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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:205 or 04:567:206 or 04:567:207 or 04:567:212, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Web pages as primary sites for distributing news content and to supplement other technologies for news transmission.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Teach technical skills needed to create effective Web sites.
- Expose students to Web ethics, copyright, accessibility, credibility and information-design issues.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines what media are and what they do; how specific media technologies affect democratic discourse; how media shape narratives of class, race, ethnicity and gender; the long-running conflict between information and propaganda, and how media conglomerates came to wield such enormous power in modern society.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the origins, architecture, and role of the mass media as a cohesive system in modern society.
- Analyze how each new technology has framed our understanding of the world, even the “way” we learn.
- Assess how repeated battles over media narratives were shaped by technological innovation, government communications policy, racial, ethnic, gender and class conflicts, and wars and domestic upheaval.
- Identify important lessons from mass media history that are key to understanding the enormous power media exert on society today.
- Document and discuss the main challenges our current media system poses to personal liberty and privacy, democratic rule, and racial, economic and social justice.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major 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
This course will critically analyze racial and religious stereotypes of Muslims and how they emerge from various historical and political contexts. Students will study films, news media reports, television shows, video games and other cultural products to understand how Muslims are racialized and how Islamophobia operates in popular discourse in the US.
Note: Students who completed 04:567:365 in prior years when it had different course titles (Islam, Media, and the Western Imagination; Mediating the Middle East) cannot enroll in this course for credit.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the differences between factual statements and prejudiced opinions in representations of Muslims.
- Critically analyze images and stereotypes of Muslims by placing them within larger political and historical contexts.
- Examine the social construction of Muslims as a racialized group through analysis of historical contexts, media representations, and public discourse.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:205 or 04:567:206 or 04:567:212 Corequisites: None
This course introduces students to the working principals of Electronic Field Production (EFP). Special attention is given to on-location creative and technical aspects of media production. Valuable EFP knowledge and skills will be gained through production exercises, projects and readings. Students will learn the constraints and benefits of shooting on-location while producing, directing and operating production equipment.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand production requirements as they relate to remote field production.
- Demonstrate professional techniques used in the field by producing, blocking, lighting, recording and managing media at remote locations.
- Produce, record and live stream a multicamera field production.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:206, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Fundamentals of television reporting and electronic news gathering.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand and implement the various elements of basic television news reporting and production.
- Write, report, edit, and film video news packages for presentation.
- Examine the decision-making process involved in the dissemination of broadcast journalism.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:375, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Advanced television reporting and electronic news gathering with students assigned to various projects.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand and implement the various elements of upper level television reporting, production and dissemination
- Comprehend the theories and practice of professional news broadcasters
- Enhance written, oral, and visual communication knowledge and skills
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Juniors or Seniors Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Examines who controls the media and how the media differentially serve the public and power holders. Attention to both news and entertainment media.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine the role of the mass media in the struggle for interpretive dominance during U.S. elections.