MCOM628 HUMANITIES SEMINAR: RELIGION AND THE MASS MEDIA (3 sh)
Understanding the sociological, political, historical, and economic impact of organized religion in a multicultural society and evaluating the reporting of it in the mass media forms the theoretical basis of this course.  Based on this understanding, students will write news stories about religious leaders, groups, movements, and issues.

MCOM628 HUMANITIES SEMINAR:  TOPICS IN MASS COMMUNICATION (3 sh)
A thematic or topical approach to mass communication texts, practices, or policies, with emphasis on analysis, synthesis, and critique.  Topics might include, among others, the media and terrorism, media effects and consequences, comparative study of international news processes, trends and issues in photojournalism, and media representations of disability, ethnicity and age.

MCOM630 CULTURAL STUDIES IN MASS COMMUNICATION (3 sh)
An examination of the issues of access and representation in the mass media.  Of central interest are the constraints and possibilities for change in the media industries’ structures, practices, and relationships with social change coalitions concerned about gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and other markers of cultural identity.

MCOM691 PROPAGANDA AND PUBLIC OPINION (3 sh)
A detailed study of propaganda and public opinion from World War II to the present.  Special emphasis is given to the media of propaganda.  The course also focuses on propaganda strategies in industrial and non-industrial countries.  

MCOM694 COMMUNICATION LAW AND ETHICS (3 sh)
A detailed study of First Amendment law as it affects the press, and a survey of broadcast regulations.  Students explore the relationships of law and ethics and examine and discuss ethical problems and practices.

10/2004