Bachelor degrees in Mass Communication + Media Studies: A program that focuses on the analysis and criticism of media institutions and media texts, how people experience and understand media content, and the roles of media in producing and transforming culture. Includes instruction in communications regulation, law, and policy; media history; media aesthetics, interpretation, and criticism; the social and cultural effects of mass media; cultural studies; the economics of media industries; visual and media literacy; and the psychology and behavioral aspects of media messages, interpretation, and utilization.
Communications majors who wish to maximize their career opportunities may choose an emphasis in Mass Communications. This emphasis integrates rather than segregates instruction in public relations, electronic media/production and content, and the knowledge and skills necessary for success as writers, editors and producers in the career fields of newspapers, magazines, books, wire services, radio, television and the expanding multimedia publishing...
The Department of Communication features both the study of communication theory and criticism, and the development of practical skills. At a time when media (print, telephone, television, internet), modes of communication (oral, written, visual), and contexts (face-to-face, public, and organizational) converge in our careers and daily lives, the department offers the first state-university program in the Bay Area to cover this interrelated spectrum...
Majors must complete 33 semester units of mass communication and journalism courses with a grade of C or better in each course. To ensure that students obtain a broad academic background, no more than 33 units in MCJ courses may apply toward the 120 semester units required for graduation.
The university's General Education requirement of 51 units, plus the 33 units in the major, total 84 units. The remaining units needed to reach the 120-unit graduation...
Communication Studies is a broad-based discipline concerned with the exchange of messages in interpersonal and mediated situations and with the impact of such exchanges on society. Courses focus on understanding the communication process and developing skills to communicate effectively. The Department offers a wide range of courses in interpersonal, group, and organizational communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, public relations, media communication...
The Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media degree provides students with theoretical and practical frameworks for understanding media development, production, distribution, and its multiple social, political, cultural, and cognitive effects domestically and globally. We aim to produce graduates who are theoretically grounded, digitally literate, and sensitive to the ways in which power affects media production, distribution, representation, and access.
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