80 courses with the subject JMC, 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.
JMC 101COMMUNICATION TODAY3
Digital media have changed all areas of communication. We will discuss those changes and how digital media might impact communication going forward. We will also discuss ethics, the history of the field, of communication, and some of the people who have made a difference in the field. We will talk about options open to you if you plan a future in communication or hope to become an informed consumer of the media. This is the foundational course for all majors in the Jandoli School of Communication and is open as a general elective to all other students.
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people," said Thomas Mann. That's because a writer appreciates just how important the act of writing is. In JMC 110, you will learn to think like a writer. Why does writing matter? What does that really mean? You will look at the relationship between art and craft, examine the importance of audience, and begin a conscious exploration of your own writing process. You will also see why mechanics play a key role in articulating your ideas clearly.
Building on skills and behaviors introduced in JMC 110, JMC 111 helps put the concept "Writing is important" into practice: Understand mechanics. Insist on clarity. Attend to detail. Know your audience. Meet deadlines. Be curious. Make good choices. Tell good stories. Demand excellence.
A fundamental examination of the skills needed to succeed in the world of communications technology, from shooting and editing video using large camcorders or smart phones, the principles of audio and lighting, writing for all media, and the use of Internet-based resources for the latest Communications.
The basic course in principles and practices of writing and reporting for print and digital news platforms. Stresses leads, story organization, accuracy, objectivity and developing a news sense.
Writing and reporting in-depth for all news platforms. Covers investigative research and interpretive journalism. Assignments stress interviewing and investigative techniques.
This course emphasizes the essentials of capturing effective imagery and audio with the tools of the trade and editing digital elements into engaging videos. Students will develop the knowledge and skills to produce a variety of video productions.
Students will be introduced to techniques and processes of creating artwork and graphic design on the computer. Students will get an overview of electronic image manipulation, illustration, and page layout and design.
A basic course emphasizing photography from the journalistic perspective. Fundamentals of camera operation, exposure, lighting and composition. Introduction to Photoshop and the digital imaging process.
This course builds upon the skills learned in JMC- 261. Principles and practices of journalistic photography, news, sports and feature photography. Picture story and photo essay. Combining words and pictures. Students are encouraged to shoot for on-and-off campus publications.
Advanced photography course emphasizing sports journalistic perspective. Access to Division One athletics and athletes on the St Bonaventure campus. Covering everything from studio season promo shoots, behind the scenes, peak action, and arena lighting and access. Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Photo Mechanic skills will be used to meet all deadlines.
The intersection of the law and communications -- both the traditional media and legal areas relating to advertising. Major decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts relating to issues including the Internet, prior restraint, privacy, libel, copyright and broadcasting are considered. Ethical issues involved in the communications fields are also discussed.
The writing and reporting of sports and athletics for all mass media in both the educational and commercial sectors. Emphasis is on writing play-by-play and human interest features, as well as in-depth reporting. An analysis of the principles and practices of sports information is emphasized.
An upper-level writing course for students interested in public relations. Concentration on the finer points of word-smithing in the context of a variety of public relations functions such as promotional copywriting, speechwriting, media relations and quote-crafting. A scrutiny of word choice, phrasing and organization to create maximum deliberate effect. Includes an ethical component to understand how rhetorical choices can lead to intentional and unintentional consequences.
True stories told well-that's the premise behind creative nonfiction, a genre that spans a broad spectrum from literary journalism to memoir. Springing from a long tradition of writing that emphasizes verisimilitude, creative nonfiction employs the literary conventions of fiction and poetry to explore the truth in ways beyond the mere transmission of facts and information. Students will read examples of creative nonfiction to get a sense of the genre's possibilities while also writing creative nonfiction projects of their own.
In works of creative non-fiction, place is often background, context, and backdrop for the action. Through place, writers explore the world around them literally and metaphorically, creating profound connections between themselves and the spaces they occupy--as well as connections between readers and those spaces. While looking at effective examples of writers who write about space and place, students will the opportunity to explore the world around them through writing of their own.
