Students studying for the Associate Degree in Technology of Media and Journalism must successfully complete 79 credit hours distributed as follows:

Course Descriptions

1. English Expression & Writing 1:

This course is designed to prepare students for writing in English, and focuses on reading and writing, as integrated and integrated skills. Students will study and practice reading comprehension, writing process, and critical thinking. They will create clear and correct sentences while developing the skills necessary to write a variety of focused, evolving and organized paragraphs and / or short essays.   Students will be responsible for writing several full paragraphs / essays. The course may include proficiency test in the departments or evaluation of the achievement file.

2. Islamic Culture:

This course aims study of sources of Islamic Legislation, Characteristics of Islamic Legislation, Islamic Systems, Family System, Judicial System, System of Government, Economic System, Characteristics of Islamic Economic Legislation, Islamic Education, Objectives of Islamic Education and Its Characteristics, Religious Activity. In Addition to General Educational Principles Islamic, the provisions of Tajweed, and steps to teach branches of Islamic education.

3. Human Culture:

his course deals with the topics and developments in the history of the world from the emergence of the first human civilizations until the twenty-first century, the study of human civilizations from different aspects, the study of the peoples of these civilizations and patterns of human behavior

4. Computer skills:

This course aims to discuss the basic information related to the use of computers in education, the use of educational computer capabilities in the field of education, dealing with basic programs in the MS Office group, dealing with digital images and modifying them using computer applications.

5. General Statistics:

The course aims to introduce students to how to choose and distinguish between sampling methods and to determine sample size. Build and read repetition tables and statistical charts. Explain, calculate and interpret descriptive statistics including central tendency metrics, frequency distributions, dispersion measurements and understanding the characteristics of probability distributions, with a focus on the application of binomial and ordinary distributions. The acquisition and interpretation of correlation coefficients and the simple linear regression model.

6. Principles of Journalism

This course provides the student with an in-depth study of the history, techniques and technology of video and media editor. Students will study the principles and practices of editing by analyzing examples from classic and contemporary film and video as they learn how to build and strengthen a story and engage an audience. Using the latest industry non-linear software tools, students will work on advanced editing exercises that provide opportunities to master the editing process.

7. Principles of Photography

The course aims to provide the student with the skills and knowledge provided by the cognitive and theoretical content of the history of photography and the identification of the types of cameras, types of lenses and their parts. In addition, enable the student to deal with the image news, dissemination, and investment and how to take pictures and sections of cameras and types.

8. English Conversation Skills:

Course content includes conversations, discussions, and presentations on a wide range of concrete, abstract and specialized topics. It is designed to enhance speaking and listening skills for non-English speakers and focuses on pronunciation, tone, rhythm, and toning patterns for American English. Emphasis is placed on oral communication, auditory understanding, and vocabulary development. Students build their skills through intensive instruction and practice.

9. Principles of Psychology

Surveys the major principles of psychology. Introduces the history of psychology, human development, personality, abnormal behavior, social psychology, feelings and emotions, research methodologies, experimental psychology, psychophysiology, learning and memory, altered states of awareness, sleep and dreams, and industrial and organizational psychology.

10. Communication Skills :

Developing students' communication skills and qualifying them for good and successful communication with themselves and others, and preparing them for integration,  understanding, communication and building relations with respect and peace with their surroundings and the different concepts and cultures that may be included in them, as well as knowledge of communication and its various and varied topics.

11. Mobile Phone Press

Introduction to the basic concepts of mobile cloud computing, including: 1. The mobile computing technology used in modern smart phones; 2. The cloud computing technologies used in existing data centers; 3. The synergy of mobile and cloud computing and its applications; 4. Programming on smart phone utilizing data center services. Students will gain knowledge of: the fundamental principles of mobile cloud computing, the major technologies that support mobile cloud computing, the current challenges and primary areas of research within the field of mobile cloud computing, and a basic understanding of the role of mobile cloud computing in the context of the everyday living.

12. Web Designing

The Web Designing course teaches you the fundamentals of web page authoring and design through reading materials, interactive quizzes, exercises, and assignments. In total, the course contains over 500 pages of instruction with many interactive questions and exercises. In this course, you will learn by doing. During the course, you will have the opportunity to work on several websites that will give you the chance to develop your web page authoring skills.

