2009-2010 - Bowie State University

GOALS
1. To provide education in the various fields of communications that will produce graduates
capable of assuming leadership roles in their respective fields of study.
2. To produce well‐informed individuals who are able to cope with rapid social and technological
changes within our society and to access information, evaluate it critically, and codify it into
effective messages for various audiences.
3. To provide continuing education for professional development and personal enrichment of
practicing professionals.
4. To provide an education that will prepare students to seek additional graduate learning or
certification in professional communications.
GENERAL EDUCATION AND INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
(46‐47 Semester hours) See the full list of University General Education and Institutional Requirements.
General Education and Institutional Requirements must be selected with the help of the student’s
academic advisor.
BROADCAST JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION
The Broadcast Journalism concentration provides students with the education and skills needed to
pursue a career in a state‐of‐the‐art broadcast news and digital production industry. This entails
broadcast news writing and announcing, as well as working with television cameras, producing, and
directing television and/or radio news programs. Students will have the opportunity to be involved in
producing television programs for BSU‐TV and radio programs for WBSU.
CORE REQUIREMENTS (36 semester hours)
Sem. Hrs.
COMM 101 Oral Communications 3
COMM 104 Voice and Diction 3
COMM 240 Introduction to Mass Communications 3
COMM 248 Introduction to Broadcast News 3
COMM 331 Television Production 3
COMM 341 Media Ethics 3
COMM 421 Broadcast Programming 3
COMM 423 Communications Law, Policy and
Administration 3
COMM 425 Radio Production I 3
COMM 426 Radio Production II or
COMM 428 Video Editing or
COMM 429 Film Documentary and Television 3
COMM 438 Internship & Seminar (Broadcast) 3
COMM 497 Metro Lab News 3
Selected Electives
38 semester hours from non‐Communication courses (including 27 hours in Arts & Humanities Courses)
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