Analyzes how God has spoken to and through mankind through word, deed, nature, and natural objects. Comparing and contrasting the Biblical evidence, historical examples, communication theory, and missiological concerns, the student will develop both a theology and strategies for communicating the Good News in a variety of contexts.

Social media is a very new topic in the realm of media studies, thus theories and methods in social media are in the early stages of development. This course will base research on the foundational concepts of the Internet and social media, focus on how they intertwine and critically evaluate the ways in which the social media phenomenon continues to take precedence in the world of communications.

Analyzes the complex relationship between the media and society and students evaluate how media communicate, persuade, and construct meaning across cultures. This course recognizes that people gain information about other cultures and people groups through mass media, so it seeks to enable students to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in various cultural contexts.

This course is designed to help students examine and evaluate multiple ways to design and develop social media campaigns for faith-based organizations in global contexts. The focus will be upon helping students outline and construct campaigns around topics such as: raising funds, engaging and mobilizing volunteers, finding and engaging with donors, mobilizing prayer partners and sharing the gospel online.

An analysis of the effectiveness of different approaches to global media and cultures. Highlights the limitations of a Eurocentric approach by examining the dynamics of structural forces and human agency reflected in global media. Includes a discussion of the relationship between globalization and Christianity.

This course evaluates and interprets how narratives can be effectively applied in a range of global contexts and across multiple media platforms to achieve specific goals. Students will formulate effective solutions of storytelling with regard to audience engagement, branding and successful marketing, and combine their new-found knowledge and skills to generate successful storytelling campaigns in either a specific global context or in a multicultural setting.

Today's media have access to a myriad of cross-media platforms which allow stories to be presented in pieces that are acceptable on one platform but may not be acceptable on another. This allows consumers to engage in multiple ways with a product, movie, television show, novels and more. This course empowers students to collect and construct information for transmedia campaigns in global contexts while paying close attention to social bonds within specific communities.