Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 21281

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm

  Lana Medina

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: 21282

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     FYE CommGood/Learning Comm

  Lana Medina

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: 21283

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Wendy Wyatt

This course introduces students to the principles, responsibilities, freedom, techniques, ethics and roles of journalism as practiced in the United States. Students will gain a basic understanding of news values, multimedia journalism, press freedom and democracy, and journalistic professionalism. Students will also develop basic skills in newswriting through trainings in language use, AP style, interviews, and writing.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 21284

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 219

Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Sky Anderson

This is an entry-level course on still photography as used in mass media. Students will learn mechanical skills to practice photography, the aesthetics involved and principles of communicating via photojournalism.

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 21285

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 238

Core Requirements Met:
     [Core] Diversity/Soc Just AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
     

Other Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Wendy Wyatt

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: 21286

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 238

Requirements Met:
     Writing to learn

  Wendy Wyatt

Early forms of communication, including art and symbols of ancient humans, civilizations without writing, the idea of an alphabet, medieval libraries, European background of the American news media system, development of American journalism, photography, film and telegraphy, and the mass media as a cultural institution

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 22178

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: In Person

  Mark Anfinson

This course focuses on legal standards that protect and constrain communications in America, particularly, but not exclusively, in the context of mass media. Students consider First Amendment philosophy, examine historic free-expression cases that have affected the collection and dissemination of information, and explore how recent legal and technological developments influence both the character and the content of communication in all facets of American society today. Prerequisites: DIMA 111 or JOUR 111 or permission of instructor

4 Credits

Subject: Journalism/Mass Comm (JOUR)

CRN: 21287

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: Schoenecker Center 201

Requirements Met:
     Writing in the Discipline

  Greg Vandegrift

This course concentrates on refining skills in interviewing, storytelling, use of documents, choice of media format, and creation of multi-part news stories. Students report news for a variety of media platforms, preparing text, audio and video versions of stories for the web, television, print and radio. Prerequisite: JOUR 251.

4 Credits