Courses

Choose from hundreds of media classes

The Media School offers rich and diverse courses tailored to your pursuit of degrees, concentrations and specializations.

This page lists some of the courses that have been offered at The Media School, though not all are available every semester. For the most accurate information about courses offered in The Media School, please visit the College Bulletin. See the IU Schedule of Classes for listings of courses offered during specific semesters.

Media Core Courses

: Examines the role media play in our lives-at work, at school, among family members, friends, and lovers-and analyzes pressing issues in media and society today, such as privacy, globalization, and convergence.
: Explores disinformation, fake news, social bots, echo chambers, astroturf, troll factories, conspiracy theories, and coordinated inauthentic influence campaigns that people experience every day. Helps students gain knowledge and skills in building media and information literacy as well as algorithmic countermeasures against social media abuse and manipulation.
: Workshop course for first-year BFA Cinematic Arts students to explore and practice cinematic arts techniques. Students learn about the creative process as it relates to a fine arts degree, and gain an understanding of required aspects of the BFA evaluation process. This course culminates with a required portfolio review.
: Provides information on how to succeed in the Media School and prepare for careers in the media industry. Explores ways to connect academic experiences with internship and job opportunities. Highlights the array of media careers and presents insights on industry expectations for interviewing, portfolios, and resumes.
: Brings together students in the LLC with shared academic and professional interests for events, speakers, reading and discussions about media and journalism in the twenty-first century. Will establish a unique model of individual learning, College of One, based on the value of experiences beyond the classroom.
: Examines what games are and how they are made. Topics include the games industry: its creative dimensions and economic structures; its history and future; the organization of game development teams; the methods and tools used in game production. Students will gain a deeper and more detailed appreciation for this rapidly evolving, fascinating, and sometimes baffling industry.
: Explores current topics at the intersection of media and the political, social, and cultural landscape. Guided each semester by a different Media School faculty member, students engage with issues from the headlines and gain skills to help navigate the contemporary communication ecosystem.
: A robust introduction to the field of journalism and the underlying principles of journalism. Explores the role of journalists and media in American society, the influences of news and entertainment media on audiences, and the role of journalism in modern media environments.
: Pulitzer-winning reporters and other award-winning journalists visit the class to share behind-the-scene details of their projects, their ethical choices and the doubts and challenges they faced along the way. The class explores how journalistic prizes are selected and how they shape the future, not just of journalism, but of democracy.
: The goal of the course is for students to understand and articulate the issues in global journalism and the role of the media as a participant in shaping societies.
: Introductory analysis, using a case-study method, of how media industries such as broadcasting, cable, and telephone are structured, funded, and regulated; how media organizations create and market programs and products, and how they manage their operations.
: Introduction to public relations. Examines theory and practice of public relations, how public relations operates in organizations, and its impact on stakeholders and society. Topics include approaches to persuasion, media relations, crisis communication, reputation management, and ethics.
: Examines principles of media advertising and applications across platforms and audiences. Analyzes the advertising industry structures and processes, including the roles of agencies, creative teams, station representatives, and buyers. Topics include the social and individual effects of advertising, ethical issues in advertising, and considerations for advertising in a global marketplace.
: Introduces the idea of games systems by breaking down games into their different components to build a deep game literacy. Students will learn how to learn a new game quickly; teach complex games to others; recognize and excel at the many different games played in everyday life. Where most courses have readings, this course has "gamings," required games for students to play and learn.
: Critically examines how gender and sexuality are mediated through screen and audio-visual media (including film, video, television, radio, internet) and their cultural contexts. Using humanities approaches, topics might focus on popular media production; various genres, movements, and media cycles; specific cultural and historical contexts; impacts of technological change. Screenings may be required.
: Critically examines how race and/or ethnicity are mediated through screen and audio-visual media (including film, video, television, radio, internet) and their cultural contexts.Â Using humanities approaches, topics might focus on representations and debates within mainstream, art, or alternative media.Â May address histories of race, racism, and racial justice.Â Screenings may be required.
: Examines the construction of social meaning associated with mediated messages as well as the range of uses of and consequences of exposure to mediated messages in individual groups, organizations, and society.
: This course addresses the psychology of racial prejudice and stereotyping and uses this social-scientific framework to examine the impact of media portrayals. We will focus on how race influences our media consumption decisions and how exposure to certain media messages (in entertainment, news, music, video games) could change racial stereotypes.
: Covers the origin and development of the videogame. Topics include the location and platforms for gaming (arcades, home game consoles, personal computers); social and cultural impacts (stereotypes, gender roles, media effects, violence, regulation and intellectual property); new gaming trends (mobile and social gaming, free-to-play, and cloud gaming).
: Examines the representation of women in the media and analyzes women's creative work as media producers from a social scientific perspective. The course will include lecture and discussion of areas of critical debate: visual representation across media platforms, women's employment in media industries; women as an audience/consumer group.
: Offers an interdisciplinary and historical context for understanding contemporary western 'image culture' by addressing the notion of the 'image' in a wide range of its theoretical, critical, and practical contexts, uses, and history. Examines the claim that our culture is more imagistic than others historically, asking how the roles of images have changed over time in relation to other modes of signification.
: Examination of the social and financial relationships between sports organizations, media and society. Study of the social implications of sports media content in light of economic connections between sports media and college and professional sports teams, including how television contracts influence media coverage and how organization-based media influence audience perceptions.
: Surveys media industries, products, and publics outside the United States context (e.g., Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America). Analyzes regional media in relation to local/global historical, economic, and social processes. Screenings may be required.
: Provides a survey of current technologies for creating games. These tools are also appropriate for projects in virtual and augmented reality and interactive journalism. Students acquire competency in several game engines demonstrated by the creation of several digital game prototypes using recently released tools.
: Style, form, and preparation of written materials for electronic media.
: Provides a conceptual framework for writing, designing, and evaluating a variety of media products. Media program design is not a hands-on production course but does offer an overview of the production process. Topics include scriptwriting, production design, visualization, composition, editing styles, and others.
: Working seminar stressing the creation of journalistic stories for diverse audiences. Provides instruction and practice in developing story ideas, gathering information, combining visual and verbal messages, and writing and editing news.
: Theories of visual communication including human perception, psychology of color, and principles of design. Application of those theories to photography, video, and computer graphic design in news communication.
: Hands-on experience creating sports media content relevant to production, sportscasting, sports writing, sport social media, and organizational messaging. Focuses on the dichotomy between independent and organization-controlled media and between news and sports reporting and commentary. Preparation for journalism and public relations jobs in sport.
: A hands-on course focusing on multi-camera television studio production. Introduces technical aspects of the video signal and builds skills in the proficient operation of the cameras, audio board, lighting console, video switcher, character generator, and other studio equipment. Labs focus on developing these and other skills and producing multi-camera TV productions.
: Outlines the basic procedures, techniques, and theories for the production of a video. Main focal points and concentrations include cinematography, lighting, and editing of digital video using single-cam and dual system audio/video recording techniques. Uses DSLR and cinema camera technology and incorporates an HD workflow.
: Introduces the conceptual and practical aspects of building professional online portfolios using popular content management systems, such as WordPress, to showcase media work. Covers various aspects of the design process, including plugins, site security, visual templates, website configuration, and databases.
: It is through media that fashion reflects culture, social movements, and trends. This course explores the relationship between media, fashion, and politics and applies media effects and visual communication theory to the examination of key moments where fashion and politics have merged.
: Explores the intricate relationship between media, diversity, and representation, focusing on key areas such as journalism, digital media, film/cinema, and gaming.
: Introduction to the power, pleasure, politics, and possibilities of cinema. Opportunity to develop film literacy through a better understanding of how film is and has been constructed and experienced. Provides critical techniques for analyzing and appreciating the many forms film has taken.
: Workshop course for second year BFA Cinematic Arts students to delve deeper in genre/filmic artistry. Students learn about the creative process as it relates to a fine arts degree, and gain an understanding of required aspects of the BFA evaluation process. This course culminates with a required portfolio review.
: Draws on theories of screen-based spectatorship and the spatial, material, and performative aspects of screens to present a historically-grounded comparative analysis of the relationship between screen technologies and cultural screen practices. Focuses on public and urban screens, mobile screens, touch screens, and interactive screen-based installations.
: Explores how our understandings and experiences of culture and everyday life are transformed as media technology re-design, re-shape, re-administer, and re-organize our daily routines, habitats, habits, identities, and modes of communication.
: Intensive, hands-on course introduces storytelling skills, techniques and tools for effective media creation in a digital, multi-platform environment and provides the knowledge and skills needed for success in higher-level, more specialized courses of study across the Media School curriculum, including advertising, digital media, journalism, and public relations.
: Intensive, hands-on course focuses on journalistic techniques for storytelling in a digital environment. Topics include audio and visual collection and editing, broadcast-style writing and voicing, interviewing, newswriting, reporting and verification techniques, social media and story development, principles of data, ethics and law in newsgathering and strategic communications contexts.
: Provides an introduction to many of the ways audience behavior is measured and analyzed by media industry professionals and scholars. Covers skill such as basic measurement and questionnaire design principles, reaction time/response latency, continuous response measurement, and peripheral biometrics (heart rate, skin conductance, eye tracking, etc.).
: Industry-focused course that covers in-depth information about key areas of the media enterprise. Boot camp courses are taught by media professionals in an intensive format, with emphasis placed on skill development and media knowledge expansion.
: Media skills workshops that cover topics including media software training, camera presence training, media production workflow training, and other forms of skill development in digital and traditional media environments, particularly for those needing to develop technical skills in media.
: Examines statistical analysis as related to research in media and communication. Areas of content focus include audience analysis and methods and models used in media research. Designed primarily for students intending to pursue media careers, either as practitioners or as researchers.
: Provides the knowledge and critical thinking skills needed to better understand social media, how they are utilized across fields such as advertising, journalism, media management and public relations, and what tactical and strategic considerations are necessary to most effectively use social networking tools in commercial and non-profit communication.
: Workshop course for third year BFA Cinematic Arts students to develop unique perspective and build Thesis pitches. This course culminates with a required portfolio review.
: Examines emerging items in media, including related social and political issues, content creation and production, and unique trends and events.
: Professionally-oriented media courses taught by media professionals. Topics include hands-on media training, media planning, media analysis and criticism, and media career preparation. Featured instructors include professionals from fields as diverse as television and film production, advertising, public relations, journalism, sports media, game design, and film criticism.
: Featuring a series of interactive guest lectures featuring filmmaking professionals, students gain an understanding of every aspect of the filmmaking process from conceptualization to multi-platform distribution.
: Explores the organizational, business, promotional, and legal aspects of producing a commercial feature film for a major motion picture studio.
: Drawing from a wide range of scholarship, the course will probe various facets of entertaining media, explore how political entertainment representations can contribute to constructing our political realities, and grapple with the question of whether the overlap of entertainment, politics, and news promotes healthy political discourse.

