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Looking for an elective? Check out these Special Topics courses to add to your summer of fall schedule. And don't forget, course registration begins April 1st.
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Comprehensive Mixing/ Music Technology
- Summer B: CCA 494/795 Section B11
Film Sound Aesthetics
- Summer B: CCA 494/795 section B12
The purpose of this course is to develop the student's understanding and appreciation of film sound aesthetics. The course explores the tools/practices that are necessary to develop a filmmaker's sonic identity and style.
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Covering Global Issues in Miami
Covering Global Issues in Miami guides students on an intellectual and experiential journey about grounded globalization and how it could or should be communicated. Students will meet, learn about, and tell the stories of people and communities who contest challenges and negotiate opportunities with differing degrees of power and agency. Students will learn to practice “global/local” journalism in ways that may increase understanding, empathy, and positive collective action. Open to undergraduate and graduate students for 3 credints in JMM. Email shughes@miami.edu for more information.
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Forgotten Classics: The Best Hollywood Films form the 1970s-2000s You Haven't Seen
This course will explore a selection of Hollywood films released between the 1970s-2000s that were initially overlooked or underappreciated but have since gained recognition as modest/major masterpieces. Through in-depth analysis and contextualization within the social, cultural, and economic landscapes of their respective time periods, students will gain a deeper understanding of why these films failed to resonate with audiences initially and why they are now celebrated as cinematic treasures.
Afrofuturism
This course explores Afrofuturism, an international movement in cinema, music, art, literature and more featuring futuristic themes and speculative fiction that intersect with elements of African and Black diasporic history and culture. Examples include Sun Ra’s Space is the Place (1974), Marvel’s Black Panther (2018 and 2022) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009).
Global Black Film
This course explores the international history of cinema and media, with a particular focus on the pioneering cinematic innovations by people of African descent from the late nineteenth century to the present. In the course, we approach the practice of Black film, including the production and conceptual work of directors, performers, writers, and more, as part of a global, multi-locational system of circulation, citation, imagination, and exchange.
Podcasting
- CCA 494/795 + JMM 356/656 section 5R
Podcast Storytelling affords students the opportunity to develop a new wave of audio content, create virtual gathering spaces and has the potential to create new audiences. Students will produce projects as either stand-alone or episodic and will publish their projects on a hosting site.
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3D Modeling and Rapid Prototyping
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Communication in Romantic Relationships
- COS 391/691 section 5R
- COS 391/691 section 5T
Research and theory organized around the inextricable link between communication processes (including message production and reception) and the development of romantic/intimate relationships emerged under the rubric “relational communication” in the early to mid-1980’s.
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Media Negotiation
Advanced Documentary Photography
Advanced Feature Design
Applied Data Analytics for Journalism & Media Management
This course will introduce students to the procedures used for extracting, processing, and analyzing datasets on web and social media sites. It will also cover ChatGPT and the basics of Python programming. No previous knowledge is necessary. For more information, please contact Professor Michel Dupagne at dupagnem@miami.edu.
Advanced Interviewing Techniques
After Effects
Students will learn to create basic animations, special effects, and motion graphics using Adobe After Effects through project-based instruction relevant to both beginners and experienced users.
Reporting for Social Justice
Taught by Assistant Professor Ayleen Cabas-Mijares. In reporting for Social Justice, students will: -- Learn the professional skills necessary to practice culturally responsible journalism while building sustainable relationships with minoritized communities. -- Leverage the philosophies and techniques of solidarity, solutions, and engaged journalism to produce news narratives that elevate the expertise of communities at the reeceiving end of injustice and lead to action. -- Not only have sharpened their reporting skills, but also developed expertise in community engagement and trust building with constituencies that have hisotrically been misrepresented and harmed by the news industry.
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Designing for Sustainability
Strategically Communicating through Music: The Mastermind of the Taylor Swift Brand
This class will examine the extraordinary success of the Taylor Swift brand, as well as the advertising, PR, social media, and business-oriented tactics Taylor Swift has used to build and grow her multicultural, multigenerational, worldwide fanbase. We will look at Taylor’s music and lyrics, her methods of communication, her planting of Easter eggs, and other unique ways she engages with, communicates with, and teases(!) her fans. The class also will apply the Taylor Swift phenomenon to help students understand important tenets of mass communication and freedom of expression, including the limits of the First Amendment, the right to privacy for public figures versus ordinary citizens, media coverage of celebrities and the proliferation of fake news, intellectual property, and defamation. And finally, we will discuss how Taylor Swift continues to use the power of her brand to help others in need, as well as to promote social, economic, and political good. The class has no prerequisites and is open to all majors!
Innovation in Advertising
This class introduces students to the workings of advertising in the digital era. In this class, students will learn strategic frameworks that apply to consumers in digital, learn the basics of digital technologies, platforms, and measurements. Students will also apply their knowledge by analyzing consumer behaviors in the digital era and developing a strategic advertising plan. You will learn how to approach digital platforms from the consumer’s perspective, and practice critical and strategic thinking skills to solve advertising problems as a strategist, using conceptual, technological, and analytical skills.
PR & Politics
Fashion PR
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