Topics vary. Using analytic skills learned in core courses, students work with an AUP faculty member, visiting scholar or professional in an area of current interest in the field to be determined by the instructor and the faculty of the Global Communications department.
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| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 | Q-704 |
Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 | Q-704 |
Students may undertake an internship in an advertising agency, film company, or television company. Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits. The internship must be registered for 4-CR if the student decides to do an internship instead of the senior seminar. Students have taken internships at CNN, Harpers, Societe Francaise de Production, Le Courrier International, Sixty Minutes, European Broadcasting Union, amongst many others.
This course is designed for students working in the journalism workshops – magazine, online news, video production. The student will work in one of the journalism workshops under the guidance of a faculty member. The student will be actively engaged in the newsroom activities for the workshop selected. The faculty member will mentor, monitor and evaluate participation and work produced.
Topics vary by semester
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | M-013 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | M-013 |
This course aims for a critical practice of fashion communication. It relies on the principle of “learning by doing”: learning how to communicate fashion through writing, photography, film, digital and new media, exhibition curation, styling and performances. Training multi-skilled, innovative and critical fashion communicators of the twenty-first century but also professionals interested in questions of global fashion communication is the objective in response to the heterogenous and transitory professional field of fashion. Together, we will investigate the new conventions and challenges, processes and practices of twenty-first century media through lectures and workshops, presentations and projects, and the direct involvement with AUP ASM. The class will experientially explore different ways of communication fashion through writing (journalistic, academic, commercial, advertorial, informational), visual (photography, drawing, film, video, and television), material (styling and curating fashion- performative: fashion performance, dance), digital (digital media such as blogs and Instagram accounts, video, virtual reality, online fashion resources, virtual and 3D fashion shows).
At the end of the class, each student will have achieved a multimedia project on a specific topic of their choice made of a text, a film, a podcast, a photo... Each class will be part of the overall project.
Fashion Studies minors can must write to registraroffice@aup.edu to be enrolled in this course.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | Q-704 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | Q-704 |
This course strengthens basic skills acquired in Principles of Video Production, and builds on them to further develop a deep understanding of the end-to-end workflow needed to make a professional film (fiction or nonfiction). Extensive hands-on and practical skill-development will be provided in three distinct areas: (1) pre-production, including idea-development, research, budgeting, pitching, grant-writing, storyboarding, etc; (2) production, covering advanced cinematography, sound recording, lighting, interviewing, directing, etc; (3) post-production, including professional editing workflows, soundtrack development, color correction, etc.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 10:35 | 13:30 | C-501 |
This is the capstone course for all Marketing and Communication interested Seniors. It puts previous learning experiences from management classes, marketing, research and communications into perspective and analyses the strategic choices that lead to building strong and lasting brands. The course sets a particular focus on brand positioning, brand architecture, Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and teaches the academic foundations and tools that are indispensable to develop truly differentiating brand statements, to understand key research techniques and their usage in real life as well as competitive strategy. Numerous brand cases and exercises such as Nespresso, Tag Heuer, Healthy Choice, Toyota, etc. help to illustrate brand strategy and teaches students to apply strategic thinking in building strong and differentiated brands. The course employs the Harvard Business School Case Study method and teamwork throughout.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-101 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-101 |
Media Practicum: Reporting Conflict is as close to a real-life newsroom experience as most students will come during their time at university. This course prepares students to play the role of journalists covering an international crisis. A weekly class will teach you the multimedia skills and the journalistic skills (press briefings, reporting, broadcasting and social media) needed to cover a simulation of military intervention organized and operated by the French War College (Ecole de Guerre) with civilian partners.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-501 |
Taught as a directed study, this course enables senior students to assemble as a whole their own work for the Journalism Major in order to reflect, to evaluate, and to critique its coherence.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Monday | 01:00 | 01:30 | TBD-S |
The senior thesis research seminar allows students to work in a small group setting with a professor,where they draw from and hone research methods and theories they have learned in the Global Communications major and across their entire BA education. It culminates in a major piece of primary research that the student presents to an audience of peers and faculty.he seminar is designed to demonstrate cumulative knowledge, while teaching advanced research skills valued in the workforce and necessary for graduate school. The thesis is required for students seeking honors in the major.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | C-302 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | C-302 |