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Applied context for legal considerations in sports media coverage, such as privacy, conflict of interest, intellectual property and commercial misappropriation, rights of publicity, first amendment, trademark law, libel and slander; ethical considerations, including, but not limited to fairness in sports reporting, gender, race, and culture issues.

Newsgathering processes, including news judgment and what elements constitute news. Provides students with experience writing and covering news topics such as speeches, press conference reports, interviews, features, and business reports; improves proficiency with quotations, journalistic style, readability, and deadlines.

Primary theories of mass media content and effects. Emphasis on role of mass media in a democracy.

Major software development project requiring integration and application of knowledge and skills acquired in algorithms, data structures, programming, and software design.

History of the profession. Disorders of speech, language and hearing, including etiology, diagnosis and management.

Permission of instructor is required to register.

Development of fundamental counseling skills through didactic and experiential methods.

Major theories of group counseling, dynamics, procedures, and techniques.