Course Work
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Newsgathering & Reporting
​Reporting students will develop the basic skills to obtain and report information by completing actual assignments under deadline conditions. The assignment will begin within the college and extend into the Pittsburgh community. An emphasis will be placed on students publishing assignments to begin portfolios.
Video Storytelling
This course provides an introduction to the terminology, technical and creative principles of single-camera video for electronic field production (EFP) and electronic news gathering (ENG). Students learn and apply the basic video production techniques of camera operation, aesthetic composition, sound, lighting and editing to create and produce short-form video productions
Digital Fine Arts
​Visual Arts students are taught to undertake a philosophy, assume personal responsibility, and apply technical and conceptual knowledge in order to clearly deliver a message creatively. Helping students understand the cultural responsibility of being artists along with developing effective means of expressing personal issues through art
Broadcast Announcing
​Practice in the skills of basic performance and broadcast styles with an overview of the responsibilities required for radio and television announcing. Practical performance situations designed to develop proficiency are required.
Visual Storytelling
Introduction to visual storytelling for print and non-video digital platforms. Students will learn to use and apply the basic principles and elements of visual design to create non-video media products used by advertising, public relations and journalism professionals. Projects will include magazine page design, newsletters, brochures, infographics, specialty photos for social media distribution, and photo essays for print and digital publications.
Media Storytelling
Introduction to the basic skills needed to tell stories effectively through various forms of mass media, including story development; fundamental writing techniques for print journalism, web journalism, broadcast journalism, and public relations; journalistic writing style; proper grammar; story construction methods; and media literacy