TVRA 7701X - Introduction to Media Studies
45 hours; 3 credits
Introduction to the literature of mass media scholarship, methods of inquiry, bibliographic skills, and topical issues in the field. To be taken in student's first semester.
Prerequisite: permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7710X - Media Studies Seminar
45 hours; 3 credits
Current topics in electronic media. Emphasizes both entertainment industry and critical/cultural perspective. To be taken in student's final semester.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X] and permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7712X - Mass Media in Society
45 hours; 3 credits
Examination of the relationship between mass media and society within the contexts of social and cultural theory.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X] and permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7722X - Seminar in Television & Radio Program Development & Audience Analysis
45 hours; 3 credits
Process of television and radio program development. Conceiving and pitching a program idea; understanding genre cycles; determining windows of distribution; methods of measuring audiences; types of data collection and reporting; use of demographic data to make programming and management decisions.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]; or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7725X - Television and Radio Management Theory and Practice
45 hours; 3 credits
Theories of management of electronic mass media communication; industry structure, management styles and practices; finance and budgeting systems; human resource management; negotiation strategies.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X].
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TVRA 7726X - Seminar in Media Management
45 hours; 3 credits
Principles of management. Problems of prevailing practices in television, radio, and other media . Fall term.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X] and 7725X [725X]; or 7725X [725X] and permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7727X - Media Marketing and Promotion
45 hours; 3 credits
Principles of marketing and promotion. Developing marketing and promotion strategies. Implementing campaigns. Evaluating their effectiveness in attracting audiences and building audience share in increasingly competitive electronic mass communication industries. This course is the same as Business 7203X [703X].
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]; or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7945X - Television and Radio Audience Research
45 hours; 3 credits
Survey of methods of measuring audiences for radio and television programs. Types of data collection and reporting. Use of demographic data to make programming and management decisions. Original research and reports.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]. Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7725X [725X].
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TVRA 7713X - Media and Communication History and Regulation
45 hours lecture; 3 credits
In-depth industrial and cultural historical overview of the development of electronic mass communication. Historical and legal approaches and methods.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]; or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7714X - Critical Analysis of Media
45 hours; 3 credits
Textual and analytical approaches the scholarly study of media. Survey of the most significant Marxist, structuralist, semiotic and formalist readings of media over the past one hundred years.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]; or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7715X - Media Reception: Processes and Practices
45 hours; 3 credits
Introduction to sociological, ethnographic, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and critical theories used to understand media audiences and processes of reception. Historical development of the various approaches; audience response; construction of the mass audience and subcultures; fan production.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]; or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7728X - Global Media
45 hours lecture; 3 credits
In-depth industrial and cultural historical overview of the development of electronic mass communication. Historical and legal approaches and methods.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X]; or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7730X - Television and Radio Production: Applied Aesthetics
3 hours; 3 credits
Analysis of the various audiovisual aesthetic ''fields''- light, color, two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, time, motion/pace/rhythm, sound; narrative storytelling devices; and character types as cultural archetypes. Historical development of humorous and dramatic expression in television and radio.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X].
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TVRA 7732X - Problems in Multiple Camera Television Production
30 hours lecture, 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Integrating various elements into a program. Utilization of technical facilities. Relationship between purpose, script, production elements, producer, director, talent as a team. Problems of producing and directing various program formats including panel discussion, news, drama, art and cultural, and other studio-based program genres.
Prerequisite: matriculation in the M.F.A. program.
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TVRA 7733G - Sound Design
30 lecture, 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Principles and techniques in sound design for television production and sound art. Aesthetics and techniques of sound design through all stages of production: research and development through post-production. Students will learn how to construct a complex soundscape in a variety of digital platforms. The course is taught as a workshop.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Deputy Chair.
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TVRA 7736 - Television Program Directing
30 hours lecture, 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Problems of the television program director in regard to casting, script preperation, personnel organization, production planning, rehersals and preformance, effective utilization of the unique characteristics of television. Lecture, demonstration, experimental studio production of various types of programs.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7732X [732X] for MFA in Television Production candidates; PIMA 701G for advanced certificate candidates fpr advanced certificate candidates in the Performance and Interactive Media Arts program.
