Communication Degrees Online

Cuyamaca College catalogue

The entire college catalogue is avalable here. Among other uses, you can find all the courses taught at Cuyamaca in the Communication Arts department and descriptions of those courses.
Class schedules

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Courses offered this semester

Use WebConnect/WebAdvisor to find out which courses are being offered this semester, who is teaching them, whether or not there are available seats, and other useful information. Go to the college site linked at left, click the link at right, and enter your search terms.
Journalism?

Sign up for English 135-138 this semester.

Cuyamaca College has an odd journalism arrangement stemming from the 1978 charter of our district. For reasons buried in the Pleistocene, some majors are offered at one college but cannot be offered at the other: We have engineering and Grossmont College has nursing; we have horticulture and our sister college has–yes–journalism. The list goes on….

The Grossmont journalism program is extensive and quite impressive, but Cuyamaca is restricted only to producing a college newspaper, surely a necessity at any college. Our program amounts to four courses, really the same course offered in four-semester repetitive sequences, in which students create a paper, the Coyote Express. They receive transferable elective credit, but “journalism” doesn’t appear as such on their transcripts.

Downside: no journalism degree.
Upside: If you’re interested in building real-world experience in public writing, you’ll get vastly more of your stuff into print than you would working in a full-scale journalism program. A résumé loaded with real published work is one shiny résumé!

Click here to read archived editions of Coyote Express.

Composition Sequence

Pre-transfer composition
English 090: Basic English Skills
Composing sentences and one or more paragraphs. Grammar, punctuation, usage.
English 098: English Fundamentals
Introduction to the writing process: sentence patterns, paragraphs, one essay. Grammar, punctuation, usage.
English 110: Basic Composition
Preparation for transfer-level composition. Practice in the writing process: sentences, paragraphs, and essays, one with minor research. Satisfies general education (AA) requirement.

Transfer-level composition
English 120: College Composition and Reading
Elements and principles of composition. Essays and a major research paper. Readings to stimulate critical thinking.
English 124: Advanced Composition: Critical Reasoning and Writing
Critical thinking, reading, and writing: logic, analysis, argumentation, and research.

Teachers: Click here for a complete course guide, including harmonization of composition with ESL courses and a more complete discussion of the skills sequence.

Literature Courses
English 122: Introduction to literature
English 202: Film as literature
English 214: Masterpieces of drama
English 217: Science fiction and fantasy
English 221 & 222: British literature I & II (before and after 1800)
English 231 & 232: American literature I & II (before and after the Civil War)
English 270: World literature

Year

2009
Award

Bachelor of Journalism
Length

Three years full-time or part-time equivalent.
Honours requires an additional year full-time.
Campuses

Melbourne (Bundoora)
Course description

This course offers training for those who intend to work in the areas of print, television, radio and online journalism. It also provides a broad understanding of the operation and regulation of the media and its cultural, social, political and economic role in society.

Students are required to complete a number of core units at each year level. Some of these may include:
- Writing for Media
- Press and Society
- Advanced Journalism Practice.

Students are also required to complete Journalism stream units, such as:
- Journalism Production Workshop
- Advanced Journalism Design
- Broadcast and Electronic Journalism.

Subject to the availability of places, students can also take up to one unit from the video/television or audio/radio streams.

The Media Internship program is available to third year students. The unit (which is awarded academic credit) allows students to develop contacts with and work in a media organisation. The program is an invaluable opportunity for students to undertake supervised work experience. Students complete 120 hours attendance at an approved workplace and three 3-hour workshops.
Handbook (course structure, subject details for 2009 - may change for 2010)
Melbourne (Bundoora)
Major areas of study

Media studies. Students are also encouraged to undertake electives from outside the media studies stream. These could include, for example, politics, history and/or sociology.
Overseas study opportunities

Overseas study opportunities are available.
Please see www.latrobe.edu.au/international/exchange for more information
Application

VTAC
Fee type

Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
Tuition fee (AUD)

Indicative (per 120 credit points):
Commonwealth Supported Place - $5095