Mass Communication | City University of Michigan

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Course Description
SS-080	Introduction to political science	6 Credits	View Details
SS-196	Introduction to mass communication	6 Credits	View Details
SS-291	World literature	6 Credits	View Details
SS-381	Foundations of Sociology	6 Credits	View Details
SS-395	English rhetoric	6 Credits	View Details
SS-664	Essentials of General psychology	6 Credits	View Details
SS-777	Introduction to world history	6 Credits	View Details
SS-812	Introduction to economics	6 Credits	View Details

Courses Code	Courses Name	Credit Hours	Course Description
MAC-121	Mass communication Research	6 Credits	View Details
VSC-265	Introduction to Visual Communication	6 Credits	View Details
MAC-303	Introduction to mass communication	6 Credits	View Details
JOU-679	Media, Culture and Technology	6 Credits	View Details
MAC-841	Media and Society	6 Credits	View Details
MAC-901	Introduction to Mass Communication Theory	6 Credits	View Details

Topics Covered in This Course:

In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- A science of politics?
- Theories: classic and modern.
- Nations, states, and governments.
- Individuals and constitutions.
In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Democracy, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism.
- Political ideologies.
- Political culture.
- Public opinion.
In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Political communication and the media.
- Interest groups.
- Political parties and party systems.
- Elections.
In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The basic institutions of government.
- Legislatures.
- Executives.
- Administration and bureaucracy.
In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Legal systems and the courts.
- Political economy.
- Violence and revolution.
- International relations.
- The global system.

Topics Covered in This Course:

In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Reading and writing in college
- The reading process
- Reading critically
In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The writing process
- Preparing to write
- Writing effectively
- Revising and editing
- Describing
In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Narrating
- Illustrating
- Analyzing a process
- Comparing and contrasting
- Dividing and classifying
In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Defining
- Analyzing causes and effects
- Arguing
- Recognizing a research paper
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Finding sources
- Writing a research paper
- Documenting sources
- Introduction
- Subjects and verbs
In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Fragments
- Fused sentences and comma splices
- Regular and irregular verbs
- Verb tense
- Subject-verb
- More on verbs
- Pronoun problems
- Pronoun reference and point of view
- Pronoun agreement
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Modifier errors
- End punctuation
- Commas
- Apostrophes
- Quotation marks
- Other punctuation marks
- Capitalization
- Abbreviations and numbers
- Varying sentence structure
- Parallelism
- Combining sentences
- Standard and nonstandard english
- Easily confused words
- Spelling

Topics Covered in This Course:

In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- One:
- Two: out of the mud: farming and herding after the ice age
- Three: the great river valleys: accelerating change and developing states
In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Four:
- Five: rebuilding the world: recoveries, new initiatives, and their limits
- Six: the great schools
In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Seven: the great empires
- Chaptereight:postimperial worlds: problems of empires in eurasia and africa, ca. 200 c.e. to ca. 700 c.e.
- Nine: the rise of world religions: christianity, islam, and buddhism
In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Ten: remaking the world: innovation and renewal on environmental frontiers in the late first millennium
- Chaptereleven:
- Chaptertweleve:the nomadic frontiers: the islamic world, byzantium, and china ca. 10001200
In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Chapterthirteen: the world the mongols made
- Chapterfourteen: the revenge of nature: plague, cold, and the limits of disaster in the fourteenth century
- Chapterfifthteen:
- Chaptersixteen: imperial arenas: new empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Chapterseventeen: the ecological revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Chaptereighteen:mental revolutions: religion and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Chapternineteen:
- Chaptertwenty: driven by growth: the global economy in the eighteenth century
- Chaptertwentyone:
- Twentytwo: the exchange of enlightenment: eighteenth-century thought
- Twentythree: replacing muscle: the energy revolutions

Topics Covered in This Course:

In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction to communication theories.
- Assumptions behind communication theoriesreality, knowledge, and values.
- Research in communication.
In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction and history of communication studies research: models and messages.
- Classical rhetorical theories.
- Contemporary rhetorical theory.
In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Theories of interpersonal communication.
- Theories of small group communication.
- Theories of persuasion.
- Theories of culture and intercultural communication.
In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction and history of mass communication.
- Media use and the selective individual.
In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Mediaa tool to meet our needs.
- Media -side--effects.
- Technology and social change: the interactive media environment.
- Critical theories of how media shape culture, values, and perspectives.
- Case study: application mass communication.
- Organizational communication.
- Introduction and history of public relations research.
- Planning, conducting, and evaluating the campaign.
- Campaign message design.
- Building organizational relationships and integrated marketing.
- The bridgestone/firestone recall image crisis: a case study.

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