Class Resources

Syllabi, Bulletin Boards, Self-Guided Tutorials.

COMM 112, Understanding Media

• Syllabus
• An introduction to convergence media.

Extras
Ten commandments of teaching and learning.
Download your grade computation worksheet (PDF file)
Check out student evaluations for each course.
Consider an interdisciplinary minor in Internet web design (Ross Collins, program coordinator).
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COMM 230, Basic Photography for Mass Media

• Syllabus (PDF file).
• Other resources.

COMM 330 (formerly COMM 242), Advanced News Photography (Photojournalism)

• Announcements.
• Syllabus (PDF file).
• Other resources.

COMM 260, Principles of Internet Web-based Design

• Announcements.
• Syllabus (PDF file).
• Other resources.

COMM 310, Advanced Writing, Public Relations

• Syllabus.
• Other resources.

COMM 310, Advanced Writing (general)

• Syllabus.
• Other resources.

COMM 313, Editorial Processes

• Announcements.

Syllabi:

• Summer Session.
• Regular Semester (pdf).

• Other resources.

COMM 313 online.
This on-line home-study course is administered through the university's Continuing Education office.

• What's it all about?
• Class syllabus.
• Other resources.
• Registration assistance.

COMM 362, Principles of Design for Print

• Announcements.
• Syllabus (PDF file).
• Other resources.

HON 391, World Media and American Power

• Announcements.
• Syllabus.
• Other resources.

COMM 421/621 (former 636/436), History of the Mass Media

• Announcements.
• Syllabus.
• Other resources.

COMM 421 online.
This on-line home-study undergraduate course is administered through the university's Continuing Education office.

• About the course.
• Course notes and overviews.
• Course assignments.
• Registration assistance.

COMM 621 online.
This online home-study graduate-level course is administered through the university's Continuing Education office.

• About on-line graduate study.
• About the course.
• Course notes and overviews.
• Course assignments.
• Registration assistance.

COMM 431, Communication Ethics

• Announcements.
• Syllabus (PDF).
• Other resources.

COMM 450, Special Topics: Magazine Design, Editing and Production

• Announcements.
• Syllabus (pdf).
• Other resources.

COMM 489, Communication Capstone

• Announcements.
• Syllabus (pdf).
• Other resources.

COMM 700, Research Methods in Communication

• Announcements.
• Syllabus.
• Other resources.

COMM 750, Web Studies/Digital Media

This online graduate-level course is administered through the university's Continuing Education office.

• About the course/course overview.
• Course assignments.
• Registration assistance.
• Learn more about on-line graduate study in communication at NDSU.

COMM 750, Rise of Western Journalism

• About the course.
• Reading: "Weird Ways of News."
• Other resources.

Includes sample textbook readings.

COMM 750, Media, Technology and Cultural Change

• Class resources.

The instructor's student course evaluations

A quantitative student assessment of every course based on the university's standard evaluation forms.

Course evaluations, 1994-2000.

Course evaluations, 2001-2006.

Collins evaluated on RateMyProfessors.com.

All class material by Ross Collins unless otherwise specified is available under Creative Commons licensing: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.

Photo above: Pavement chalk artist, London, 2004.