A history of how media have evolved from radio, network television and magazines into the multi-dimensional world of regional and national cable, the Internet and the networks. The way media provide so much of the revenue for sports as an entertainment industry has made it the anchor for the sports industry.
Students in this hands-on, practical course will learn how to envision, build, design and produce a sports website. Students will receive substantive training in the software used to produce web videos, podcasts and interactive graphics. And, students will be taught how to marry all of those elements into a compelling website.
This course will examine athletes, coaches, events and sports media coverage. It will focus on current events and controversies such as amateurism, competitive balance, debate over school mascots, gambling and problems in recruiting and the ensuing media coverage.
This course offers an examination of structure, functions, ethics, and performance of communication and mass media, stressing a review of pertinent research literature. Students will analyze media policies and performance in light of communication theory and current economic, political and social thought.
now known as Sports Journalism Research
This course explores issues surrounding the highly lucrative nature of collegiate sports in America, such as which sports are most and least profitable and the gap between men’s and women’s sports. Students will produce a research project in collaboration with a major media outlet.
This course explores issues surrounding the highly lucrative nature of collegiate sports in America, such as which sports are most and least profitable and the gap between men’s and women’s sports. Students will produce a research project in collaboration with a major media outlet.
This course includes lectures and roundtable discussion of problems in covering public affairs issues at the national, state and local levels. Emphasis on reporting on government, social welfare agencies, elections, political parties, special interest groups and other areas of general public interest.
The course is an intensive, in-depth and practical instruction of sports broadcasting. This course will include instruction in everything from play-by-play broadcasting of live events to the art of interviewing for television to writing and editing long segments.
Students will develop a basic understanding of the relationship between sports and the law of the basic concepts of major legal issues – antitrust, labor, contract and intellectual property – in sports today, while translating that knowledge into analytical reporting on those subjects.
This course is an intensive, in-depth and practical instruction on reporting and writing for print, magazines and the Web. This course will include a broad range of sports writing, from long-form narrative for magazines to twittering on the Web. It also will explore the essentials of beat reporting, with experiential learning at live press conferences and events.
This course provides a broad understanding of how social issues impact sports and how sports impacts society. Included will be a historical overview of sports, athletes’ rights, race and gender in sports, the Olympics and international sports, youth sports, the commercialization of sports and the influence of the media on sports.