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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of modern mass media systems and industries and the historical context for their development. It also explores contemporary interrelationships among the media, discusses future media systems, and reviews major trends in media research to provide an analytical framework for media consumption, and provides students the opportunity to gain hands-on newswriting experience. (3 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the basic principles of media writing for print, broadcast, and public relations. The course emphasizes news style and routine news coverage including interviewing techniques and news judgement. (3 contact hours)
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to an editor's responsibilities, with an emphasis on copyediting skills, headline writing, art selection and sizing, and editing for accuracy, taste, libel, readability, news judgment, and news values. It introduces students to the fundamentals of publication design through publication assignments.(6 contact hours: 2 lecture, 4 lab)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JRNL 1100 As the continuation of JRNL 1100 News Writing and Reporting I, this course emphasizes more complex forms of news reporting and news gathering through coverage of community news and events. It provides students with news reporting experience via the use of public records, coverage of community events, and computer-assisted news gathering techniques. (3 contact hours)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: JRNL 1100 This course is designed for students interested in obtaining practical journalism experience in the writing, editing, and production of the college newspaper. Students may take this course up to six times for credit. (3 contact hours: 3 lab)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of the nature and use of language. It includes an analysis of the differences and similarities between natural (animal and human) and artificial languages as well as an overview of the geographical distribution of language groups. It also introduces students to the analysis of the sound of language, word formation, sentence structure and meaning, and language use. The course emphasizes the process of language acquisition, and the relationship between linguistics and disciplines such as sociology, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. (3 contact hours)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: placement test This course reviews and develops essential arithmetic skills regarding real numbers. Topics from arithmetic include whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, proportions, percents, rational numbers, and applications. Students will prepare a mathematics notebook of class notes and homework, review research in mathematics education, discuss theories of mathematics anxiety and how to overcome those anxieties, explore strategies for reading mathematics textbooks effectively, practice communications skills orally and in writing, and outline strategies for successfully taking tests. Students must supply a scientific calculator. Credits in this course will not satisfy any degree or certificate requirements. The course grade will be Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. (2 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH 0745 or placement test This course is designed for students who have never taken algebra. Topics include simplification of algebraic expressions, order of operations, solutions and graphs of linear equations, systems of two linear equations in two unknowns, simple linear inequalities, compound linear inequalities, absolute value equations and inequalities, polynomial arithmetic, integer exponents, and scientific notation. Techniques include numerical, analytical, and graphical methods. Credits in this course will not satisfy any degree or certificate requirements. The course grade will be Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. (3 contact hours)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for persons with little or no background in high school algebra or geometry, or for those who have not used applications of algebra or geometry for many years. The course emphasizes the use of a scientific calculator to cover basic manipulation of whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percents; systems of measurement; fundamentals of algebra from basic equations through quadratic and simultaneous linear equations; fundamentals of geometry from basic terminology through formulas for perimeter, area, and volume; as well as practical applications from a variety of technical areas. Students must supply a scientific or graphing calculator for this course. The course grade will be Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. (5 contact hours: 2 lecture, 3 lab)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH 0850 or MATH 0890 or placement into MATH 0950 or higher This course introduces an applications approach to mathematical operations as they apply to information systems, information technology, and computer programmer problems. It emphasizes word problems, skill problems, prepositional logic, using basic algebraic equations, and Boolean algebra. (3 contact hours)
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