Mass Communications Concentration

This concentration is designed to supplement a chosen academic major by providing course work which focuses on issues and choices in selected mass communication areas. 

Admission

All concentrations are individually designed; therefore, students must be accepted into the program, and must contact the chair of the Mass Communication in Speech Communication by the end of their sophomore year.

Requirements

The concentration consists of six units of credit contracted between the candidate and the chair of the committee: one required course, a one-unit internship and four units of electives.  The following courses are required in the concentration:

1. Speech Communication 205, Mass Communication, one unit.

2. A writing course from the following list: English 203, 205, 207, 308, 310.

3. Internship, one or two units. Students are required to take one unit of internship but may receive credit for a two-unit internship. If a one-unit internship is selected, students may choose a directed study or another elective to fulfill the six-unit requirement. Special work experience or practicum credit may be used as internship credit with committee permission. All internships are taken on a credit/no credit basis, and must be registered through Albion College. Tuition is charged.

4. At least three additional units from the following list of electives. With the chair of Mass Communication Concentration Committee, students will choose courses from the following electives to best fulfill their designated areas of interest:

Anthropology and Sociology

• 366 Anthropology of Mass Culture

English

• 203 Advanced Expository Writing
• 205 Introductory Creative Writing
• 207 News and Feature Writing
• 307, 308 Advanced News and Feature Writing
• 309, 310 News Editing I
• 321 Advanced Creative Writing

Speech Communication

• 301 Studies in Free Speech
• 306 Public Relations
• 311 Environmental Communication
• 312 Minority Images in American Media
• 325 Visual Communication
• 351 Persuasion
• 365 Media Theory

Art and Art History

• 241 Beginning Photography
• 341 Advanced Photography

Other courses may be used for the concentration as they are offered.