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2018-2019 Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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  • JOUR 410 Web Design for Storytelling


    This is a hands-on course in learning the basics of HTML and CSS that are used to build websites. Students will acquire knowledge and skill to prepare them to work within a news organization’s content management system. We will teach you how the Internet works and then get you started on building your own site.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4131
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 415 Science and Medicine: Covering the News


    Course teaches students to take complex ideas and express them in language accessible to a mass audience. The ability to write and report clearly about medical, scientific, and environmental subjects is an increasingly useful skill in writing for newspapers, magazines, broadcast outlets, Web pages, book publishers, the health industry, and academic institutions. The reading public has a strong need for news about health, the sciences, and the state of the planet both to make personal lifestyle choices and to guide local and national leaders in setting policy.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4410
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting and Writing II 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 435 Social Media Storytelling


    Students will use intermediate to advanced social media tools to create original stories and publish real-time updates. Students also will find sources and follow trends using social media tools. They will develop community engagement, connect with readers and build a following on social media to bring attention to their work.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4523
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 440 Launching a Journalism Startup


    Knowing how to think like an entrepreneur is a crucial skill for journalists today. This class will teach students how to conceive of a sustainable journalistic business that meets the practical informational needs of a specific audience. Students will learn about methods for funding new businesses, understand how journalism businesses run and prepare to pitch their ideas to multimedia platform publishers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4535
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 445 Advanced Sports Reporting


    Course, the sequel to Sports Reporting, emphasizes in-depth coverage, both in subject matter and length of stories. Field-reporting assignments will include sports media, sports business and marketing, stadium financing and construction, legal issues, and gender issues.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4540
    Prerequisites JOUR 245 Sports Reporting 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 448 Reporting Entertainment News


    Advanced news and business reporting course focuses on trends, personalities, and popular culture in the world of arts, entertainment, and media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4550
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting and Writing II 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 450 Digital Storytelling II


    Digital Storytelling II offers intensive hands-on training in multimedia news gathering and production, building on skills learned in Digital Storytelling but with an emphasis on audio and video story forms. Students will learn to produce multimedia on deadline and more in-depth feature stories focusing on newsworthy trends and issues. Students also will analyze and critique professional multimedia pieces.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4840
    Prerequisites JOUR 350 Digital Storytelling  or JOUR 654 Digital Journalism  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 452 Covering the Iowa Caucuses


    Students will learn the fundamentals of covering a national political event, the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. Students will report, write and/or take photos that may be published online at Chicago Talks.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4570J
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting and Writing II  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 455 Covering the Federal Courts with Twitter


    Students will cover the federal courts in Chicago, producing real-time coverage in a multi-media, deadline-oriented newsroom environment. This course offers a unique opportunity for students to cover a variety of court cases using Twitter and other social media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4580J
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting and Writing II 
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 458 International Reporting


    This course is a practical guide to being a foreign correspondent and to covering international issues in the United States, focusing on immigrant communities in Chicago to understand and report issues of global importance. Students will follow and analyze breaking news and in-depth reporting from around the world. This is a multimedia and social media course that gives students the opportunity to choose from multiple, emerging platforms to tell their stories.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4610
    GA
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 463 Global Multimedia Reporting


    This course is a practical guide to being a foreign correspondent and to covering international issues in the United States, focusing on immigrant communities in Chicago to understand and report issues of global importance. Students will follow and analyze breaking news and in-depth reporting from around the world. This is a multimedia and social media course that gives students the opportunity to choose from multiple, emerging platforms to tell their stories.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4660
    Requirements Senior Standing (SR)
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 465 Covering Europe: Ireland


    Students will immerse themselves in a Dublin neighborhood and provide a variety of news and feature stories; photo essays; and/or interactive media for an already existing online site in Ireland. Students also will produce content from Ireland for a U.S.-based publication, online site or other media outlet of their choosing.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4621J
    GA
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 467 Multimedia Newsroom


    Students will learn how to originate compelling photojournalism and multimedia story ideas for clients. Students will employ the reportorial and technical skills they’ve acquired in previous course work as they develop their story ideas into thoroughly produced, high production value short-form multimedia pieces using video, still photographs, interviews with synched sound, natural sound and B-roll video and/or stills. Students will learn how to collaborate with colleagues as editors and producers under the real-life pressures of deadline and quality control. While acquiring experience in key facets and roles common to a newsroom, students will engage in aspects such as conceptualizing, developing, photographing, recording, reporting, writing, editing and promoting multimedia projects. Students will gain a detailed knowledge of the business side of a newsroom service by developing and maintaining client relationships.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4877
    Prerequisites JOUR 450 Digital Storytelling II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 471 Data Storytelling


