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3.00 Credits
This service-learning course involves students in identifying significant community issues and how those issues are addressed by public service programming. Students create a public affairs campaign, including programming, promotions, and public service announcements for broadcast on the Columbia College Chicago radio station, WCRX. The class also covers critical Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and regulations. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 41-1107 VOICE AND ARTICULATION, 41-1128 RADIO PRODUCTION I: INTRO, 41-2107 WRITING FOR RADIO, 52-112
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2.00 Credits
Course outlines application of basic marketing research techniques to radio situations. Course material covers conducting research from music testing to perceptual studies and evaluating research supplied by outside companies, including ratings services. 2 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 41-3114 RADIO PROGRAMMING
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8.00 Credits
Course is intended for the advanced student and requires a minimum of eight hours per week. WCRX Faculty Advisor appoints students to manage one of the station's following departments: programming, music, news, sports, community affairs, promotion, traffic, production, or sales. With assistance from the faculty advisor, student managers evaluate staff performance. Course stresses basic management skills and oral and written communication skills. Music and traffic managers use advanced computer software to generate station logs. 1-6 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore advanced theoretical and practical principles of broadcast sales methodology in a small group classroom discussion setting, supported by practical experience conducted in professional radio sales departments. This intensive instructional milieu will give students the opportunity to build on the conceptual foundations that they gained in the Radio Sales class. Students will be required to engage in extensive study of sales methods and market data resources in libraries and on the internet. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 41-3100 RADIO SALES
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3.00 Credits
Ambitious involvement in the development and maintenance of the WCRX Radio Web site. Students will be responsible for updating playlists, station events, Jock profiles, news, sports scores, and public service announcements, The practicum will also include experimental initiatives, community outreach, and interdepartmental projects.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of life, at the molecular, cellular, and whole organism levels. It surveys cell structure and function, the principles of genetics, and the diversity of living organisms, including how they grow, how they evolve and adapt, and how they interact with each other and with their environment. Through observation, experimentation, and interpretation of the living world, students develop an understanding of the biological functions that support life. The biological world is examined with particular attention to issues of greater contemporary relevance and impact. 4 CRED ITS
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the biological aspects of sexuality from a structural, functional, and evolutionary standpoint. Topics may include anatomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, human sexual response, reproductive hormones, birth control and infertility, pregnancy and birth, sexual disorders and sexually transmitted diseases, human inheritance and genetic counseling, evolution of human sexual behavior, and other related issues from a biological perspective. 3 CRED ITS
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the basic biology of HIV and is designed to provide an understanding of the pathophysiology of HIV/ AIDS and its impact on the immune system. Topics will include cell biology, basic genetics, the immune system, virology, and epidemiology and their connection to the development of anti-retroviral drugs and vaccines, testing for and diagnosis of HIV infection, and an understanding of the virus life cycle. HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention via artistic expressions will also be examined. 3 CRED ITS
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to plant life and the impact of plants on society including their use as a major food source, as medicine, and in the industrial and recreational world. As an introductory level botany course, topics also include structure, function, growth processes, reproduction, ecology, genetics, and resources derived from the plant world. The course also examines the impact of plant life on society using examples from major agriculture crops such as coffee and chocolate. Students will investigate live specimens of plants with a strong hands-on laboratory component. 3 CRED ITS
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3.00 Credits
This laboratory course will be taught at the Garfield Park Conservatory and will address the science and art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants; the functional uses of plants: aesthetics, food, industry, recreation; and growing and using horticultural plants and consumer and environmental issues related to horticulture in daily living. 3 CRED ITS
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