Advertising Courses

: Introduces and provides practice in the skill-set necessary to interpret a creative brief for the purpose of developing and implementing an advertising campaign across multiple media channels. Explores the structure and interdependence of the multidisciplinary creative teams that make such campaigns successful.
: Introduces ways media producers and advertisers conceptualize and measure audiences. Examines strategies and criteria used to evaluate media as advertising delivery vehicles. Covers skills needed to utilize market research and match media with products, services, and behavioral campaign goals.
: Introduces the strategic skills needed to develop and execute creative marketing campaigns. Provides practice in integrated communication strategies, concepts, copy writing, and design for print, broadcast, direct, mobile, digital, and social media campaigns.
: Critical examination of advertising's role in modern societies. Focuses on marketing and consumption as central activities in shaping personal identity and social relations.
: Theory and practice of designing, implementing, and evaluating persuasive materials and messaging campaigns for consumer-focused media. Emphasis on current strategies and techniques employed throughout all media with a concentration on broadcasting.
: Focuses on emerging trends in media advertising, including related social and political issues, content creation and production, and unique trends and events.
: Critical analysis and research course that seeks to evaluate methods and approaches in advertising as they relate to consumer culture, global ethics, and human nature. Explores scenarios and circumstances present in the ever-changing advertising world and focuses on how and why advertising decisions are made.
: Provides a detailed examination of the development, execution, and assessment of advertising campaigns. Offers insights into the planning process and an extended opportunity to integrate and apply the principles acquired.
: Covers branding and brand equity concepts relevant to management of media advertising. Concepts are applied to analyses of case studies of brand creation, development, and extinction in media advertising.
: Hands-on workshop focused on the creation of advertising and marketing communication content and campaigns to be showcased on a professional advertising portfolio website.
: Advanced workshop concentrating on cross-channel brand storytelling. Campaign projects emphasize techniques for content creation found in contemporary industry IMC advertising. Focuses on adding depth, breadth and sophistication to individual portfolios. Portfolios will be evaluated by industry professionals.
: As a team, students create and deliver a fully integrated marketing communication campaign for a national client chosen by the American Advertising Federation for its annual National Student Advertising Competition.
: Clinical experience that models the professional practices and service offerings of world-class integrated marketing communication media agencies. Implement public relations/advertising services for real clients through service learning. Professional skills, proficiencies, and best practices through hands-on learning.
: Hands-on course working directly with advertising clients on projects and campaigns in advertising. Ideal for Media Advertising students interested in honing their skill sets in relation to media advertising content creation and/or brand management.

