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Spring 2008 Courses:

MCOM072: Mass Communication and Society. Provides an introductory overview of contemporary mass media systems and an examination of the various factors -- historical, economic, political and cultural -- that have shaped their development.

JOUR134: In-Depth Online Reporting. Course teaches reporters how to approach stories for posting on the Web using the strengths of the online venue.  Newspaper, magazine and broadcast majors will work together to produce multimedia packages for posting on the Internet.  Editors from the different sequences will collaborate to produce an online portal containing content from each sequence.
JOUR135: Reporting, Editing and Management (Spartan Daily). A  team of reporters, photographers and editors will produce the Spartan Daily online publications as well as its daily newspaper and magazines. The editors will direct the coverage, including digital photography and audio/video streaming.
MCOM285: New Media Technologies. This course provides an introduction to new media technologies for mass communication students, examining the ways they influence and converge with traditional media, particularly in the specialty fields represented by the students in the program.  

 

Fall 2007 Courses:

JOUR134: In-Depth Online Reporting. See description above.

JOUR135: Reporting, Editing and Management (Spartan Daily). See description above.
MCOM210: Media and Social Issues. This graduate course looks at how the media report on, influence and occasionally inflame a wide range of issues. Readings include not only books on the history and theory of the media and society, but also up-to-date materials from the Internet and elsewhere.