Electronic Media, B.S.C.

Develop your storytelling skills across a variety of media platforms and styles

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Join award-winning student media organizations such as UMTV and WVUM

Produce Content

Develop your media production skills across a variety of styles

Major or Minor

Program offers a major and a minor in Electronic Media

Your Future in Electronic Media Starts Here

The Electronic Media, B.S.C. program gives students the freedom to blend media production, storytelling and entrepreneurship across traditional platforms and emerging media technologies. Students may gain hands-on experience at The Miami Hurricane, Distraction Magazine, UMTV and WVUM, developing practical skills, critical reasoning, and industry knowledge through diverse electives and real-world opportunities.

Explore some of the featured courses:

JMM 245
Introduction to the theory, process, and procedure of electronic media production. Lecture and laboratory are included.

JMM 345
Planning and execution of complex field, studio, and multimedia production in a variety of lengths and formats. High level skills in television control room situations and non-linear editing will be used to produce audio, video, and online content.

JMM 445
The integration of the producer’s role and the structure of program design as they relate to day-to-day production operations. Lecture and laboratory are included.

This course provides students with an understanding of writing styles appropriate for communicating in the digital age, with particular emphasis on grammar, spelling, syntax and clarity. It provides a solid foundation for further practice and specialization in various types of multimedia communication.

Skill development in gathering facts and other material for, and in preparation of, news stories in a variety of genres across platforms. Focus on gathering information from multiple sources, analyzing and organizing information for dissemination, and presenting the most pertinent facts clearly and cohesively to multiple media outlets.

Introduction to communication concepts and skills involved in on-camera duties such as anchoring, interviewing and live reporting.

This course teaches how to extract meaning from data for more powerful reporting.

Ed Julbe

Coordinator
ejulbe@miami.edu

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Broadcast Journalism
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Journalism student Emmi Velez shares her hands-on experience at the University of Miami’s popular alternative radio station. WVUM is a student-run radio station and just one of many student media outlets where ‘Canes gain professional experience right on campus.

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Semester in Los Angeles

Open to juniors and seniors, the UMLA experience allows students to integrate themselves into the LA film and TV industry for 14 weeks. Students gain professional experience through a 6-credit internship and 15 credits of industry-related courses.

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