Readings & Research in Media.

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Students preparing for either MCOM-695 Professional Project or MCOM-699 Master’s Thesis are strongly encouraged to conduct extensive readings of scholarly and professional literature in support of their capstone project or thesis. The student will write and defend a formal research proposal. If the student is proposing to conduct research on human subjects, the research proposal must take the form of an Institutional Review Board proposal, which must be successfully defended and approved before the VSU IRB panel. This course is recommended for the semester before the thesis or professional project but it may be taken concurrently if no IRB approval is involved. Prerequisite: Must have completed at least 18 hours in the graduate program.