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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.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status Corequisites: None
Examines interactions between media and political institutions, actors and processes, in light of theories of journalism, communication and political practice.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand theories of globalization and contexts through which cultural experiences, information, and ideologies are mediated by a range of media.
- Analyze and evaluate the negotiations and dynamics of power through which institutions, producers, and users mobilize using these media technologies.
- Research, write, and digitally present emerging issues, uncover, and critique these dynamics.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status, Open only to Major Corequisites: None
Examines the influence of entertainment media on political news, opinion, knowledge, and behavior.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Recognize how, why, and with what significance the boundaries between news and entertainment have blurred
- Identify and describe the effects of entertainment on journalism, citizenship, and politics, as well as the theories used to explain these effects
- Develop persuasive, evidence-based arguments about the intersection of entertainment and politics and its implications for public discourse and engagement
- Evaluate how political entertainment texts construct political reality and encourage audiences to make meaning of politics
- Apply theories and concepts from research in communication, media studies, and political science in order to develop an entertainment-based political strategy or media product