Marist in Manhattan Course Offerings
Communication Media Online Course Offerings
COM325
Intercultural Communication
3 Credits
Intercultural Communication provides an overview of the study of communication and culture. Both intracultural (i.e., communication between members of the same culture) and intercultural (i.e., communication between members of different cultures) aspects of communication will be examined. The focus will be upon isolating similarities and differences in intracultural and intercultural communication. Areas studied will include increasing understanding of the relationship between communication and culture; explaining the role of cultural patterns; verbal and nonverbal codes in the development of intercultural relationships; and explaining obstacles. Offered in fall and spring.
Prerequisite: Junior standing
COM 330L-721
Seminar in Communication : Media Ethics:
3 credits
The course addresses the moral uses of communication. It covers the methods of systematic critical evaluation of communications and different philosophical grounds for evaluating the ethics of communication. The resultant framework of ethical values and methods of evaluation is then applied to cases of communication in the following settings: personal relationships; professional relationships; broadcast and print news; computer-information networks; public-relations programs; political campaigns; and the popular entertainment arts of books, music, films, and television. Offered as and when necessary.
Prerequisites: Junior standing
COM 342
Readings in Journalism
This course is designed to enhance the student’s ability to understand and critically evaluate the techniques used by various writers/reporters in gathering data and symbolically re-creating the world around them. Works from several periods are studied both as literature and as journalism.
COM 375
Public Opinion
This course examines the nature of public opinion, how it is formed, maintained, and/or changed. Various methods of measuring public opinion are studied, as are the validity and accuracy of samples used in the process. The historical development of public opinion and its influence in the process of decision making in American society are investigated. Case histories are explored and the circumstances related to each are reviewed. Students will have an opportunity to create an instrument, implement it, and analyze the data collected.
COM402
Seminar in Communication- Media Management:
3 Credits
Students will explore the fundamentals of management (decision-making processes, theories of motivation, leadership styles) and survey various business operating structures and ownership systems used in print and electronic media, including radio, television, film, magazine and new media industries.
Pre-requisite: Junior standing
Fashion Online Course Offerings
Please note: not all courses run every semester, please check with Program Director Lydia Biskup.
FASH265N
Principles of Retailing
This course is designed to provide an overview of various types of retail organizations, including traditional stores and nontraditional formats such as e-commerce and television shopping. The buying cycle is analyzed as a series of strategic decisions made by retailers in order to communicate with the consumer. Prerequisite: FASH100
FASH300N
Product Development
Presents an overview of apparel manufacturing and product development focusing on garment analysis and the sequential development of the product. Topics include private label techniques, sourcing, costing, and quality control in manufacturing and merchandising.
Prerequisite: FASH200
FASH365N
Merchandise Planning & Control
This course provides a basic knowledge of the mathematical concepts and calculations involved in profitable merchandising. Students work with actual retailing scenarios to apply merchandising formulas such as open-to-buy, markup and stock turnover. Prerequisite: FASH265
FASH384N
Fashion Forecasting & Trend Analysis (online)
Students will learn how fashion and color forecasts are developed for various target markets and how this information is utilized by fashion editors, apparel manufacturers and other industry groups. A range of research options will be used to evaluate previous forecasts and to create new forecasts.
FASH488N
Sustainability in Fashion
Sustainability and Fashion asks students to explore the twin concepts of sustainability and social responsibility as they relate to social, economic and ecological issues. Students will work to understand the impact of apparel manufacturing and generate real-world solutions to its major problems. As the fashion industry rapidly adopts more ethical business practices, research into the positive innovations being generated by designers and product developers every day will be stressed.
FASH392N
New York Fashion Seminar
This course is designed to encourage you to explore the wealth of cultural resources in New York and to broaden your horizons and look at familiar things in a different way. You will complete two unusual assignments, which will stimulate you and encourage you to develop your research, visual, verbal and presentation skills. The research is designed to help you find your way around New York and to familiarize yourself with hidden locations and the complex layout and history of this vibrant metropolis. (Course taught on-ground in Manhattan)
FASH387N
New York Fashion Experience Internship -12 credit internship
This internship course is designed for students to increase their marketability, enhance their education through field work and gain professional experience.(This translates to 4 days per week at the internship site, for a 15-week long semester, or 540 hours per semester.)
