Courses

Same as JOUR 4321.

Same as JOUR 4331.

Covers problems and practice in reporting news of government, politics, the courts, and industry, business, science, and other areas involving public issues. For graduate students only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Journalism & Mass Communication graduate students only.

Instructs students in computer-assisted reporting, including a knowledge of commercial databases, global information networks, and the use of spreadsheets to analyze census data and other complex information. Prerequisites: Restricted to Journalism & Mass Communication (JOUR) or Communication (COMC) graduate students only.

Studies state and federal laws and court decisions that affect mass communication in order to develop knowledge of mass media rights and responsibilities and an understanding of the legal system.

Same as Jour 4711.

Same as JOUR 4791.

Visual communication involves understanding both perception of messages and construction of them. Students analyze their visual thinking abilities and develop habits of visual analysis and criticism, as well as visual communication skills. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prerequisites: Restricted to Journalism & Mass Communication (JOUR) or Communication (COMC) graduate students only.

Studies theories and perspectives of mass communication and explores the role of mass media in society. Prerequisites: Restricted to Journalism & Mass Communication (JOUR), Communication (COMM or COMC) or Telecommunications (TELE) graduate students only.

Continuation of JOUR 6051, emphasizing experimental and survey research methods.

Introduction to critical theories and analysis of media and popular culture. Examines major theoretical traditions and/or theorists that significantly inform media studies (e.g., culturalism, structuralism, Marxism, critical theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism) and applies these to media analysis and criticism. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Covers mass communication within the international system, including similarities and differences in functions, facilities, and content; social theories of the press; and the international flow of mass communication. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies and analyzes communications technologies and techniques used in addressing social problems in developing countries.

Introduces students to historical and contemporary uses of fundamental concepts in research and theory about media institutions, particularly public, community, mass, publicity, public space, public opinion, public interest, and the public sphere.

Studies free-speech issues in the context of current and historical philosophical foundations for freedom of expression.

Analyzes the work of journalists who became some of the greatest fiction writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the increasingly indistinct lines between journalism and narrative fiction. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores the dynamic relationships involving media and politics, focusing primarily on the American political system. Readings and seminar discussion incorporate normative and empirical perspectives on the media-politics complex. Areas covered include media effects on public opinion and policy, uses of media in governance, journalism sociology, coverage of elections, and implications of interactive media for governance and civic participation. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examining the concepts of children and childhood from the historical, social, cultural, economic and political perspectives, this course explores the interaction between mass media and the socialization and cultivation process of children and youth. Many theoretical traditions are used as a framework to study a variety of issues, such as multicultural literature for children and Disney's role in storytelling, and tween movies and the tweens. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Surveys historical and contemporary developments in telecommunications policy, emphasizing social and cultural dimensions, and focusing primarily on the context of the United States.

Graduate seminar in communications law. Studies changing law and applied legal research techniques. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Develops a theoretical framework with which to recognize and analyze ethical issues as they arise in the media. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.