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MSP 111: Mass Media and Society

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Students learn to access, analyze, evaluate and create media and are introduced to the basic building blocks of storytelling and journalism. They identify, research, write, and produce aural and visual packages about key media issues based on their understanding and interpretation of the issues that are then distributed over class, college and community based channels. By doing so they gain an understanding of the media saturated world and the aesthetic, cultural, economic, and political forces that guide the creation and distribution of media messages. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 112: Survey of Mass Media Industries in the United States

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Building on skills and insights obtained in MSP 111, students survey the history and evolution of mass media industries in the United States to achieve a basic understanding of current trends that affect the future of the industry. They analyze and evaluate themes and create media that examines the formative history and current issues related to print, motion picture, sound recording, radio, television, the Internet, games, social media and emerging communication technologies. Projects developed are distributed over class, school and community-based channels. Students are required to research, interview primary and secondary sources, analyze research, write, create and produce media work to build upon their digital portfolio. Students analyze legal, ethical and controversial issues confronting mass media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 125: Introduction to Writing for Broadcast News

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

This course explores the theory and practice to give students a foundation in the principles and practice of broadcast news reporting and writing. The course teaches students to organize, research, and write coherent news stories for broadcast using a variety of professional news styles. Students analyze written formats and styles used in radio and television newsrooms, choose sound bites, write broadcast news copy, and are introduced to professional information-gathering and interviewing techniques. Students write voiceovers and anchor readers and field packages. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 126: Introduction to Scriptwriting

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Students analyze narrative scriptwriting for film, television and radio. Emphasis is placed on the pitch, treatment, and appropriate format. Students apply the foundations of scriptwriting to original and adapted material. Students are encouraged to develop a unique voice by researching, writing, and editing preparatory, and marketing material for completed scripts. Students write scripts to form for television, film, and radio that are also used in advertising, public relations, gaming, animation, and narrative drama. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 169: Introduction to Electronic Journalism

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

This course introduces the basic building blocks of electronic journalism. It builds on basic broadcast writing skills and explains how professionals in mass media tell stories using digital technology. Students explore the reporter's role and the technology involved in news reporting. Students will apply their skills and develop stories, edit words, and produce both the pictures and sound as they prepare their stories and news packages for electronic distribution to a diverse audience over college, student, and community-based media. Students gain a clear understanding of the principles and professional practices of television news production and learn to critically evaluate the ethics and controversies in unbiased storytelling. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 170: Media Production Workshop I

1.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Students in this course will gain immediate entry-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will select from Video, Radio/Podcast, and Print Media Production. Students will use professional equipment and software to assist in the writing and production of audio and video PSAs; newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event broadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 171: Media Production Workshop II

1.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Students in this course will gain immediate mid-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will select from Video, Radio/Podcast, and Print Media Production. Students will use professional equipment and software to assist in the writing and production of PSAs; newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event boadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.
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MSP 200: Ethics, Responsibility, Mass Media and the Law

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Students examine and analyze mass media through case studies and commentaries that focus on a wide spectrum of historical and contemporary legal and ethical issues faced by media practitioners in broadcasting, advertising, public relations, publishing, and filmmaking. The course builds on information learned in MSP 111 to provide a foundation for the theoretical principles of media ethics and the legal issues surrounding mass media, journalism, and content distribution.
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MSP 230: The Movies: Meanings & Methods

3.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

The popular arts of "the movies" and television are carefully prepared constructions of sights and sounds. Watching them is the chief way our society comes to recognize itself. COM 230 is about learning to get more enjoyment and meaning from these products of the image industries. The course examines how meaning is created and communicated in non-print media. Basic concepts and techniques in constructing and interrelating visual and aural images will be discussed in light of the historical development of film and video technology and techniques.
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MSP 270: Media Production Workshop III

1.00 Credits

Montgomery County Community College

Students in this course will gain immediate supervisory-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will select from Video, Radio/Podcast, and Print Media Production. Students will use professional equipment and software to supervise the production of PSAs; newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event boadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.
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ShareMSP 270 - Media Production Workshop III