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communication to achieve social and political goals.
FIL 6101: Advanced Radio, Television, and Film Writing (3)
Prereq: consent of instructor. Forms, techniques, and types of
writing as they apply to radio, television, and film.
FIL 6315: Writing for Documentary I(3) Elements of good
documentary topic, role of drama in documentary writing, structure
in documentary writing, story development in documentary,
interviewing for documentary, basic tools of documentary writing,
and law and ethics in documentary.
FIL 6317: Producing and Writing the Documentary (3)
Fundamentals of producing, directing, and writing; and the business
and aesthetic dimensions of documentary.
FIL 6335: Business of Documentary (1) Nonproduction aspects
of documentary: fund raising, promotion, distribution, and film
festivals.
FIL 6340: Issues and Problems in Documentary (3) Ethical and
legal issues in documentary filmmaking.
FIL 6365: Documentary Pre-Production Planning (3) Prereq:
consent of instructor. Conceptualizing and developing television
documentary. Components include the idea, funding, planning
production, and producing the preview tape, and writing and
presenting a proposal.
FIL 6366: Documentary Procedures II (3) Theoretical, aesthetic,
and technical principles of nonlinear editing for documentary.
FIL 6377: Documentary Field Production (3) Basics of
producing, shooting, lighting, sound gathering, and editing.
Technical and creative aspects.
FIL 6378: Documentary Research Methods (3) Research process
preceding the production of television documentary and the skills
needed to construct an effective research strategy.
FIL 6380: Advanced Post-Production Techniques (2) Advanced
technical, theoretical, and aesthetic principles of post-production
process used in editing television documentaries. Emphasizes
developing continuity, building sequences, refining dramatic
structure, narrators, and special effects.
JOU 5007: History of Journalism (3) Origin, development, and
potentiality of print and broadcast media. Evolution of standards,
policies, methods, and controls.
JOU 5705: Issues and the Press (3) Influence of the press in
defining and shaping public concern with major social issues.
JOU 6102: Advanced Reporting Workshop (3) Prereq: MMC
5206 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Depth reporting theory
and practice.
JOU 6309: Seminar in Journalism as Literature (3) Analysis of
mass media writing, broadcast programs, and graphics to assess
their merits both as journalism and as art. Various periods studied;
emphasis on 20th century.
JOU 6502: Newsroom Management (3) Internal problems of
newspaper operation. Status of personnel, effects of technological
developments, news decision-making, defining objectivity, improving
news coverage.