Faculty of the media program are joined by media professionals, social critics, community leaders, and public officials, as well as other university faculty. Examines theories of a free press and evolution of the First Amendment. Considers contemporary notions of mass media freedoms, limits and responsibilities, and relevance of Milton, Mill, Jefferson, and other free press thinkers to current media problems. Also considers media ethics. Historical and contemporary approaches to ethical behavior are explored.
Current issues serve as a focus for class discussion and assignments.
Students learn correct studio and remote production procedures, editing, and mixing on media laboratory equipment. Seven projects are produced for student portfolios. This course is intended to serve as an introduction to computerized graphic arts production for art, communications, and other majors. While the computer and desktop publishing software have put very powerful design and page layout tools into the hands of a broad range of users, few of these users have had any training in art, text, visual, and layout design. The result of this is often technically sophisticated but naive output.