Mr. Noto has taught a diversity of Mass Communication related courses at Barton College as both full-time faculty (Fall 2016 to present) and as an Adjunct Professor (Fall 2014 to Spring 2016), both those in the department, and others specifically  design for the college overall.  They include the following: 

• COM 101:  Introduction to Mass Communications

• COM 201:  Mass Media & Society (face-to-face, online full terms; online summer term)

• COM 214:  Digital Media Communication

• COM 250: Digital Storytelling

• COM 270:  Sports and Communication (as well as hybrid

• COM 321:  Principles of Public Relations

• COM 360:  Law and Ethics in Mass Media

• COM 370:  Case Studies in Public Relations 

• COM 371 & ART 305:  Junior Seminar

• COM 380:  Public Relations Strategies and Campaigns

• COM 480: Special Studies in Communication (various tailored to student interests), such as "Advertising, Publicity, Promotion and Special Event Planning," and "Latina Role Model Representations in Children's TV and Motion Pictures," among others.  ​

• COM 451 & ART 403:  Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar

• HONORS Designated Courses: COM 321, COM 270, COM 360;  COM 380; HRN 350

 

Courses he designed and taught include: ​

• AWC 201: History of the Moving Image: A Socio-Political Perspective (online) General Education course: Western History/Writing 

• COM 214: Digital Media Communications

• COM 250: Digital Storytelling

• GEN 290: Social and Political Satire in the Mass Media - General Education course.

• GEN 290 O:  Same as GEN 290.  A 16 week online course (full-term and summer term)

• GEN 290 Honors:  GEN 290 augmented for the requirements of the Honors Program

• GEN 301:  Seeing Bias: A Communication Approach to Identify and Analyze Bias, Stereotypes in Society and the  Media 

• HNR160 & 260: Social, Cultural and Political Statements: A Visual and Mass Communication Approach (Honors Program)

• HNR 350: Filming Culture: Visual Ethnography.  Honors Research Seminar and Interdisciplinary course, Fall 2018 

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Major & Minor Programs he designed and implemented:

• Major: B.A., Mass Communication Studies, an Interdisciplinary approach to Mass Communications

• Minor:  Media & Communications which he designated along with Dean Susan Fecho. Requested by Sports Management.

• In addition, he researched over 140 colleges and universities for a proposal for a possible new Mass Communications Major in Digital Technology/Multimedia (working title).  

 

Blaise also is reworking "History of the Moving Image" (an AWC course he created) to be either an in-class or online Mass Communication course, keeping the focus on the visual language of cinema, as well as the social, political, cultural and economics forces in different countries that helped to define and shape the moving image from the late 1800s to today. There are no such course at Barton College, and the intention for this COM course also would be for inclusion in the General Education courses in the Intercultural Perspectives category. 

 

Before becoming a full-time member of the Barton College faculty, Noto served as an Adjunct Professor at Barton from Fall 2014 through the Summer of 2016, and also taught in the Producing Program in the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, NC), and in the Communication Department at William Peace University (Raleigh, NC).

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Also, Blaise is on the Program Advisory Committee for the Studio School Los Angeles, a four-year university offering BFA degrees in Film + Digital Content; Acting; Art; Commercial Dance; Contemporary Theater + Film; and a BA in Entrepreneurship (Entertainment Media:, Casting + Talent Management; Music Business;  Sports Media + Marketing).

 

He also taught a two-week seminar on Marketing and Public Relations at the prestigious Beijing Film Academy  in Beijing, China (2008), and represented the feature film “Heart of a Dragon” (filmed in China and on which he was Associate Producer) at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and at the Beijing Special Screening Program prior to the  2008 Summer Olympics.  He also has lectured in public relations, marketing and communications at University of Southern California, Los Angeles; the University of Pennsylvania; North Carolina State University, and the University of Hawai'i, Honolulu.   

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For Barton's School of Visual, Performing and Communication Arts' Advisory Council, Mr. Noto enlisted the support of Cheryl-Boone Isaacs, one of the most respected marketing and public relations executives in the entertainment business. Ms. Boone-Isaacs recently was the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for two terms, and served on the Academy's Board of Governors for 21 years.