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3.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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Students will learn basic concepts and techniques of studio television production, with a focus on directing live programs in a full-scale studio facility on the UMASS campus. The course includes lecture presentations, production exercises, script-writing projects, and studio production projects. Finally, each student will write, produce, and direct a live studio production.
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This course will introduce students to a wide range of narrative, experimental and documentary strategies. Students will gain experience in basic production techniques and will learn to think about and lookCourse requirements include the completion of three video production assignments and one longer final project. The course will include workshops in lighting, final cut pro, and sound recording and mixing.
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This course addresses health issues from interpersonal, mass media and critical communication perspectives. Communication theories will be applied to a variety of health issues including the physician-patient relationship, the design of health media campaigns, the pharmaceutical industry, and the influence of health promotion on human behavior. Intercultural and organizational health communication will also be discussed.
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This course addresses main debates and perspectives on the economic and social transformation associated with the spread of new media technologies, from various forms of collaborative and social software, to mobile phones and wireless broadband delivery systems. Assuming a social shaping of technology approach, we will examine topics such as: peer to peer networks and emerging forms of social production; mobile phones, social networks and social protest; and broadband delivery systems, social inequalities and the digital divide. The course will provide participants with tools to critically assess and engage these debates, identifying their implications for social research and public policy.
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The entertainment industries are inordinately focused on young people as they represent a tremendous market force. Yet how do the imperatives of this market-driven media culture correspond with principles of democracy? As an action research course, the mapping of key features of this terrain --- youth socialization, advertising and consumption; media oligopoly and cross-market-ing; cultural appropriation and hip hop; cable, the internet and government regulation -- will guide applied research around particular sites of power we?ve identified. This may include media monitoring of the representation of youth on local, regional, and national media offerings, an assessment of youth aggregate purchasing power in Massachusetts, Comcast costs and profits, university investments in the entertainment industries, and a survey of political initiatives for media democracy
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What is an Afrocentric vision of woman and what does a woman?s vision of Africa say about being African and Black around the world? These are some of the questions explored in this course on women, identity, and Afrocentric film practices. An objective of the course is to introduce students to the evolution of African women in all aspects of the cinema as image and as image makers. This course not only explores depictions of women, but especially women of color who direct, produce, and write films within the African Diasporic world. Specifically we look at discourses about women and works by filmmakers on and off the continent of Africa that take both an historical and global approach, in terms of issues of representation and film practice. We will study the different and parallel ways these filmmakers write their own sense of identity into their works about who they are as filmmakers speaking for and about issues that may be important to women of African descent. We will look at the various political, social and cultural roles of African women in the visual media of film, video, and television and engage in critical perspectives that examine how Black and African women explore subjectivity, the body, and positionality within the Diaspora. Some of the films we will study include films from Nigeria, Algeria, France, Great Britain, and the U.S. such as Tsitsi Dangarembga?s Everyone's Child; These Hands by Flora Mbugu-Schelling; Ngozi Onwurah?s Monday's Girls; Euzhan Palcy's Rue cases negres or Sugar Cane Alley; Daughter?s of the Dust by Julie Dash; Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis. This course includes an evening lab and some of the films will be screened during the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival as a part of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts.
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This course combines reading and discussion with application of theoretically informed methods in the study of everyday social interaction. We will: 1) Read and discuss representative studies of social interatction and communicative behavior in cultural context. 2) Do graduated classroom and field exercises to assemble methodological tools and accumulate data for your final paper. The final paper will be based on accumulated data - observations, transcripts, and interviews - and analyses from your field site/activity.
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Lecture, discussion, optional service learning project. The concerns, controversies, theoretical perspectives, and body of knowledge on the issue of media violence are examined. All students will work in groups to conceptualize and carry out a research project on the topic.
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Lecture, Studio. Intensive workshop course in advanced concepts and techniques of studio-based television production, with a focus on the direction of live programs. Under the supervision of the instructor, students will produce individual projects in a variety of genres which will be aired on local cable television outlets. Prerequisite: COMM 331 or consent of the instructor.
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