Tuesday, January 26, 2010

JMC 2033 through the syllabus

Writing for the Mass Media is a course that focuses on teaching students to become better writers. It is Specifically designed to inform in the media areas the students are majoring in; be it advertising, public relations, professional writing, or broadcast or print journalism. The requirements set to pass this class are incorporated in the syllabus, which create an outline and guide for what is to be expected in the coming months.

The goals of the course are to enhance the students writing abilities and find their interests by exploring all aspects of media writing. The students will learn to become critical readers and better understand their future professions by addressing the media market through newspapers, websites, and other sources. This will also expand media literacy, helping the students look at real media that is happening now and give them better insight into what they will be doing.

 The lectures will be geared towards the more technical fundamentals. Going over the concepts and specifics of the writing process, while the lab is meant to be the practice of what was learned in lecture. It’s there the student will be doing the actual writing assignments, the lecture assignments are from the books, and that’s also where the quizzes and tests take place. They work off of each other and give the student a continuous flow of the material.

This class is where the students will learn the fundamentals to walk before they can run, the difference between who and whom, and if they can rely upon themselves enough to fight for the grade.  

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