The purpose of this course is to provide a critical understanding of advertising's role in society. We will examine the history of advertising, the commercial and social aspects of the messages conveyed by ads, and the advertising industry's influence on social relations and institutions, such as journalism. The basic orientation of the course is to study consumer media culture (advertising, public relations, and branded space) as a form unique to modern society.

Examines relationship between media and institutions, and the processes through which people and societies make political choices.

News writing for radio, with review of television news writing approaches for comparison.

Fundamentals of still photography in the print and audiovisual mass media with primary focus on print journalism. Must have 35 mm camera.

Fundamentals of copy editing and layout.

Fundamentals of gathering information and journalistic writing.

Intermediate level writing and editing skills.

Advanced reporting and research skills, including computer-assisted reporting.

Techniques of public information with focus on government, public affairs and public interest issues.

This course examines the nature and impact of emerging media technology. Students study four primary ways new technology influences media, including 1) how media professionals do their work, 2) the nature of media content, 3) the relationships between and among media and relevant publics, and 4) the structure, culture and management of media organizations and systems. Five areas of media technology are studied, including 1) acquisition tools, 2) storage technologies, 3) processing devices, 4) distribution technologies and 5) display, access or presentation tools.

Content, treatment, and effects of women and minority group coverage in television, newspapers, magazines, popular music and film.

Mass communications and America's traditional self imagery. Critical analysis of the ways in which the American experience is now and has been interpreted by the mass media; the relationship of myth to reality.

Reporting and writing about medicine, health, science, and technology.

Computer based writing for, designing and paginating newsletters, magazines, websites and newspapers.

Web pages as primary sites for distributing news content and to supplement other technologies for news transmission.

History of mass media in the United States.

The course is designed to expose students to many of the best known and classic American films about journalism, and to examine how American (U.S.) film has depicted the practice and societal impact of journalism. The course aims to deeply immerse students in a broad range of challenging and critical questions about journalistic practice in the United States, as represented in American film. Among the goals of the course is to have students consider whether popular, filmic depictions of American journalists are accurate and have bases in fact. Similarly, students consider whether the image, or the reality of journalistic practice, keeps changing in the United States, or whether, perhaps, there has been very little if any change in either, or at all, over the 75 years of film the course covers. And if there is change, or there is not change in reality or in film, how might we understand the forces behind change or stability.

Fundamentals of television reporting and electronic news gathering.

Advanced television reporting and electronic news gathering with students assigned to various projects.

Examines who controls the media and how the media differentially serve the public and power holders. Attention to both news and entertainment media.

Independent study in journalism and media studies topics under faculty supervision.

Independent study in journalism and media studies topics under faculty supervision.

Supervised field experience at professional media outlets.

Magazine writing for publication, including consumer, trade and business magazines.

Survey of critical approaches to the analysis of media and popular cultural texts.

Analyzes global production, distribution and consumption of news. Issues include: global news flows, journalistic cultures and practices, international news coverage.

Examines laws and regulations governing U.S. mass media.

Examines interactions between media and political institutions, actors and processes, in light of theories of journalism, communication and political practice.

The course explores how the news media have figured in constituting a public sphere in American history. Readings juxtapose classics of political philosophy with historical or sociological works describing democracy in practice in the United States.

Management strategies in mass media.

Explores theories and methods of television programming. Students will produce programs for Rutgers television.

Surveys and critiques of social science research on news, journalists and the news media.

Upper level seminar on specialized topics relating to journalism media studies. Examples of recent topics: Covering the World, Design for the World Wide Web, History of Sports Journalism.

Analyzes debates about media and cultural globalization, and theories about international media.

Legal issues and ethical problems confronting journalists.

Independent study in journalism and media studies topics under faculty supervision.

Honors thesis or project under faculty supervision.

In-depth reporting project using public records and other journalism investigative techniques.