Jun 16, 2024  
2022-23 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-23 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.

 

Interior Design

  
  
  
  

Italian

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Japanese

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Jewish and Holocaust Studies

  
  
  
  

Journalism

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • JOUR 3050 - Principles of Health Communication

    3 credit hours
    Introduces students to fundamental issues in Health Communication. The development of health communication, the role of interpersonal communication in health care, the design and challenges of public health campaigns, intended and unintended health messages in news and popular media, the structure of health care organization, and key ethical issues in creating and disseminating health messages to diverse audiences. 


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  • JOUR 3520 - Special Topics in Professional Issues

    3 credit hours
    (Same as ADV/PR/VCOM 3520.) Prerequisites: JOUR 3090  or JOUR 3430  or permission from the School of Journalism. Special topics in journalism, advertising, public relations, and visual communication focusing on practical applications. Topics change each semester and have included investigative, environmental, sports, and political reporting; visual editing; international public relations; and advertising account management. May be repeated up to 6 credits.


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  • JOUR 3660 - Strategic Communication Research

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: JOUR 2710 , permission of instructor, or permission of the School of Journalism. Introduces research methods used in advertising, journalism, public relations, and strategic communication. Provides experiences in scientific research and data analysis, including quantitative and qualitative methods, content analysis, experiments, surveys and focus groups for diagnosing, planning, managing, and evaluating situations.


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  • JOUR 3720 - News Producing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: JOUR 2710 , JOUR 2720 , and JOUR 3430  with C or better. Helps students develop the skills required to produce television and online newscasts and sportscasts. Focuses on sources for news and sports content, selecting stories, using graphics, writing headlines and teases, writing news and sports scripts, working with newsroom and production staff, law and ethics, and the role of social media in television news. In addition to learning how to use television news producing software, students will also learn about producing online news content. Has a mandatory lab component in order to practice live news producing skills.


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  • JOUR 3850 - Crime, Gender, and Media

    3 credit hours
    Addresses origin and history of “rape myths” and crime-related legislation as contextually-situated, gender disparities in the “cultivation of fear,” sex trafficking, intimate partner violence, and other topics as constructed in media messages about crime, criminals, victimization, and the prison system, positioned across the inequality of various social intersections.


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  • JOUR 4220 - Media, Environment, and Climate Change

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or above or instructor approval. Interdisciplinary study of media, environment, and climate change; local and regional contexts of environmental and climate change issues in Middle Tennessee and the South; role of media in environmental and climate justice movements in the U.S. and around the world.


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  • JOUR 4350 - Children and Media

    3 credit hours
    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 4660 - Scientific Approaches to Media

    3 credit hours
    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 4700 - Mass Media and National Security

    3 credit hours
    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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  • JOUR 4790 - Global News and World Media Cultures

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing. Systems and philosophies associated with gathering international news and news coverage in different regions. Looks at global communication systems and ownership; examines how cultures shape news and the role of the individual in reporting news internationally. Includes discussion of development issues and role of global advertising and public relations.


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  • JOUR 4810 - Global Comparative Media Systems

    3 credit hours
    A close comparative study of chosen media systems in regions of the world. Examines print, broadcast, entertainment, and new media in Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim Region, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Media interactions with an influence on the geographic, demographic, linguistic, cultural, economic, and political structures of countries.


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  • JOUR 4880 - Professional Development

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisite: Senior status. Issues faced by graduates upon entering the professional world or graduate school. Topics include preparation of the professional portfolio, the resume and cover letter, post-graduate study, and professional advancement. Should be completed by majors in the School of Journalism in either of their last two semesters prior to graduation.


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Kurdish

  
  
  
  

Latin

  
  
  
  
  

Leadership Studies

  
 

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