Communication

The course gives an overview of a wide range of topics and also provides technical details of some topics. Topics included in the course are security terminology, cryptography, digital certificates, email security, DNS architecture and security, web session security, web application security, remote and local authentication, Internet anonymity, operating system security, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and organizational aspects.

This course provides instruction and practice in writing for the mass media, including the Internet. It explores similarities and differences in writing styles for all mass media and for professions in journalism, public affairs, public relations, advertising, and telecommunications. The course emphasizes accuracy, responsibility, clarity, and style in presenting information through the various mass communication channels. It surveys communication theories of various professions that communicate via mass media, establishing the basis for advanced studies in writing and communication.

This course investigates race/class and gender implications of the media generated immigration discourse in Europe, and Italy in particular, as a whole. That is, how individuals in Europe perceive immigration and distinguish among different movements of people. The course analyzes how what people perceive is generated and communicated, and in what way meaning is attributed and reacted with counter-narratives to that which is perceived. From the past to the present, through colonial and modern times to post WWII massive intra-European migrations, images and symbols of immigration remain political. How and why do they become so? Does theorizing the visual require a “grammar” of its own? How do images limit and enable securitization? How do figurations and discourses relate to and shape one another? Drawing upon examples from the last century as well as current media related discourses of asylum and migration in Europe at the continental, national and urban level, students participate in a group project that attempts to connect media politics to the concept of “community” in Rome. To this end, students’ analytical focal point is placed upon the city and suburbs of Rome where the presence of diverse immigrant communities offers opportunity for first-hand exploration of how effectively they and their second-generation individuals have been challenging the Italian political, economic, cultural mainstream and ultimately the same idea of citizenship from within the city. Students therefore experience first-hand how the Eternal city has changed in the past thirty years and how it is still changing beyond tourist stereotypes through a continual process of immigration and alteration.