I. Examines important facets of mass communications, including newspaper, magazine, broadcast journalism, radio-television, advertising, and public relations. Designed to provide a critical overview of the mass media. Includes guest speakers. 102 Information Gathering and Research for the Mass Media. I. Information and research techniques used by media professionals, including academic, community and political sources.
Course covers interviewing, formal research and computer-assisted information gathering.
Writing for the Mass Media. I, II, S. Techniques of journalistic and mass communications writing designed to develop the basic writing skills for the print and broadcast media. 231 Introduction to Audio Production. Fundamentals of audio production, including operation of audio equipment, microphone techniques, tape editing and audio production. Laboratory work at WMUL-FM is required.