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TVRA 7740G - The Television Script: Structuring and Writing
45 hours; 3 credits
Develop skills in writing documentary, creative, and other scripts for television. Adapting material from other media. Various script formats. Developing and pitching ideas. Writing treatments. Creating storyboards. Completion of two scripts for different programs
Prerequisite: Matriculation for the M.F.A. degree or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7749X - Study Abroad India: Documentary Production and Cultural Studies
15 hours lecture, 60 hours lab; 3 credits
A 21-day course that combines lectures, sightseeing, and documentary production work.
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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TVRA 7752X - Single Camera Production for Television
30 hours lecture, 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Problems of the television producer/director in using film or videotape. Problems of budgeting, casting, and scripting out-of-studio film and videotape productions. Basic videotape editing.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7732X [732X] or 786X.
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TVRA 7769X - Fieldwork in Electronic Media
200 hours of fieldwork plus conference hours to be arranged; 3 credits
Placement in a professional electronic media organization for intensive supervised assignment. Joint supervision by a faculty member and member of the organization. Regular conferences with faculty supervisor. Preparation of written report on fieldwork experience.
Prerequisite: matriculation in the M.S. or M.F.A. program and permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7772X - Broadcast Journalism
45 hours; 3 credits
Analysis and evaluation of broadcast and new media news, editorials, commentaries. Examination of network and local news operations. Relationship between print and electronic news reporting considered in terms of their effect on the audience. Historical study of the concepts of free speech, investigative reporting, and the right of citizens' access to government information.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X].
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TVRA 7776X - The Television and Radio Documentary
45 hours; 3 credits
Development of radio and television programs to inform and persuade audiences. Comparison of the effect on audiences of different methods of presentation. Future trends in television and radio for social purposes. Spring term.
Prerequisite or corequisite: Television and Radio 7701X [701X] or 786.5X or permission of the deputy chairperson.
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TVRA 7781G - Video Post-Production Theory and Practice
15 hours lecture, 90 hours laboratory; 4 credits
Study and application of television post-production theory and technique. Students will receive instruction on digital editing systems and assemble short programs from prerecorded footage and originally produced audiovisual sources. Emphasis is placed on the aesthetics of content creation and applied technique.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.F.A. degree in television production.
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TVRA 7782G - Advanced Problems in Studio and Field Video Production
15 hours lecture, 60 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Study and application of production theory and technique. Students receive training in creative content development, electronic media aesthetics, and production management. All aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production are considered. Students will write, produce, and edit short form video programs in both studio and location production environments.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7781G [781G].
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TVRA 7783G - Seminar in Television Program Production I
15 hours lecture, 60 laboratory; Independent work; 4 credits
Independent research, development, direction, and production of a television program suitable for broadcast. Rotation of advanced crew assignments for in-studio and remote location productions. Development of a suitable production report. Review and approval of work in progress by faculty member.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7782G [782G].
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TVRA 7784G - Seminar in Television Program Production II
15 hours lecture, 60 hours laboratory; Independent work; 4 credits
Independent research, development, direction and production of a television program suitable for broadcast. Rotation of advanced crew assignments for in-studio and remote location productions. Development of a suitable production report. Review and approval of work in progress by faculty member.
Prerequisite: Television and Radio 7783G [783G].
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TVRA 7851G - Thesis Development
Minimum of 45 hours fieldwork each term; 1 credit each term
Faculty supervised development and management of M.F.A. program production and production book.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.F.A. degree.
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TVRA 7852G - Thesis Development
Minimum of 45 hours fieldwork each term; 1 credit each term
Faculty supervised development and management of M.F.A. program production and production book.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.F.A. degree.
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TVRA 7853G - Thesis Development
Minimum of 45 hours fieldwork each term; 1 credit each term
Faculty supervised development and management of M.F.A. program production and production book.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.F.A. degree.
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TVRA 7854G - Thesis Development
Minimum of 45 hours fieldwork each term; 1 credit each term
Faculty supervised development and management of M.F.A. program production and production book.
Prerequisite: matriculation for the M.F.A. degree.
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