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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Major Corequisites: None
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Define, describe, and identify the issues which have contributed to the impact of sports on America and the world.
- Analyze and deconstruct the historical, societal and economic forces that have taken the games people play and made them an integral part of our culture.
- Compare and contrast the attitudes about race, gender, and politics and the impact on sport and society.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Prerequisites: 04:567:215 or 04:567:216 or 04:567:217 or 04:567:319; Open only to Major Corequisites: None
This course will look at how media industries – such as TV, film, music, book publishing, and journalism – are using data analytics, algorithms, and generative AI to compete in a fierce battle for audiences’ attention.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate familiarity with the data, algorithms, and AI tools that are commonly used in a range of media industries.
- Describe the factors – cultural, economic, and technological – that contributed to the rise of data-driven media.
- Analyze what a media environment based on data-driven predictions of popularity means for democracy, art, and culture.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting virtually every part of modern society. This course examines one area of AI’s impact: the media. Recent advances in AI – especially what is known as Generative AI (GAI), or AI that can create movies, music, news stories, video games, and more – present particularly profound implications for journalism and media. In this course, students will develop their AI literacy, including a critical understanding of AI and how it can be utilized ethically in the context of journalism, media, and society.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Critically analyze the use of generative AI (across all modalities)
- Critically assess content for indicators of AI generation to avoid deception
- Demonstrate effective use of generative AI tools to produce high quality, ethically created media work.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:215 or 04:567:380 Corequisites: None
This course will enable students to participate in the development of a journalism and media production project. They will also learn how to harness technology and study its implementation and impact on social change.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Engage in media production, investigative reporting, web design, editorial writing, video production, photography.
- Develop stories that are grounded in community needs by listening to the public
- Analyze communities in order to better understand issues and concerns.
- Collaborate and build teams.
- Utilize social media and other tools to interact, curate, and inform.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:274, Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
What is a promotional culture? Bringing together elements of media studies, visual culture, critical branding/marketing studies, and consumer culture, this course is designed to provide advanced undergraduate students with analytical tools to understand the extent to which promotional language, communication, and habits suffuse our everyday lives.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze media content and industries.
- Differentiate promotional language from editorial content, opinion, and argument.
- Connect theoretical and critical perspectives on promotional culture to real-world examples and practices.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200; One (1) Foundation course in JMS; 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; One (1) Foundation course in JMS; Open only to Major Corequisites:
Specialized topics related to the practice of journalism are offered on a regular basis.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: 04:567:200; One (1) Foundation course in JMS; 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: Junior or Senior Status; Open only to Major; Permission of Instructor Corequisites: None
Specific directed project work conducted under faculty supervision.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Integrate skills learned in the classroom and adapt them to an off-campus or online media environment.
- Share information about tasks assigned to them by mentors.
- Describe and relate the experience to their educational and career goals.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None
Students read and study the journalism of the U.S. civil rights movement (1954-1968) to understand its historical role
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement and the news media’s role in it;
- Show an ability to think critically, analytically, and originally about questions that arise in the course of class readings and discussions;
- Evaluate the quality of journalism from a different historical era (midcentury America), judged by the standards of its time, including by comparing different examples of the genre;
- Develop some ability with researching a subject by going beyond class assignments and discussions and pursuing independent work;
- Use the Rutgers databases and other advanced methods to find source material about a chosen research topic;
- Present independent research confidently to a group of one’s peers, without simply summarizing information or reading from a script.