The lectures, discussions, and manuscript criticisms that comprise this course are offered primarly for women writing in the homemaking field, for home-economics students, and for those who want to write for women’s magazines and other publications dealing with food, applied arts, and home decoration.
 

In this hands-on course, participants will receive a comprehensive overview of multimedia storytelling, which is now a crucial part of messaging across a diverse range of industries—from journalism and marketing to nonprofit administration and filmmaking. Intensive group projects provide the practical experience in all facets of digital story production. 

We live in an exciting era—not only important to us all, but vastly interesting as well. What will Russia do tomorrow? What is the significance of Asian nationalism? This course reviews the postwar history of a number of key countries, and analyzes the political, economic, and cultural background of foreign news; and studies international trends of particular concern to Americans.
 

This course introduces country risk resources and the components of country risk analysis, including macroeconomic policy and performance, the balance of payments, public finances, and banking sector and political risks. Gain an understanding of the drivers and costs associated with specific risks in the context of energy markets and project finance.

A useable “how-to” workshop course for public relations professionals who want to work effectively with broadcasters. Students will learn about the opportunities for stories on radio and television, how to take advantage of those opportunities, how to write stories and pitch letters to broadcasters, and what broadcast tools are available.
 

Relationships between corporations, government or nongovernmental agencies, nonprofits, small businesses, public relations firms, private consultants, and specific stakeholders are constantly changing. The interaction of global communication and economic dynamics with digital technologies requires monitoring and responding proactively or reactively—what’s now called “global public relations." Discover what truly defines global public relations today and how it differs from traditional domestic practices.

This course explores the foundations and framework of the European Monetary Union; the development of the European Central Ban; and the Euro. Topics explored include: monetary union; the single-market theory, problems of currency convergence, and the impact of the Euro on economic growth and monetary policy.
 

This course covers the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies: who uses them, how secure they are, and how they differ from traditional hard currencies. It also examines Bitcoin: how it started, why it was created, what makes it different, and how it is becoming a global phenomenon. In addition, this course provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain, the technology that is used to allow fast, secure, transparent transactions to take place. Other topics to be discussed include smart contracts, consensus mining, and the key advantages of blockchain technology.