JOUR3765

This course introduces students to social media uses and professional social media production practices. It will equip students with transferable skills and fundamentals based in media literacy, reporting, and writing with the purpose of gaining a deeper understanding of the art and underlying theories of social media production from a strategic communication and journalism perspective. Students will be analyzing and creating projects and social media posts including with a combination of text, photos, video, audio, graphics with mobile applications, and other emerging digital storytelling tools for social media platforms and sites. Students will build an understanding of social media with research and analysis of current and evolving industry trends while producing data-driven multi-dimensional stories for a digital environment.

This course does not fulfill any requirements for the Journalism and Strategic Communication majors, or the Media and Information minor. This course does fulfill a requirement for the Media and Information major.

Periodic Fall & Spring