ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES: Each student will demonstrate individual ability to conceive, produce, shoot and edit broadcast quality video programs. Each student will demonstrate the ability to work in a group, completing required technical and interpersonal tasks while maintaining professional working relationships within the group.
Knowledge of Human Cultures
Because media are pervasive in our human society, TV lab students demonstrate skills in producing effective media for today’s society
Intellectual and Practical Skills
Communication – Students demonstrate communication through development and expression of ideas through writing, speaking, visually, design and aurally.
Critical Thinking – In the process of producing television news, students combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways, as well as think, react, and work in an imaginative way
Digital Literacy – Through the use of specific media tools (cameras, computers, etc), students strategically and responsibly employ appropriate technologies to explore, create, collaborate, and organize in a digital context.
Information Literacy – The television news and information process in itself deals with information process. In the process of creating television programming, students identify, locate, evaluate, attribute and share information effectively and ethically.
Problem solving – The act of producing television programming is a process of solving multiple problems. Sometimes in a leisurely fashion, at other times in an immediately response and reaction to a creative or technical problem. Every production involves problem solving. Students design, evaluate, and implement strategies to answer open-ended questions or achieve a desired goal.
Teamwork – a team is required to produce daily and weekly television programming. Students demonstrate productive interaction with others (in or out of class) to complete assignments, tasks or projects.
Personal and Social Responsibility
Civic Engagement – Information is critical to a healthy society. Television programming contributes to civic engagement. Students demonstrate that they possess the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make a difference in the civic life of their community and to promote the enhancement of the quality of life in a community through both political and non-political processes.
Ethical Reasoning – Journalism ethics are discussed and practiced on a daily and weekly basis. Students describe and analyze positions on ethical issues, apply reasoning about right and wrong human conduct, demonstrate ethical decision-making skills, and demonstrate an evolving ethical self-identity.
Lifelong learning – The process of creating, producing and processing prepares students for lifelong critical thinking and learning. Students demonstrate that they possess the skills and dispositions that are necessary for a self-sufficient learner to engage in purposeful, ongoing learning activities with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.
Integrative learning:
Integrative Learning - Television students demonstrate the ability to extend the specialized skills and activities of television production to many different life situations – thinking and acting quickly, making decisions, writing, visual communication and acting professionally in a high profile position. These all apply to lifelong life skills. Students make connections among ideas and experiences and can synthesize and transfer their learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.