Santa Monica College Courses

This course explores Japanese culture and civilization. Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, the course examines the fundamentals of Japanese culture and tradition including Japanese philosophy

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This course — taken in tandem with another course in the discipline — enables a student to apply course content in a meaningful and relevant way to a particular activity. In this hands-on course, stud

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An introductory course in planning stories, news gathering, organizing and writing news across multiple platforms. Students learn to report and write news stories based on their own reporting, includi

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An intermediate news writing and reporting class with a focus on public affairs beats, including local and regional governments, police, schools, courts and other civic agencies. Legal and ethical asp

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This course familiarizes the students with the expectations of journalism by the public and teaches the student the basic news writing guidelines used in broadcast journalism. Through news writing ass

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Student media practicum and lab where students produce engaging social media journalism content for the campus community. Students learn how to plan, pitch, innovate and execute news content pieces ac

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Students study article-writing opportunities for magazines, newspapers and online media. In this lecture and discussion class, students write freelance articles for submission to commercial and campus

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This course provides an introduction to multimedia storytelling with a nonfiction focus. Students learn how to produce multimedia content such as digital videos, audio slideshows, blogs, web pages, po

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Student media practicum and lab where students produce media content with a journalistic focus that is distributed regularly to the campus community. Students work on regular news and feature assignme

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This course provides advanced instruction for student editors of the Corsair newspaper and its online edition. Students assign and copy edit stories and photos, work with writers and photographers on

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This course emphasizes techniques of presenting one’s opinion persuasively for print and online formats. Students will write arts reviews as well as editorial page articles, columns and blogs.

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This course focuses on magazine production for the World Wide Web. Each student will create an interactive online magazine (“eZine”). The magazine will incorporate principles of journalism as well as

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This survey course in basic news photography is designed for journalism or photography majors and students interested in having work published in magazines and news publications. Students learn basic

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This advanced course provides an in-depth study of photojournalism with an emphasis on creation of photo story ideas, photo essays, news, sports and feature photos for publication. Photo editing and l

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This is a introductory course covering basic principles and objectives of public relations, including publicity and promotion techniques, effective communication strategies, message design and distrib

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