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COM 150 - Intro to Mass Communications (3)


Prerequisite: None
IAI: MC 911
fall, spring

Lecture: Three hours of lecture/discussion per week.

An introductory course open to both journalism and non-journalism students. This course includes a brief history of different media, the roles of the mass media in society, the cultural influences of the mass media on society, changing technology and its impact on the media and on society as consumers of media, and the problems facing the media today, are explored.