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The two-year Media Communication & Information Technology program provides unique, hands-on instruction with a photography lab and studio, a video production studio, digital video and audio editing labs. The curriculum, which culminates in an Associate of Applied degree, also encompasses learning in over four microcomputer labs equipped with PC and Macintosh computers, scanners, digital cameras, CD-ROM recorders and full-frame, full-motion video capture boards.

MCI also offers a Tech Prep program. This competency-based, six-year program of study begins in the ninth grade of high school and results in an Associate of Applied Science degree.

Media Communications & Information
Associate of Applied Science Degree
Total Credits: 71

First Semester			Credits
PHTC	1341	Color Photography	3
ARTV	1343	Digital Sound	3
RTVB	1310	Introduction to Mass Communications	3
ARTC	1325	Introduction to Computer Graphics-Print	3
ENGL	1301	Composition I	3
Semester Total 15

Second Semester			Credits
PHTC	2301	Intermediate Photography	3
RTVB	1325	TV Studio Production	3
ARTC	1302	Digital Imaging I	3
ENGL	2311	Technical and Business Writing	3
INDS	1301	Basic Graphic Design	3
Semester Total 15

Third Semester			Credits
ITSW	1310	Presentation Media Software	3
RTVB	1321	TV Field Production	3
ITSE	1301	Web Design Tools	3
HUMA	1301	Humanities	3
MATH	1332	Contemporary Mathematics I	3
Semester Total 15

Fourth Semester			Credits
IMED	2311	Portfolio Development	3
RTVB	1291	Special Topics in Radio TV Broadcast	2
RTVB	2337	TV Production Workshop I	3
PHTC	2343	Commercial Photography	3
IMED	2301	Instructional Design	3
Semester Total 14

Fifth Semester			Credits
IMED	1305	Multimedia Authoring I	3
ARTV	2341	Advanced Digital Video	3
IMED	2388	Internship	3
PSYC	2301	General Psychology	3
Semester Total 12



Capstone course: A required learning experience which results in a consolidation and synthesis of a student's educational experience. The capstone experience certifies mastery of entry-level work place competencies.

Courses are subject to change. Contact the department chair for an update.

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