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Mind Culture Original Music

"Lose your mind in music"

The Department of Mass Communication is in the process of collecting music for their 9th Annual Mind Culture Original Music project. If you are interested in submitting an original song(s) and wish to have it considered for this year's CD submit it by April 11th. If you have a song that you need to have recorded contact us by March 30th at 301.687.3049. Click here for the submission information and release form.

The events for this year are as follows:

March 15th from 5-10 pm Open Mic Night, Lane Center Loft

March 29th from 5-10 pm Open Mic Night, Lane Center Loft

April 27th from 9 pm - 2 am
Live Concert at Dante's on Main Street Frostburg

 

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The Department of Mass Communication is excited to announce a new Minor in Mass Communication beginning with the Fall 2011 semester including the following requirements:

Course No.	Course Title	# Credits
MCOM 105	Introduction to Mass Communication	3
MCOM 246	Introduction to Mass Communication Research Methods	3
MCOM 346	Mass Communication Theory	3
MCOM 447	Telecommunications Law	3
MCOM 485	Electronic Media Aesthetics and Criticism	3
MCOM 486	Current Issues and New Technologies in Mass Communication	3
Plus an additional 6 credits of Mass Communication electives (exclusing MCOM 100 and MCOM 101)
Total: 24 credit hours

 

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"Journalism school and other mass communication curricula are not best used when they train students for the first six months of their employment; they should rather prepare their graduates for the years that follow the first six months: not in the skills which enable the young employee to do well at first, but rather in the understandings which enable him to do well throughout his career. There is no reason why he should not learn some skill, too; but, whenever there has to be a choice of time between learning the vocational skills and gaining the broad understanding of society and mass communication's place in it, the time should always be used for the broader and less immediately useful studies. The schools should aim for the long, not the short term; for on his job the new man can much more easily learn the skills of his job than he can learn to understand human beings, social organization, government, economics and science."

--Wilbur Schramm, Early Mass Communication Scholar

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