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Overview
The Sportscasting curriculum presents how new communication technologies are altering the way audiences consume content. By promoting responsiveness and distinction as a sportscaster, this degree equips you to grow within this arena and connect with modern sports fans. Sports media companies have expanded to reach their audiences through a wider array of communication platforms—social, mobile, digital, and virtual. Sports audiences that used to share only a few traditional platforms are becoming more varied and specific across the available methods for consuming media. Because of this changing landscape of the sports industry, creative professionals are in growing demand who understand new communication technologies and the communities who utilize them.The evolving demands of the sports-content presentation field require you to first have a firm grasp of the core elements of great storytelling. These elements remain applicable to sports media across the board, whether it is among twenty- first-century platforms such as virtual reality experiences, game systems, and mobile devices or traditional platforms such as radio and television. You will explore the fundamentals of understanding audiences, multimedia storytelling, studio production, and broadcasting for advanced technology. The curriculum also provides you with practical opportunities to develop your personal style in processing, creating, and delivering content. This project-based curriculum will culminate with the creation and production of your own demo reel to position you for your entrance into the industry.
Objective
Bachelor's Objective The central goal of the Sportscasting Bachelor of Science degree program is to provide you a comprehensive grasp of the core elements of sports and media storytelling. You will develop refined skills in sports communication and sports journalism for presenting content through various media platforms. The degree program outlines the traits that have defined successful sportscasters and leaders throughout the radio, television, and digital eras of sports presentation and translates these characteristics for sportscasters across twenty-first-century sports- media outlets. You will learn the fundamentals of traditional sports storytelling, such as clear writing and vocal communication, as well as more advanced content- creation and studio-production techniques and their applications to emerging technologies and communication channels.Completing this program will enable you to pursue career opportunities in sports media and sports presentation, including on-air and production positions for traditional news networks, digital sports channels, and new and developing platforms such as video game systems and virtual reality productions.