What I Learned

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My two concentration areas are business and mass communication. Like I said in my introduction my purpose for taking this degree was to diversify my education with multiple facets. The concentration of business will help me in multiple areas as business pretty much dictates society and it's operation. The business classes I decided upon cover all aspects of business from personal finance to upper level management. The perfect compliment to business is communication. They essentially go hand in hand and one doesn't operate without the other. I decided to take mass communication because it included public relations, which is extremely vital to companies reputation and success. My other mass communication classes developed a mixture of knowledge that will add to my bottom line of diversification.

Below is a list of the concentration classes I have taken and a brief description of them.


Business Concentration:

Accounting and Financial Analysis
-Balance sheets and formulation of financial statements pertaining to business.
-Effectiveness on the global economy

Management and Strategy
-Foundation for business ethics and codes
-Strategic methods of management

Real Estate Fundamentals
-Investing, management, mortgages, and ethics laws

Managerial Economics
-Supply and demand in real world applications
-Societies economic stand point

Personal Financial Management
-Debt management
-Time value of money
-Retirement and investment planning


Introduction to Selling
-Strategies for profiting
-Marketing techniques and information


Mass Communication Concentration:

International Mass Communication
-Interactions and communications between countries
-Language barriers
-Mediated imagery to other countries
-Global media domination
-Cultural and political influence

Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
-Disillusions of mass media
-Reconstruction of perception
-Unrealistic myths and stereotypes

War and Mass Media
-Effects on media operations
-Propaganda and media portrayals of war

Visual Communication
-Develop of mass media
-Strategies for marketing and visual stimuli
-Communication through visual media

Public Relations Techniques
-Interactions between companies and media
-Dependancy of businesses and the media
-Consumer interactions

Media and Society
-The positions of newspaper, TV, radio, etc. and its effect on society