    Students learn to analyze and evaluate data by focusing on questions of public interest. Then they present their work in digital forms where the data is a central part of the narrative. The emphasis is on making sense of the facts than can be distilled from a variety of open source and other data. This course is for Journalism students and IAM students because there is a synergy in the communication industry between those who hack the data and those who write about it.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4890
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 473 Location: LA


    This course is a journalistic primer on Los Angeles. It covers the forces, natural and man-made, past and present, that created modern-day Los Angeles-an understanding that is essential for reporters who wish to knowledgeably cover this complicated city and the entertainment industries based here.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4555L
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting and Writing II  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 481 Practicum in Television News: Newsbeat


    Course teaches all facets of planning and executing a local news program: ideas, story assignment, shooting, research, interviewing, editing, anchoring, and stand-ups. Students gain experience in breaking news, sports, weather, entertainment, and enterprise packages. Broadcast Journalism students, in cooperation with advanced students enrolled in Cinema and Television Arts’ Directing and Production: Live Broadcast, produce the live, twice-weekly Newsbeat.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4601A
    Prerequisites TELE 337 Creating the TV News Package  and JOUR 352 Writing & Reporting TV News  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 482 Practicum Television News: Metro Minutes


    Metro Minutes is a television news program that is reported, anchored and produced by students. All facets of planning and executing a local news program are taught. Students are involved in story conception and assignment, research, interviewing, shooting, crafting reporter packages, editing, anchoring, and producing both the show segments and the overall program. Students can focus on reporting or producing during the semester, or they can work on both skills.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4601B
    Prerequisites TELE 337 Creating the TV News Package  and JOUR 352 Writing & Reporting TV News  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  
  • JOUR 484 College Magazine Workshop


    In this fast-paced, hands-on course, students in the Journalism and Design programs work together to create a glossy, four-color magazine and a companion website in a single semester. Students redesign the publication, write and edit all stories, create or assign all photos and illustrations, design the pages, sell the advertisements, copy edit, fact check and proofread all pages; and send the magazine out the printer. They also create a website with unique content.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4536
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 495 Directed Study: Journalism


    Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses, or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3599
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 496 Independent Project: Journalism


    Course requires that the student, with approval of a supervising faculty member, designs an independent project to study a subject area that is not available in the journalism curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project. Department permission is required.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-3598
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 501 The Business Beat


    This course teaches students to understand and report on the economy, big and small business, financial markets, technology, and the media, labor, real estate, and more.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5110
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 505 Covering Politics:


    Students will learn the fundamentals of covering political campaigns by reporting on local, state and/or presidential races. Students will produce content on deadline and more enterprising work in a variety of formats. Course is open to non-majors with an interest in politics.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5120
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 510 Web Design for Storytelling


    This is a hands-on course in learning the basics of HTML and CSS that are used to build websites. Students will acquire knowledge and skill to prepare them to work within a news organization’s content management system. We will teach you how the Internet works and then get you started on building your own site.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5131
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 515 Science and Medicine: Covering the News


    The ability to write and report clearly about scientific, health, and environmental subjects is an increasingly useful skill in writing for newspapers, magazines, broadcast, book publishers, business, and industry.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5410
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 520 Web Video for Print Journalists: Boot Camp


    In an ever-changing media industry, journalists must be able to tell stories through words, pictures and sound. Using hand-held video cameras, students will learn to tell local neighborhood stories for an online news site in this intensive, hands-on reporting course. Emphasis will be placed on deadlines, basic editing skills, and journalistic storytelling.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5220J
    Prerequisites JOUR 617 Chicago News Bureau  
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 535 Social Media Storytelling


    Students will use intermediate to advanced social media tools to create original stories and publish real-time updates. Students also will find sources and follow trends using social media tools. They will develop community engagement, connect with readers and build a following on social media to bring attention to their work.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5523
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 540 Launching a Journalism Startup


    Knowing how to think like an entrepreneur is a crucial skill for journalists today. This class will teach students how to conceive of a sustainable journalistic business that meets the practical informational needs of a specific audience. Students will learn about methods for funding new businesses, understand how journalism businesses run and prepare to pitch their ideas to multimedia platform publishers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5535
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 545 Advanced Sports Reporting


    Emphasizes in-depth coverage of a variety of sports beats. In addition to game coverage, field-reporting assignments will include sports media; sports business and marketing; stadium financing and construction; and women’s sports and gender issues

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5540
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 550 Digital Storytelling II


    Digital Storytelling II offers intensive hands-on training in multimedia news gathering and production, building on skills learned in Digital Storytelling but with an emphasis on audio and video story forms. Students will learn to produce multimedia on deadline and more in-depth feature stories focusing on newsworthy trends and issues. Students also will analyze and critique professional multimedia pieces.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5840
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 552 Covering the Iowa Caucuses


    No description available.



