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JOUR 703

Innovation

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Average gradeA
Standard

Overview

Description

Overview of media communications, media literacy, and our understanding of current practices; model a process for innovation, and explore processes of user-centered brainstorming and prototyping.

Units

Lecture3

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Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • identify problems with current communication organizations’ designs and practices.
  • model brainstorming as it is practiced at some of the nation’s most respected design firms.
  • produce and refine audience-centered prototypes of new communication products.
  • articulate key concepts about the innovation process, how innovations diffuse, how the brain works, how people learn and why some traditional journalism and strategic communications are counterproductive.