CMST394-001: Topic: Rhetoric of Documentary Film
Instructor: Steven Weiss
Prerequisites: Not recommended for freshmen
Nonfiction, imagery, and argument—these three essential components of communication converge in documentary film, making it an ideal way to introduce the fundamentals of rhetoric. A documentary is, after all, someone’s claim that the audience should accept a point of view, initiate an action, commit to a belief or value, or understand the ethics of a policy or decision. To achieve this, the documentary filmmaker must understand the audience and the appropriate appeals to reach that audience. The director must respond to a rhetorical situation. All in all, documentaries build on the world we see while at the same time focusing on substantive, often controversial, issues that affect our lives. To understand their rhetorical structure and content—the arguments they make—is to grasp the essence of what this film genre is all about.
Offered: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am
CMST394 - 002: Health Campaigns (Cross-Listed with HCOM 450)
Instructor: Manu Pokharel
Prerequisites: CMST403 and Junior Standing
This course is designed to introduce students to health campaign planning, implementation and evaluation. Working in teams, the students will design, implement and evaluate a campaign for an outside client organization.
Offered: Online
CMST394 - 003: Patient-Provider Communication
Instructor: Whittney Hope Darnell
Prerequisites: CMST 101 or 110; junior standing or instructor permission
This class uses a systematic and thoughtful instructional approach aimed at increasing students’ awareness and ability to navigate health interactions. I recognize that students are patients, caregivers, and may even be working or studying in a health-related field already, and therefore I invite and encourage students to bring their lived-experience and questions into the classroom. Health communication plays an integral part in achieving health outcomes. Understanding the variables and factors that influence our health related communication is vital when building constructive relationships with providers throughout the life course. In addition, we will explore the impact of cultural, relational and regulatory factors that facilitate or restrict communication between patients and their providers.
Offered: Online
MIN 250-001: Analog Game Design
Instructor: Lex Pulos
Prerequisites: MIN 240 or consent of instructor
This course provides practical instruction in the design and analysis of non-digital games. In teams, students will design, develop, and thoroughly test their original games to understand the interaction and evolution of game rules, mechanics, themes and structures. Special focus: During the 2019 course the class will partner with Health Innovations to create games around healthy relationships for YA populations. Students will have the opportunity to professionally publish their games, present at local and national conventions and top games will be distributed to local high schools.
Offered: Wednesday 2:00 - 4:45 PM
MIN 394-001: New Media Law and Ethics
Instructor: Robert Bodle
Prerequisites: Junior Standing
This course is designed as a series of case studies used to critically reflect on the legal and ethical issues in new media, the Internet, information systems, computers, and digital culture. Concepts such as privacy, intellectual property, free speech and Internet governance have evolved. This course will provide a unique opportunity to examine these areas of inquiry, while engaging with the new and emerging issues and debates from different legal and ethical approaches.
Offered: Wednesday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
POP 394: Popular Culture and Politics
Instructor: Yasue Kuwahara
Prerequisites: None
Popular culture and politics intersect at many points. Some of these intersections include movies, books, music, television, and various kinds of Internet content. While only a small portion of the US population keeps themselves informed about current events, especially in terms of the government, most Americans are in some way informed by popular culture. This course provides an examination of the interplay between popular culture and politics. We will explore both how popular culture in its many forms influences politics and political behavior and how political events and trends in turn shape popular culture.
Special note: This is a COIL (Corporative Online International Learning) course which NKU and its partner university in Japan, Nanzan University, are collaborating on to enhance international communication and understanding. Students will interact and work with their counterparts at Nanzan University online during the semester.
Offered: Online
CSC 394-001: Intermediate Topics: JavaScript Programming
Instructor: Charles Frank
Prerequisites: INF 286 and CSC 260
This topic course covers the essential of JavaScript and JQuery for client-side web development.
