Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Mass Communication. Processes, uses, and effects of mass media in society. History, structure, and function of mass communication industries.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Media Writing. Prerequisites: Jour 1000 (or concurrently) and Engl 1102 or Engl 1103 with grades of C or higher. Basic news writing in a variety of media; the principles of journalistic writing and the fundamentals and techniques of news reporting. Practical assignments with laboratory exercises.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Foundations of Media Research. Credit Hours: 3.0. Prerequisites: Jour 1000 with a grade of C or higher. Introduction to qualitative and quantitative research methods, including the use of library and on-line resources, with emphasis on the critical skills needed to evaluate and conduct media and journalism research.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Jour 2700. Foundations of Media Theory. Credit Hours: 3.0. Prerequisite: Jour 1000 with grade of C or higher. Co-requisite: Jour 2500. Examination of theoretical perspectives on mediated communication, including critical and social-scientific approaches.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Advanced Media Writing-CTW. Prerequisites: Jour 1010 and Jour 2500 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Expanding on Media Writing, with an emphasis on news gathering, reporting techniques and journalistic writing in several media and context. Students will apply critical thinking skills to determine source credibility; to delineate important information to use in crafting stories using journalistic standards; to report and write news stories quickly, under deadline, without sacrificing accuracy. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all journalism majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Reporting II: News Gathering and Reporting. Prerequisite: Jour 1010 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Continuation of Reporting I, with emphasis on news gathering and reporting techniques, utilization of news sources, and the writing of various types of stories developed from beats and sources. Serves as one of two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required for all journalism majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Communication Law and Regulation. Prerequisite: Jour 2700 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. The law as applied to press, film, and telecommunication. A philosophical basis and evolution of legal precedent governing media. Slander, privacy, copyright, information access, constitutional issues, and practical limitations of libel.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Theories of Mass Communication. Prerequisites: Jour 1000 and 2500 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. The development and application of theoretical perspectives on mediated communication, including critical and social-scientific approaches.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Feature Writing. Prerequisite: Jour 1010 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. In-depth reporting and writing techniques for the development of feature writers across communication industries. Human interest writing is stressed.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Editorial and Critical Writing. Prerequisite: Jour 1010 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Analysis of editorials and persuasive writing; writing of editorials on national, state, and local issues. Analysis of leading critical periodicals; writing of criticism of films, television, books, plays, and other arts.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Public Relation Techniques. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher and an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher. Principles and practices in the relations of an organization with its internal and external publics, with emphasis on written communication; role of public relations in decision making and policy formation.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Public Relations Writing and Projects. Prerequisites: Jour 1010 and 3500 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Projects for selected not-for-profit organizations using research, writing, planning, and evaluation techniques learned through individual and group exercises.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 3.0
Honors Readings. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Discussion and readings on selected topics.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Introduction to Telecommunication. Prerequisites: Jour 3060 and 3070 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Origin and growth of telecommunication industries; rudimentary technical aspects of audio and video; role of advertising and non-commercial aspects; programming and audience research and measurement.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Public Relations Research. Prerequisites: Jour 1000 and 2500 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Issues and methods of quantitative and qualitative research used and reported by public relations professionals; analysis and criticism of research strategies; tactics to develop critical consumer skills for users and audiences.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Mass Communication Research. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Issues and methods of quantitative and qualitative research about mass communication; analysis and criticism of research strategies; tactics to develop critical consumer and research skills.