(Majors Only) Examines the techniques and strategies used in the communication/public relations field for college and professional sports and how they shape the reporting of sports news. Course will cover writing, design, and layout for press releases, publications and Web sites. Includes analysis of sports public relations as a career field.
Fundamentals of broadcast news and sports writing and reporting. Areas covered will include learning how to write in broadcast style, writing into and out of sounds bites, selection of bites, use of natural sound throughout stories, writing to visuals, standups and learning how to sounds professional and credible on the air.
This course will help students develop the skills involved in the production of live sports telecasts, using the university's high definition control room. This course will allow students to specifically learn to work on-air, as well as produce and direct game telecasts, work as video camera person, audio operators, technical directors, and graphics operators/producers. Because students will actually produce content for air, class times and dates in the later portion of the semester may be changed to fit the events being covered. Students are apprised that they will need to plan for this when a schedule of events that can be televised is available.
This course will help students develop the skills telecasts, using the university's high definition control room. This course will allow students to specifically learn to work on-air, as well as produce and direct game telecasts, work as video camera person, audio operators, technical directors, and graphics operators/producers. Because students will actually produce content for air, class times and dates in the later portion of the semester may be changed to fit the events being covered. Students are apprised that they will need to plan for this when a schedule of events that can be televised is available. This is a continuation of JMC 341.
Students will learn how to coordinate productions outside of the studio with proper camera set-up, lighting and audio. We will look at the proper way to access a location, cut off background sound, color a camera properly, add ambient light and avoid disturbances. Students will also learn the methods a broadcast signal can be transmitted back to the control room for playback on the air.
Students will learn to setup and properly shoot in a studio setting with proper lighting, a crisp image and clear audio. There will be a high focus on communication from the director, producer, floor manager, camera operator and editor. Each step of the way plays a significant role in a studio production. Students will also explore the Chroma Key and how this can enhance a production, an interview, a newscast or a sporting event.
Producing ethical, engaging, immediate and informative content specifically for digital and social media. This course will prepare students to produce news from the field for digital audiences. Students will share news in real-time on social media and digital platforms.
Producing an informative newscast is more than stacking a rundown. Students will learn all of the processes involved in creating a well-rounded show based on story count, timing, use of graphics, live shots, live reports, great video, effective sound and much more.
This class explores the relationship between media (including television, film, advertising, and social media) and mental health and illness. In addition to exploring questions around both positive and negative representations of mental illness and health, we will also explore the lines between mental illness and health and explore their definitions.
Semiotics is the study of signs. A sign is defined as anything that can stand for or represent something - therefore it can be a word, a symbol, a picture, a sound, a gesture, body language etc. Semiotics is therefore the study of making meaning (both "encoding" and "decoding") in its widest possible sense. Semiotics is fundamental to the process of communication and the production of meaning. In this course we will focus on the work of semioticians in the areas of advertising, photography, film, television, myth and sub-culture, and consider how semiotic concepts and methods can be used to analyze a variety of cultural products, from fashion to television news to advertising to other forms of communication.
This course provides an overview of mass communications research methods, including survey research, laboratory and field experiments, and content analysis.
In this course, students will combine what they've learned in their communication classes with their experiences and knowledge of the Franciscan values of compassion, wisdom and integrity. Students will explore the works of interdisciplinary and multicultural thinkers and apply them to case studies, helping them to employ communication skills in their lives beyond the university. Must have junior standing or higher.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
JMC 401LFSP TOP:LONG FORM NARRATIVES A CREATIVE APPROACH1-3
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
JMC 401ZASP TOP:ADVANCED SPORTS MEDIA PRODUCTION1-3
This course gives students the opportunity for in-depth study of JMC-related issues and topics. Students may arrange for planned independent study in journalism and mass communication under the guidance of a faculty adviser. School permission is required.
The intent is to familiarize students with the techniques of fact-finding, interviewing and writing necessary to produce editorials, columns and reviews for the press.
