YES. THE FALL 2007 COMM 1307 CLASS WILL HAPPEN! BUY YOUR BOOKS NOW AND BE READY TO PARTICIPATE IN CLASS ON 8/30/07!
This website serves the students of Central Texas College's COMM 1307 class, Introduction to Mass Communications.
Instructor: Janna Casstevens Lewis, M.A.I.S.-Journalism
Links will be added throughout the semester. This entire page is constantly under construction. Please feel free to e mail me with URLs to websites that are relevant to our course. I will add them to the Important Links section. My e mail is at the bottom of this page.
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology." --Marshall McLuhan
COMM 1307 SYLLABUS FOR SPRING 2007
Central Texas College OnLine Databases
Chapter Presentation Guidelines
Instructor's LiveJournal Account for COMM 1307
PLEASE NOTE: I am including articles from a variety of trade sources within the LiveJournal account. Check them out. They may inspire your term paper topic. The responsibility is yours to read them. I may ask you about them in class.
Dynamics of Mass Communications Online Learning Center
SEE THE ADVENTURES OF OBVIOUSMAN! from the University of Delaware Department of Communications webpage.
A HELPFUL SITE ABOUT THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) STYLE
AN EVEN BETTER SITE EXPLAINING THE MLA STYLE, Perdue University
It is important that you attend class and be there on time. We start promptly at 3:00 p.m. If you are late, you may be counted as absent and you may have earned a gradepoint of zero for that day.
Important Links
Central Texas College website
CTC Radio & Television Broadcasting Department Page
KNCT
CTC Communications Department Page
USA Today
MSNBC
CNN
FOX News
Google
The Wall Street Journal
The Weather Channel
IMDb: The Internet Movie Database
YouTube
TVHistory.tv: worth looking at
