Ability to gather responsibly, interpret critically, narrate and disseminate the voices and stories of people, communities or events by integrating ethnographic or journalistic field research methods, cultural or media analysis, narrative writing and media production, including new digital media.
Required Courses
- Complete one of the following:
- HCOM 307: Social Impact of Mass Media (4 units)
- HCOM 307S: Soc Impct Of Mass Media SL (6 units)
- HCOM 315: Media for Social Change (4 units)
- HCOM 316: Media Ethics (4 units)
- HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units)
- HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
- HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem (4 units)
- HCOM 350S: Oral Hist/Comm Mem SL (6 units) *
- HCOM 384: Newswriting (4 units)
- HCOM 385: Reporting (4 units)
- HCOM 390: Magazine Writing (4 units)
- HCOM 446: EthnograpPortraits/Culture Cit (4 units)
- HCOM 487S: Community Media Project SL (6 units)
- Only with prior consent of the instructor:
- HCOM 389: Otter Realm Workshop (4 units)
- * Fulfills the research intensive/theory requirement