Credit Hour(s): 2.0
Sports Journalism. Prerequisite: Jour 3900 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. The role of sports in American culture and the ways sports journalists report and write the wide range of issues in the field. Practical instruction in covering high school and college sports as continually breaking news stories; interviewing athletes and coaches; covering and reporting games or matches; and developing and informed voice for opinion writing.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
History of the News Media-CTW. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Comparative study of the origins and development of news systems in relation to their historical, social, political, ethical and economic environments. This is one of the capstone courses for the Journalism major. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all journalism majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Political Campaigns. Prerequisites: Jour 3060 and 3070 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. (Same as Spch 4480.) (For journalism majors only.) Principles, theories, and practices of communication in political campaign contexts. Addresses national and/or international campaign issues.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Visual Communication. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. (Same as Spch 4500.) (For journalism majors only.) Examination of communication theories that help explain how visual images symbolically interact with audiences. The manifest and latent persuasive functions of visual messages will be explored in a variety of contexts, from the mass media to human interaction.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Media and Politics. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. (Same as Spch 4510.) (For journalism majors only.) Examination of the symbiotic relationship among the media, the political process, and the public. Emphasis on how media structures and conventions help identify and frame issues and provide interpretative frameworks for analyzing political messages.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Public Relations Campaigns. Prerequisites: Jour 3950 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Students examine research, case specific policy-making implementation, outcomes, and strategies and tactics of public relations.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
African-American Popular Culture. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. (Same as AAS 4950.) (For journalism majors only.) Intellectual debates over the definitions and diversities of everyday African-American cultural production.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Readings in Journalism. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Readings and discussion of selected books and periodicals; reports, critiques, and lectures.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Advanced Desktop Editing and Publishing. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Focus on writing, editing, and producing desktop publishing for target audiences and assessing impact of desktop publishing.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
International Communication. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. (Same as MES 4600.) Critical and comparative approaches to the study of communication systems and journalism at the national, regional, and global levels. Analysis of issues and implications of the globalization of mass media, information systems, and culture. Strategies for international communication research.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Corporate Communication. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Structures, functions, and outcomes of corporate communication policies and behaviors; corporate missions, business plans, and the design of strategic communication plans to accomplish goals in contexts of corporate cultures, target audiences, and environmental issues.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
International Public Relations. Prerequisite: Jour 3500 with grade of C or better; only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll. Modern trends in international public relations as practiced by corporations, non-profit organizations and governments in different countries and regions of the world.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
TV News Magazine. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Reporting, writing, and producing stories appropriate for a TV news magazine program. This is a lecture/lab course using audio/video equipment.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Radio News. Prerequisites: Jour 3900 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Reporting, writing and producing stories and newscasts appropriate for radio stations, networks and their web sites. This is a lecture/lab course which has students using audio and editing equipment.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Special Projects in Telecommunication. Prerequisite: Jour 4700 or Jour 3710 with grade of C or higher or consent of instructor. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student's professional interests and responsibilities. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Non-Fiction Scriptwriting. Prerequisite: Jour 3700 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Long-form writing for radio, television, and other electronic media, including documentaries and institutional productions; and short-form writing, including commercials, promotions and public service announcements.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Media Management and Marketing. Prerequisites: Jour 3060 and 3070 with grades of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling, and marketing media entities.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Women and Media. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher for Journalism majors. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. (Same as WSt 4150.) Critical and analytical approaches applicable to the study of women in the media. Emphasis on research methods appropriate for analyzing mediated representations of women and the impact of those images on women in society.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Media, Ethics & Society-CTW. Prerequisites: Jour 3060 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Ethical, critical, theoretical and historical approaches to understanding mass media in contemporary society. This is one of two options for the senior capstone course for the Journalism major. It emphasizes critical thinking through research of ethical issues faced by past and present media professionals. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all journalism majors.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Media and Popular Culture. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Examination of mediated popular cultural forms from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social structures and everyday practices. Emphasis on dominant cultural and subcultural readings of artifacts produced by the media.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
TV Newscast. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Reporting, writing, and producing stories appropriate for a newscast on a TV station or a local cable TV channel.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0
Honors Thesis: Research. Prerequisties: consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Readings or research preparatory to honors thesis or project.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0 TO 6.0
Honors Thesis: Writing. Prerequisites: Jour 4870 with grade of C or higher and consent of instructor and Honors Program director. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.2 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Writing or production of honors thesis or project.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 4.0
Selected Topics. Prerequisite: Jour 3060 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. May be repeated if topics vary. A maximum of eight credit hours may be applied to the major.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 4.0
Special Topics. Prerequisite: Jour 3900 with a grade of C or higher. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher can register for this course. May be repeated if topic varies. A maximum of four credits can be applied to the major.
Credit Hour(s): 1.0 TO 6.0
Internship. Prerequisite: eligibility criteria may be obtained from the Department of Communication Internship Coordinator. Only students with an institutional GPA of 2.5 or higher are eligible to enroll in this course. Representative experiences in print and broadcast journalism or in public relations.
Credit Hour(s): 3.0 TO 4.0
Directed Readings B.I.S.-CTW. Directed Readings designed for Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies students. This course may satisfy the junior and/or senior-level Critical Thinking Through Writing requirements.