    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5570J
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 555 Covering the Federal Courts with Twitter


    Students will cover the federal courts in Chicago, producing real-time coverage in a multi-media, deadline-oriented newsroom environment. This course offers a unique opportunity for students to cover a variety of court cases using Twitter and other social media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5580J
    Prerequisites JOUR 617 Chicago News Bureau  and JOUR 620 Local Government & Politics Seminar  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 563 Global Multimedia Reporting


    This course is a practical guide to being a foreign correspondent and to covering international issues in the United States, focusing on immigrant communities in Chicago to understand and report issues of global importance. Students will follow and analyze breaking news and in-depth reporting from around the world. This is a multimedia and social media course that gives students the opportunity to choose from multiple, emerging platforms to tell their stories.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5660
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 565 Covering Europe: Ireland


    Students will immerse themselves in a Dublin neighborhood and provide a variety of news and feature stories; photo essays; and/or interactive media for an already existing online site in Ireland. Students also will produce content from Ireland for a U.S.-based publication, online site or other media outlet of their choosing.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5621J
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 568 Reporting Entertainment News


    This advanced news and business reporting class focuses on trends, personalities, and popular culture in the world of arts, entertainment, and media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5550
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 573 Location: LA


    This course is a journalistic primer on Los Angeles. It covers the forces, natural and man-made, past and present, that created modern-day Los Angeles-an understanding that is essential for reporters who wish to knowledgeably cover this complicated city and the entertainment industries based here.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5555L
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 580 Convergence Journalism Workshop


    No description available.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5520
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  
  • JOUR 581 Practicum in Television News: Newsbeat


    Course teaches all facets of planning and executing a local news program: ideas, story assignment, shooting, research, interviewing, editing, anchoring, and stand-ups. Students gain experience in breaking news, sports, weather, entertainment, and enterprise packages. Broadcast Journalism students, in cooperation with advanced students enrolled in Cinema and Television Arts’ Directing and Production: Live Broadcast, produce the live, twice-weekly Newsbeat.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5601A
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 582 Practicum Television News: Metro Minutes


    Metro Minutes is a television news program that is reported, anchored and produced by students. All facets of planning and executing a local news program are taught. Students are involved in story conception and assignment, research, interviewing, shooting, crafting reporter packages, editing, anchoring, and producing both the show segments and the overall program. Students can focus on reporting or producing during the semester, or they can work on both skills.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5601B
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  
  • JOUR 584 College Magazine Workshop


    In this fast-paced, hands-on course, students in the Journalism and Design programs work together to create a glossy, four-color magazine and a companion website in a single semester. Students redesign the publication, write and edit all stories, create or assign all photos and illustrations, design the pages, sell the advertisements, copy edit, fact check and proofread all pages; and send the magazine out the printer. They also create a website with unique content.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5536
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 601 Interactive Graphics


    This course combines theory and practice of visual journalism through digital graphics. It focuses on informational graphics reporting and the job of the modern-day visual journalist. Students will gain experience while researching and creating different types of informational graphics, including explanatory charts (bars, pies, tables, etc.) maps and diagrams for both print and online media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6115
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 605 Mobile Journalism


    This is a hands-on course focusing on the technical, aesthetic and journalistic skills needed to produce photos and news video with a Smartphone. Students also will explore the mobile trends in journalism and understand media ethics related to mobile reporting and distribution.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6116
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 610 Media Entrepreneurship


    The course will explore how digital technologies have contributed to wholesale media disruption and lowered the barriers to entry for media entrepreneurs. Students will examine how traditional media organizations are changing and how new media organizations are being created. Then students, working as media innovators, will develop a plan for a fully articulated idea or project they hope to pursue in their final capstone course.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6117
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 613 Advanced Coding for Media Industries


    Course designed for any student interested in building interactive media to tell a story. This uses the open-sourced Tarbell platform developed by the Chicago Tribune to tell a data story that the student chooses. Students build their own interactive project using programming knowledge that keeps the course accessible across disciplines.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6132
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 617 Chicago News Bureau


    Students cover local events alongside working professionals. They report, on deadline, on meetings of the City Council and Cook County Board of Commissioners, as well as downtown and community news events, including press conferences, political campaigns, elections and rallies. Students also produce non-deadline stories on issues of importance to Chicago neighborhoods. Students will produce assignments compatible with multiple platforms.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6610
    Minimum Credits 5 Maximum Credits 5

  
  • JOUR 620 Local Government & Politics Seminar


    Students research and reflect on the local government and political issues and develop historical and policy-oriented context for stories on critical public issues such as housing, transportation, education and public safety.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6615
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 623 Government and Politics Seminar


    Students research and reflect on local, state and national government issues related to their reporting courses and develop historical and policy-oriented context for stories and assignments on critical public issues such as politics, housing, transportation, and public safety. (This is a required core course in the Journalism Graduate Program).

