Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

MCOM 4200 Telecommunications & Globalization

This course provides an overview of traditional and emerging global telecommunications technologies, including understanding traditional and emerging networks and the cultural, economic and political impact of these technologies on a global basis.

Registration Name

Telecommunications & Globalization

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Prerequisite

class='sc-courselink' href='/en/catalogs/piedmont-university/2024-2025/undergraduate-catalog/courses/mcom-mass-communications/1000/mcom-1500'>MCOM 1500 or MCOM 1600

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

  1. Learn about the past, present and future of telecommunications networks.
  2. Analyze the effects of telecommunications domestically and globally. 
  3. Synthesize information to enhance their understanding of the technology used to create telecommunications networks.