t h e c o l l e g e at r i n d g e Note: By University policy, students must make a minimum standard of progress toward the completion of general education requirements by the end of the Sophomore Year, in order to achieve Junior Standing for course registration purposes.
Junior Year
Fall Semester MC301 Media Criticism MC___ Area of Concentration Core or Cognate _____ General Education Elective _____ Elective* _____ Elective
Senior Year
Fall Semester MC___ Area of Concentration Core or Cognate MC___ Area of Concentration Elective _____ Elective* _____ Elective _____ Elective
Spring Semester MC304 Media Law MC___ Area of Concentration Core or Cognate _____ General Education Elective _____ Elective* MC___ Area of Concentration Elective Spring Semester MC400 Senior Seminar MC___ Area of Concentration Core or Cognate _____ Elective _____ Elective _____ Elective
*One or more additional electives may be needed to fulfill general education requirements. See General and Liberal Education (GLE) on p. 134.
Mass Communication Curriculum Note: To facilitate proper progress through the various course sequences, students must fulfill all prerequisite requirements. In select circumstances, it is possible for a full-time faculty member in an area of concentration to waive a specific prerequisite requirement. MC100 Communication, Media and Society 3 credits Examines the roles of communication media in society, including the philosophy of massmediation and the study of media effects on public issues, social values, and cultural tastes. Presents an historical overview of the main technologies of communication and surveys the discipline’s most salient theoretical paradigms. MC105 Voices: Raised and Engaged 3 credits The Internet has democratized the public discourse like nothing else since Gutenberg’s printing press in the mid-1400s. In just the past decade, the Internet has inspired a vibrant poor man’s press that is filling the global marketplace with ideas. The average citizen has a wealth of new media and social media tools—probably accessible through the phone in his pocket--that can carry his/her voice across many barriers—including economic, political, geographic, and cultural ones. This course will give students the knowledge and skills they need to raise their voices in the public discourse of the 21st century. Students will: 1) explore the role of the media in our nation’s democracy; 2) conduct research that will inform their civic engagement in a major social issue of our times; 3) develop communication and technology skills that will enable them to actively participate in our nation’s public discourse via the Internet and social media; and 4) actively engage through the media in America’s conversations. Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Social Sciences (SS), Civic Knowledge & Engagement (CE) and Technology Literacy (TL). MC225 Confronting the Digital World 3 credits Everyone lives in the digital world today, which means that whether we like it or not we’re publishers and writers. But how much are we taking for granted, both in terms of the impact 179