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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. Search Keyword: Communication
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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. Search Keyword: Communication
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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. Search Keyword: Communication
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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. Search Keyword: Communication
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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. Search Keyword: Communication
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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. Search Keyword: Communication
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• MSP 278: Video Production II

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  This course reinforces basic video and film production skills, while the student is introduced to more advanced video and film production techniques. Emphasis is placed on the procedures and processes of preparing for and carrying out a documentary or narrative shoot. Students act as producers-directors. They pitch stories, write treatments and scripts, evaluate the role of the director and producer, produce a one-minute, three-minute, and five-minute project, and submit production books for review. Students individually produce these projects using professional production equipment and techniques. They are faculty and peer reviewed, evaluated, and presented as productions ready for distribution over various student, College, and community-based media. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
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• MSP 291: Mass Media Capstone

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  In this course, students work collaboratively, discuss, conceive, create and produce a body of work that displays the culmination of their knowledge, experience, and writing and production skills. Students develop advanced skills in scripting, journalism, writing, planning, organizing and executing media projects from inception to completion. Students work as producers and directors and lead a production crew on media packages. At the end of the course, students design, organize and complete a portfolio, including a resume, cover letter, personal essays and all professional-level media work. Students also practice mock job placement interviews. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
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• MUS 110: Music Appreciation

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  Music Appreciation is a chronological survey of Western music from classical antiquity through the 20th century. Throughout the course, music will be examined for its own intrinsic characteristics in addition to being used as a means for achieving a greater understanding the society, politics, philosophies, and aesthetics of each historical period. Whenever possible, relationships between the music of Western culture and the music of other world cultures will be examined. In addition to the in-class activities, every student may be required to attend a live concert (approved by the instructor) and, following specific guidelines, prepare a written review of that concert experience.
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• MUS 114: World Music Cultures: Sound, Setting, Si

  3.00 Credits

  Montgomery County Community College

  
  World Music Cultures: Sound, Setting, and Significance is an entry-level course in the study of world music. Music will be used as a framework to understand and challenge conventions related to politics, gender, race, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and identity in select geographic locales. This course is designed to study music's meaning, role, function, and importance in different societies. World musics will be studied for their musical characteristics and for the insights they convey regarding culture. Students will also be introduced to the discipline of Ethnomusicology. As a term project, each student may be required to visit and document a local musical culture selected by the student and approved by the instructor.
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