The course familiarizes students with the technique of fact-finding, interviewing and writing necessary to produce credible commentaries for various sports-oriented media. Weekly writing, especially for digital media, will be stressed. Techniques for promotion of students' work will be explored.
"[M]any of us...care about the language, in our and craft of telling stories on paper," says Stephen King in the introduction to his book On Writing. By writing about writing, writers like King offer insights into their creative processes that can give other writers insights into their own creative processes. Such works invite consideration of the question, What does it mean, really, to be a writer?
A hands-on community news reporting course that incorporates all reporting, writing, video and editing instruction taken by the time a student reaches junior class status. Class members will staff an online news site covering communities surrounding the university.
A hands-on community news reporting course that incorporates all reporting, writing, video and editing instruction taken by the time a student reaches junior class status. Class members will staff an online news site covering communities surrounding the university.
Building on the work students have done in Creative Nonfiction I, students will look to further develop their "truth-telling" skills. This course will focus on longer-form writing with a focus on memoir. Students will read examples of creative nonfiction to get a sense of the genre's possibilities while also writing creative nonfiction projects of their own.
An advanced seminar course in sports media and sports communications that builds upon lower-level sports media and journalism classes. This course will explore the intersection of sports media in contemporary areas. Topics will vary. (Course may be repeated with a different topic.)
Advanced course in producing, writing, field reporting, anchoring and the production of a television newscast. Students will incorporate what they have learned in all broadcast journalism courses within the sequence. The vehicle used for students learning this advanced work will be in the form of a weekly TV newscast telecast on SBU-TV Channel 9.
Advanced course in producing, writing, field reporting, anchoring and the production of a television newscast. Students will incorporate what they have learned in all broadcast journalism courses within the sequence. The vehicle used for students learning this advanced work will be in the form of a weekly TV newscast telecast on SBU-TV, Channel 9. This course continues the work of JMC 440.
Students will take a deeper dive into video editing software. We will enhance their capabilities of building a finished product through the addition of several creative features. Students will learn to properly color grading video, effect edit, add in and splice music, effectively key vide and use graphics/animations in their work.
An advanced course in video production that will build on lower-level production courses and offer the ability to specialize in specific production techniques. Topics will vary.
An advanced course in video production that will build on lower-level production courses and offer the ability to specialize in specific production techniques. Topics will vary.
Students will demonstrate their ability to bring together multimedia journalist skills by producing a multimedia documentary project. Students must show a firm understanding of writing, reporting, visual storytelling and research to plan and produce, in small teams, a profound piece of longform video and digital journalism.
This class will look at the legal rules that apply to life online, including some background on how the Internet is governed and an in-depth look at several issues. The course is open to all majors.
An exploration of the more artistic and creative aspect of nonfiction writing, mainly through an examination of newspaper and magazine reporting that has endured as literature in America. In addition, the techniques of masters of fiction who also excelled in nonfiction will be studied.
The course has two main themes: the history of women and minority journalists working in the U.S media from the colonial era to the present day and the portrayals by the media of these collective groups often left outside the mainstream. Films, guest speakers and primary source materials supplement the overview textbooks.
This course uses a seminar format to explore the external factors that impact the content and quality of news and the media's relationship with a healthy democracy. It examines conflicts between the media's responsibility to keep citizens informed and serve as a watchdog over powerful interests with news organizations' roles as profit-making businesses. The growth of the Internet and social networks and their impact on journalistic form and content also are explored.
It has been said that without the media, there would have been no Civil Rights Movement. This course will explore that theory and examine the powerful role the media played in shaping the events of the Civil Rights Movement. Media -- both black and mainstream -- coverage of key civil rights cases, such as the murder of Emmett Louis Till, will be analyzed, as well as the southern journalists who defended blacks in the 1950s and 1960s. The course will also cover assassination of Medgar Evers in 1963, the Freedom Rides of 1961, and the often untold story of how women and children helped shape the movement. This course will NOT be about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Though they are seen as icons of the Civil Rights Movement, the movement was much more than these two people. 3 credits. Offered every other fall
The course is designed to give basic familiarity with the multiple aspects of becoming an entrepreneur--to teach you how to utilize, efficiently and effectively, the services of those professionals to your own business advantage. All majors.
