290 or permission of instructor. Students will be expected to write articles and features to be edited in class. There are several laboratory exercises, including headline writing and page layout. Sessions will be held in a microcomputer writing lab and students must be familiar with the Zenith or IBM personal computer and word processing procedures. Introduction to Group Communication.
Emphasis is given to the oral communication process in small group problem-solving situations.
Reading materials include selected readings on oral communication and small group research. 103 and junior standing. With a focus on television, this course examines approaches to the criticism of mass media. The first part looks at approaches from impact and functional studies to aesthetic and mythic analyses. Part II of the course applies analysis to selected TV genres - soap operas, sitcoms, variety and talk shows, children's programming, MTV, and news, among others.