Sports Media Courses

: Examines the history and present state of the sports documentary. Covers a range of documentary forms and approaches that address sports as a topic and considers how these representations communicate social, political, and ethical ideas about sports and their meanings in the world.
: Introduces key concepts, historical elements, and future considerations within the areas of sports and media, emphasizing how these two fields interact. Geared toward preparation for careers in sports journalism and sports media.
: Overview of the sports media industry including processes of content distribution, finance, and technology. Provides historical background of the business of media. Students learn about the symbiotic financial relationship between sports and the media, including team- and league-based media that compete with traditional media.
: Develops the research, writing, and reporting skills necessary to effectively cover teams, leagues, athletes, and other parts of the sports industry. Provides opportunities to gain hands-on experience writing and researching sports stories.
: Introduces the art and technique of sportscasting. Develops skills in proper breathing, script writing and delivery, extemporaneous on-camera discussion, reporting, anchoring, producing, and filming packages.
: Introduces the theory and practice of social media usage within sports media. Builds skills in content creation and management on the major social networks and explores the implications of audience demographics and communication theory for social media engagement.
: Introduces the skills needed to produce video packages used in sports journalism, including how to find, set up, film, write, and edit a story. Explores techniques used to tell a story with a visual narrative.
: Project-based course that focuses on the creation and production of sports media content in multiple media formats. Emphasizes the development of expertise across written content, audio content, and video content, and the integration of social media as a platform for the publication of that content.
: Introduces key concepts, historical elements, and future considerations within the areas of sports and media, emphasizing how these two fields interact. Geared toward preparation for careers in sports journalism and sports media.
: Focuses on emerging trends in sports media, including related social and political issues, content creation and production, and special event coverage.
: Simulates a working sports media newsroom. Focuses on the production of professional-caliber sports media content and building skills in senior-level editing, management, and decision-making that are needed in the process of creating, promoting, and disseminating such content.
: Explores advanced techniques in sports writing, including research skills, longform approaches to writing, character profiles, and multi-part stories. Requires the production of multiple major stories and submission for publication to sports media outlets.
: Seminar exploring issues in televised sports in support of and in conflict with other cultural icons in society, business, and education. Includes writing on the ways sports, as program content, influences the television industry and on the ways television influences college and professional sports.

Digital and Interactive Media Courses

: Critically examines media technologies and their design, production, consumption and regulation. Explores historical and contemporary media technologies to make sense of their impact on politics, power, and meaning.
: Interrogates digital and analog game play as a rich cultural practice and as a means of identity formation, performance, and representation as well as the role game design plays in structuring social and political relations.

: From algorithmic biases to gendered work cultures in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, issues of race, gender, sexuality, ability, and class come with media technologies\' design, production, and use. This course explores a wide array of technological politics in concert with some of today\'s most pressing issues.
: Develops frameworks for understanding new media technologies in social contexts. Compares computing, networked digital media, and social media to prior eras of technological change, focusing on interactions among technological, industrial, regulatory, social, and cultural forces.
: Covers electronic media\'s role in altering perceptions of time, space, locality, and identity. Explores changing economic, political, and cultural relations in the global media environment. Topics vary and may include global media events, trans-border information flows, cultural differences in media forms and practices.
: Project-based class focused on implementing the skills learned in the introductory classes and applying them to real-world problems. Design, implement, and test a significant Web site for a real client either individually or in groups.

Film and Cinema Studies Courses

: Relationship between communication media and a range of social institutions, practices, and beliefs. Course may focus on a particular medium and/or period (e.g., television and family, film and the Cold War, censorship and the media). Topic varies.
: Study of the main schools and methods of media criticism; emphasis on developing the analytical and critical skills necessary for writing film, television, and/or other types of media criticism.
: Examines the cultural contestation of images of war and peace with a focus on the materiality of political images in a variety of verbal, visual, and acoustic media across a range of cultural forms such as film, literature, art, public memorials, and political texts.
: Historical development of media forms, institutions, and technology, from the origins of writing to digital media. Attention to characteristics of media, changes in media's role as a cultural force, transformations to media institutions, and the role of media in the development of public discourse. Considers continuity and change over time.
: Topic varies: in-depth analysis of directors, producers, or creative individuals in the media, viewed as 'authors.'
: Critical exploration of the form, content, and uses of popular culture in everyday life.
: Focuses on women directors in cinema, from the silent era to the present day. Explores the presence of women directors in American and European cinema, the connection to feminist theory in cinema, and the challenges confronting women who wish to direct films.
: Construction of race and gender identities across a range of media. Emphasis on the power of sound/image representations to shape and contest ideas about race and gender. Topic varies.
: Examines filmmaking in the black diaspora as a formally innovative visual and narrative art form in world cinema. Studies select films for their political and cultural significance and shared themes. Topics include colonialism and postcoloniality; race, gender and sexuality; migration and exile; modernity; and the dislocating processes of globalization.
: Presents a survey of the first fifty years of American cinema, from the premiere of moving pictures through the introduction of feature films, the star system, and movie theaters. Includes the rise of Hollywood as industry, mythmaker, and purveyor of stories about glamour, gender, race, social class, romance, fear and pleasure.
: Presents a critical survey of Hollywood cinema, from 1945 to the present, from the dual perspective of film history and cultural history. Focuses on stardom and performance, popular representations of race, class, gender and sexuality, technological change, genre theory, marketing and promotion, and the globalization of Hollywood.
: Explores the history, context, and development of American independent cinema from the 1960s to the present day. Introduces key films and directors from the period, aesthetic characteristics and influences, as well as social and institutional contexts that led to the creation of this form of filmmaking and cinema.
: Explores the role of sound in cinematic production and exhibition from the early days of live musical accompaniment of silent films through to recent innovations in sound design. Covers the skills needed to analyze, discuss, and write about how sound gives meaning and feeling to the cinematic image.
: Studies audiences in the context of film, television, new media, and other media forms. Topic varies, but may include a focus on theories of spectatorship, historical reception studies, ethnographic and/or empirical audience studies, global or transnational audiences, Internet communities, performance theory, fan cultures, and subcultures.
: Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
: Examines horror in cinema as a cultural and cinematic form, and attempts to draw some conclusions about its \"politics\"-sexual, ethnic, familial, economic etc. Focuses on social changes in sexual mores. gender roles, family structure, political and economic events, and the increasing role of technology in our lives.
: Historical survey of major national cinemas. Subject varies. Topics include Brazilian cinema, British cinema, Chinese cinema, French National cinema, German film culture, Indian cinema, and Italian cinema.
: Examines contemporary film authorship in collaboration with the IU Cinema. Students attend lectures by visiting filmmakers and attend screenings of their films and discuss film criticism and review.
: Media historiography, topics in national media history, national and international movements and trends. Topic varies.
: Examines the role of media in the political process. Topic varies and may include censorship and free speech, social movements, politics of representation.