Offered: TR 3:05 - 4:20 pm
CSC 394-002: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
TAs will be assigned a course section, required to attend the class session (when face-to-face), assists students working on in-class work under the direction of the instructor (when face-to-face) and hold two office hours per week). TAs also grade labs and programming assignments as directed by the instructor at a semester average of 2 hours/week. TA’s for online courses will participate in discussion lists, hold 2 office hours/week (which can be virtual) and provide additional grading support (average 4 hours/week. While serving as a TA, you will also participate in an online course to learn the foundation of being a TA or university instructor.
Offered: Varies
CSC 499: CSC ACM Programming Team Training
Instructor: Gary Newell
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Offered: Monday 3 - 5 pm
CIT 394-001: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
TAs will be assigned a course section, required to attend the class session (when face-to-face), assists students working on in-class work under the direction of the instructor (when face-to-face) and hold two office hours per week). TAs also grade labs and programming assignments as directed by the instructor at a semester average of 2 hours/week. TA’s for online courses will participate in discussion lists, hold 2 office hours/week (which can be virtual) and provide additional grading support (average 4 hours/week. While serving as a TA, you will also participate in an online course to learn the foundation of being a TA or university instructor.
Offered: Varies
DSC 394-001: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
TAs will be assigned a course section, required to attend the class session (when face-to-face), assists students working on in-class work under the direction of the instructor (when face-to-face) and hold two office hours per week). TAs also grade labs and programming assignments as directed by the instructor at a semester average of 2 hours/week. TA’s for online courses will participate in discussion lists, hold 2 office hours/week (which can be virtual) and provide additional grading support (average 4 hours/week. While serving as a TA, you will also participate in an online course to learn the foundation of being a TA or university instructor.
Offered: Varies
INF 294-001: Introduction to C Programming
Instructor: Samuel Cho
Prerequisite: C- or better in MAT 109 (or higher) and in INF 110 or INF 120 placement
INF 294 will provide students a solid foundation to further explore the possibilities that IoT devices, tools, and environments can offer. IoT aims to connect various intelligent devices to provide services to people. You will learn the C programming language to control micro:bit computers, learning both C and the basics of IoT devices. Through this experience you will understand how to use a low-level programming language and use various features in themicro:Bit (e.g., accelerometer, Bluetooth, sound and LEDs).
Security is a big topic nowadays. By exploring low-level features that C provides, students can understand possible security issues and robust programming skills to prevent them.
This is preparation for CSC 494, Internet of Things (IoT), that will be offered in Fall 2020. Students who have taken this course or CSC 362 will be eligible for CSC 494.
Offered: TR 9:25 - 10:40 am
INF 394: Computational Aesthetics
Instructor: Sookie Cho
Prerequisites: None
In this course, we take a deep dive into computation and aesthetics. We will review art history and discuss modernism, post-modernism, and contemporary arts in order to understand why and how the artists created such works. Then, we will make the creative works by using computer programming as an art medium. We will play with a well-known and artist-friendly programming language called Processing (p5.js), to create art with code. This course is recommended for anyone who is interested in art and is willing to experiment with computing. No background in aesthetics or programming is required.
Offered: Online
CMST 360: Interviewing
Instructor: Dr. Jessica Kratzer
Prerequisite: None
This is a skill-based course that is designed to introduce you to interviewing concepts and skills in a variety of contexts through readings, course lectures, assignments, guest speakers, and class activities.
Offered: Hybrid Class - 66% in class (Monday and Wednesday 10:00 - 10:50 AM) , 33% online (Activity or assignment due each Friday for online portion)
CMST 394-001: Sexuality and Communication
Instructor: Jessica Kratzer
Prerequisite: Instructor permission required
This course will introduce you to the complexity of communication about sex and intimacy in sexual and nonsexual relationships. We will examine how communication about sex influences various relationships (e.g., college students, married couples, LGBT+), cultural norms (e.g., media, health perspectives), and the negotiation of sex in unique contexts (e.g., physical disabilities, kink).
Offered: Tuesday and Thursday 1:40 - 2:55 PM
CMST 394-002: Patient-Provider Communication
Instructor: Whittney Darnell
Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Instructor Permission
This course is intended to help students understand the dynamics of patient-provider interactions in a health care setting. A variety of types of medical encounters will be examined with special attention paid to the role of narrative and rhetorical theory when analyzing communication between providers and their patients.
