• JOUR 4240: TV, Culture, and History

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Examines television as a cultural product, communication tool, mirror on the world, and as an agent for social change. Explores censorship, sponsorship, ethics, and the impact of context on content. Focuses on role that television has had and continues to have on constructing notions of gender, race, class, and difference.
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• JOUR 4250: Mass Media Law

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  (Same as EMC 4250.) Prerequisites: JOUR 1020; junior standing. Examination of legal guarantees and restrictions on the flow of information using the case study method. Focus on libel, privacy, obscenity, and the special restrictions placed on advertising, broadcasting, cable TV, and the Internet.
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• JOUR 4300: Reviewing and Criticism

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Theories and practice of reviewing and criticism in the mass media. Overview of current trends in film, theatre, music, books, and other entertainment media. Practice in critical and analytical writing.
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• JOUR 4350: Children and Media

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Explores media content created for and by children, examining the many ways that graphic novels, music, social media, videos, and other forms of media influence the way that kids see the world. Topics include history of the child consumer; children's marketing; ethics in children's media; constructions of gender, race, ability; and other positions of intersectionality, role-playing, identity, and video games, and other salient topics in this area.
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• JOUR 4410: Public Relations Research

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  No course description available.
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• JOUR 4440: Advanced Reporting

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: Admission to candidacy. Advanced theory and practice in news reporting, emphasis on coverage of governmental affairs and other public affairs-related assignments, including an introduction to interpretive and investigative reporting techniques
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• JOUR 4510: Media History and Culture

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Viewing history as the study of change across time, examines new media from different periods (symbols, writing, printing, telecommunications, Internet) and their role in shaping journalism and media content historically. Includes discussion of alternative media, including the Black Press and Woman Suffrage Press.
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• JOUR 4660: Scientific Approaches to Media

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: Junior standing. Provides a critical overview of the historical, intellectual, and theoretical foundations of scientific inquiry with specific emphasis on quantitative research methods. Introduces major theories and methods of scientific inquiry in the field of communication including psychological and sociological perspectives, survey research, content analysis, experiments, observational research, and statistical analysis. Explores audience analysis, media effects, message testing, campaign evaluation, political communication, public opinion, and new media technologies.
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• JOUR 4670: Cultural Approaches to Media

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Provides a critical overview of the historical, intellectual, and theoretical foundations of cultural studies with specific emphasis on research methods. Explores popular culture, comparative media systems, global media flows, and new media technologies, among other topics pertinent to media and journalism.
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• JOUR 4700: Mass Media & National Security

  3.00 Credits

  Middle Tennessee State University

  
  Prerequisite: Junior/Senior standing or permission of instructor. Examines the role of the mass media in maintaining national security. Topics include history, legal, and operational concerns from both media and the government perspectives. Discusses the tension between maintaining national security and American traditions of civil liberties and the role of both the media and government in these discussions.
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