Games Courses

: Students will learn how to make digital game prototypes gaining hands-on experience while working in teams and using game engines such as Unity and Unreal. Students will develop sound teamwork practices such as appropriate and timely communication, version control, and leadership; employ production methods such as agile and waterfall; and develop essential playtesting methods.
: Examines the structural and formal elements of games. Explores the theory of game design through deconstruction of tabletop games. Students will create, present, and analyze games in numerous contexts.
: A general introduction to concepts, techniques, and tools for creating audio, visual, and narrative assets used in computer games and digitally mediated environments, including sound editing and synthesis, frame-based and procedural animation, and non-linear story writing. Students will create original sounds, write and edit computer code, and author multiform narratives while studying their roles in emerging and complex systems.
: Covers rigging, 3D animation, 2D animation, motion capture, and best practices for animating for specific platforms like film, games, and commercial uses.
: Covers working with detailed game data, including formulating questions, specifying statistics, extracting data, isolating variables of interest, analyzing those variables, and visualizing the results. Students will work with industry standard tools, methods, and real-world data.
: Design game interfaces, integrating them into a game engine. Gain strong visual design skills (typography, color schemes, iconography), learning how to apply them. Finish the course with several portfolio pieces. Beyond game design, the course may be of interest to designers in web and software development.
: Focuses on story and narrative design of video games. Explores interactive storytelling, terms and tools to critique and understand game narratives more deeply, and practice in the implementation and execution of story ideas within the world of video games.
: Explores the design of conflict systems for games. Students will learn fundamental theories of conflict design (e.g. game theory) and advanced design tools (e.g. spreadsheets). Theories and tools will be applied to popular video and board games.
: Introduces virtual economies. Students will learn economy design, both within concept and hands-on practice through Machinations.
: Topical course dealing with changing subjects and material from term to term.
: Student development teams learn advanced techniques for conceiving and producing games. Course uses state-of-the-art game engines and industry production methods such as agile and waterfall with practice in overcoming obstacles such as bugs, poor communication, absent leadership. Prototypes will be tested and analyzed in statistical form.
: This course will develop the student's ability to design game systems. Readings will be taken from systems design theory, social sciences, and engineering. Students will create systems in different software packages.
: Covers 3D modeling and character development for games. Introduces the tools and techniques to create clean base meshes for game engines. Uses UV layouts to create characters, props, vehicles, weapons, and static mesh environments. Includes peer critiques, as well as discussions about project deadlines, tools and techniques, methodologies, and results.
: Explores the theoretical, creative, and technical issues surrounding audio and interaction in games and virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented reality, art installations, and smartphone applications. Provides the skills needed to construct sound environments that are relevant to visual media and responsive to interactions that happen within a variety of mediated environments.
: Covers techiques for creating effective concept art for games and other digital media.
: Advanced 3D seminar. Topics may include 3D modeling for games and interactive storytelling, 3D modeling for film and television, 3D modeling for the Web, 3D modeling and machinima, programming and scripting for dynamic effects in 3D environments, motion capture and 3D. Lab fee required.
: Covers the technical aspects of creating art for games and other digital media, as well as specific techiques for creating visual effects.
: Addresses the emerging area of procedural art generation and introduces tools used to create visual artifacts for computer games and other digital media.
: Build simple digital and tabletop games that explore different philosophical and artistic approaches to game creation. Gain the ability to choose appropriate styles to convey a particular message within a game.
: Explores important elements of human history through the prism of video games. Examines historical events as they have been portrayed through the medium of games as well as how aspects of history can be overemphasized or obscured by game portrayals. Covers historical events from a variety of time periods.
: Development and implementation of game design project under direction of faculty supervisor.
: Teams formed in MSCH-G 450 continue to work on their projects, focusing on the rapid iterative production cycles, working toward a fixed deadline. Impacts on players and culture assessed through testing and critique. Students will be required to submit their prototype to outside competition, such as a juried independent games festival.
: Development and implementation of a game design project under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
: Provides an intensive introduction to the design and technical development of virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). Topics include designing for persistence in a virtual world, world simulation, long-term player goals, and social interactivity.
: Covers fundamental artificial intelligence techniques for creating effective opponents and non-player characters in games, including world representation, navigation, decision-making, planning, and social interactions, and other advanced topics.

Honors Courses

: Topical seminar for first-year Ernie Pyle Scholars that connects them with their faculty mentor. Explores critical issues in the U.S. media environment and introduces important ideas in the fields of journalism and strategic communication. Focuses on critical thinking, evaluating evidence, and how to strengthen media content.
: Topical seminar for first-year Ernie Pyle Scholars that connects them with their faculty mentor. Explores critical issues in the U.S. media environment and introduces important ideas in the fields of advertising, cinema studies, production, and sports media. Focuses on critical thinking, evaluating evidence, and how to strengthen media content.
: Working seminar stressing the creation of journalistic stories for diverse audiences. Provides instruction and practice in developing story ideas, gathering information, combining visual and verbal messages, and writing and editing news.
: History and philosophy of laws pertaining to media, including free press, free speech, right of privacy, copyright, government regulation, and business law affecting media operations. Stresses responsibilities and freedoms in a democratic media system.
: Covers a variety of topics from various media disciplines, including advertising, game design, journalism, law and public policy, media criticism, media production, and public relations. Develops advanced understanding of media topics and how media systems connect with culture, politics, and society. Evaluates and critically analyzes the underlying assumptions of media.
: Honors readings course directed by an approved member of the Media School faculty. This course may be used as Honors credit for students within any of the Media School honors programs.
: Examines functions and impact of mass media in society with primary focus on the United States. Discusses values of media organizations and professional and ethical values of journalists. Includes critical analysis of the relationship between media and society and the effect of political, economic, and cultural factors on media operation.
: Places students in media internships and work-study opportunities in London and the surrounding area as part of their capstone honors program. Supervised by faculty mentors.
: Topical seminar in which students complete an honors capstone project focused on a topic they selected in consultation with their faculty mentor.
: Topical seminar dealing with changing subjects and material from term to term.
: Topical seminar dealing with changing subjects and material from term to term.
: Original research project, culminating in honors thesis to be written under direction of faculty.
: Opportunity for Media Honors students to engage in independent readings, research, and experimentation on relevant issues in media and communications; work with faculty member on individual basis.

