Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 41646

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm

  Greg Vandegrift

This course will introduce the student to mass media, including news media, social media and entertainment media. The course examines the mass media as cultural industries. Students will consider how the mass media shape and are shaped by society, the history of particular media, current research and media trends. Students will be expected to obtain an understanding of how print, broadcast, social, film and other media work, as well as a sense of their influence. Students are also expected to learn to be critical media consumers, asking themselves why they watch or read or listen to what they do. Students are strongly encouraged to take this course before taking upper-level Journalism or Digital Media Arts courses. The course is cross listed as DIMA 111 and STCM 111.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 40107

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm

  Pam Louwagie

This course will introduce the student to mass media, including news media, social media and entertainment media. The course examines the mass media as cultural industries. Students will consider how the mass media shape and are shaped by society, the history of particular media, current research and media trends. Students will be expected to obtain an understanding of how print, broadcast, social, film and other media work, as well as a sense of their influence. Students are also expected to learn to be critical media consumers, asking themselves why they watch or read or listen to what they do. Students are strongly encouraged to take this course before taking upper-level Journalism or Digital Media Arts courses. The course is cross listed as DIMA 111 and STCM 111.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 41166

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm

  Neal Justin

This course will introduce the student to mass media, including news media, social media and entertainment media. The course examines the mass media as cultural industries. Students will consider how the mass media shape and are shaped by society, the history of particular media, current research and media trends. Students will be expected to obtain an understanding of how print, broadcast, social, film and other media work, as well as a sense of their influence. Students are also expected to learn to be critical media consumers, asking themselves why they watch or read or listen to what they do. Students are strongly encouraged to take this course before taking upper-level Journalism or Digital Media Arts courses. The course is cross listed as DIMA 111 and STCM 111.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 40110

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     Writing in the Discipline

  Greg Vandegrift

This course concentrates on news reporting, teaching skills in news judgment, observation, interviewing, information gathering, organization and writing. Students learn to report news for a variety of media platforms, preparing text , audio and video versions of stories for the web, television, print and radio.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 42333

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

  Paul Klauda

Preparation of copy for publication; evaluation of news; headline and title writing; news display, including typography; picture editing; and editing magazines and web publications.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 41895

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 238

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Integ/Humanities

Greg Song

This course empowers and supports students’ engagement with traditional and emerging forms of media. Students will not only understand how media contents shape people’s beliefs about different social groups, and how media exposure and usage influence identity development and cultural norms, but also become mindful in their own creation of media content. Students will be able to use media wisely and critically for individual purposes and in broader civic participation. Students will work collaboratively and collectively to build their knowledge structures in media literacy, and to understand how media contents are created, used, interpreted, and re-used by themselves and others. As a result of this course, students will have a firm grasp on not only the relationships of literacy and media, but also concrete experiences in responsible creation and use of media texts including social media posts, wiki entries, short videos, photo essays, etc.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 42334

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 238

  Sheree Curry

Explores the nature of writing for magazines as a staff writer or free-lance writer. Students will write service articles, profiles, human interest pieces and in-depth issue articles common to both commercial and trade magazines.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 40112

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 238

Requirements Met:
     [Core] Signature Work
     Writing in the Discipline

  Yayu Feng

This capstone seminar for graduating seniors explores ethical issues that confront professionals in journalism and other fields of mass media, and their audiences. Students explore theoretical perspectives on ethics, work from case studies to understand professional ethical standards, discuss current ethical issues, work in teams to perfect oral and written ethical analysis skills and write an individual thesis paper. Prerequisites: graduating seniors only and permission of department chair.

4 Credits