JOUR 199

Fall 2008 All Classes

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Undergraduate Open Seminar

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Credit: 0 TO 3 hours.

A changing array of courses focusing on special topics in journalism.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours in separate semesters, if topics vary.

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JOUR 199 class schedule data for fall 2008
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
51296	Conference	11	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	Richmond Studio	Kazel, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Television "Talk Show" Production First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. Students will produce and host a weekly public affairs television "talk show" focusing on campus and community issues and broadcast live throughout East Central Illinois on UI-7, The Cable-TV Service of the University of Illinois. The all-student "team" will learn background research and on-camera interviewing techniques, receive hands-on instruction operating a studio camera, lighting a television set, running a control room video switcher and audio board, and incorporating graphics and multiple playback sources into a broadcast. They will also supervise pre-production / editing and handle publicity.
51294	Conference	12	6:30PM -8:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Liebovich, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: U.S. Influence on Global Media in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. This seminar reviews the development of mass media since 1945 and how media technology and influence have changed politics, society, and government on a global scale. The course will illustrate how U.S. media has affected other countries and how other cultures are altered by U.S.-based mass communication. Students will complete readings on mass media and, based on those readings, will discuss how changes in U.S. media and society have affected the world generally and the United States specifically since 1945. They will also speculate about how future changes in media might alter the world in the 21st century.
49154	Lecture-Discussion	2	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Helle, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Blogging and the First Amendment. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. The objective is to become conversant regarding the First Amendment. Citizens should be able not only to identify First Amendment issues, but to discuss them in a knowledgeable fashion. Reasoning skills will be honed. Students will become comfortable reading and analyzing case law, and those who have not blogged or been exposed to blogging will gain experience with this means of communication. But most of all, students will gain an understanding and appreciation of the freedoms of speech and press that they exercise.
33254	Lecture	3	5:00PM -7:50PM	R	Foreign Languages Building	Ehrlich, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Journalism Movies. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. This course will examine a particular genre of film, the journalism movie. Students will study the movies in their cultural and historical contexts, participate in classroom discussions, do assigned readings and write papers addressing the movies� depictions of the press. The course�s primary focus is journalism, although it will discuss some aspects of film history and theory.
51295	Conference	7	2:00PM -4:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Johnson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: Photography is Universal. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. Cameras are everywhere, from cell phones to expensive digital cameras. Photography can be used to bridge the gap between languages and cultures. This class will explore the limitless possibilities of digital photography: how it can help the individual represent their unique and important visions of beauty, truth, life, as well as other complex messages. Students in this hands-on photography class will be provided with cameras and no prior experience is needed. Assignments will include taking pictures, printing them, preparing them for the web and producing a portfolio of work from the semester.