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• Advisory: SPAN 25.

This survey class, taught in Spanish, will introduce students to the historical and current trends in Spanish-language media and LatinX-oriented media in the United States. Students will compare demographic evolution and resultant effects on media contexts. Students will practice media production techniques and create media content. As a part of this course, students will experience work in the communications field through experiential learning placements.

MEDIA 26 is the same course as SPAN 26. Students may earn credit for one but not both.

Explore fundamental principles of advertising copywriting, delving into practical strategies for effective written persuasion. Gain insights and essential skills applicable to students and professionals, positioning them as industry leaders. This comprehensive course tackles pressing industry issues, including multicultural marketing, international advertising, ethics, and crafting content for the digital age.

IGETC AREA 4 (Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

This course provides a detailed introduction to global media systems around the world, examining the main economic and cultural dimensions of the international media environment. Key theoretical approaches to international and global communication will be examined. Consideration will be given to the key issues, main actors, and significant developments in global media.

MEDIA 3 is the same course as GLOBAL 3. Students may earn credit for one, but not both.

Theory and practice of media advertising strategies employed in planning, buying, and selling to target markets. Successful sales management, market research, and media ethics are covered in this course. Students collaborate on campaigns in an advertising, agency-like setting to price, target, sell, and create advertising for college student media.

IGETC AREA 4 (Social and Behavioral Sciences)

This introductory course examines the medium of video games. The course studies how video games have developed historically, culturally, and technically. Issues of narrative, design, interactivity, and spatiality, which inform both the medium as a whole and individual games in particular, are examined. The function of video games as media texts within popular culture is also assessed.

Formerly BRDCST 46.

This course provides basic training in the use of television equipment and facilities; camera operations; audio and video control; lighting; graphics; editing; portable video, and audio production techniques.

Formerly BRDCST 48.

Students will produce a variety of electronic media projects primarily for airing on public cable access and public television station channels. Projects will also be developed for pod-casting, inclusion in video/film festivals, and distribution to other media entities. The emphasis in this course is on the development of creative video camera techniques, writing, producing, and editing skills for the production of digital media. Students will also have the opportunity to produce video segments for the Corsair newspaper online edition.

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IGETC AREA 3A (Arts)

*No UC transfer credit for MUSIC 1 if taken after MUSIC 2. See also MUSIC 66.

This course provides the study of the rudiments of music notation, including scales, intervals, triads and seventh chords. Also included are rhythmic drills, sight singing and exercises using computer-assisted-instruction. This course (or the equivalent) is a prerequisite for all other music theory courses.

MUSIC 1 is equivalent to the theory portion of MUSIC 66. Credit may be earned for MUSIC 1 or MUSIC 66 but not both.

• Advisory: MUSIC 2 and MUSIC 6.

This course is the study of the harmonic idioms used in popular music and in jazz. It covers the language of chord symbols, analysis of conventional chord progressions, the writing of lead sheets, and an introduction to commercial and jazz arranging techniques.

• Advisory: MUSIC 2 and MUSIC 6.

This course is designed to train students in the understanding and application of music technology with emphasis on computer music notation, MIDI sequencing, and digital sound production. It will provide an overview of the various computer and audio components in the Music Department’s Music Media Lab and will cover music software programs for music notation and for audio editing and production.

• Advisory: MUSIC 3 and MUSIC 7.

This course is a detailed study of the contrapuntal style of the Late Baroque period. Original student work in the form of exercises and complete compositions using 18th Century idioms is a part of the study. Analysis and performance of representative works of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries are included.

• Advisory: MUSIC 3 and MUSIC 7.

This course is a study of the techniques of scoring music for the standard symphony orchestra. The ranges, colors, transpositions, and technical capabilities of the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments are all studied. Methods of combining the instruments into performing groups of various sizes are also covered.

• Corequisite: MUSIC 6.
• Advisory: MUSIC 1 and MUSIC 5.

*No UC transfer credit for MUSIC 1 if taken after MUSIC 2.

This course covers sight singing with the “movable do” system, keyboard harmony, and in-class dictation of melodic lines, rhythmic patterns, intervals, harmonic progressions. Also included are ear training exercises using computer-assisted-instruction. Correlated with Music 6 (Diatonic Harmony).

• Advisory: MUSIC 2 and MUSIC 6.

Fundamentals in conducting techniques are studied with reference to directing instrumental and vocal organizations.