contemporary advertising platforms. Students critically explore a brand or organization’s category, key competitors and trends, research and analyze strategic consumer opportunities, develop an integrated 360 campaign with media placement recommendations, and identify critical KPIs (key performance indicators) and measurement goals.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 640 Brand Management
This course explores leadership and management of the communication team for a brand (be it a product, service, association, organization, or an individual). Students will explore techniques for managing both “down and up.” Strategic leadership tools will also be explored for overseeing day-today needs as well as long term communication planning across all platforms. Coursework will include needs analysis, conflict anticipation and resolution, partnership management, and strategic brand guidance for a variety of critical audiences, inside and outside of an organization.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 650 Strategic Communication Lab
This is the culminating course in the Strategic Communication Master of Arts degree. Course leverages all prior graduate degree learning and practical experiences students have had prior into this culminating course. In this capstone applied project course the students will work in teams with an organization to be determined each semester (non-profit, profit, cause, consulting firm, brand, etc.). Students will engage in primary and secondary research, analyze the market and competition, identify key findings, design strategic frameworks, arrive at an insight, construct an over-arching strategy and develop comprehensive cross-platform solutions in a strategic communication plan.
Repeatable: N
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 690 Graduate Internship: Communication & Media
In this individualized course, students are provided essential supervision, mentorship, and critical internship feedback. Prior to committing to an internship, students must secure the approval of both their graduate program director and internship and career advisor. During internships, students are required to keep all parties (graduate program director, internship and career advisors, and sponsoring organization) up to date regarding their activities. This course can be repeated a maximum of three times.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 691 Thesis
The civic media thesis can be a scholarly or journalistic story or civically-minded strategic media project that demonstrates research, documentation and media competencies. Theses are approved and reviewed by a thesis review committee graduate faculty and subject to approval by a thesis review committee, which serves as mentors and advisors.
Repeatable: N
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Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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COMM 692 Thesis Extension
The civic media thesis is a culmination of a student’s work in the Civic Media program. Long form story, scholarly essay, short-form story or broadcast story collection, strategic media proposal, or any civic media-related project approved by graduate faculty, the thesis allows students to demonstrate their research, documentation, and media competencies. Theses are reviewed and subject to approval by a “Thesis Review Committee,” comprised of the Thesis course instructor and at least one graduate faculty member. As its name suggests, the Thesis Extension course allows students to continue the work they began in COMM 691, Thesis.
Repeatable: Y
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Prerequisites COMM 691 Thesis
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0
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COMM 696 Independent Project: Communication
This course allows students to pursue a media-based project of their own design in either the fields of strategic communication or civic media. Before registering, students must identify a willing faculty sponsor and gain approval from the graduate program director.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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COMM 699 Advanced Topics in Communication and Media
In this course, students explore the topical issues, scholarship, and theories driving emerging communication and media industry practice. Topics change as appropriate and necessary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 495 Directed Study: Arts in Health
No description available.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-3990
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CRAT 499 Special Topics:
This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in professional practices.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-4840
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CRAT 599 Special Topics:
This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in professional practices.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-5840
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CRAT 631 Research Methods
This course is the first in a three course series designed to prepare the student as a researcher and consumer of research in the fields of counseling and creative arts therapies. The course will provide a basic overview of research methodologies that utilize qualitative and quantitative data followed by an exploration of research methods in ethical and legal contexts appropriate to counseling and creative arts therapies.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 70-6410
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 633 Thesis Seminar
This course continues the three course research requirement begun with Research Methods and concluding with Graduate Thesis Credit. Students will develop their thesis project with the goal of completing their Departmental Thesis Committee (DTC) and Internal Review Board (IRB) thesis proposals. The seminar will provide consultation and assistance as well as offer group support and structure.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 70-6415
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Prerequisites CRAT 631 Research Methods
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CRAT 637 Clinical Appraisal and Treatment Planning
