Media Analysis

Analyze content across platforms and learn how media impacts society. Add a media analysis minor to your degree to become a savvy consumer of all media types and to become more marketable in the communication industry.

Description

The mass media play vital roles in how information is created and disseminated and in how societies and cultures evolve. In the media analysis concentration, students learn to understand the roles media play, how they're changing, and what impact they make. Students learn the tools they need to critically evaluate, analyze and interpret media messages in order to become wise consumers of media and stronger communicators in their major fields.

Requirements

• Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours including 12 of upper division hours for this concentration.
• All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.
• Students must be at the sophomore level (25 credits) in order to take upper-division courses.
• No pass/fail credit accepted.

Core 9 Hours Required

MCO 120 Media and Society (Prerequisite(s): Credit is allowed for only JMC 110 or MCO 120)

MCO 240 Media Issues in American Pop Culture

MCO 418 History of Mass Communication

Electives 9 Hours Required
Choose elective courses from the following:

MCO 302 Media Research Methods 

MCO 307 The Digital Audience (Prerequisite(s): minimum 45 hours; minimum 2.00 GPA)

MCO 335 Social Media  (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only JMC 305 or JMC 306 or MCO 335)

MCO 366 Media Ethics and Diversity  (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only JMC 366 or JMC 367 or MCO 366 or MCO 494 (Media Ethics and Diversity))

MCO 403 Media Law (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only JMC 402 or MCO 403 or MCO 503)

MCO 425 Digital Media Literacy (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only MCO 425 or MCO 494 (Digital Media Literacy)) 

MCO 426 Digital Media Literacy II (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only MCO 426 or MCO 494 (Digital Media Literacy II))

MCO 427 Misinformation and Society 

MCO 428 Digital Media and Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only MCO 428 or MCO 494 (Media and Free Expression in the 21st Century) or MCO 598 (Media and Free Expression in the 21st Century)

MCO 430 International Mass Communication

MCO 431 Media Entrepreneurship (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only MCO 431 or MCO 494 (Media Entrepreneurship) or MCO 556)

MCO 450 Visual Communication

MCO 456 Political Communication

MCO 460 Race, Gender and Media

MCO 465 Sports and Media 

MCO 470 Exploring the Business of Journalism  (Prerequisite(s): minimum 2.00 GPA; Credit is allowed for only JMC 473 or JMC 474 or MCO 470)

MCO 494 Special Topic courses