JOURN 156 - Broadcast/Digital Media Announcing

Credits: 3
Stimulates an interest in and furthers the understanding of the art and science of broadcast and digital media announcing. Emphasizes voice quality, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation, and responds to in-session direction. Includes discussion and practice of typical TV, radio and digital platform news, sports, commercial, and disc jockey announcing types.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Identify the traits of a successful broadcast professional and apply this knowledge to their own work in media.
Understand the history of broadcast announcing and how it continues to change in today’s media marketplace.
Identify and apply techniques to overcome performance anxiety.
Create bullet points and scripts.
Understand commercial endorsements and how they are integrated into broadcast and digital media.
Analyze and understand accent modification.

Program Outcomes
Apply relevant criteria and standards when evaluating information in terms of how it will interest and inform their audience.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.