4. Blackboard and Email
◦ Blackboard is your #1 resource for this class
◦ Check your @eagles.usm.edu email regularly
◦ Chain of command
◦ Check the syllabus
◦ Check Blackboard
◦ Email a classmate
◦ Email me
10. Class Assignments
◦ Tests: 350 points
◦ Test 1—100 points
◦ Test 2—100 points
◦ Final Exam—150 points
◦ Chapter quizzes: 190 points
◦ Class introduction and syllabus quiz- 30 points
◦ 16 quizzes @ 10 points each
◦ Chapter discussion: 160
◦ 16 discussions @ 10 points each
◦ Media Journal: 200 points
◦ 10 journals @ 20 points each
◦ Final Paper: 100 points
11. Tests
◦ Test #1 in Week 3, Chapters 1-5
◦ Test #2 in Week 6, Chapters 6-10
◦ Final Exam in Week 10, Chapters 11-16 and cumulative portion
12. Quizzes
◦ Quiz this week on the syllabus and introduction- worth 30 points!
◦ One quiz per chapter for the rest of the summer (16 chapters, 16 quizzes), 10 points each
13. Discussions
◦ One discussion per chapter
◦ Get your discussion topics from the lectures and slides, I will provide them and you will discuss what
interests you
◦ Create thread or respond to someone else’s thread
14. Media Journal
◦ 10 journal entries due throughout the summer
◦ 150 words each
◦ Select a relevant mass communication topic
◦ Write about how it affects audiences, how it contributes to communicating culture
◦ Make it relevant to your own life
◦ Relate what you have learned in class to your life
◦ How does mass communication affect you?
22. This Week
◦ Quiz on introduction and syllabus
◦ Lecture for Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
◦ Quiz on each of the two chapters
◦ Discussion for each of the two chapters
◦ Media journal for the week (just one)
