Communication - CEA Courses
COM321 Mass Media & the Fashion Industry
This course explores the relationship between mass media and the fashion industry from 19thcentury Paris through today's new media forms and globalization. The fashion industry provides an arena for conventional media but also involves a complex dialogue among creators, corporations, tastemakers and the masses. Prerequisites: Introductory course in Communication or Media Studies advised. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3
COM321 Mass Media & the Fashion Industry
This course explores the relationship between mass media and the fashion industry from 19thcentury Paris through today's new media forms and globalization. The fashion industry provides an arena for conventional media but also involves a complex dialogue among creators, corporations, tastemakers and the masses. Prerequisites: Introductory course in Communication or Media Studies advised. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3
COM340 Communication & Global Competence
This course explores the interaction between culture and communication and introduces students to the knowledge and skills necessary to attain global competence. In addition, this course introduces the construct of global competence; creates the opportunity to analyze and evaluate how our own cultural identity influences communication with others; engages interaction with the host culture; and prepares students with knowledge and skills to be effective and ethical intercultural communicators. Credits: 3
COM351 Social Media: Digital Identity & the Virtual Community
This interactive course analysis the theory and practice of virtual communities and online social networks, requiring that you build and evaluate online communities. Drawing on Florentine companies and networks, it focuses on the meaning of community, networking, identity and journalism in the ever-changing social media world and asks how we participate in healthy communities in the age of many-to-many media. Prerequisites: None. Language of instruction: English. Credits: 3.
