12 courses with the subject MDIA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MDIA 108Radio Broadcasting3
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course is designed to instruct the student in the operation of a radio station, as well as on-air and off-air broadcasting techniques. Broadcast management, sales, promotion, announcing, and copywriting are considered as they relate to specific assignments and duties at a radio station. Decisions involved with programming formats are considered. Students apply knowledge to individual and collective work projects.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course introduces students to writing for broadcast media and the skills needed to present copy over varied media forms. Students will create and record copy for radio, podcast, television, and new media. Students will practice writing news, interview segments, and feature stories for audio and video. Topics include audience analysis; script, feature, news, sports, and commercial copywriting; as well as questions of news standards, practices, and 250 | Massasoit Community College 2024-2025 College Catalog ethics. Students master writing on deadline; fact-checking; and delivering copy in written, verbal, and recorded formats.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course surveys the history and growth of newspapers, radio, television, film, and the telecommunications industries. The course offers the student an awareness of how mass media influence social and personal environment. Contemporary media issues, policies, and ethics are discussed. waiver by placement testing results.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course provides an introduction to television production theory and practice. The course combines hands-on experience with background lectures. The student’s experiences include television terminology, camera operation, switching, audio, floor plans, shot planning, picture composition, studio broadcasting procedures, floor direction, graphics, scenery, videotape, and master control. waiver by placement testing results.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This hands-on course covers the planning, producing, and performance of radio programs and podcasts. The student produces music, community, and sports/talk-based programming for broadcast, internet radio, and podcast. Students learn audience analysis, delivery style, and production technique.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course concerns producing, directing, writing, and performing for television. This course emphasizes the creative nature of the final program product, operation of the television facilities, studio and control room production, script writing, and directing various television formats. The student is required to develop all phases of an independent television program. departmental approval.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA Students taking this course learn about digital technology, use the skills and techniques of video production, and practice them in a wholly-digital environment. Using programs like Avid Liquid and Apple Final Cut Pro, students complete projects by building and editing timelines that will then be rendered and output to digital videotape (DV), digital video disk (DVD), and digital web files.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course introduces students to the various tools and systems necessary to produce electronic media, with an emphasis on integration of multimedia formats on the Internet, including website development, media production, multimedia integration, electronic hardware, and multimedia delivery systems. It is a hands-on course which has the students primarily involved in developing actual multimedia production skills.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA This course involves independent work on a selected topic under the direction of members of the Media Arts Department. Limited to two courses per student. Dean.
Attributes: FA, HU, LA Offers a work/learning experience in television or radio. The student performs tasks commensurate with actual production entities. The student is closely supervised by a college instructor will attend one group meeting per week, and will work closely with television or radio professionals. One lecture and four laboratory hours per week. 113 Radio Production: Theory and Practice, and departmental approval.
