2012-13 Undergraduate Catalog
Mass Communications Courses
All Mass Communications Courses
MASC 1100 Mass Media and Society
(3 credits)
MASC 1840 Introduction to Media Writing
(3 credits)
MASC 2100 Minorities in the Media
(3 credits)
MASC 2190 International Communication
(3 credits)
MASC 2223 Audio Production
(3 credits)
MASC 2233 Video Production
(3 credits)
MASC 2460 Digital Photography
(3 credits)
MASC 2600 Principles of Advertising
(3 credits)
MASC 2690 Principles of Public Relations
(3 credits)
MASC 2700 Reporting and Writing
(3 credits)
MASC 2760 Documentary Film
(3 credits)
MASC 2900 Topics in Mass Communication
(1-3 credits)
MASC 2925 People and the Environment: Mass Media Perspectives
(3 credits)
MASC 2970 Internship
(3 credits)
MASC 3100 Media Ethics
(3 credits)
MASC 3107 Politics and the Media Workshop
(1-3 credits)
MASC 3150 Photojournalism
(3 credits)
MASC 3270 Media Theory and Criticism
(3 credits)
MASC 3310 Directing Visual Media
(3 credits)
MASC 3330 Audio/Video Studio Production
(3 credits)
MASC 3340 Editing
(3 credits)
MASC 3450 Single Camera Field Production
(3 credits)
MASC 3460 Multimedia Production
(3 credits)
MASC 3500 Media Design
(3 credits)
MASC 3760 Documentary Film Workshop
(3 credits)
MASC 3770 Ethnographic Reporting
(3 credits)
MASC 3780 Environmental Journalism
(3 credits)
MASC 3790 Screenwriting
(3 credits)
MASC 3820 Literary Journalism
(3 credits)
MASC 3880 Communication Law
(3 credits)
MASC 3900 Topics in Mass Communication
(1-3 credits)
MASC 3970 Internship
(3 credits)
MASC 4110 Media Research Methods
(3 credits)
MASC 4330 Engineering for Electronic Media
(3 credits)
MASC 4340 Digital Cinema
(3 credits)
MASC 4350 Media Management
(3 credits)
MASC 4892 Senior Thesis/Project
(3 credits)
MASC 4900 Topics in Mass Communication
(1-3 credits)
MASC 4970 Internship
(3 credits)
MASC 3270 Media Theory and Criticism (3 credits)
Provides an overview of thinking about the mass media and an introduction to the major social science approaches to the study of journalism within the context of mass communication. Explores critical and theoretical approaches to understanding contemporary mass media. Focuses on television, newspapers, and new media in an examination of the meanings, benefits, and practices of one of the most widespread sign systems of our time. Students learn how to decode the media messages that proliferate around us. Prerequisites: MASC 1840 and junior or senior status.
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