Students explore the creative process that helps them communicate ideas and information to a target audience. Higher level, theoretical ideas related to communication, design and cognitive theories will be introduced. Students will engage in intermediate design projects through software and traditional media. Class includes a significant amount of computer lab and creative studio time.

Explores the role of communication in the creation, maintenance, and transformation of family systems. Focus on how meanings of "family" are constructed through familial and popular discourses, and the consequences these communication practices have for lived experience.

Exploration of the historical development, ethics, funding, socio-cultural significance, and communication strategies of documentary film and video. May focus on a particular genre or genres. Students must complete two 500 level CA courses (excluding CA 501), at least one of which has CMN 455 as a prerequisite, prior to taking this course, unless granted instructor permission.

This course will serve as an introduction to some of the fundamental principles of building design and land planning. You will prepare plans representative of building construction and land development commonly used in the architectural, engineering, surveying and construction fields. The emphasis will be on the end result: Preparing complete and professional plans. Through this, you will acquire basic skills in designing and plan layout required by these industries. We will approach this material by designing and drafting using computer software (AutoCAD). Another end outcome is that you will gain a certain level of competency with this AutoCAD software, a program used by the majority of the firms in these professions.