CM 208 - Radio/Television Writing

This course is designed to provide students with the basic knowledge necessary to function as employees in the news or copywriting departments of commercial radio, public radio, or television stations. Students develop writing skills and interviewing techniques that are basic to news department operation, and they develop skills necessary to write and produce radio and television commercials. Laboratory time will be spent writing and assembling copy for WSGR newscasts and for a college-oriented television newscast produced for cable. This course is a once-a-year offering.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101
3 credits , plus 1 contact hour = 3 lecture , 1 laboratory