Teaching

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MIN 186 Introduction to Social Media (under development): This course combines an examination of social media technologies, applications of emerging technologies on various careers with practical skills aimed at students of all skill levels. Students will build their own website using existing tools, engage in social and mobile networks and deploy a variety of social media applications using pre-existing software tools.

MIN 252 Non-Linear Storytelling: This course will examine the underlying structures of narrative, from a non-linear perspective. Students will examine early text-adventure games, develop structures for storytelling and create non-linear and interactive fiction.

MIN 352 Digital Media Projects: In this course, students will plan, research and produce non-fiction stories that incorporate graphical user interfaces, audio, video and text to tell interactive, Web-based stories designed by students.

MIN 391 Impact of Virtual Worlds: This course will trace the history of software and hardware development through the lens of computer games, examine the impact and innovation in non-game related areas and analyze economic, social and community-developments within modern virtual worlds.

MIN 452 Advanced Digital Media Projects: This course will further analyze the structures of narrative or non-fiction storytelling in virtual environments. Students will now work in teams to develop long-term, media-intensive story ideas, launch their own website and develop a series of stories that includes audio, video, images, flash, Maya and text to tell interactive stories. Advanced students will work with databases.

MIN 496 Senior Practicum: Individually supervised work which involves the demonstration of competency in the area of Media Informatics (Web, Story, Design, Animation and Virtua). The student will work with the instructor to develop content for these promotions that will be displayed in print and online formats.

MIN 499 Independent Studies (On-Demand Book Publishing): In this course, students will research the changing book publishing market, layout a book using traditional book specifications, publish that book across multiple mediums and create a developer log and plan.

MIN 499 Independent Studies (University Marketing): In this course, students will plan, research and produce non-fiction stories that incorporate graphical user interfaces, audio, video and text to tell interactive, Web-based stories designed by students.

OTHER CLASSES

EMB 265 Broadcast News Writing: This course will train you in the basics of news writing for the broadcast media. You will learn to how to gather information, write, rewrite, and edit news stories. Writing for the ear is very different from writing for the eye; you will learn how to distinguish between the two.

JOU 220 Newswriting I: This course is an introduction to news reporting and writing. You will learn the language of the newsroom, the style and structure of news stories, the skills necessary to find, research and write news stories, ethical and legal issues that affect the news process and the emerging technologies that change the business of news.