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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.
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Credits: 3 - Students will be required to register for 1 additional credit through Rutgers Study Abroad. Prerequisites: 4:567:200 Corequisites: None
Students will draw inspiration from great Mediterranean journeys, and learn to write compelling journey stories of their own. They’ll travel with Homer, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell and other notable authors through one of the world’s grandest regions, as they explore its legacy of war and exodus, cooking and eating, and romance and revenge. This course includes a spring break reporting trip to a Mediterranean country, such as Spain, Italy or Turkey.
Open to majors and MCM Digital Media Track students only, except by special permission
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the components of successful nonfiction storytelling
- Identify key themes that underlie nonfiction storytelling about the Mediterranean
- Develop a narrative, evoke a scene and present dialogue
- Use new media techniques to capture image and video content to accompany their articles
- Revise and edit their work, with the aim of achieving professional publication
- Apply their experiences in reporting from another country to their future media careers
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Fashion Journalism is a course for advanced students in the Journalism and Media Studies major who have an interest in writing about fashion, a key industry in New York City. The course provides students with an overview of writing about fashion, the different types of fashion journalism and the numerous formats for fashion journalism. Students will also look at how fashion journalism has changed and how digital has transformed coverage. Throughout the semester, students will use readings, televised fashion coverage as well as online documentaries and collection showings to learn about the fashion journalism industry and to practice reporting techniques. Assignments will incorporate a multimedia focus with students working to produce a full range of fashion journalism that reflects the variety of journalism commonly produced in the industry.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and analyze different formats for fashion journalism;
- Recognize and distinguish among industry leaders in fashion journalism;
- Describe how fashion journalism has changed because of revolutions in social, cultural, and/or technological changes;
- Write and produce fashion journalism content appropriate for print and digital formats.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:205 or 04:567:212, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Fundamentals of by the end of the course, students learn the basics of the production, writing, and journalistic process required to use audio as a nonfiction storytelling language. Students will participate in the completion of at least one podcast episode.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Write, produce and report on non-fiction stories for broadcast media;
- Describe and analyze how they approached their story from formulation to submission;
- Demonstrate knowledge of techniques necessary for podcast and audio production.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Techniques of public information with focus on government, public affairs and public interest issues.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Communicate complex ideas effectively to a general audience and in modes appropriate to a discipline or area of inquiry.
- Evaluate and critically assess sources and use the conventions of attribution and citation correctly.
- Analyze and synthesize information and ideas from multiple sources to generate new insights.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:205 or 04:567:206 or 04:567:212, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This class will give students hands-on experience with traditional and digital journalism, including work in both written and multimedia formats, through the creation and management of a news-based website covering Rutgers and the city of New Brunswick. Students will report; write and edit stories; create video, audio, and graphics; take photos; and learn about the various uses of social media within the journalism field. Students will collaborate on a news-based website that will synthesize learned skills, journalistic practices, and knowledge of information and technology.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze and prioritize information gathered for dissemination of news to readers and viewers.
- Effectively use various storytelling tools available to journalists in the digital environment, including traditional short- and long-form reporting, video, photo, audio, graphics, and social media.
- Incorporate social media - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others - to report, tell and market stories, and interact with the community.
- Demonstrate management, editing, and community-relations skills.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course prepares students to write about life in other countries, and to cover international issues from the United States. Students analyze award-winning global journalism, and learn about and practice techniques foreign correspondents use.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Engage with the issues, standards and practices of international journalism.
- Report on political and economic affairs in a global context.
- Report on diverse communities, both in New Jersey and further afield.
- Tell stories across modern media platforms, and to innovate with tools and technologies.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Students use experimental new media tools to transform news reporting, media storytelling and other media processes. Augmented reality, e-reader technology, 360 degree cameras, immersive media, the Mobile Journalist Workstation, 3D imaging and audio, 3D printing, interactive video, video as input, geo-tagged content, animation and news, and other emerging new media tools are applied to journalism and media to create and test new story formats that in an analog world would be impossible, but in a digital, networked world can engage individuals across time and space, provide much-needed context and customization, in-depth, context-sensitive news and mediated entertainment.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
This course examines the relationship between media and popular culture and their impact on society. This course introduces students to the shifting trends, ideas, and competing forces that will lay the foundation for the cultural battleground of the future.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Define popular culture based on theoretical models.
- Analyze and critique the following concepts: popular culture, high culture, mass culture, cultural values, semiotics, ideology, hegemony, resistance, hegemonic conflict, and consumer culture.
- Critically analyze popular culture commodities presented through varying media (literature, radio, film, television, and internet).
- Apply knowledge of relevant communication and cultural theories fundamental to understanding popular culture, cultural commodities, and consumption through successful completion of course assignments and exams.