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Sep 07, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Professional Studies AS - Broadcasting Option
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Code: AS.PS.BRCAST
The Broadcasting option prepares students to transfer into the junior year of a baccalaureate program in Broadcasting or a related area such as media, advertising, marketing, and public relations. It provides students with an understanding of the historical, regulatory, technical, and business components that combine to create the media world of today.
Broadcasting career options include work in management or administration, sales, engineering or technical support, production and programming.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
- Be able to compare and contrast mass media to other forms of communication.
- Analyze the economic foundation of mass media as well as its function.
- Understand which mass media are government regulated, self- regulated, and protected by the first amendment.
- Identify the political framework of media in other cultures.
- Understand how current trends of conglomeration and technological advances are affecting the mass media.
- Recognize the different formats used to prepare information for print, broadcast and the Internet.
- Describe the various laws and ethics that govern the media.
- Demonstrate writing and critical thinking skills.
CAREER PATHWAYS
| Communication Teachers, post secondary |
Reporter, Correspondent |
Radio or Television Announcer |
| News Analyst |
Editor |
Public Relations |
| Content Specialist |
Writer, Author |
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Recommended Semester Sequence
Fourth Semester
- Natural Science Elective 4 Credit(s) *
- Free Elective 3 Credit(s)
Plus two of the following courses:
General Education Requirements
Humanities Electives
- Two (2) general education courses selected from the following fields: Arts (Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema Studies [CIN]); History (HIS); Interdisciplinary (WGS); Literature (LIT); Philosophy and Religion (PHR); World Languages and Cultures (LAN).
- With no more than one course in any one field.
Social Science Elective
One general education course selected from the following fields: Economics (ECO); Geography (GEO); Political Science (POL); Psychology (PSY); Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANT). Mathematics, Natural Sciences, & Technology
- one general education course in Mathematics (MAT) 3 Credit(s) and
- INF-102 Introduction to Computing
or - one general education course in Mathematics (MAT) 4 Credit(s)
- Two general education courses to be selected from the following Natural Science fields: Biology (BIO) Chemistry (CHM) Physics (PHY) 8 Credit(s)
Humanities:
(Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema, Studies [CIN], History (HIS), Literature (LIT), Philosophy and Religion (PHR), World Languages and Cultures (LAN)
Recommended:
Social Sciences:
- Economics (ECO), Geography (GEO), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSY), Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANT) 3 Credit(s)
Plus two of the following courses:
Free Electives**
Recommended:
Total Credit Hours: 60
Specific Program Notes
Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.
Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.
* General Education Elective(s)
** IST-123 will fulfill 3 credits of Free Electives for students who place into the course
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