Classes with communication skills

Dear Colleagues – as communication is considered one of the most important vocational and life skills for students to embrace, you may want to direct interested students to these Media classes that are open to all majors:

 

Sports PR – ADV 490. Restricted to students with Junior or Senior standing

An overview of public relations in the sports industry, including historical development and current issues facing practitioners.

 

American Movies of the ‘80s – MACS 496.  Who you gonna call?

 

International Communications – MACS 389.  Provides an interdisciplinary approach to international communications; its structure and content; the role of international communications in conflict and conflict resolution; the semantics of international communication; the technical and economic aspects of international mass communications; and government-industry relations in communications.

 

Public Information Campaigns – AGCM 320. (ACP) Sophomore or above. Coordinated approach to planning, implementing and evaluating information campaigns in the broad domain of food and agriculture. Students work with groups, agencies and organizations in designing communication campaigns strategies and tactics.

 

Environmental Communications – AGCM 330.  Sophomore or above. Basics of communicating about environmental issues to various audiences, emphasizing communication to lay publics. Gathering information about a current environmental issue, analyzing interests of groups involved, and examining strategies for communicating clearly to different groups.

 

Cheers now,

Julian

 

 

 

Dr. Julian Parrott

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services

College of Media

University of Illinois