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:

COM 324: Rhetoric and Media Criticism
COM 424: Television Studies and Criticism
COM 427: Crime and Media
COM 457: New Media
MCO 302: Media Research Methods
MCO 307: The Digital Audience
MCO 335: Social Media Foundations
MCO 366: Mass Communication Ethics
MCO 375: Podcasting
MCO 394: American Futures and Media
MCO 394: Interview and Inquiry
MCO 403: Media Law
MCO 423: Media Project Management
MCO 425: Digital Media Literacy I
MCO 426: Digital Media Literacy II
MCO 427: Misinformation and Society
MCO 428: Digital Media and Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century
MCO 430: International Mass Communication (GCSI)
MCO 431: Media Entrepreneurship
MCO 433: Social Media Campaigns, Engagement and Research
MCO 434: Search Engine Research and Strategy
MCO 438: Digital Audience Analysis
MCO 450: Visual Communication (HUAD)
MCO 456: Political Communication (CIVI)
MCO 460: Race, Gender, and Media (SOBE)
MCO 465: Sports and Media
MCO 470: Exploring the Business of Journalism
MCO 473: Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
MCO 494: Special Topics
MCO 494: Advanced Media Entrepreneurship
MCO 494: Data in Sports
MCO 494: Media Products, Sales and Solutions
MCO 494: The Evolution of TV