22 courses with the subject MMS, 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.
MMS 101Intro to Multimedia Storytelling4
Intro to Multimedia Storytelling: This course examines the processes of communication and multimedia storytelling and serves as a survey of all the Knight School offerings to aid students in making the best selection to suit their interests. This course introduces students to the tenets, principles, and practice of multi-media storytelling, from podcasts and photos essays to vlogs and online videos. It highlights the dynamic relationship between the media and the medium, and the people who create and consume it. This course serves as the writing-intensive requirement for the major. (Offered every fall and spring term.)
MMS 204Students will learn the skills and judgment4
necessary to produce significant enterprise journalism, with an emphasis on investigative and explanatory journalism. They will be introduced to the fundamentals of computer-assisted reporting and other research tools necessary for in-depth stories. They will acquire skills necessary for in-depth interviews, development of sources and the advanced use of public records. Students will learn all stages of a multimedia project (from concept to publication), and will also experience working with a team of journalists toward a common goal. term.)
Digital Media Production:This introductory course will lay the groundwork for students studying digital media. Students will learn how to create engaging digital media with a purpose of informing audiences who may view the material via social networks or websites. Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of cinematography, editing, sound, and electronic media organization by applying skills learned in course in hands-on production assignments and workshops.
None. (Offered every fall and spring term.) Credit:
MMS 213Practicum: Queens Student Media2
Practicum in Student Media: This course is a hands-on practicum in content conception, production, editing, promotion, and management. Students will conceive, develop, and manage content for the Queens University News Service and learn content management, and content promotion. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every fall and spring term.)
Principles and History of Journalism: This study explores the culture, values and practices of American journalism -- past, present and emerging. It also examines the vital role journalism plays in a free and open society. The class will retrace pivotal moments in journalism history, both positive and negative. It will draw from those moments insights into how journalism is practiced today, and how society might expect it to evolve in years to come. (Offered every fall term.)
News Writing and Reporting: This course teaches the fundamentals of reporting, writing and producing the news across multiple platforms. Students will learn the basic skills necessary to report and write news stories featuring multiple sources. Topics include news judgment, ethics, interviewing, story forms, content organization and the basic use of public records. Students will learn how to illustrate a story through still photos. (Offered every fall term.)
Media Theory & Criticism: This course examines the media through select theories & perspectives. It analyzes media artifacts through a critical-cultural lens and emphasizes how power and ideologies are embedded within the media texts we consume (as the audience) and create (as producers). term.)
This practice-heavy editing course will provide the opportunity to obtain skills and knowledge that will prepare students for entry-level post-production work in the multimedia industry including video/audio journalism, documentary, and narrative filmmaking. By participating in required screenings and discussions, students will develop analytical skills by analyzing award-winning television shows, narratives, and documentary films. In turn, students will identify the best post-production practices and conventions; then apply those conventions in their project-based editing assignments. The required screenings will not only touch on award-winning productions, but historical and classical films that were innovative, controversial, and broke the rules.
Entrepreneurial Journalism: As the needs and preferences of consumers leap forward with technology, many students of journalism will go on to create their own jobs by conceptualizing and launching new products and services. Students in this course will be taught the principles of human- centered design and how to apply them in support of the principles of journalism through new ventures. They will learn how to research the field for the interests and needs of news consumers, design a product or service to meet a specific need, build a business plan, create a prototype and present it to prospective audiences.
Data-Driven Journalism: Increasingly, the most important, and least accessible, stories that the public needs told are buried in the numbers. Public and private institutions amass billions of bits of information that are potentially available for analysis. This course will teach students how to collect and interpret such data in ways that are valuable for use in news stories. They will become familiar with computer-assisted reporting tools, learn how to use them for news-gathering purposes and produce one or more publishable stories based on data they have extracted, cleaned and analyzed.
Studies in New Media: With an emphasis on ethics and civic responsibility, the course investigates how new media both solve and create problems for the people who use these emerging communication technologies. Topics may include hacking, online dating & privacy, augmented reality, and
Sports Reporting: Sport reporting requires specific kinds of news collection and analysis skills, whether stories are delivered through still or motion digital production, audio production, or print driven media. This course will identify the kinds of stories sports generate, whether amateur or professional, from heartening to criminal. This course examines how to cover the “sports beat”, write sports stories and support multimedia sports stories with digital media, photos and videos.
This audio production course will introduce students to the skills and knowledge needed to create professional quality audio for a variety of media formats, including video/audio journalism, documentary, podcasts, and narrative media. Students will develop an understanding of the physics of audio and practice appropriate techniques for sound gathering, sound recording, and sound editing. Students will identify the practices and conventions for sound design and apply these conventions in a series of project-based production assignments.
Popular Culture: Popular culture is the culture known and shared by most people in a society. In this course, students will investigate the mass media and contemporary forms of popular culture in the United States and what these say about American society, will look at the elements of American popular culture that have made their way into other societies across the globe, and will come to understand what popular culture says about values, beliefs, and norms of American culture and others.
COM 101 or MMS 101. (Offered every even spring term.)
MMS 359Social Media and Audience4
Social Media & Audience: This course explores strategies for developing, maintaining, and engaging audiences through social and participatory media. Students will examine the zones of social community, social publishing, social commerce, and social entertainment as outlets for social media consumption and creation. In addition, students will investigate the motivations, perceptions, and behaviors of audiences, and learn how to gather data and assess metrics for audience analysis. Students in this course will produce content for social media, audit its effectiveness, and assess personal, publishing, entertainment, and organizational storytelling through social media.
COM 101 or MMS 101 or with instructor permission. (Offered every fall and spring term.)
MMS 364Media Law and Ethics
Media Law & Ethics: This course analyses media policies and practices with respect to their political and practical generation, Constitutional foundation, ethical enactment and social impact, including such topics as government regulation of the media, the influence of pressure groups, media influence, Fair Use 242
Topics: International Preparation: This course examines international aspects of a selected subject matter in preparation for international experience around the same topic. Open only to students enrolled in the corresponding international experience course. Students must earn a grade of C- or better (an average of 70) in order to participate in MMS 399. The total number of hours for MMS 398 and MMS 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
Junior standing and a 2.0 or better cumulative GPA.
MMS 399International Experience1-4
International Experience: The international experience component of MMS 398. Students will have the opportunity to experience firsthand many of the topics studied in the prerequisite course. The total number of hours for MMS 398 and MMS 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
Advanced Digital Media Production:Students in this course will demonstrate an advanced knowledge of cinematography, sound and electronic media organizations. Course activities include hands-on demonstrations, production assignments, critiques, and a portfolio of digital media artifacts. Prerequisit
Storytelling Capstone: Taken during the senior year, students will engage in a culminating experience by preparing a project in their chosen concentrations under the supervision of a faculty member. The capstone is intended to showcase student work in the program up to the final year. Credit: 4
