Applied context for legal considerations in sports media coverage, such as privacy, conflict of interest, intellectual property and commercial misappropriation, rights of publicity, first amendment, trademark law, libel and slander; ethical considerations, including, but not limited to fairness in sports reporting, gender, race, and culture issues.

Theory and practice for the preparation and delivery of speeches. Preparation for professional presentations. Use of multimedia technologies in oral presentations.

Newsgathering processes, including news judgment and what elements constitute news. Provides students with experience writing and covering news topics such as speeches, press conference reports, interviews, features, and business reports; improves proficiency with quotations, journalistic style, readability, and deadlines.

Primary theories of mass media content and effects. Emphasis on role of mass media in a democracy.

History of the profession. Disorders of speech, language and hearing, including etiology, diagnosis and management.

Focus on data collection, analysis, and dissemination, design of studies and methodology.

Development of fundamental counseling skills through didactic and experiential methods.

Major theories of group counseling, dynamics, procedures, and techniques.

Fundamentals of Jazz Dance: body alignment, body isolation, stretch and strengthening, movement combinations. Compositional exploration.