Journalism Courses

: A nine-week online course emphasizing basic research techniques used by media writers to gather information for news releases, newspaper articles, magazine pieces, and other forms of journalistic-style writing. Skills covered include researching Internet and non-Internet sources.
: Workshop on the mechanics of journalistic writing and editing. The course builds on the basics, focuses on the practical and strengthens your confidence as a practitioner.
: Topical course dealing with changing subjects and material. Topics may change from term to term.
: Explores history and philosophy of laws pertaining to free press and free speech. Covers censorship, libel, contempt, obscenity, right of privacy, copyright, government regulations, and laws affecting the Internet and social media. Stresses responsibilities and freedoms in a democratic communications systems.
: Intended for journalists, content creators, and content managers as they further develop their skills in story conception and design, fluency in verbal and written flair, and information gathering. Provides a bridge from Story Lab II to mastery-level courses in journalism and media.
: Explores non-linear methods of storytelling and how Web-based tools can enhance journalism written and online work. In addition to building existing skills, students use photography and embedded audio to create story packages for an online magazine.
: Emphasis placed on developing story ideas, identifying sources, organizing materials, planning, and outlining a story. Also covers techniques for capturing the reader's interest.
: Examines the world of media related to fashion, beauty, and lifestyle (FBL). Focuses on cultural influence, media history, sustainability, and the future of FBL. Includes analysis of bodies of knowledge associated with past and present expressions of human behaviors, beliefs, and experiences related to FBL.
: Explores podcasting and audio storytelling as mediums of expression and content, through both listening and production. Provides practice in technical skills for audio storytelling and the application of those skills to the processes of finding stories, interviewing guests, and writing scripts.
: Covers techniques of gathering, analyzing, and writing news and features for print and online publication. Provides practice in interviewing, observation, and use of documentary references that include computer information retrieval and analysis skills.
: Covers techniques of gathering, analyzing, and writing material for specialized and general circulation magazines. Provides practice in interviewing, observation, and use of documentary references that include computer information retrieval and analysis skills.
: Basic television newsgathering skills, including generation of strong visual story ideas, shooting and editing with digital equipment and application of broadcast news ethics. Practice in telling stories effectively using video, natural sound, interviews and words. Emphasizes enterprise reporting, interviewing techniques and writing for broadcast.
: Intermediate photojournalism course focused on advanced camera operation, visual storytelling, and photo editing in a digital media environment. Produce, edit, publish, and critique assignments: portraits, news, features, sports, and multimedia photo essays. Readings and discussions address ethics, law, history, and professional practice.
: Workshop in fundamentals of editing daily news for both print and online formats. Emphasis on news judgment, fairness, accuracy, editorial balance, grammar, style, language fluency, leadership skills, legal concerns and ethics in the newsroom. Practice in editing copy, writing headlines and cutlines, designing print and online pages, working with multimedia features and making sound, ethical decisions on deadline.
: Workshop in fundamentals of editing specialized and general interest publications, individual and team functions are stressed. Attention is given to editorial voice and judgment fairness, accuracy, and language usage. Practice in writing headlines and titles, layout, design, and use of computer editing.
: Advanced, accelerated emphasis on enterprising and executing broadcast stories of local and regional relevance. Report, shoot and edit news packages for use in weekly news broadcasts. News judgment, fairness, accuracy and technical skills are emphasized. Introduction to news producing and to creating social media relative to broadcast news.
: Workshop in the principles of combining visual and verbal material with emphasis on news judgment, fairness, accuracy, editorial balance, and language usage. Practice in cropping, layout, design, writing headlines and captions, and computer editing technology.
: Topical course dealing with changing subjects and material from term to term.
: Provides hands-on experiences in reporting, editing and presenting stories through images, sound, and spoken word. Goes beyond the basics skills to work with advanced cameras and software. Explores the use of emerging technologies for delivering truth to audiences of various types of media.
: Introduction to the design, creation, and maintenance of websites and mobile platforms. Students learn design standards and how to apply them in the design of messages using multiple media. Course progresses from introductory work on web design to a culminating project employing responsive design.
: Instruction in page design, illustration and web design informed by design theory emphasizing critical thinking, creative problem solving, and ethical practice. Uses Adobe programs, HTML, CSS, and other coding to produce original media projects for mass and targeted audiences.
: Provides hands-on TV newsroom experience by contributing to a daily newscast that is written, produced, and reported by IU students: the IU NewsNet Daily. Skills related to anchoring, reporting, and reporting are explored while contributing to a short-form live-streamed newscast in collaboration with other student news team members.
: Advanced writing, reporting and editing techniques. Producing television news stories and programs in field and studio environments with emphasis on conventional and innovative broadcast story forms. Practice in presentation skills and social media as applied to broadcast news stories with local and regional significance. Students produce a weekly news broadcast.
: Provides experience in a multi-faceted news environment where skills and expertise acquired in previous courses are put to use in the production of quality journalism that is delivered to an audience. Includes news reporting and analysis, evaluation of social media metrics, and interaction with the audience.
: Study and practice in using depth reporting techniques including immersion and investigative reporting in collaboration with photographers and multimedia specialists. Students learn to pitch, shape and focus story ideas that forge words and pictures into multimedia presentations. Class will plan, report and edit news stories in depth.
: Study and practice in using techniques of photojournalism reporting and editing in collaboration with writers and multimedia specialists. Students learn to pitch, shape and focus story ideas that forge words and pictures into multimedia presentations. Class will plan, report, and edit news stories in depth.
: Laboratory or field experiences for prospective journalism teachers at the middle school or high school level.
: Study and practice in using techniques of multimedia reporting in collaboration with writers and photographers. Students learn to pitch, shape and focus story ideas that forge words and pictures into multimedia presentations. Class will plan, report and edit news stories in depth.
: Study of law relating to media content and production. Advanced examination of the rights of journalists in the American legal system and their role in an evolving media environment. Research using primary legal materials.
: Examines the heritage, tools and techniques of investigative reporting. Part seminar and part practicum, includes critical contemplation of philosophical, ethical, and legal issues; intensive work with public records; an introduction to data journalism; and practical experience producing a collaborative investigative project.
: Research seminar that examines techniques and processes used in managing media organizations. Through discussions, case analysis, and group projects, the course explores organizational missions and social responsibilities, market analysis techniques, personnel management issues, and budgeting.
: Examines functions and influences of news and public relations professionals in a networked society with primary focus on the United States. Analyzes professional and ethical values of journalists and public relations practicioners working in a digital, participatory media environment. Critical analysis of the relationship of media institutions and society, and the effects of political, economic, and cultural factors on media professionalism.
: Teaches the skills needed to cover police and courthouse beats and to report on floods and other natural catastrophes, including professionalism at crime scenes and in courtrooms, accurate reporting under tight deadlines, and the ability to track down multiple sources of information and understand the content gathered.
: Advanced journalism course focused on the conceptualization, creation, and execution of multiple major stories. Fosters development of professional reporting approaches to enterprise stories and profiles and requires adherence to strict deadlines while effectively developing story ideas, avoiding errors, and creating work ready for professional publication.
: A study of literary forms and techniques used in journalism. Topics to be considered include formal considerations such as voice and structure, reporting methods and ethical issues. Students will supplement reading with writing experimental pieces of their own.
: Newsroom-style journalism course that focuses on the production of a unique, large-scale enterprise story intended for publication, while also honing the habits, instincts, and confidence journalists need for developing story ideas. Emphasizes the cooperative revision process involved in producing work for professional publications.
: Behavioral study of nature, operation, molding, and influence of public opinion, with practice in its measurement and evaluation. Discussion of major political, social, economic, and cultural problems.
: Lectures and discussion on designing, producing, financing and managing print, electronic and digital media, such as yearbooks, newspapers, magazines, broadcast and websites.
: Focuses on covering fashion trends, fashion designers, and key issues related to fashion. Covers theoretical concepts related to multimedia storytelling, visual communication, business reporting, audience effects, social media analysis, and public relations and applies these concepts through hands-on experiences in multimedia reporting.
: Imparts an understanding of how audio production and editing work in a professional setting. Hones the technical skills required for production. Focuses on improving work quality, developing the speed and efficiency required in professional settings, and learning the critical listening skills needed to edit individually and in collaboration.
: Advanced techniques of reporting and interpreting news with photography practice in news, sports, features, photographic essays, color photography, electronic imaging, and studio illustration.
: Structure and function of international communication systems and barrier to flow of information among nations. Emphasis on gathering and disseminating information around the world. Study of the major newspapers of the world, international news agencies, and international broadcasting and satellite networks.
: American social-intellectual history integrated with the story of news media development, emphasizing the historical relationship of the mass media to American social, economic, and cultural patterns and developments. Origin, growth, shortcomings, and achievements of media. Impact of society on the media and vice versa.
: Future journalism teachers examine methods, techniques, content, and materials applicable to teaching journalism and designing courses at the middle school or high school level.
: Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
: Surveys twentieth-century photography as a medium of art and communication. Considers portraiture, landscape, still life, the nude, conceptual photography, the social documentary tradition, the magazine picture story, fashion, advertising and war photography. Examines the impact of postmodern theories on photographic practice and the understanding of photography.
: Analysis of quantitative data and creation of visual informational graphics for media audiences. Introduction to interactive data visualization through scripting and online tools. Creation of chart packages, data maps and explanatory diagrams for publication to mass and targeted audiences.
: Continues from Graphic Design I, incorporating advanced digital graphic design skills and creative problem solving for a series of media projects using illustration, logo design, creative typography and layout in a variety of media formats including print and interactive design for mobile devices.
: Seminar on problems of communicating news through aural and visual channels. Application of communications theory to broadcast news and public affairs presentations. Study of effects of format, verbal content, nonverbal content, and presenter on communication process.
: Students in this course produce 812: The Magazine for Southern Indiana. They study the magazine's editorial philosophy and its target audience and voice; develop an editorial line-up; report and write the stories; shoot the photos and video; write the headlines; edit the copy; design the pages; and produce the magazine in print, online and as iPad editions (with the help of the MSCH-J 465 Graphic Design II class).
: This non-credit course is for journalism students studying off campus temporarily as part of the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree program.
: Planning of research project during year preceding summer abroad. Time spent in research abroad must amount to at least one week for each credit hour granted. Research paper must be presented by end of semester following foreign study.

