Journalism

This course is to allow students to read and understand scientific texts and draw differences between such texts and literary ones. Furthermore, this course should also allow students to practice writing skills. All this is meant to facilitate the study of subject matter related to technical specializations.

Studies forms of communication especially mass communication as elements of cultural and social processes.

This course is an overview and discussion of the relation between the mass media and politics in society. The mass media constitute one of the most powerful forces shaping the modern world. In terms of information dissemination, shaping of attitudes and mass behavior there has never been a medium with the reach, breadth and influence of the mass media. In this course, we will examine the most important mass media effects researchers have found influencing the political processes of society. Prereq.: ENG201

An introduction to using the tools of social media to better report and research stories, as well as distribute one’s work and engage the public.

Organized around an integrated view of print, broadcast, and public relations, Media writing provides students with the skills necessary to become proficient writers for the media. Media writing develops the professional skills and attitudes that reporters, broadcasters, and public relations writers need by first outlining the basic concepts and then having students apply these concepts to real- life situations with specific writing exercises. Prereq.: ENG201

This course covers principles and practices in news gathering, evaluating, reporting, and presenting information for weekly print media; advanced practice in magazine writing, editing and headline construction. It provides students with the needed skills to write nonfiction articles for magazines, newspapers and newsletters. Prereq.: ENG200

Gathering and processing pictorial material for the print media and television. Practical experience through laboratory and fixed exercises. Prereq.: COM206

This course should teach students the skills needed to be a copy editor—editing for accuracy, fairness, grammar, clarity, sensitivity, impact; choosing, sizing and cropping photos; designing and laying out broadsheet news pages; writing scintillating headlines and informative captions; working with reporters—all under deadline pressure. Students also learn news judgment in choosing top stories of the day and the most important aspects of each story, and become sensitive to the impact decisions will have on readers.

This course is designed to provide both a practical introduction to the fundamental principles of public speaking and a forum for practicing public speaking skills. Through a variety of instruction and strategies–discussion, class workshops, readings, lectures, and presentations- you will learn the processes by which effective speeches are conceived, prepared, and delivered. Prereq.: ENG200

This course provides a comparison of the media in Lebanon and the Middle East. It also looks at the role of media in shaping our images regarding the countries / states in this part of the world. Prereq.: ENG201

During this internship you will be required to work in an approved professional setting. Individual projects will be developed through conferences under the supervision of a department member and a field supervisor. Senior Standing

Approved candidates, who are likely to benefit from working under supervision in their chosen professional communication area, and whose previous academic and practical results warrant it, may apply for consideration by a panel of industry personnel and academics for this option. A detailed report of the learning experiences derived from the internship is required by the University. Senior Standing

An introduction to the practical skills involved in investigative reporting, including interviewing techniques, identification and nurturing sources, public record searches, and how to shape compelling narrative. Prereq.: ENG201

) This course, students continue preparing themselves to enter the career field of design. They experience technologies and their relationship to industrial design. A field report must be submitted for evaluation. Prereq.: IDP391

 This course covers the history of the modern Republic of Lebanon for a period of about one century, from 1920 until the present day. After a brief historical introduction of the Ottoman domination, the course will address the earlier emergence of Greater Lebanon, as well as the independence period, and study all the major events leading up to the civil war. It will also look at the period covering both power sharing agreements: the maronite-sunni agreement of 1943 and the Taëf agreement of 1989. Finally, it will conclude with a close look at the contemporary period: from the reconstruction of Lebanon after the end of the war until the new tensions emerging in Lebanon within the Middle-East crisis.

This course introduces the phenomena of globalization. It examines its historic roots and the different views associated with its universal impacts. It examines how globalization helping the integration of world culture, economies, and states. Prereq.: ENG200