Offered: Irregular Schedule
JOU 394: Issues in News Media Diversity
Instructor: Steve Bien-Aime
Prerequisite: None
Through mass communication, gender, race and cultural theories, this course explores journalism's portrayals of various societal groups.
Offered: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15 PM
POP 333-001: Popular Music and Contemporary Society
Instructor: Zachary Wells
Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on the Beatles and 1960s cultural history. We will examine how popular music shaped the decade of the 1960s, and how music itself impacted the decade and inspired historical events. The class will use a variety of music, videos, movies, and texts to explore how popular music and history left a lasting legacy on the decade.
Offered: Online
POP 394-002: Pop Culture and Sports
Instructor: Steve Bien-Aime
Prerequisite: None
Through scholarly research, industry leaders’ guest lectures and current news events, we’ll tackle how sports and mass media unify/divide people locally, nationally and internationally in terms of economics, politics, culture, race, gender and language. We’ll also detail the history of sports and mass media and where their relationship will head in the future.
Offered: Online
POP 494-001: History of Punk Rock
Instructor: Zachary Wells
Prerequisite: One CMST or one POP course
This course will follow the roots of punk rock in the NYC and London scenes of the 1970s and the Bay Area scene of the 1980s and 1990s. The music, it’s people and their lifestyles, and lyrical themes will be studied through the historical and political context of the late 20th century.
Offered: Online
CSC 394-001: CSC Teaching Assistantship
Instructor: Maureen Doyle
Prerequisite: B or better in class you are TA'ing, to TA INF 120 you must have taken the course within the past year
This course is comprised of two parts. First, students will participate in an online course to learn the foundation of being a TA. The second, applied part, requires student to TA for a course. Students will be assigned a course section, attend the class session, assists students working on in-class work under the direction of the instructor and hold one office hour per week. Student also grade labs and programming assignments as directed by the instructor.
Offered: Varies
CSC 494: Advanced Android Development
Instructor: Michael L Clark
Prerequisite:
Offered: Thursday 6:15 - 9:00 PM
ENG 368-001: The Grahpic Novel
Instructor: Dr. Tamara O'Callaghan
Prerequisite: A previous ENG course in literature or English Department approval
Graphic novels, or sequential art, are one of the world’s great storytelling media. In ENG 368, we will explore the development of visualized text and page design – from the illuminated medieval manuscript and illustrated print book to the modern-day comic strip – as precursors to the graphic novel form as well as learn effective strategies for textual and visual analysis. Considerable attention will be given to the narrative structure of graphic novels and to the potential impact of new technologies for the future of the genre. Texts to be studied include: Neil Gaiman, The Sandman; Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen; Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History; Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, Daytripper; Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; Guy Delisle, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea; Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic; Gareth Hinds, Beowulf.
Offered: Tuesday and Thursday 12:15 - 1:30 PM
ENG 302-002: Literature and Film - The "Reel" Middle Ages
Instructor: Dr. Tamara O'Callaghan
Prerequisite: A previous ENG course in literature or English Department approval
This course explores the complex interplay between literature and film. By comparing and contrasting textual and visual narratives, students will gain a deeper awareness of the cultural importance and complexity of storytelling across media. Selected literary texts will be analyzed in relation to films that either are based directly on these works or exhibit strong connections to them. Students will gain an understanding of the possibilities (and problems) involved in the transposition of the literary text to film. This section of ENG 302 focuses on the “reel” Middle Ages. Literary works include Beowulf, a Viking saga, Arthurian literature, selections from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, dream vision poetry, and selected ballads of Robin Hood. Films include Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf (2007), episodes from the TV series The Vikings (2013-18), Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), John Boorman’sExcalibur (1981), Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson’s Shrek(2001), Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey(1988), and Michael Curtiz and William Keighley’s The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). All literature will be read in Modern English translation.
Offered: Tuesday and Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
