Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 2010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Communication
NAU, PO Box 5619, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5619
928-523-2232 (fax 928-523-1505)
See School of Communication page for information about Admission Requirements, Communication Core, Graduation Requirements, Advising and Student Responsibilities, and Suggested 1st Year Schedule.
You may pursue the following academic plans through the School of Communication’s electronic media program:
B.S. in electronic media and film, with emphases in electronic media news and electronic media and film entertainment, with entertainment tracks in writing, production and management
The major is designed to your knowledge, increase your awareness, and enable you to articulate ideas as well as to acquire the general communication skills necessary in today’s society. The major includes studies in electronic media and film, which encompasses the development, preparation, production, transmission, regulation and management of messages and content to large audiences as well as to smaller groups and individuals. You have opportunities for hands-on experience in a variety of in-house media operations as well as broadcast and non-broadcast functions.
You will be educated about the responsibilities entertainment and news producers have toward themselves and their content, their product and their society, as well as the creative, aesthetic, business and technical aspects of film and the electronic media, and its history and influence upon our culture.
Our faculty members have set the following goals for these academic plans: to acquaint you with radio, television, Internet, film and other electronic media, including their organization, structure, and function as well as historical development and social aspects; to provide you with the necessary background and conceptual tools to function and create programming in the general digital and converged media, fields of entertainment, news, multimedia, radio, television, corporate and industrial video, and satellite and cable communication; to manage and express original ideas in video, new media and film, and to instill a thorough understanding of the technique, business and art of creating content for the electronic media and entertainment industry thus enabling you to become a better communicator and consumer of communication messages
Click here for more information about Electronic Media courses and faculty.