This course covers everything you need to get started in web page authoring, including both HTML5 and CSS. In the first half of the course, you will learn how to create web pages using HTML5. Once you have learned how to create web pages, you will then move on to the second part of the course where you learn how to style your web pages using Cascading Style Sheets. You’ll learn about the latest technologies, such as responsive design, HTML5, and CSS3.

13. Radio and TV Presenting

This course aims at preparing students to work in the field of radio and television broadcasting and training in practice to enhance the skills of radio and television broadcasting, read news bulletins, various radio, and television materials and how to present television programs. 

14. Electronic Media

Media is one of the most scientific fields affected by technical developments and their use. This course aims to introduce the student to the Internet as an important source of information and help him develop his practical skills in using the Internet in the performance of his media activities, for publication electronically

15. Design 1

The course aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge that Ability to work on Photoshop, designing paintings, advertising, editing images, learning how to coordinate colors, fix images, integrate them, design web interfaces, learn how to create and coordinate shadows

16. Edit Media 2

This course aims to introducing the student to the study of the various journalistic arts in terms of concept, sources, composition, and interrelationships between these arts, how to write the story, article and report, study of the various journalistic arts.

17. Authentication and digital security

This course aims to provide the student with knowledge of the documentation of the source code, which explanatory texts are explaining how the program works or how it is used. It deals with a number of topics, including documentation of requirements such as definition of characteristics and system standards, structural documentation such as environment and construction principles, code documentation, algorithms, Software development, manuals for software users, and documentation of how to market a software product and analyze market requirements.

18. Media laws and Professional ethics

This course aims to introduce students to the concept and study of the law of communication and how to apply the ethics policy on social networks and how to participate in ethical talks, and to know the legislation of all kinds and how the regimes dealt with the media through the enactment of legislation may limit the freedom of press work with the study of privacy issues and freedom of expression and copyright, In light of the rapid and widespread developments in the telecommunications world

19. Photography 2

The course aims to provide the student with the skills and knowledge that enable him to develop the skill of fixed photography to video shooting and moving to advanced video. And enable the student to develop his capabilities at the level of the blog to produce an integrated video. In addition, the ability to produce a short integrated television report. And the ability to employ lighting for the service of television photography and manufacturing of light sources and adapt to the available lighting and the ability to analyze the image and artistic taste and employ and invest the image for multiple purposes (news, aesthetic, human)

20. Design 2

  This course aims to introduce students to the program of editing videos, movies and television programs and enable them to use the creative tools in this program and the number of videos and video clips polished. Premiere also includes many applications that enable students to take snapshots and start editing them on all devices and anywhere and improve sound, color tones, and enable them to Design great videos

21. Edit Media 3

The course aims at introducing the concept of electronic editing, its forms and characteristics, the difference between the different types of electronic editing, types of electronic news arts, basic aspects and craftsmanship in the preparation of electronic press materials, the methods of preparing editorial materials in the electronic press, the advantages of electronic editing. Electronic editing

22. Design 3

The course aims to introduce students to learn powerful tricks within Adobe Illustrator CC and to refine existing illustrations. The student was given the advantage of adding his own designs and introducing him to the different design styles and introducing the student to complete the digital drawing step by step, and teaching it to shading, color models and transparency of images

23. Edit Media 4

The aim of this course an examination of reporting, its history, kinds, and sources, and the various styles of news reporting in addition to practical exercises in information gathering and news writing and editing.

24. Digital content management

In this course, the student will study Content Management Systems (CMS) and their management methods, or a section within one of them, to explore the use of web-based content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and others. He also teaches the basics of planning and coordinating content evaluation, using CMS, publishing a mix of digital content and implementing best SEO practices, and integrating with social media and online marketing efforts

25. Design 4

The course aims at providing students with the ability to edit images and new creative options; and how to improve and manipulate images. And the ability to deal with the program

26. Electronic painting and caricature

This course focuses on drafting, drawing, masking and composition features, using the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Corel Painter. This course provides a detailed introduction to the unmatched possibilities of creating and manipulating images in digital formats. We will learn the basics of caricature, the art of caricature, each of the key features or forms involved in creating a successful cartoon to understand the relationship between these forms as well as some of the ways we can By exaggerating each, walk step by step by drawing black and white caricatures of celebrities

27. Graduation project

This course focuses on the training of the student to conduct scientific research using the correct methods and methods in the preparation of scientific research, and make the student implement a field project using all the gains of the theoretical courses studied by the student or will be informed by the research conducted by.

