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COM CM 420: Ad Lab
Experience in student-run, full-service advertising agency. Students organize, manage, and perform all functions: solicit business, perform market and consumer research, contact clients, write plans, create advertising campaigns, evaluate media, and prepare campaign evaluations for community service agencies. 2 cr. This course fulfills a single unit the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration. -
COM CM 510: Computers in Communication
This course introduces students to using new media tools as a source and vehicle for creating expression and media communication. Students will acquire building blocks for design thinking and hands-on skills to successfully communicate ideas using media technology. Students will experience the design process: ideation to execution. Topics on media technology, interface design, information architecture, and interaction design will be covered. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression. -
COM CM 518: Creating Video Campaigns
Learn to think big. Students conceptualize, write commercials, prepare storyboards, and consider the challenges of creating video campaigns designed to live in multiple lengths on multiple digital platforms for 21st-century media marketplace.? 4 cr. Either sem. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation. -
COM CO 101: The World of Communication: The Human Storyteller
Introduces students to many fundamental principles of communication. Students also learn about the intertwined nature of communication professions as they explore the major fields of study in communication. Guest lectures from various industries inform students of potential future career paths. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression. -
COM CO 201: Introduction to Communication Writing
The College of Communication's core undergraduate writing course. Students refresh their grammatical and stylistic skills and apply those skills to professional writing assignments. Prepares students to write with clarity, conciseness, precision, and accuracy for the communication fields. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. -
COM FT 201: Screen Language: The Aesthetics, Grammar and Rhetoric of the Moving Image
This course is designed to help students communicate through audio, still images and moving pictures. We will study how films and photographs of various kinds communicate ideas, tell stories, and convey artistic expression. Students will then be given many opportunities to demonstrate their own grasp of fundaments of communication and storytelling through images, sounds and montage. The aim of this course is not simply to reinforce existing rules but rather to test the validity of those norms. Accordingly, students will be asked both to employ and to violate conventions. -
COM FT 310: Storytelling for Film & Television
An introduction to the art and craft of storytelling through the moving image. Particular emphasis will be given to writing short scripts. Topics covered include character development and narrative structure as it applies to shorts, features and episodic television. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. -
COM JO 150: History and Principles of Journalism
This course surveys the evolution of the American news media. Students examine press freedom, censorship, changing definitions of news and shifting business models underlying journalism. Based on that history, students examine the enduring values and principles of journalism in modern society. (Formerly JO357, cannot be taken for credit if JO357 has been taken.) -
COM JO 262: Faked Out?
Faked Out? introduces students to news and media literacy, arming them with theories and practices needed to understand news, "fake news," and entertainment media products in today's "attention economy" by studying mass and social media: content, impacts, and institutional practices. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking. -
COM JO 543: Rescuing Lost Stories: Writing Nonfiction Narratives from the Archives
The course will prepare students who are interested in writing nonfiction narratives to plan and conduct archival research, especially at BU's Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Students will learn to navigate the archives, then frame and develop historical narratives of significant contemporary events based on research of primary source materials such as personal letters, diaries, government documents and contemporaneous media reports. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. -
ENG EK 125: Introduction to Programming for Engineers
An introduction to programming concepts and modern computational environments used to solve engineering problems. Basic procedural programming concepts including input/output, selection, looping, functions, data structures (arrays, strings, structures), pointers, and memory management. Introduction to object-oriented programming concepts and terminology and event-driven programming. Emphasis on programming style, debugging, top-down design and modular code. Introduction to a command line interface and a high-level language. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning I, Creativity/Innovation. -
ENG EK 210: Introduction to Engineering Design
A two credit introductory course to the principles of engineering design, intended to give second-year undergraduates a basic understanding of the process of converting a product from concept through design and deployment. Students will work in multi-disciplinary teams with time and budget constraints on externally sponsored design projects. Web-based lectures will cover topics concurrent with specific phases of the projects. The course will culminate in a "Design Competition". This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration. -
ENG EK 301: Engineering Mechanics I
Fundamental statics of particles, rigid bodies, trusses, frames, and virtual work. Distributed forces, uni-axial stress and strain, shear and bending moment diagrams. Application of vector analysis and introduction to engineering design. Includes design project. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Critical Thinking. -
ENG EK 381: Probability, Statistics, and Data Science for Engineers
Provides a strong foundation in probability and an introduction to statistics and machine learning. Includes experience with translating engineering problems into probabilistic models, and working with these models analytically and algorithmically. Prepares students for upper-level electives that use probabilistic reasoning. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking. -
HUB CC 100: Cocurricular: Communicating Wellness: An Immersive Experience in Teamwork and Collaboration
In this group problem-solving experience, students work together in a team to examine issues within campus and personal wellness, physical activity, and developing positive behaviors. Students practice collaboration, communication, feedback processing, and group reflection, and teams will create and deliver a presentation on wellness issues to a variety of audiences. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration. -
HUB CC 101: Cocurricular: Individual and Community Health and Well-being at BU
This cocurricular experience examines student wellness and community health with a public health perspective. Students engage in campus activities with peers, get to know University resources, and consider what fosters a thriving BU community. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. -
HUB CC 120: Cocurricular: Vocation
This cocurricular experience focuses on vocation, calling, spiritual living, and purposeful existence, allowing students to analyze this dimension of experience that so substantially informs various religious and secular worldviews and beliefs. Students will participate in a variety of religious and other communities at Boston University and assess the relevance of vocation to these groups. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. -
HUB CC 121: Cocurricular: Critical Reflection on Community Engagement
Students participate in community engagement experiences with social change organizations in the Greater Boston area and reflect upon how lived experience and relevant issues inform their own as well as others' perspectives. To be eligible, students must have or plan to have a semester- or year-long community service placement with a Community Service Center program. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. -
HUB CC 140: Cocurricular: Introduction to Sports Marketing & School Spirit
Students will learn about teamwork by exploring athletics marketing and enhancing Terrier Pride at Boston University. Students will be immersed in project-based learning, case- based learning, and experiential learning while navigating how to collaborate within an organization and identify necessary skills for achieving both individual and collective ambitions. As part of this experience, students will develop and execute a game-day marketing plan for a BU Athletics team or a campus-focused promotion. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration. -
HUB CC 160: Cocurricular: The Common Thread Podcast
Students collaborate as a team to conceptualize, research, and create podcast episodes for the Howard Thurman Center's The Common Thread Podcast. Through this process, participants identify, engage in, and reflect on team dynamics and hone cooperative team skills. Episodes cover myriad subjects with thought leaders, faculty, and artists in Boston and beyond. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration.