Law and Policy Courses

: An analysis of the media environment, including organizational structure, corporate responsibility, and the role of the individual in the media environment. Formulation of ethical principles to guide media policy and practice.
: Overview of basic U.S. law and government. Specific analysis of who makes U.S. media policy, how it is done, and its effects. Course includes a case study of recent policymaking that varies each semester.
: Surveys the constitutional foundations of telecommunications law and policy in the United States. Primary focus on the philosophies informing the freedom of speech and press traditions, the First Amendment and how it applies to electronic media, and government regulations purporting to promote First Amendment values.
: Regulation of broadcasting, cable, and common carriage. Examination of the telecommunications regulation system. Regulation of entry into telecommunications (licensing and franchising), renewal of licenses and franchises, and government control of business and economic relations among participants in the field.

Management and Industry Courses

: What is the cultural mindset of technology entrepreneurs? How and why did the rise of Silicon Valley occur? This course considers the economic, social, financial, and legal forces present in the disruption industry, and how entrepreneurs leverage digital technologies and change the rules of how societies think and interact.
: Covers the evolution of media network technology, policy economics, and industries from the 1870s to the present. Explores basic telecommunication transmission and switching, general operational concepts, and societal and cultural effects of telephony and the internet in the United States.
: Basic concepts for developing an effective network system. The interaction between network technologies and human behavior.
: Technology, programming, economics, marketing, and regulation of cable television and other multichannel, broadband media delivery systems.
: Explores the organizational, economic/ business, and legal aspects of production management of commercial and noncommercial projects, including television and news media.
: In the complex new media age people who create and distribute content constantly intersect with an equally complex legal environment. This course explores legal issues such as contracts and permissions; intellectual property and service-marks; privacy and fraud; slander and libel; and employment and unions.
: Techniques and skills used in selling advertising for television, radio, cable, and the Internet: researching prospective clients, knowledge and application of marketing models, developing an effective media mix to achieve market goals, preparing written and oral sales presentations.
: Broadcast, cable, and satellite program evaluation, selection, and scheduling. Decision-making strategies in commercial television and radio at the network and local levels, commercial cable networks and systems, noncommercial outlets, and program syndication.
: Examines the social, economic, and cultural forces that influence the creation of programs and genres in the media industries. Topic varies, but may explore the role of networks, advertisers, studios, and independent producers.
: Advanced study of media from a global perspective focusing on particulars, trends, or issues. Topics vary.
: Analysis of market structure and behavior of firms and organizations in broadcasting, cable television, motion picture distribution, print media, common carrier, and other communications industries. Policy and strategy applications.
: Topical seminar on social and business applications of telecommunications. Exploration of the potential for delivering public and business services via the telecommunications network.
: Study of the skill, processes, and attitudes required for effective management and leadership at all levels in telecommunications operations.
: Covers advanced formative and evaluative research techniques including biometrics, eye-tracking and dynamic self-report response. Examines theoretical underpinnings and challenges of measuring audience exposure to media messages in a fragmented media environment.
: Exploration of management or strategic problems and issues in telecommunications. Topics vary.

