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3.00 Credits
This course combines advanced photojournalism skills with instruction and practice in photo illustration. As a result of the philosophical and ethical differences between these two styles of photography, students will learn the philosophy and ethics of illustrational photography. Prerequisite: MM 368.
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3.00 Credits
This class will explore various American film genres with an eye to understanding the artistic and societal factors at work in creating the "rules" of the genre (motifs, iconography, stereotypes). Students will use this information in developing a system of criticism to apply toward all film genres. This class will explore film as cultural record, and students will be expected to understand films in the context of the period in which they were produced, not solely as discrete artifacts. This class will rely on film screenings and group discussion.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course for experienced and confident writers who want to develop their skills within the genre of opinion writing, specifically editorials, reviews, and columns. Students will read and discuss examples of these persuasive writing forms and will experiment with various approaches through written assignments. In addition, students will receive extensive practice critiquing the work of classmates. Students should be comfortable having their writing discussed in class.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the historical, legal, ethical, business, and editorial theory/philosophy of scholastic journalism with an emphasis on the problems and practical aspects of producing high school newspapers and yearbooks. Emphasis is placed on the styles and techniques of basic news, feature, sports, opinion, and editorial writing. Special emphasis is placed on the restrictions and restraints placed on scholastic journalism by recent court decisions and the legal and ethical parameters in which responsible student journalists must operate. Prerequisite: MM 250, 341, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course examines current problems in mass media with emphasis on current theories and methods in the various fields of media study. Each student is expected to produce a substantive research paper on a topic of interest. This paper should reflect the student's best thinking and writing. The student presents his or her research before the Mass Media and Communication Department faculty. Prerequisites: MM376 and senior status.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the ramifications and interpretations of laws and court decisions relating to mass communications law. Prerequisite: Junior status or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Jelly Roll, Kid, Sidney, Duke, Count, Satchmo, Fatha, Miles, and Bird: magical names that evoke the exciting world of jazz-one of America's greatest gifts to the world. This course is an intensive examination of the social forces, political conditions, personalities, and creative geniuses that combined to form the music that many have called America's only indigenous art form. Through an understanding of its roots, development, formal structure, and design, jazz becomes accessible to students and forms a basis for appreciating its sophistication, subtleties, and various modes of expression
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as an introduction to music, presupposing no prior technical knowledge on the part of the student. It provides information of an analytical, stylistic, and historical nature, and is designed to lead the student to a critical understanding of the composer and the musical product.
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1.00 Credits
This class deals with the basic principles of singing, posture, breath support, diction, tone production, and interpretation. For students with limited or no prior vocal instruction, it meets two hours per week and may not be repeated.
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1.00 Credits
The general objective of this course is to provide the student with a foundation in guitar technique upon which to base further study of the instrument. Class guitar is designed for the beginning guitarist with no previous formal guitar instruction. Instruction will be provided in tuning, basic chords, reading music in standard notation, using tablature, learning notes in first position, picking, and strumming. This class, or one year of previous study, is a prerequisite for applied guitar.
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