This course familiarizes students to the role of media in democratic nations, focusing on internal and external factors that influence media reporting. Students explore how media, print, broadcast, online and social, establish a frame of reference for the public to understand events happening around them and around the world. The course also examines how external forces, including audiences, affect how communicators craft their messages. Students also are introduced to the critical importance of diversity in media organizations.
3 Credits

NSSC 1500 provides an intense introduction into writing and reporting for print, broadcast and online news media platforms. Students familiarize themselves with the basics of writing, reporting and editing: identifying stories, selecting sources, engaging in research, interviewing and creating a narrative appropriate to the event. Students should expect assignments in class and outside class. Students should seek a publication, broadcast or online outlet for stories they prepare. PREREQUISITES: NSSC 1000 or NSSC 2010 NOTE: STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN JRNL 2035 MAY NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.
3 Credits

This course explores all facets of writing for broadcast and online media, including the incorporation of audio, visual and textual elements, involved in storytelling. Students write short- and long-form stories, pay attention to the time demands consistent with the broadcast news industry, and adhere to best practices in working in the online environment.
Prereq: NSCC 1500
3 Credits

This course is designed to integrate the concept of sports and the field of communication at multiple levels. We will be examining sports in terms of how it is impacted by interpersonal communication, group communication, organizational communication, and mass communication. We will explore concepts such as sports fan cultures, gender in sport, race and ethnicity in sport, the performance of identity in sport, communication and sport in parent-child interaction, team communication, and crisis communication is sports organizations. 3 Credits
3 Credits

NSSC 2500 builds on foundational writing and reporting practices learned in previous journalism classes. Primarily through either an on- or off-campus beat, students identify, complete and distribute stories through print, broadcast and online platforms. Students engage in significant inquiry on the stories they cover; detailed, multi-sourced and deeply researched reporting is expected. Students also begin consistent peer-editing of their colleagues? work. PREREQUISITES: NSSC 1500 NOTE: STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN JRNL 3020 AT RMU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO TAKE THIS COURSE
3 Credits

This 3 credit class will challenge students to develop skills essential to effective sports reporting and writing in the 21st century. Because of the converged nature of news and entertainment media, the course will emphasize critical examination of stories delivered across platforms (i.e. magazines, web-based sports publications, television and radio broadcast and social media such as Facebook and Twitter). Students will also produce original material for web publication, television and radio, as well as for traditional print media. The course will strongly emphasize writing and research skills as well as interviewing and press conference management.
Prerequisites: NSSC 2010 3 Credits
3 Credits

The Interaction of Politics, Sports and Media challenges students to grasp how powerful forces ? political, business, athletic and journalistic ? often come together (or work with differing aims) for a perceived important local, national or international sports event or idea. Using case studies, readings, research and discussions, this course explores issues such as political interference in the Olympic Games, business support for local stadium construction projects, the business/commercial pressures on major sports events, and how the media report these events. This course demands that students see sports as more than mere games in which a winner or loser is identified. Instead, over the next 15 weeks students must consider how powerful interests can work together or collide with each other when important events are taking place or ideas are considered.
3 Credits

This course challenges students to grasp how powerful forces ? political, business, legal, audience and journalistic ? often come together (or work with differing aims) for a perceived important local, national or international news event or concept. Using case studies, readings, research and class discussions, this course explores issues such as media coverage of political campaigns, the contrast between media norms and political norms, the increased use of social media by politicians to bypass legacy media, relevant Supreme Court cases pertaining to money and politics and more. This course demands students see news as more than simply reporting what they see. Students must consider how powerful interests can work together or collide with each other when important events are taking place or ideas are considered.
3 Credits

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3 Credits

This course serves as the capstone for NSSC students. A capstone offers you the opportunity to develop a major professional project for your portfolio. The project should reflect how you seek to position yourself professionally in the field and adequately indicates the depth and breadth of your technical and storytelling skills. You will produce something tangible that would be the first item you?d show to a prospective employer to convince him or her of your talents. Therefore, the project MUST reflect the very best work of your academic career.
Prereq: NSSC 2500 or NSSC 3065
3 Credits