This integrative course emphasizes treatment planning as informed by nomothetic and idiographic assessment including movement observation, assessment, and analysis. Best practices in clinical and creative interventions are examined through the application of psychological paradigms and creative arts therapies’ methodologies to most effectively treat disorders within the DSM-5.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 70-6120
Prerequisites CRAT 617 Clinical Techniques of Counseling and CRAT 610 Observation and Assessment of Movement II and CRAT 623 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 640 Deepening Diversity
This workshop harnesses the power of relationship to bring compassion to conversations of difference within and beyond the clinical realm. Explorations will entail examination of preconceptions and assumptions about culture and identity from an embodied place. The relationships between intersectionality and one’s identity as well as situatedness and culture are investigated to increase cultural humility and facilitate best practices in clinical work. This course brings students’ experience of difference to the foreground as those who have already taken the course assist in facilitating sensitivity to, awareness of, and appreciation for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 70-6140
Prerequisites CRAT 623 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CRAT 643 Addictions Counseling
The etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of addictions will be explored through bio-psycho-social models of theory and practice ranging from the 12-step model to harm reduction, with emphasis given to the transtheoretical approach of Motivational Interviewing. Community learning through attendance at community support groups is essential for the completion of course requirements.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 70-6125
Prerequisites CRAT 617 Clinical Techniques of Counseling and CRAT 623 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 646 Lifestyles and Career Development
This hybrid course introduces basic career counseling theories, workforce trends, assessment tools, and community resources to assist creative arts therapists with service provision and conducting referrals. The creation of career patterns and the need for self-care in the workplace are examined. Students gain an understanding of professional development as related to licensing and credentialing.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-6600
Prerequisites CRAT 623 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 689 Internship I/Clinical Supervision
Internship I/Clinical Supervision is the first of 700 hours of on-site clinical placement as required by the American Dance Therapy Association. Students are supervised by academic BC-DMTs and site supervisors at placements in mental health agencies, schools, hospitals, correctional facilities, and other institutions and function as counselor-dance/movement therapists. Internship I, with 350 hours, emphasizes treatment planning and goal setting as related to observation and assessment.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-6589
Prerequisites CRAT 623 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 690 Internship II/Clinical Supervision
This course is a continuation of Internship I with emphasis on the interrelationship of observation, assessment, treatment planning, and intervention skills in clinical practice. Students will work on their oral presentation skills, as well as written communication of the therapeutic experience. The therapeutic termination process is addressed in addition to the student’s developing theoretical framework. This class requires the student to complete the remaining 350 of the 700 clinical hours required by the American Dance Therapy Association. The experience is documented by a completed clinical portfolio.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 70-6590
Prerequisites CRAT 689 Internship I/Clinical Supervision
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRAT 691 Graduate Thesis
Conducting the proposed thesis plan, writing, revising, and completing the final thesis project will occur under the guidance of the Individual Thesis Committee made up of the thesis advisor, outside reader, and research coordinator.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-6420
TH
Prerequisites CRAT 633 Thesis Seminar
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CRAT 696 Independent Project: DCAT
No description available.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 70-6499
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CRWR 101 Explorations in Creative Writing
This innovative course in creative writing, centered on a universal human experience, fits in Rubric II within the LAS Core Curriculum: Culture, Values, and Ethics. By reading a wide range of poems, stories and essays, and by reading a small number of films and pieces of music and work in other art forms, students will become familiar with a wide range of human behavior and cultural responses in relation to the thematic topic as expressed in literature and other art. Topics may include Death and Dying, Art and Violence, and Love and Lust.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 59-1101
HU
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CRWR 105 Story Across Culture and Media
This course explores the fundamental human concept of storytelling as it applies to the construction of culture and identity, through a variety of narrative media. Students will investigate, from a global perspective, the role of storytelling in shaping experience in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. By examining fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, television, theatre, music, and new media, students will identify universal narrative elements and determine the ways these universal narrative elements frame basic human experiences. This course will be helpful for students interested in studying creative writing, television, film, and other narrative arts where deeper understanding of the humanities and culture strengthen their art.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 59-1110
HU
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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