Courses

Provides in-depth experience in directing and producing television programs. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of JOUR 3674 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Broadcast News (BCNS-BSJR or JBCN-BSJR) or Broadcast Production (BCPM-BSJR or JBCP-BSJR) majors with a minimum of 85 hours taken.
Emphasizes the advanced techniques in digital video camera usage and digital editing for professional broadcast video production. JOUR 4684 and 5684 are the same course. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of JOUR 3644 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Broadcast News (BCNS-BSJR or JBCN-BSJR) or Broadcast Production (BCPM-BSJR or JBCP-BSJR) majors only with a minimum of 75 hours taken.
Emphasizes composition of criticism for the performing arts and other areas of entertainment. Same as JOUR 5702. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of JOUR 3001 (minimum grade D-).

Examines culture in the form of discourse, symbols, and texts transmitted through the media. Explores the relationship between such mediated culture and social myth and ideology. Same as JOUR 5711.

Provides an overview of how publishing in print and electronic forms has been tied closely to democratic ideals for centuries. Explores how the idea of the public is central to the theory and practice of media politics, and how the contested concepts of "the public sphere" and "public opinion" have long been linked to debates about the proper relationship between media and democratic citizenship. Same as JOUR 5791. Prerequisites: Restricted to Program in Journalism and Mass Communication (JOUR) majors with a minimum of 75 hours taken.
Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JOUR 5802. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of JOUR 3001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Program in Journalism & Mass Communication (JOUR) majors with a minimum of 75 hours taken.
Involves reporting and writing about the environment by taking into account the scientific, technological, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of environmental subjects. Same as JOUR 5822. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of JOUR 3001 or JOUR 3604 (all minimum grade D-).
Prerequisites: Restricted to Program in Journalism and Mass Communication (JOUR) majors with a minimum of 75 hours taken.
Same as JOUR 5872. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) News-Editorial (NSED-BSJR or JNED-BSJR) majors only.
Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of JOUR 3403 and 3453 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Advertising (ADVT-BSJR or JADV-BSJR) or Marketing (MKTG) majors only.
Prerequisites: Restricted to Program in Journalism and Mass Communication (JOUR) majors with a minimum of 75 hours taken.

Offers students the opportunity to participate in research projects with faculty members or pursue their own primary research interests.

Same as JOUR 4282. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of JOUR 5272 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces the critical perspectives most often employed in qualitative media analysis: semiology, structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalytical criticism, sociological criticism, etc. Texts from contemporary print and broadcast media. JOUR 4311 and 5311 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Same as JOUR 4344. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of JOUR 5514 (minimum grade D-).

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