Students in the Journalism Program will be expected to participate in a Program Assessment Comprehensive Interview in the fall of year four. The student is expected to select a position and "apply" for a position. The student will then submit a cover letter, resume and portfolio for review by the assessment committee comprised of faculty and alumni/professionals. Students will participate in professional etiquette seminars. In preparation for the interview, students will be expected to gather information about the company/organization, as would be expected in a professional environment. Students will be graded based on a comprehensive rubric. Students will either pass or fail. Students who fail will have until the end of the spring year four to make suggested corrections and submit again. It is also expected that before students receive a grade for this course, all 400 internship hours be completed.
This is the foundational course in sports journalism. Students will contextualize the role of sports journalism in our rapidly changing society and media landscape. There will be a focus on how diverse audiences interact with sports and how sports journalists cover issues of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual misconduct and other contempary issues. The course also covers the forces affecting change in the industry and how flexibility, agility and adaptability are crucial for sports journalists and open up many career possibilities.
This is the foundational course in digital journalism. Students will contextualize the role of digital journalism in our rapidly changing society and media landscape. There will be a focus on how diverse audiences interact with journalism and how journalists cover issues of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual misconduct and other contempary issues. The course also covers the forces affecting change in the industry and how flexibility, agility and adaptability are crucial for digital journalists and open up many career possibilities.
Regardless of the medium a journalist uses, the crux of the profession depends on strong writing. This course builds from the ground up-words, sentences, paragraphs, stories-to create the solid foundation underpinning every news story. Students will then apply those principles in a journalism context, learning different writing conventions for different media.
This is course focuses on reporting skills for the digital age. The course focuses on multimedia reporting, using research and data gathering skills, interviewing techniques, analyzing information and sharing it with digital audiences.
This course will focus on a variety of digital storytelling principles, tools and techniques. There will be a focus on telling stories using data, multimedia story presentation and mobile storytelling.
This course will examine the ethical issues journalists face doing their job and how that comports with the highest ideals of the profession. The intersection of ethics and law and major principles of media law will be discussed including prior restraint, privacy, libel and copyright. How journalists can use public records is also a focus.
This course teaches the foundational principles and skills of visual journalism, including photojournalism, design and video journalism. The ethical standards for producing digital media and an understanding of visual representation of diverse audiences are also a focus.
This is a practical course about covering sporting events and issues. There will be significant focus on developing sources, pitching stories, interviewing athletes, and working with media relations staffs. Student should become adept at reporting digital sports stories.
The practice and study of using social media for journalism. The course will include an overview of social media platforms and using them to cover news with speed and accuracy, including for breaking news. Also discussed are ways to use social media to build a brand and promote journalistic work.
This course helps journalists understand data and how to use it to inform the public. Students will explore databases and how to use digital tools to analyze and present data.
This course focuses on the web programming languages used to create interactive digital storytelling packages that include multiple media elements. Student will learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, among other tools for interactive storytelling, and apply those to produce significant journalistic work.
This course will provide an in-depth study of sports media as a business. Topics include the business of media, business of sports and how those manifest in and affect sports media and journalism. Sports analytics, entrepreneurship, organization culture, contracts and freelancing are also discussed.
This course focuses on in-depth interviewing for sports. Students will conduct thorough journalistic research, develop interviewing skills for news and features and will present their work in podcasts and other digital platforms.
Students will begin a major journalistic effort that will serve as their master's project. In this first of a three course sequence, students will develop a project idea, research it and develop a plan to produce the major work of digital journalism.
Students will report a major journalistic digital story that will serve as their master's project. In this second of a three course sequence, students will do deep reporting and information gathering to produce the major work of digital journalism.
Students will present a major journalistic digital story that will serve as their master's project. In this third of a three course sequence, students will do finalize and present a major work of digital journalism.
