FTV-45A — Beginning Television News Production

Prerequisite: None, Advisory: JOU-1 or ENG-1A or ENG-1AH

Description: An entry-level course in television news gathering and television news production for cablecast. Includes in-studio live-to-tape production principles of journalism and journalistic ethics as well as the practice of television news gathering. Students are involved in all aspects of writing, producing, and editing completed news stories for a regularly scheduled news program that is cablecast. 36 hours lecture and 81 hours laboratory. (Letter Grade, or Pass/No Pass option.)