Course Description
RTV 220 Television and Radio Broadcasting (3 credits)
This course aims to provide an introduction for students taking a major in Radio and Television. It covers the organization and structure of radio/television setup, the responsibilities and functions of a producer, the technical aspects of a radio and station, the different types of programs, the languages of radio and television directing, the basics of production techniques of different programs and the professional, legal and ethical codes associated with the objectives, processes and outcomes of Radio and TV.
Prerequisite: COM 216
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RTV 230 Broadcast News: Reporting and Editing (3 credits)
This course acquaints students with the elements of the broadcast news story. Students will be familiarized with the dynamics of newsroom processes and industry practice, taking into account the different relevant approaches available in the field of broadcast journalism. The course will include story idea origination and interviewing, models of newsgathering and sources of news, types and techniques of stylistics devices in news production, principles and values of objectivity, accuracy and fairness in news stories and news casts construction and editing, and modes of organization of audio and video journalism for recording, editing, delivery and broadcasting news packages (wraps, actualities, and straight reads).
Prerequisite: COM 214
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RTV 250 Broadcast Writing (3 credits)
Students are provided with appropriate professional standards for use in preparing different forms of mediated genres suitable for Radio and TV production. The course will enable students to become more effective in writing content that fits the broadcasting environment in result of understanding the dynamics and formative audio-visual elements, styles, and conventions that accompany the process of broadcast writing. Students are expected to produce 3-minute written broadcast content of their selection with a detailed report about its rationale of articulation as appropriate material for broadcast production.
Prerequisite: ENG 202
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RTV 300 TV Production I (3 credits)
The course should allow the students to demonstrate their familiarity with terminology, principles, mechanics, techniques, procedures, tools, processes, and aesthetics of television production. Students are expected from this course to have competency in performing basic job requirements of the camera operator, audio operator, video switcher, lighting director, floor manager, graphics operator, and director. They should also have a public presentation about their analytical and comparative assessment of two television newscasts.
Prerequisite: COM 214
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RTV 320 Sound Production I (3 credits)
This course introduces students to the history of sound in radio and television. It exposes students to the power and capabilities of aural communication medium for informative, educative, and entertaining objectives. It establishes and teaches the operational techniques of audio editing by explaining the range of, power, diversity and meaning of sound and wild track as an aural language on which radio depends. Other topics covered include examination of the influence of television on sound perception, techniques and applications of editing and sound processing. Students will be shown and taught how to research, create and produce an audio piece for broadcast by performing real analysis and comparison of a set of music/sound recordings.
Prerequisite: COM 214
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RTV 340 Sound Production II (3 credits)
Students are trained to produce feature programs for radio or soundtracks for television. Students are expected in this course to illustrate firm grasp of the essential concepts and techniques, partly covered in Sound Production I, involved within a typical audio production environment. They are provided with a further understanding of audio processing and manipulation techniques of analogue and digital mixing and remixing of different acoustics registers as well as the production of synchronous and asynchronous studio and location recordings. Students are expected to reflect critically on two of the technologically mediated forms of audio recordings.
Prerequisite: RTV 320
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RTV 360 Television Production II (3 credits)
This course builds on Television Production I and incorporates administering, directing, producing, editing, and programming of television programs. The course explains the entire production process and system and their management (pre-production, production, post-production) to produce an effective audio-visual outcome for a particular audience. Students are expected to work as a team to produce a poster that explains the way these aforementioned three primary processes of a particular TV program are contributing in the development of an effective impact on audiences.
Prerequisite: RTV 300
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RTV 410 Multimedia Operations Management (3 credits)
This course enables students to have a perceptive idea about the management and business aspects of the entire production processes in both radio and television as well as in the recent convergence trends with web and mobile formations. Topics include concepts, treatments, storyboarding, scripts, breakout, budgeting, preproduction planning and documents, copyrights, roles of production personnel departments and functions, production considerations, post-production editing, graphics, music, soundtrack, final cut, promotion, sales, marketing and distribution. As well, further understanding about ratings, share, box office receipts, and how radio and television companies make profit are also emphasized.
Prerequisite: RTV 300
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RTV 420 Television Production III (3 credits)
This course provides skills in the creation of digital and non-digital multi-images and in the manipulation of the image size, shape, light and colour, texture, and motion as well as their generated characters set construction, and virtual sets. The course combines methods, techniques, software, and hardware image editing with audio editing to produce a complete video product for broadcasting. Areas of focus will be the grammar of the offline and online edit, continuity and complexity editing, cutaways and integration of graphics, transitions and time expansion and contraction, advanced aesthetics and ethics as well as advanced audio techniques including multi-track soundtracks and audio effects for integration with animated scenic constructions.
Prerequisites: RTV 360
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RTV 440 Dramatic Writing for Television (3 credits)
This course provides students’ the skills in preparing and writing scripted dramatic material for television, including the stages of script development. Students are provided with key skills for understanding and producing a dramatic script as a premise to put their written work on the screen with a developed authorial voice and episodic narrative plot. Students are expected to work as a team in producing an appropriate 10-15 minutes episode of a television drama series of their own creation. They should use adequate script editing and rewrite skills, engage in the creative application of the script development process, properly referencing sources and ideas, and deliver work to a given length, format, brief and deadline.
Prerequisite: RTV 250
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RTV 490 Independent Study in Radio and Television (3 credits)
Students are trained to be independent in their quest to research contemporary subjects in Radio and Television. With the supervision of a faculty member, students are responsible for delivering a research project related to any of the Radio and Television topics. A formal report and oral presentation shall be scheduled to fulfil requirements of the course.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
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RTV 492 Seminar in Radio / Audio (3 credits)
This course offers a comprehensive study of selected contemporary topics in radio and audio.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing or Consent of Advisor.
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RTV 494 Seminar in Television / Audio / Video (3 credits)
This course offers a comprehensive study of selected contemporary topics in television, audio and video.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing or Consent of Advisor.
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RTV 497 Professional Placement (3 credits)
Students in their junior year are required to work on part-time or full-time basis in order to experiment with and practice what they learned in class. A student presents a formal report by the end of this training period then he/she makes a public presentation exposing his/her experience.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing and Consent of Advisor
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RTV 499 Radio and Television Capstone Project (3 credits)
Students are prepared in this course to deal efficiently and effectively with the fundamentals of systematic research. Graduating students will learn to brainstorm the different available research opportunities and prepare a formal research project that shall constitute the capstone requirement for their graduation. Topics include design philosophies, problem conceptualization, problem definition, project planning and budgeting, development of specifications, and effective utilisation of available resources. A formal oral presentation is required under the supervision of a formal judging committee formed from the faculty members.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing