Broadcasting & Electronic Media - Mount Wachusett Community College

Broadcasting & Electronic Media from Mount Wachusett Community College is a Campus Associate Radio and Television degree that prepares you for a Communications career. Prepare for careers in the television , radio , recording, multimedia, and cable industries. You?ll acquire both technical and communications skills through academic coursework, production skills training, and on-the-air experience. Equipment and facilities include: two state-of-the-art television studios, four audio studios, DVC-Pro electronic field production equipment, digital video editing suites, and audio workstations. Students can gain valuable experience by producing live and taped programming aired over MWCC\\\'s community cable TV channel. Career options: Video production, broadcast journalism, on-air performance, audio production, multimedia production, DVD/CD design, journalism, advertising, sales, and management. Program Competencies Upon graduation from this program students shall have demonstrated the ability to: 1. Analyze and describe the component parts, interrelationships, technological developments, and the legal and business practices of the current electronic media industry, and apply this understanding to proposals of the industry?s future. 2. Explain, analyze, and evaluate the electronic media?s power and role in and on today?s society, and the ethical issues that confront electronic media practitioners. 3. Set up and operate broadcast equipment, and explain signal flow and the working interrelationships of the technical components. 4. Demonstrate oral and written presentation skills unique to the electronic communications industry. 5. Analyze communications problems and design media solutions. 6. Demonstrate success and experience working individually and as part of a production team in developing media projects from initial conception to final completion, while meeting industry-standardized guidelines. 7. Produce audio and video projects that exhibit how aesthetics can maximize a project?s communications effectiveness and create audience interest. 8. Analyze career opportunities and individual strengths, and master job search and acquisition skills. View more details on Mount Wachusett Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Radio and Television courses.