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JOURNALISM SPEECH COURSE UPDATES
1.12.11 - HOLDS REMOVED
Holds have been placed on accounts of all Communication majors. Unless your hold is due to grades or finances, you can have the hold removed from your account only by completing the online advising workshop on Blackboard. If you have previously completed the advising workshop and still have a hold on your account, you should contact your adviser, who will have the hold removed so you can register for classes.
Please complete the workshop and/or contact your adviser ASAP. Your chances at getting in a class and cancellation of classes depends on this.
If you have already enrolled for Spring 2012, please disregard.
If you have questions, please contact your adviser.
1.12.11 - News/Editorial Writing Journalism majors
If you are a News/Editorial Writing Journalism major and have taken JOUR 2311 (or its equivalent), please be advised that you should enroll in JOUR 3303 this semester (Spring 2012).
If you are a journalism/news editorial major, and plan on taking JOUR/MCOM 4325 Radio/TV News Writing in Fall 2012 (required - takes the place of JOUR/MCOM 4300 Opinion Writing), you must enroll in JOUR 3380 Multimedia Production this spring or you will not have the skill sets needed for Radio/TV News Writing.
There is still space available in JOUR 3380 but the class size limit is 18, so don't delay - enroll today.
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JOURNALISM COURSE UPDATES
11.30.11
JOUR 3318 Media Law & Ethics will be offered Spring 2012 and Fall 2012
JOUR 3380 Multimedia Production is being offered Spring 2012.
Under MCOM students must take Multimedia Production, Writing for Mass Media, and Media Design & Production as the first 9 hours in the program. We'll be having students beginning the program this fall who will graduate under the new MCOM program. Multimedia Production is a 2000 level course under MCOM.
Under the MCOM course rotation MCOM 3318 Media Law & Ethics will be offered in the spring and MCOM 3385 History of Mass Media will be offered in the fall. MCOM 3318 remains part of the required core for the mass communication major, and MCOM 3385 becomes an "choice" under one or more of the competencies.
4300-Opinion Writing in Spring 2012 as an Independent Study. They will work on the Pine Curtain.
3315 Print Editing or Copy Editing. It is being offered as a Journalism Upper Division elective.
2311 Writing for Mass Media is offered in Fall only now.
3301 Feature Writing offered only in Fall now.
3303 Reporting/News Writing will be offered in Spring 2013.
Regarding a MCOM Minor
Students are to take: 2313,3380-Multimedia Production, 2306-Media Design and Production, and 2311-Writing for Mass Media after that they can take what they desire as long as the prerequisites have been satisfied.
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ATTENTION JUNIORS
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SEE YOUR MAJOR ADVISOR FOR MORE INFORMATION.
SPEECH ADVISORS: EIDENMULLER (A-M); WALTS (N-Z)
JOURNALISM ADVISORS: KIDD (A-G);WEINSTOCK (H-R) JOYNER (S-Z)
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The Department of Communication offers bachelor degrees in journalism and speech communication; and supplementary programs for undergraduates in other disciplines. At the graduate level, the department participates in the Master of Arts and Master of Science degree programs in interdisciplinary studies.