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RTA 903
News and Current Affairs Theory
News as entertainment information, satire, social instructor: audiences interact with the news in many ways. We look critically at ideas like discourse, news value and news filters, and then learn scholarly tools for analyzing news and its audiences. From radio to tabloid journals to E-zines to Twitter, we open up the idea of news in the 21st century, and think about its history, meanings, and future. War news and digital media are a particular focus. (Formerly BDC 903).
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1
Prerequisites
None
Co-Requisites
None
Antirequisites
None
Custom Requisites
None
Mentioned in the Following Calendar Pages
*List may not include courses that are on a common table shared between programs.
- Global Narratives Minor
- JRN 402 - Theory in Journalism and Mass Communications
- Media Production
- Media Production Core Elective Table I
- New Media
- New Media Core Elective Table I
- Open Elective Table
- RTA 977 - Current Affairs Production
- Undeclared Arts Professionally-Related Table II