Production Courses in Cinema and Media

: Introductory course covering formal elements of Hollywood-style narrative screenwriting, focusing on screenplay format, stages of story development, story structure, character arcs, plotting, conflict, theme, point-of-view, dialogue, subtext, and scene description. Analyzes distinctions between literary writing and screenwriting.
: By modeling the techniques of historically significant films, provides both conceptual and hands-on experience for researching, writing, and producing different genres of cinematic media. Emphasizes conceptual processes from script to the completed film.
: Explores the variety of documentary film practice. Examines fundamental issues, styles, and techniques (realism, voice, ethics, observation, interview, re-enactment, etc.) through hands-on exercises, screenings, discussions, lectures, and the production of a short form documentary
: Teaches advanced technical skills and creative principles to produce content for broadcast, commercial, informational, and artistic television. Topics covered include technology, production design, content and structure, composition, lighting, portraiture, audio, editing, color correction, and television broadcast delivery requirements. Opportunities to create projects for external clients may be available through the Office of Service Learning.
: Analyze and assemble dramatic scenes under a variety of conditions and narrative strategies. Examine editing theories, techniques and procedures, issues of continuity, effects, movement and sound as they relate to the fundamentals of cinematic montage and visual storytelling. Explore a variety of topics and experiences designed to broaden understanding of the art of cinematic storytelling and montage.
: Practice a broad range of audio recording and mixing exercises in preparation for advanced courses in film, video, and documentary production. Hands-on activities introduce the most commonly encountered types of audio equipment and their proper use.
: Covers technical skills and creative principles required to produce graphics and animation for television and digital filmmaking applications. Reinforces skills acquisition through hands-on activites and projects using industry-standard software.
: Advanced, hands-on course in TV studio production. Builds on existing proficiency within the TV studio environment through directing shows, developing content, and operating gear in a multi-camera TV studio. Provides instruction and practice in high-level communication skills required to produce multi-camera studio projects.
: A hands-on introduction to the technical and aesthetic basics of making 16mm silent films, including the skills needed to design, direct, light, shoot, and edit this type of production
: Focuses on the ecology of the department-based work environment of a professional motion picture set. Provides practice in the various film crew roles, including producer, director, cinematographer, gaffer, script supervisor, production designer, assistant director, sound recordist, boom operator, data wrangler/editor, grip, and unit production manager.
: Focuses on camera to post workflows and professional camera crew skills, including how to operate cinema package cameras and light for cinematic productions. Explores and evaluates cinema techniques that are utilized in film and television production.
: Introduces sound design for film and television with a focus on the role of the Sound Effects Editor. Explores the ways sound is used to enhance visual language, provide narrative cues, create a sense of space and place, focus audience attention, provide compositional structure, and create psychological ambience.
: Fosters the development of individual critical ideas about television programs from different genres using a variety of analytic techniques.
: Focuses on the techniques, tools, and skills required to prepare an edited program for final distribution, including color-correction, stylization, video scopes, and dialogue normalization.
: Expands on basic cinematic lighting techniques and establishes a correlation between lighting for film and digital mediums through analytical and hands-on applications of lighting and film/electronic cinematography.
: Focuses on the ability to determine how to illustrate the subtext of a production through the cinematography. Explores the differences and nuances of advanced cinematography techniques and equipment.
: Advanced screen writing class where students develop an original 30 minute dramatic web series under the supervision of a Media School instructor and that will be produced on a Media School sound stage by production students.
: Builds on the foundations of MSCH-P 331, by focusing on the creation of original, feature-length Hollywood style narrative screenplays. Workshops delve deeper into genre conventions, story structure, character development, plotting, conflict, theme, point of view, dialogue, and sub text.
: Builds on the foundations of MSCH-P 331, by focusing on the development process and writing of a long form narrative series, including the creation of a series bible, an outline for the first season, and a written and revised pilot episode for an original series.
: Focuses on the development and production of a larger scale documentary, including research, story development, writing, filming, and editing.
: Focuses on collaborative production of a substantial documentary. Employs advanced, specialized procedures, theories, and skills involved in professional production, including research, investigative techniques, production design, cinematography, sound, post-production, writing, and rights clearance.
: A capstone course for the Film, Television, and Digital Production concentration focused on planning, directing, and producing programs or program segments that may air on WTIU, Indiana University\'s public television station.
: Explores techniques and concepts of experimental filmmaking, building on the foundation of other production classes. Activities employ skills in basic cinematography and visual storytelling, as well as in the fundamentals of digital editing.
: Explores the functions involved in directing narrative film through scholarly analysis and hands-on practice. Focuses on scripted storytelling with the goal of developing the unique style, tone, and voice of each visual storyteller.
: Explores the functions involved in directing actors for narrative film through scholarly analysis and hands-on practice. Focuses on cinematic storytelling to build proficiency in communication, collaboration, problem solving, and character/actor development for film and scripted television.
: Exploration of design or production problems and issues in telecommunications. Topics vary.
: Hands-on course that focuses on Large Format (4K or higher) video data workflow creation, administration, and delivery following industry standard practices. Builds skills in identifying workflow issues and resolving them. Explores a variety of topics related to video postproduction, including sound design, color correction, final delivery, and more.
: Specialized techniques course developing students' skills in music scoring for visual media.
: Covers advanced procedures, theories, and techniques for large-scale motion picture production. Main topics include cinematography, lighting, and cinematic digital video editing with a variety of single-cam and dual system recording techniques. Uses HD cameras and jam sync technology and highlights industry-level postproduction workflow.
: First semester of two-semester BFA Thesis sequence. Begins with the vetting of scripts and project proposals, along with consultation on pre-production efforts, then moves into thesis film production, including all production documentation/reports, proper workflow organization, and preparation for postproduction.
: Second semester of two-semester BFA Thesis sequence. Facilitates postproduction work on thesis film projects. Begins with editing, sound/audio work, and pick-ups to lock the project, then moves into color correction and industry-standard DCP creation. Culminates with a public exhibition of all thesis projects.
: Focuses on scripted storytelling and provides opportunities to hone individual style as a filmmaker through the production of short films using industry-standard technologies, interaction with local short film producers, and critical analysis of short form cinematic pieces.
: Film and music students collaborate in the production of a short film to be screened, with live musical accompaniment, at the IU Cinema. Covers all stages of production, with special emphasis on collaboration between music and sound teams, as well as preparation of a media artifact for public exhibition.
: The effective communication of ideas through the language of cinema including producing, directing, editing, cinematography and sound. Students produce a video project in collaboration with classmates while studying in greater Los Angeles.

