Students evaluate how the media cover minorities and women and perpetuate stereotypes, as well as the role and status of women and minorities in media organizations. Open to non-majors. Students examine writing styles, learn the process of marketing freelance articles for the magazine market, and complete a variety of articles for possible publication. Open to non-majors. Issues related to perception, semiotics, and visual literacy are explored.
Students create, research, deconstruct, and evaluate visual images.
Multimedia Messages Introduces students to the conceptual and practical issues involved in multimedia production. The course covers informational, persuasive and entertainment uses of multimedia. Students will work in small groups to design and produce multimedia projects. Open to non-majors with preference to journalism majors and minors. The course teaches research techniques, including the nature of data, search strategies for primary and secondary sources, library research and strategies, biographic sources, databases and computer applications, government data including use of the Freedom of Information Act, electronic search strategies, and the Internet.