28. Public opinion and measurement

This course introduces students to various aspects of public opinion in different countries and topics such as political knowledge and attitudes of citizens, the role of elites and groups in the formation of opinion, and the extent to which elites respond to public opinion. It also provides a comprehensive study of the various advertising techniques used in public relations efforts between business, government and non-profit organizations

29. Analysis of Arabic and Western political discourse

This course aims to introduce the students to social science discourse analysis, the course starts with an introduction to interpretive social science, the broader research tradition in which discourse analysis can be located. We then continue with two sessions that discuss the nature of discourse and its social and political functions, The following sessions are devoted to some key themes in political discourse analysis, before we move on the actual analytical process. By the end of the course, the participants should have gained an understanding of the importance of language in politics and of discourse analysis as a conceptual and methodological approach. Through practical work in- and outside of the classroom, they should also have acquired a set of practical skills enabling them to use discourse analysis for their own purposes, and to find their way through the vast literature in discourse theory and analysis.

30. International media

In this course, you will collaborate with international partners to co-create an innovative media project with a global reach, extending your expertise in global communication, storytelling, production and delivery innovations, and intercultural awareness.

31. Audio and visual writing

The course is designed for students to work or enter the post-secondary education program in the field of audio and video technology. Topics covered are not limited to:

 terminology, safety, basic equipment, script writing, production teams, production and programming, lighting, recording, and editing, studio production, And professional ethics, but extends to different levels of presentation and scenario to suit the target audience, and the means of presentation, and the production of audiovisual materials that professionally address subjects such as sport, crisis, politics, meeting

32. Production of blog content management

It shows how to create compelling content that attracts readers and helps achieve website goals. This course starts by showing viewers how to evaluate their current blog, cleaning up any infrastructure problems that might hinder search engine visibility, then learning how to expand your blog's audience by focusing on the basics Such as developing an editorial calendar to help maintain and streamline content flow, integrate social media, and engage in other key places to attract readers to the blog, as well as discover how to improve your blog using surveys, quizzes, original interviews, media, and digital links.

33. Radio and television Directing

The course aims to introduce the principles and practices of radio and television production, its origin and history, the origin of radio and television, the basic equipment used in radio broadcasting, broadcasting principles

34. Public Relations

The course includes several topics that explain the concept of public relations and related concepts, the main objectives of public relations and their functions, the elements of success in the management of public relations in business organizations and the important role it plays in forming and managing public . Intellectual image and reputation for business organizations and how to manage customer relationship as an important direction in the management of public relations.

35. Specialized Press

In this course, the student studies the definition of journalism in the world and the Arab region, and how it developed using modern technology. It also recognizes the concept of specialized journalism and speaks about its importance and types (sports journalism, women's press, children's journalism, economic journalism, military journalism, labor journalism) And presents the causes of its spread in the world, which came in response to the needs of knowledge and social as this course is taught women's press that cares about women, family and children and works to attract women in a manner that is attractive to the needs of women and their interests and social, cultural and educational progress

36. Rumor and the Masses

In this course, the student studies what the rumor is and what its characteristics, means and objectives are. In addition, how has all this wonderful ability to spread and flow among people, and what is the secret in their ability to and destroy and defeat the opponents and their relationship and association with society.

37. Management of media institutions

In this course, the student will study the concept of scientific management, its foundations and the skills necessary for its practice, and its main functions of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the director's functions and applications to the staff of the artistic and administrative press administration, the decision-making process in the press institutions, the scientific methods in dealing with their problems, The successful scientific management of printing, distribution, advertising and information centers, and the impact of technical development in the press industry on the management of press organizations with the presentation of models and applications for enterprise