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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines children's relationship to media in its historic, economic, political, and social contexts. It begins by reviewing theories of child development as they inform children's relationship with and understanding of media. Next, it considers the political and economic forces that shape the landscape of children’s media. Against this backdrop, the course examines research on the effects of media on children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Class time consists of lectures, screenings, and visits from professionals working in the field. Students in this course produce a proposal or prototype for an educational children’s media property as their final project.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze and evaluate the forces that shape the creation of cultural products for children.
- Explain children’s place in the broader economic and political context of media systems.
- Explain the meaning of media content to children of different ages, stages, cultures, and contexts.
- Appraise how children’s media connections and experiences are bound in their social relationships with family, friends, and other influential individuals.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Provides a critical understanding of advertising's role in society. Examines the history of advertising, the commercial and social aspects of the messages conveyed by ads, and the advertising industry's influence on social relations and institutions, such as journalism. The basic orientation of the course is to study consumer media culture (advertising, public relations, and branded space) as a form unique to modern society.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Reason critically when discussing advertising.
- Demonstrate and exercise an independence of thought.
- Respond to issues identified by others in the course.
- Research, summarize and develop an argument.
- Deploy analytic strategies for interpreting ad texts.
- Develop their skills of exegesis and critique.
- Develop a greater command of a range of presentation skills.
- Gain experience in conducting research, using at least one of a range of methodological approaches and drawing on a variety of sources, including academic and industry generated material.
- Learned to work both independently and collaboratively, effectively managing their time.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course takes a critical approach to understanding new media environments, especially with regard to what has been called at various moments “social media,” “participatory culture,” “digital media,” “convergence,” “Web 2.0,” “social web,” and “interactive media” among other things. Rather than focus on these emerging media practices as purely technological phenomena, the course situates them in broader social, political, and historical contexts. We will examine key dimensions of cultural life that make up our selves, including friendship, intimacy, labor, celebrity, power, gender, control, race, sexuality, activism, and privacy.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of approaches to, and debates surrounding, the emergence of social media and convergence in society.
- Describe the implications of social media on social interactions and political participation.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course looks at the invisible power of music over lives, exploring how music can influence how people feel, what they think and how they think. Exploration of music's social power, delving into its rich history at the center of politics, religion and a multibillion dollar global industry. Consideration of music's relationship to technology and how changes in the media landscape are altering the role music plays in human life.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine music's role as a major communicative form in human history.
- Discuss music as an expression of a diverse range of cultures.
- Utilize an analytical language for discussing musical communication.
- Describe major elements of the economics and politics of musical industries.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Examines relationship between media and institutions, and the processes through which people and societies make political choices.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine the role of the mass media in the American political system.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:202, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Digital media production is the study of media creation through online and interactive experiences. This includes audio and video streaming in online contexts, but it also covers other types of new media that are hybrids of the two. You will explore content creation and distribution across multiple platforms using various multimedia systems and formats. Focusing on multi-platform digital media, with practices rooted in journalism, you will have the opportunity to pitch, write, produce, direct, and edit media content.
(This course was previously numbered 04:567:212.)
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Create media projects that demonstrate appropriate use of different media formats.
- Develop original multimedia content for websites and videos by applying production, writing, recording, and editing techniques.
- Discuss various digital media production workflows from concept to distribution.
- Explain the function of software and hardware interfaces used in media production.
- Create content that is effectively structured and optimized for different distribution channels.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Fundamentals of still photography in the print and audiovisual mass media with primary focus on print journalism. Must have 35 mm camera.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze, recognize, and evaluate the elements of a good photograph, photojournalistic image.
- Develop the technical skills, comprehend the ethical responsibilities, and discern the social, political, and linguistic implications of being a photojournalist.