By arrangement with advisor. Incorporate discipline specific skills in practical working situations on-campus. Repeatable, maximum three credits.

Current issues or problems in journalism and mass communications. Repeatable, under different subtitles.

Prerequisites: JMC 210, JMC 350, and JMC 352. Majors and minors only. Covering news beats, C-SPAN events. Researching and writing features, editorials and columns for all media.

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Prerequisites: JMC 210, JMC 340, JMC 342. Consent of instructor. Majors only. Principles and techniques of videography, field reporting and video editing.

Prerequisites: JMC 342, JMC 443. Consent of instructor. Majors only. Practical application of visual communication skills in producing television news programming.

Majors only. Procedures, issues and responsibilities that must be mastered by managers of newspapers and radio and television stations.

Prerequisites: JMC 210, JMC 380. Majors only. Seniors only. Effective tools and techniques used by the professional public relations practitioner.

Prerequisite: JMC 100 Majors and minors only. Explores ethical theory and ethical decision-making tools as they relate to dilemmas in the media professions.

Prerequisite: JMC 342 or JMC 350. Consent of advisor. Majors only. Off-campus work experience in a professional media enterprise specific to the student’s major emphasis. Repeatable maximum three credits.

Critically evaluate television's performance as an informative, persuasive, entertaining, socializing, and culture-transmitting medium.

Seniors or above. Current and perennial ethical and legal issues in journalism and mass communications media that affect journalists, media management and the public.