B.S. in Television-Radio
Peter Johanns, Associate Professor and Program Director
The bachelor of science in television-radio is a four-year curriculum designed to prepare students for careers in media communications, including radio and television broadcasting and other communication-related professions. Majors in the television-radio degree must elect one of six concentrations before registration for the first semester of their sophomore year. Transfer credits must indicate a choice of concentration when applying for admission to the degree program. Concentration in a specific area is never at the expense of a broad education, and extensive study in the liberal arts is required.
Academic Policies
Television-radio majors must complete the departmental requirements and one set of concentration requirements. In addition to meeting general College guidelines for academic standing and Park School academic policies, majors in television-radio are required to maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.50. All majors must complete a minimum of 60 credits outside communications, which includes the distribution requirements, and a minimum of 50 percent of their credits (normally 60 credits) in courses designated as liberal arts. Students applying for internal transfer to the B.S. in television-radio from other majors at Ithaca College (including majors within the Park School) must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75, but this minimum does not guarantee acceptance.
Television-radio majors are required to earn a grade no lower than C- in all required courses for their major with a TVR prefix to the course number.
Core requirements
Choose one of the following:
Developing Story Narratives: Students in the scriptwriting concentration are required to take both TVR 13100 Media Writing and TVR 13400 Developing Story Narratives.
TVR 13100 and TVR 13400: Liberal arts courses
Choose one of the following:
| TVR 25100 | Critical Thinking and Mass Communication | 3 |
| TVR 26000 | Quantitative Mass Media Research Methods | 3 |
| TVR 26200 | Qualitative Mass Media Research Methods | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 24-26 |
Choose one of the following:
TVR 31200, TVR 31301-31399: Liberal arts courses
Choose one of the following:
TVR 32200, TVR 32001-TVR 32099: Liberal arts courses
Supplemental requirements
| WRTG 1xxxx | Introductory writing course | 3 |
| | Business or economics course | 3 |
| | Computer science course | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Communications studies course, introductory writing course: liberal arts courses
Additional requirements for the media production concentration
Choose one of the following:
| TVR 12200 | Introduction to Media Aesthetics and Analysis | 3 |
| CNPH 10100 | Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis | 3 |
Complete one of the following two-course sequences:
Select 4-8 credits of additional coursework from the following (4 credits must be at level-3 or above):
Additional requirements for the audio production concentration
Choose two of the following:
Additional requirements for the scriptwriting concentration
Choose one of the following:
| TVR 12200 | Introduction to Media Aesthetics and Analysis | 3 |
| CNPH 10100 | Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Additional requirements for the international communications concentration
Choose one of the following:
Choose one of the following:
| TVR 32400 | European Mass Media | 3 |
| | or | |
| TVR 32500 | Seminar in Development Communications | 3 |
| | Two additional electives outside of Park School of Communications | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
TVR 32400 and TVR 32500: liberal arts courses
Two additional electives outside of Park School of
Communications: Electives must be from the list of international course options
available from the coordinator of the international communications concentration
and minor.
Additional requirements for the documentary production concentration
Choose one of the following:
| TVR 12200 | Introduction to Media Aesthetics and Analysis | 3 |
| CNPH 10100 | Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 22 |
Additional requirements for the directed studies concentration
| | Selected communications courses | 12 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
A plan of study that differs from other concentrations by at least two courses, together with a rationale, must be developed by the student in consultation with his or her adviser and approved by the chair of the television and radio department.
Summary
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Core requirements
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24-26
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Supplemental requirements
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12
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Concentration requirements
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12-23
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Electives
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59-72
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Total, B.S. in television-radio
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120
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