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__ Course Description __

Mass Media is a computer laboratory-based course, which is intended to provide an overview of and an experience in multimedia technology, while analyzing media. This course requires students to recognize the impact of mass media messages through news, entertainment, and persuasion on contemporary society. Students academically analyze the importance of mass media as pervasive in modern life at all levels, including: locally, nationally, and globally. Students investigate and evaluate the history, governance, and ethical issues of mass media to gain a perspective of how influential mass communication has become to the world at large.

Furthermore, students develop necessary skills and obtain hands-on experiences working with a variety of multimedia tools to build linear and non-linear interactive projects. This course prepares students for their roles as informed and engaged citizens in a democracy. They will become more media literate and improve their communication skills to become more fluent writers, speakers, and media producers who address content issues as well as address the impact of mass communication. In this course, sounds, images, graphics, and video are the informational projects from which students will construct media rich knowledge structures. Students enrolled in this course will become computer literate and gain experience with basic electronic productivity tools. Students will learn tools, language, and culture of the Internet. They will learn to efficiently use a variety of search engines to find information. Students will gain the ability to evaluate sites and information on the Internet.