Journalism (JOU)

A foundation course for all reporting skills courses. This news writing course introduces basic journalism style and story structures, interviewing techniques, and reporting tools.

This course covers the fundamentals of editing journalism across media platforms with an emphasis on making stories precise, especially with regard to facts, math, law, and ethics. This higher-order skill serves students whether or not they pursue careers as editors.

Study and practice of photography as a component of journalism. Emphasis on basic picture-taking; selection and use of photographs; and the ethical and legal principles of photojournalism. These concepts provide the building blocks for producing multimedia news.

Students learn to find facts and gather information ethically and legally from written and non-written sources. There is an emphasis on database and public records reporting.

Individual Study by students under the direction of a faculty member. Topics vary and are usually selected on an individual basis.

Topics may vary from semester to semester, as may hours. Junior status is required.

On-the-job learning at selected and approved organizations, such as wire services, newspapers, magazines, radio, TV stations and online news organizations.

Students produce and promote online projects that use a combination of media, including images, text, sound, video and interactivity. Students will learn to construct complementary story segments for different platforms.