MEDA 370 - Understanding Media Tech

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 and nine credits required in radio and/or television production.
This non-production media course focuses on the technology utilized in media communication. Designed for nontechnical students, the course offers a comprehensive view of the technologies both past and present that enable today’s media: radio, television, satellite communications, and broadband. Through analytical reading, library and Web based research students will organize and write product and media production system overviews and present their work in class.