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• Advisory: MEDIA 20.

Formerly BRDCST 21.

This course offers advanced instruction and focused practical experience in concept development, writing and producing for short form visual media projects. These project forms include on-air promos, commercials, public service announcements (PSA’s), webisodes, and special visual marketing campaigns. The major course objective is to enable professional visual writing and production skills through immersion in short-form producing and writing assignments applicable to television, radio, internet, mobile device, and other digital media formats. Story and script development, and short form project conception and production will be emphasized.

Student media practicum and lab where students produce engaging social media journalism content for the campus community. Students learn how to plan, pitch, innovate and execute news content pieces across the social and digital landscape. Students collaborate with student newsroom writers, photojournalists, designers and editors to develop audience engagement strategies following media industry best practices. Students use analytics and metrics to analyze how audiences engage with created content.

MEDIA 25 is the same course as JOURN 7. Students may earn credit for one, but not both.

• 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.

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.

• Prerequisite: Admission to the Bachelor degree program in Cloud Computing.

This course explores issues of race, gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the fields of computing and related technology. Students will explore the influence of distinct social factors upon the evolution of computing, and the subsequent impact on various individuals. Additionally, the course introduces the notion of cultural competence within the context of computing.

This course is open only to students who have been admitted to SMC's Bachelor of Science program in Cloud Computing. See smc.edu/cloud for more information.

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.

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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*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 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.