# Mass Communications (MSCM) courses

Rio Hondo College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 3 courses

Source: https://riohondo.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/22181/25453/24490

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027.

### MSCM 103 — Survey of Motion Picture, Radio, and Television

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 Lecture
- **Advisory:** It is advised that students be able to engage in written composition at a college level and read college-level texts.
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules
- Transfer: UC credit limit. Students will receive credit for only one of the following courses: MSCM 103 or MSCM 128

This course provides an overview of the history, theory, and aesthetic principles of radio, television, and motion pictures, and examines their social impacts and effects on society. The changing nature of consumer information is explored, along with the evolution of these three mediums in the traditional and non-traditional aspects of listening, writing, and viewing. The social, political, regulatory, ethical, and theoretical impacts on society are also studied.

### MSCM 128 — Mass Media in Modern Society

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 Lecture
- **Advisory:** It is advised that students be able to engage in written composition at a college level and read college-level texts.
- **C-ID:** JOUR 100
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/rio-hondo-college/schedule/summer-2026/mscm.md); Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/rio-hondo-college/schedule/fall-2026/mscm.md); Spring 2027, 4 sections (/c/rio-hondo-college/schedule/spring-2027/mscm.md)
- Transfer: UC credit limit. Students will receive credit for only one of the following courses: MSCM 103 or MSCM 128

This course in mass media surveys the history, format, laws, and significant contributors in American mass communications. Through projects and readings, students research and discuss such issues as free press, fair trial, foreign communications systems, and the relationship between free media and a democratic society.

### MSCM 134 — Documentary Film

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 Lecture
- **Advisory:** It is advised that students be able to engage in written composition at a college level and read college-level texts.
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules

This course serves as an introduction to documentary film. It provides an overview of key historical and critical concepts regarding film, including vocabulary for storyboard and scene analysis. Students analyze films in relation to mise-en-scene, editing, sound, narrative, cinematography, screenplay, and meaning.