Special attention will be given to public response to various media systems through history. Communication in Organizations. Review of theories of organizational structure, their relationship to broadcasting, mass media, and telecommunications processes and current practices and underlying communication systems which support them. Graduate TV Production. Graduate Radio Workshop.
Students design and produce radio announcing and talk show projects.
Introductory Topics in Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media. Legal and philosophical study of government regulation of information transmission from 15th century to the present. Emphasis on legal descriptive research methods. History of Telecommunications. Examination of the social, political, and technological history of electrical communications in the U.S., from forerunners of the telegraph through the modern telephone and integrated services of digital and broadband networks.