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3.00 Credits
(Same as AFR 310 and WGS 310) This course will critically examine the role of the media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social constructions of race and gender in our society. We will consider the mass media to be one among many other social institutions such as religion, education, and family, which strongly influence our everyday notions of race and gender. The course will address a variety of entertainment and news content in print and electronic media. (Every other year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JMS 260. This course focuses on investigative reporting with an emphasis on in-depth newsgathering techniques to prepare students for reporting public affairs in print, broadcast, and online media. Depth reporting encompasses coverage of local, state, national government, courts and criminal justice, campaigns and elections, business and economics, education, science and health, religion, and sports. Lab Required. (Every year)
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3.00 Credits
This course will teach students to prepare copy and related material for publication, with emphasis on professional writing, editing accuracy, clarity and presentation using desktop publishing techniques. Lab activities complement classroom instruction. Lab Required. (Every other year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JMS 200. This course covers the fundamentals of audio recording and mixing, and post-poduction sound. Topics include physical & perceptual acoustics, basic electricity, analog & digital recording principles, console operation, microphone selection & placement, and sound engineering in live and studio situations. No previous musical background or recording experience required. Lab Required. (Every year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite JMS 200. This course introduces students to the creative and technical aspects of small format video production as well as the basic principles and language of film/video. Production projects will be oriented toward developing the student's creative vision and students will learn to express their ideas and understanding through video. By producing short video projects, students will use film techniques to tell their stories, as they learn the art of moviemaking and gain technical proficiency. Lab Required. (Every year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JMS 200 This course will explore digital storytelling as a form of narrative nonfiction film. Students will learn how to craft engaging digital stories, analyze and critique digital stories, and work with the New Media tools necessary to create and present stories in digital form. Lab Required. (Every year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JMS 200 An advanced production course covering nonfiction formats. The course explores directing the documentary video with an emphasis on the analysis of nonfiction films; and writing, planning, directing, and editing class projects. The class will examine the documentary filmmaker's role, responsibilities, and methods of working in all phases of pre-production, production, and post-production. Lab Required. (Every other year)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JMS 360 or 362 This is an intensive, hands-on editorial and production course in which students pitch their ideas and then research, report, produce, shoot, write, and edit their own short documentary films on social issues affecting the local community, the U.S., or the world. Readings and discussions focus on current news, media ethics, media literacy, the declining credibility of the press, journalists' responsibilities to the public, social justice issues, First Amendment principles, corporate media ownership, media images of women and people of color, and the powerful role of media (TV news, documentaries, New Media, digital storytelling) as tools for civic engagement and positive social change. Lab Required. (Every other year)
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3.00 Credits
This course will address the theory and practice of public relations, how public relations operates in organizations, its impact on publics and its functions in society. Students will study the professional development of the field; concepts, issues, and principles in the practice; and models and theories guiding the practice. There will be an emphasis on case studies, lectures, and experimentation with major public relations tools and practices. (Occasional)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to examine journalism from the first crude hand presses and wooden types, through the Colonial and Revolutionary eras in America, the pioneer and western settlement eras, the Civil War, the expansion West, the time of Yellow journalism, the rise of the magazine, the rise of the radio, the rise of television, the coming of computer technolo- gy, corporate ownership, the vast media conglomerates that have emerged in the last decades, and other areas that define journalism today. (Every other year)
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