Public Relations Courses

: Theories and principles relevant to public relations research and strategic planning, including development of goals and objectives, client relationships, budgets, and research methods.
: Develops the professional writing skills expected of beginning public relations practitioners, including different approaches to a variety of audiences and media. Focuses on the basics of good writing as well as the art of writing. Provides practice in AP style. Imparts skills needed to work effectively with real-world clients.
: Public relations strategies grounded in research and aligned with brand mission and image are integral to the practice of strategic communication management. This course provides training in the knowledge and skills required to develop effective strategies in brand communication within the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle media space.
: Topical course that focuses on emerging items in public relations and strategic communication, including related social and political issues, content creation and production, and unique trends and events.
: Covers development and execution of a public relations campaign for a non-profit organization as well as public relations theory and in-depth care study analysis. Provides training and practice in developing and pitching a proposal to meet a client\'s business objectives. Includes media relations and crisis communications training.
: This seminar focuses on how a non-profit organization creates images and how it shapes its programs and goals to gain public support. Assignments and readings are designed to foster a practical understanding of promotional techniques and campaigns using journalistic and other media.
: Serves as a complement to PR skills courses (e.g. PR writing, PR campaigns, PR research) by preparing students for work in the professional world of public relations. Focus is on the development of personal mission statements; branding and positioning; resumes, cover letters and social media profiles; soft skills refinement; professionalism and more.
: Focuses on the strategic, financial, and leadership skills necessary to become a manager and leader in the public relations industry. Examines the functions of public relations management, and application of these functions in a variety of industry roles and job settings.
: Examines how social media can be used as an effective component of an organization\'s communication management strategy and when it can potentially hamper effectiveness. Covers the use of monitoring and measurement research tools and metrics to evaluate the effects of communication campaigns on organizational outcomes.
: The Bateman Competition is the premiere national competition for public relations students, sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). Requires development, implementation, and evaluation of a real campaign for a national client. Work is evaluated by a panel of PR professionals.

Media Science

: Explores the role and portrayal of sex and sexuality in media and examines in detail the potential social and psychological effects of exposure to sexual content in the media.
: Examines the relationship between media and modern politics. Topics will vary.
: Examination of the effects of the mass media on human cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors, relying on empirical social science research; emphasis on the effects on individuals, although study will include groups, organizations, and social norms.
: Acquaints students with the popular and research literatures on children and media, including television and computers. Students will be expected to identify recurring themes and topics related to children and media and to evaluate their significance in understanding the role of media in children's lives.
: The behavior, descriptors, and measurement of telecommunications audiences. Sample survey, focus groups, and other research methods used by the telecommunications industry.
: Explores concepts such as attention, emotion, attitude, and memory as they apply to humans processing media messages. Introduces tools commonly employed in media psychology research such as biometric measures (heart rate, skin conductance, eye tracking, etc.), secondary task reaction time, and continuous response measurement. Provides opportunity to develop and implement a research study.
: Theoretical backgrounds of media campaigns; analyses of persuasion strategies, campaign goals, communication media, audiences, and campaign effectiveness. Case studies of campaigns for social action; original analysis of specific campaigns.
: Exploration of social problems and research issues related to media psychology. Topics vary.
: Provides an overview of public opinion on climate change, introduces different theoretical perspectives on the barriers to public engagement with the topic, and examines the effectiveness of different methods of climate change communication designed to foster public engagement.
: Basic media theories as well as cognitive, emotional, and social psychology, with a focus on how these theories can be applied to the design of media messages. Special attention given to interactive and immersive mediated environments.

Technology of Media, Cultural Courses

: Discussion of how today's electronic media was shaped by past inventions, business innovations and regulatory decisions. Traces the development of mass communication from the telegraph to the telephone, radio, and television to the arrival of digital communication technologies.
: A comparative study of the ways in which various countries deal with fundamental questions of media organization, control, financial support, program philosophy, and social responsibility.
: Survey of writings, concepts, and movements in media theory.
: A comparative study of the development of broadband networks in different parts of the world. The interaction between national telecommunications policies and international arrangements, institutions, and structures.
: Discussion of current issues in media. Specific issues discussed vary from semester to semester, but course will typically treat multiple issues affecting different parts of the media field.

Other Media Courses

: Exploration of problems and issues of telecommunications in contemporary society. Topics vary. May not be repeated for credit.
: Analysis of selected problems in media studies. Topics vary each semester.
: Study of problems and issues in rhetoric and communication.
: Seminar exploring new developments and advanced research in media.
: Students synthesize previous coursework in media, culminating in a substantive project that directs their learning to some particular problem of mediation, publics, or cultures. Final project may include research essays, short films, Web sites, or public presentations or performances. Specific topics vary.

Internship and Experiential Courses

: Focuses on topics relevant to the Media School's Semester in Los Angeles program. Explores various aspects of the entertainment and media industries under the instruction of industry professionals.
: A service-learning seminar that offers students hands-on experience working with community-based media production. Topics range from film festival programming to community broadcasting. Students learn to develop concept, communication and operational strategies.
: Faculty-supervised work in a media field related to student's academic interests. Credits based on at least 45 work hours per credit hour with a maximum of 6 credit hours applied toward any MSCH degree or concentration. Student must write a critical analysis paper and be evaluated by a workplace supervisor.
: Supervised internship working in a media-related role with WIUX Student Radio.
: Supervised internship working in a media-related role with IUSTV.
: Supervised internship working in a media-related role with the Indiana Daily Student.
: Supervised internship working in a media-related role with the National Sports Journalism Center.
: Provides students with an introductory experience to live event production in sports media. Students engage in training on live video production, including camera work, graphics, replay, audio, and technical directing. Students apply training through a series of live video productions of sporting events through the Big Ten Network Plus program.
: Faculty-supervised work in a media field related to student's academic interests. Credits based on at least 45 work hours per credit hour with a maximum of 6 credit hours applied toward the B.A. in Media or the B.S. in Game Design. Student must write a critical analysis paper and be evaluated by a workplace supervisor.
: Work commitment: 40 hrs/week for a minimum of 9 weeks in a 15-week term. Supervised professional experience. Off-campus, professionally supervised course taught online. The course involves fieldwork (the internship itself), assignments, development of a student portfolio, and supervisor evaluations. Full-time status for Registrar, not always for Financial Aid.
: Supervised internship working in a journalism or media-related role with a professional media organization.
: With close supervision by WTIU station or production management, student is responsible for pre-production planning, production coordination and execution, postproduction, critical and audience evaluation of programs for broadcast. Develop professional working relationships and portfolio.
: Topical course integrating classroom and field experience. Includes 10-day field experience during or after term offered. Field experience will change based on topic.
: Provides students with prior training in live sports event production further practical education. Continued development through hands-on experience with live video production, including camera, graphics, replay, audio, technical directing, directing, and producing. Students provide production of sporting events through the Big Ten Network Plus program and Indiana University Radio-Television Services.
: Hands-on course focusing on multi-camera television news production. Technical aspects of the video signal and skills in the proficient operation of the cameras, audio board, lighting console, video switcher, character generator, and other studio equipment. This practicum focuses on developing these and other skills and producing multi-camera News TV productions.
: Offers hands-on experience in the Michael I. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism. Provides techniques needed to work as an investigative journalist in a multi-media world.
: Opportunity for individual and group projects in media production and journalism; work with faculty member on individual or group basis.
: Opportunity for independent readings, research, and experimentation on relevant issues in media and communications; work with faculty member on individual basis.