Classes and Course Textbooks

Up to the spring, 2009, semester…here are the courses that I teach and the textbooks that you are required to purchase for each course. You must purchase the edition that is stated—unless there is a newer edition available. I will always use the most recent edition. DO NOT PURCHASE OLDER EDITIONS, as content will be different, which will negatively affect your reading assignments, learning, etc. 
 

• COM 100 Principles of Human Communication: Communicating: A social and career focus (10^th ed), by Berko, Wolvin, and Wolvin, Houghton-Mifflin Publishing

• COM 150 Intro to Media Communication: Media Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media (8^th ed. most recent edition), by Biagi, Thompson-Wadsworth Publishing.

• COM 175 Intro to TV and Film Scriptwriting: Writing for Visual Media (2^nd ed.), by Friedmann, Focal Press

• COM 195 Media Literacy, Media Literacy (4^th ed.), by Potter, Sage Publishing; and Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture (rev & expanded ed), by Romanowski, Brazos Press.

• COM 243 Intro to TV and Film Production: Television Production Handbook (10^th ed), by Zettl, and VideoLab 3.0 DVD, Wadsworth-Cengage. 

• COM 300 Narrative & Documentary Film: Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (4^th ed), by Prince, Allyn-Bacon; and Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (2^nd ed), by Johnston, Baker Academic.
• COM 425 TV Workshop: no textbook required
• COM 442 Field Production and COM 443 Studio Production: The Art of Technique: An Aesthetic Approach to Film and Video Production, by Douglass and Harnden, Allyn & Bacon; and Producing and Directing The Short Film and Video (3^rd ed), by Irving and Rea, Focal Press