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Courses Offered in MASS COMMUNICATION

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Core Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Sociology

  • Sociology is a comprehensive course that offers you a global perspective to help you better understand your own lives, provides strong focus on social diversity that allows you to see the impact of race, class, and gender, and focuses

  • 6 Credits

  • Economics

  • This Economics course engages you with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. The course explains you with easy-to-understand concepts that how economics is a part of your everyday life, and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. 

  • 6 Credits

  • English Literature

  • English Literature course is an introduction to reading and writing, it’s founded on the principles of writing about literature. This course emphasizes literature, critical thinking, and the writing process. You learn how thinking, reading, and writing relate to one another by studying poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and film.

  • 6 Credits

  • Mass Communication

  • This course retains the emphasis on the challenges of today's media while building on its extensive coverage of media history, effects, technology, and culture. The five part-organization-the media, media channels, media messages, media effects and media issues-provides a framework for you to understand the big picture behind today's media issues.

  • 6 Credits

  • World History

  • World History course present the big picture, to facilitate comparison and assessment of change, and to highlight major developments in world's history. This course emphasizes the global interactions of major civilizations so that you can compare and assess changes in the patterns of interaction and the impact of global forces.

  • 6 Credits
Specialized Course

Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The sociological perspective
    Sociological investigation
    Culture
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society
    Socialization
    Social interaction in everyday life
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Groups and organizations
    Sexuality and society
    Deviance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social stratification
    Social class in the united states
    Global stratification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender stratification
    Race and ethnicity
    Aging and the elderly
    The economy and work
    Politics and government
    Families
    Religion
    Education
    Health and medicine
    Population, urbanization, and the environment
    Collective behavior and social movements
    Social change: traditional, modern, and postmodern societies

Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The economic perspective.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Production and trade.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Demand and supply.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The power of prices.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measuring national output.

English literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fiction: an overview.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Structure: the organization of stories.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Characters: the people in fiction.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Point of view: the position or stance of the works narrator or speaker.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Setting: the background of place, objects, and culture in stories.
    Tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction.
    Symbolism and allegory: keys to extended meaning.
    Idea or theme: the meaning and the message in fiction.
    Six stories for additional enjoyment and study.
    Meeting poetry: an overview.

Mass communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mass media literacy
    Books
    Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines
    Sound recording
    Movies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Radio
    Television
    Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News
    Public relations
    Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Entertainment
    Research
    Mass communication
    Mass media effects
    Mass media and society
    Global mass media
    Mass media and governance
    Law
    Ethics
    Visual messages
    Media and political systems

World History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    From human prehistory to the rise of agriculture
    Early civilization
    Nomadic societies
    Classical civilization: china
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical civilization: india
    Classical civilization in the mediterranean: persia, greece and rome
    The classical period: directions, diversities, and declines by 500 c.e.
    The rise of islam: civilization in the middle east
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    India and southeast asia under the impact of islam
    Africa and islam
    East european civilization: byzantium and russia
    Western civilization: the middle ages
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of east asian civilization
    Centers of civilization in the americas
    The mongol interlude and the end of the postclassical period
    The west and the world: discovery, colonization, and trade
    Western civilization changes shape in the early modern centuries
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The rise of eastern europe
    The ottoman and mughal empires
    East asia: vital trends in politics and trade
    The first industrial revolution: western society, 17801914
    World economy and western imperialism: africa and south asia
    The settler societies: the west on frontiers
    The development of latin american civilization
    The middle east and china in the imperialist century
    Russia and japan: industrialization outside the west
    World war i and the end of an era
    The west in the contemporary period
    Eastern european civilization
    East asia in the 20th- 22nd centuries
    India and southeast asia

Mass Communication Law

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Public communication and the law
    The first amendment
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Methods of control
    Libel
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Privacy and personal security
    Intellectual property
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Political speech
    Commercial speech
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Obscenity and indecency
    The media and the judiciary
    Protection of news sources, notes, and tape
    Access to information

Contemporary Mass communication Research

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Human inquiry and science.
    Paradigms, theory, and social research.
    The ethics and politics of social research.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research design.
    Conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement.
    Indexes, scales, and typologies.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The logic of sampling.
    Experiments.
    Survey research.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Qualitative field research.
    Unobtrusive research
    Evaluation research.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Qualitative data analysis.
    Quantitative data analysis.
    The elaboration model.
    Statistical analyses
    Reading and writing social research.

Media Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Albert n. greco, the structure of the book publishing industry.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Charles daly, patrick henry, and ellen ryder, the structure of the magazine industry.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Robert picard and jeffrey h. brody, the structure of the newspaper industry.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Geoffrey p. hull, the structure of the recorded music industry.
    Barry r. litman, the structure of the film industry: windows of exhibition.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Geoffrey p. hull, albert n. greco, and stan martin, the structure of the radio industry.
    Patrick r. parsons and robert m. frieden, the structure of the cable and satellite television industries.
    John v. pavlik, the structure of the new media industry.
    Jeffrey h. brody, the structure of the internet industry.

Multimedia

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Information systems in global business today
    Global e-business: how businesses use information systems
    Information systems, organizations, and strategy
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ethical and social issues in information systems
    It infrastructure and emerging technologies
    Foundations of business intelligence: databases and information management
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Telecommunications, the internet and wireless technology
    Securing information systems
    Achieving operational excellence and customer intimacy: enterprise applications
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    E-commerce: digital markets, digital goods
    Managing knowledge
    Enhancing decision making
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Building information systems
    Project management: establishing the business value of systems and managing change
    Managing global systems

Advanced Mass Communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mass media literacy
    Books
    Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines
    Sound recording
    Movies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Radio
    Television
    Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News
    Public relations
    Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Entertainment
    Research
    Mass communication
    Mass media effects
    Mass media and society
    Global mass media
    Mass media and governance
    Law
    Ethics
    Visual messages
    Media and political systems
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