CT 101 Introduction to Video
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Co/Prerequisite: ENG 125.
Fundamentals of single camera video production: shooting, lighting, and editing. Students learn how to run a camera, properly shoot a story, light an interview subject or an area to be shot, wire an interview subject or an area for sound and edit their material with a non-linear editing system.

CT 201 Foundations in Communications Technology
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: ENG 125.
The nature, development, functions, and social context of communications technology, including theories of information transmission and the history of print, photographic, sound, motion image, and computer-based media.

CT 205 Principles of the Moving Image
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: CT 201.
Introduction to the fundamental principles of film and television communication with emphasis on analyzing the interaction of the media text with technology to determine how the elements of form and style function dynamically to construct meaning.

CT 240 Studio Television Production
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 101.
Techniques in contemporary digital television production including multi-camera techniques, lighting, sound and post-production for studio elements as well as outside segment production.

CT 244 Multimedia Sound Production
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 101.
Introduction to the techniques of sound production for multimedia, covering the physics of sound, recording equipment techniques, multi-track mixing, and editing sound for picture. Using a non-linear digital audio workstation, students will produce soundtracks for various multimedia projects with current audio software.

CT 345 Introduction to Motion Graphics
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 101, FA 284.
Introduction to the techniques of motion graphics production for television and video: video effects and animation; lighting and shooting of blue screens; and layering of video sequences. Using non-linear editing workstations, students will produce videos using current video and effects software.

CT 355 Documentary Production
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 244, CT 240.
Fundamentals of video documentary production: pre-production planning, budgeting, scripting, shooting, editing, and directing. Students in small groups learn the theory and techniques of using portable digital video cameras, lighting and sound equipment in field work and complete digital editing with titles, voiceover, music, and special effects in a studio setting. A brief history and role of the documentary is also included.

CT 360 Principles of Web Publishing
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: FA 284.
Fundamental design theories and principles of web publishing. Topics include typography, layout, basic design, tables, frames, layers, digital image editing, adding page, and file formatting. Students will build web pages using current design software.

CT 370 Web Programming
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: CS172, CT201. Corequisite: CT201.
Principles and techniques of applications programming for the web. Topics include programming structures, data types, arrays, variables, statements, functions and objects. Also included are how to control overall design, and passing data from client to servers and between clients.

CT 380 Webcasting
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 101, CT 201.
Overview of streaming media solutions, delving into the technologies of compression and delivery. The history of streaming media and the implementation of various multimedia architectures are included. Principles and techniques of setting up and configuring various streaming media servers, and examing their impact on an IT department. Student projects include producing and encoding media and then streaming it over the College’s LAN, using current encoding and delivery software.

CT 381 Advanced Web Design
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 360.
Advanced theories and technologies of web design. Emphasizing the need to go beyond simple web page editing, students will study template creation for managing site growth and continuity, build models for database collection of form information, and embed multimedia technologies such as audio, video, and interactivity. They will critique and analyze various types of online content, paying close attention to what makes some web sites more compelling than others

CT 385 Multimedia Interface Design
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: CT 345 or CT 370 or CT 380, as required by student’s concentration.
History and study of human-computer interactions and interfaces, focusing on the graphics user interface (GUI), the usability and design process of creating an interface.

CT 390 Online Communities
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: CT 201.
Design, evaluation, and analysis of online communities, and their social, legal and educational dimensions.

CT 391 Telecommunications in Transition
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: CT 201.
The latest advances, issues and trends in communications technology: the Internet, new media, networks, and other emerging technologies. Concepts and practices of mobile commerce and home automation are included.

CT 399 Portfolio Design
Credits: 1.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credits in Major and permission of the department. Corequisite: Completion of 30 credits in Major and permission of the department.
Students learn to develop a portfolio relevant to their chosen concentration in the Communications Technology Major. Professional statement writing and the fundamentals of analog, digital and web-based portfolios will be covered. Critique of fellow students? portfolio elements is a requirement of the course.

CT 401 Final Project/Senior Seminar
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: CT 399, Writing 303, and permission of the department.
Final project based in communications technology in a collegial and critical environment. Students will write a thesis project proposal as an application to participate in the class. Critique sessions will include outside guests who will provide insight on current trends in media and business. Students will present final projects of professional quality for review and display on the web and in public showcases.

CT 415-419 Special Topics – Production
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 4.0, Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
A selected topic in multimedia production. The topic varies with each offering.

CT 425-429 Special Topics – Seminar
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 3.0, Prerequisite: CT 201.
A selected topic in communications technology. The topic varies with each offering.

CT 490-491 Internship
Credits: 3.0, Hours: 20.0, Prerequisite: CT 399 and permission of the department.
Application of theory and competencies developed in academic courses to on-the-job settings. Under supervision of both a job-site monitor and a college faculty advisor, the student engages in a defined program at a cooperating communications company, agency, or institution.