Courses Taught
About the Digital Media Program
About Intercultural Communication
Course Offered by Tiffany Bell Ph.D
CVA 645:
Intercultural Communication
To explore and define the multidimensional relationship between culture and communication, while critically investigating how cultural beliefs, values, and systems impact human interactions and identity development. Although intercultural communication can mean the communication that occurs between people of different cultural backgrounds, there can also be many differences within a culture that make communication more challenging. We will examine the foundations, theories, and applications of intercultural communication and how it relates to your everyday life.
CVA 700:
Graduate Project I in Digital Media
COMM 700/701 Graduate Project I/II in Digital Media. Cr. 3. A significant digital media project requiring incorporation of at least one form of digital media from the following: (video, audio, web design, graphic design, interactive design project). This is the capstone series of courses for students who are pursuing the Master of Science in Digital Media (MSDM) at Valparaiso University. Similar to a thesis in other programs, this course is designed to help you demonstrate your newly acquired skills in digital media by producing an independent project.
CVA/490/590
Gender
Gender and communication focuses on the interactive relationships between gender and communication in contemporary society. During the course, we explore the multiple ways communication in our society creates and perpetuates gender roles; we consider how individuals enact socially created gender differences in public and private settings and how this affects success, satisfaction, and self-esteem; and we connect gender theory and research to our professional and personal experiences. Throughout the course, we discuss not only what is in terms of gender roles, but also what might be and how we might act to improve our individual and collective lives.
COMM 490/590
Race, Class, and Gender in the Media
This course is designed to give students a theoretical, as well as practical, experience with issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality as they manifest in mediated artifacts of popular culture. The course is taught from a cultural studies perspective where students will gain skills in critical analysis and media literacy. Concepts of power, privilege, justice, representations, hegemony, consumption, and resistance will be woven throughout course readings, films, assignments, and discussions.
COMM 595:
Independent Study
3 Cr. Investigation of a special topic through readings under supervision of a faculty advisor. Requires research, creative work, and a concluding paper. A copy of the paper is to be filed in the department upon completion of the project. Prerequisite: The project must be approved prior to registration.