Bachelor of Arts, Major in Mass Communication: Broadcast Production
Broadcast Production
Students completing the Broadcast Production emphasis prepare for decision-making and technical responsibilities in broadcast, cable, and alternative video production. Technical, artistic, and management skills combine to ensure that quality electronic content is presented in an effective, appropriate, and engaging manner, within budget.
Broadcast production students complete the MCOM four-course core, the professional seminar, and four of the courses in the Broadcast Production emphasis: audio production, introductory visual communication, beginning single camera/nonlinear editing, TV studio production, and MCM electives. In addition broadcast production students complete a scriptwriting course for fiction and nonfiction and an advanced production course where they create and produce programming for the departmental television station. Every broadcast-production student will work at the radio and television stations during his/her college tenure and each will write, produce, shoot and edit his/her own television or radio programs for the stations.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Arts, Major in Mass Communication: Broadcast Production | ||
| Core Curriculum | ||
| Component Area I (Communication) | 6 | |
| Component Area II (Mathematics) | 3 | |
| Component Area III (Life and Physical Science) | 8 | |
| Component Area IV (Language, Philosophy, and Culture) | 3 | |
| Component Area V (Creative Arts) | 3 | |
| Component Area VI (U.S. History) | 6 | |
| Component Area VII (Political Science/Government) | 6 | |
| Component Area VIII (Social and Behavioral Sciences) | 3 | |
| Component Area IX (Component Area Option) | 4 | |
| Degree Specific Requirements | ||
| PHIL 2303 | Critical Thinking | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Intro To The Visual Arts | ||
| Art History Survey I | ||
| Digital Photography I | ||
| Select one of the following: 1 | 3 | |
| Introduction To Economics | ||
| Principles Of Macroeconomics | ||
| Principles Of Microeconomics | ||
| Foreign Language 2 | 14 | |
| Advanced Liberal Arts Electives | 13 | |
| Major Core | ||
| MCOM 1330 | Analysis of Electronic Culture | 3 |
| MCOM 1332 | Writing For Mass Media | 3 |
| MCOM 2371 | TV & Film Production | 3 |
| MCOM 4371 | Mass Media Law And Ethics | 3 |
| Required Courses | ||
| MCOM 1371 | Audio Production & Performance | 3 |
| MCOM 3026 | Media Practicum | 3 |
| MCOM 3372 | Single Cam & Non-Linear Edit I | 3 |
| MCOM 3375 | Scriptwriting | 3 |
| MCOM 3377 | Multi-Camera Studio Production | 3 |
| MCOM 3379 | Multi-Camera Field Production | 3 |
| MCOM 4373 | Advanced Production | 3 |
| Track Electives | 9 | |
| Photojournalism | ||
| Advanced Audio Production | ||
| Production Management | ||
| Multi-Camera Remotes | ||
| Professional Internship | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Total Hours | 120 | |
| 1 | Courses may be counted in two separate requirements. |
| 2 | Four courses in one language required. |
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| ARTS 1301, 1303, or 2370 | 3 | Component Area I | 3 |
| Component Area I | 3 | Component Area II | 3 |
| Foreign Language1 | 4 | ECON 2300, 2301, or 23022 | 3 |
| MCOM 1330 | 3 | Foreign Language1 | 4 |
| MCOM 1332 | 3 | MCOM 2371 | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Advance Liberal Arts Elective | 3 | Component Area III | 4 |
| Component Area III | 4 | Component Area IV | 3 |
| Foreign Language1 | 3 | Foreign Language1 | 3 |
| MCOM 4371 | 3 | MCOM 1371 | 3 |
| PHIL 2303 | 3 | MCOM 3026 | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Advance Libral Arts Elective | 3 | Advance Libral Arts Elective | 3 |
| Advance Libral Arts Elective | 4 | Component Area V | 3 |
| Component Area VI | 3 | Component Area VI | 3 |
| MCOM 3372 | 3 | MCOM 3377 | 3 |
| MCOM 3375 | 3 | MCOM 3379 | 3 |
| 16 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Component Area VII | 3 | Component Area VII | 3 |
| Component Area VIII | 3 | Component Area IX | 4 |
| MCOM Track Elective3 | 3 | MCOM 4373 | 3 |
| MCOM Track Elective3 | 3 | MCOM Track Elective3 | 3 |
| 12 | 13 | ||
| Total Hours: 120 | |||
| 1 | Four courses in one language required. |
| 3 | For MCOM track electives select 9 hours of the following: MCOM 3366, MCOM 3371, MCOM 3378,MCOM 4099. MCOM 4378, MCOM 4398. |
| 2 | Courses may be counted in two separate requirements. |