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6616
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 627 InfoSearchStrategies


    Demonstrations and practical experience in advanced reporting techniques including interviewing, using public documents, and analyzing data.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6620
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 630 Public Affairs/State


    This course provides knowledge and practice in covering state affairs by various beats, including the elective offices and numerous departments, agencies, authorities, boards, and commissions.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6630
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 634 State/National Govt Seminar


    Lectures and sessions outside the newsroom with government officials, legislators, lobbyists, and other experts prepare students for covering state and national government operations, including executive functions, the legislative process, the judiciary, regulatory activities, and the roles of politics and lobbying.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6635
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 638 Public Affairs/National


    Students continue expanding their knowledge of national affairs and put into practice what they have learned by covering the major federal offices with regional headquarters in Chicago. These include the major Cabinet-level departments like Housing and Urban Development as well as the agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue Service, and Environmental Protection Agency.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6640
    Prerequisites JOUR 630 Public Affairs/State  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 642 Foundations of Journalism


    Concentrates on the basics of news writing, reporting, copy editing, and interviewing. Students will develop the skill of crisp, objective writing as they engage in live reporting. The course will be a combination of out-of-class stories and in-class assignments done on deadline, including covering government meetings and other events. This intensive three-week course will define the professional standards expected and give students the tools to help them succeed in graduate school.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6650
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  
  • JOUR 645 Legislative & Investigative Reporting


    This course provides knowledge and practice in covering state and national affairs by assigning students to a topical beat that will involve coverage of elective offices, departments, agencies, authorities, boards and commissions. In addition students will produce an in-depth enterprise story from their beat. In the second half of the course student will apply investigative techniques to their coverage and work on a group project.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6655
    Prerequisites JOUR 617 Chicago News Bureau  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 648 Journalism Culture: Trends & Traditions


    No description available.



    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6665
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  
  • JOUR 650 Creating News Content for the Web


    This introductory Master’s workshop will demonstrate how to critique and apply social media as journalistic sources in creating online news content.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6670
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 652 Advanced Online News Production


    Students will build on preliminary practical and theoretical knowledge of new media tools to create more sophisticated news production for the web. They will acquire and implement meta data.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6671
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 654 Digital Journalism


    The Digital Storytelling course offers intensive hands-on training in multimedia news gathering and production for a range of story forms, including audio stories, video, photo essays, online writing and audio slideshows. Equipment is required for this course.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6675
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 656 Reporting & Producing TV News


    Students learn the specialized technique of writing for broadcast through intensive practice. Later, the class will simulate a day in the life of a TV newsroom operation, building to an afternoon news update. Students will rotate assignments as reporters, camera operators/editors, producer, and writer.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6710
    Prerequisites JOUR 617 Chicago News Bureau  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  
  • JOUR 658 Magazine Journalism I


    Course teaches the wide range of skills necessary to write for and edit consumer and trade magazines. It includes a brief survey of the magazine industry with emphasis on what makes some magazines succeed while others fail. Students apply this knowledge when writing several articles of varying lengths for different magazine audiences while simultaneously acting as editors for their peers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6730
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 659 Magazine Journalism II


    No description available.



    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6735
    Prerequisites JOUR 658 Magazine Journalism I  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 661 Teaching Journalism: Pedagogy & Best Practices


    Examines conceptual frameworks and practical classroom strategies for teaching journalism at a college, high school or professional workshop for adult learners. Topics include learning styles, instructional formats and practices, technology in the classroom, motivational strategies, effective assignments, assessment and evaluation techniques.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-6740
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • JOUR 690 Internship: Journalism


    Opportunities to gain work experience in areas of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward degree.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-6788
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 691 Graduate Thesis Project


    As the final requirement for the master’s degree in journalism, each candidate must complete a thesis project on a public affairs topic. The project can be a long-form story or academic article; a collection of short-form stories; a collection of broadcast reports on a related topic; or another multi-media project approved by the graduate instructor of the Thesis Project course. Students will work with one or more graduate faculty.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-6645
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
  • JOUR 696 Indep Project: Journalism


    The student, with approval of a supervising faculty member, designs an independent project to study a subject area that is not available in the journalism curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-6798
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  
  • JOUR 699 Topics in Journalism


    Students will study, interview and assist journalists who are applying their skills and training in non-traditional roles and jobs both inside and outside news organizations. The students will contribute written and multi-media elements to ongoing research about the rapidly evolving media environment and employment trends affecting the journalism field.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5570
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 101 Introduction to Literature


    Course introduces students to genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. By studying important works by writers of culturally diverse backgrounds, students gain experience in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about literature. Course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1600
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 101H Introduction to Literature: Honors


    Course introduces students to genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. By studying important works by writers of culturally diverse backgrounds, students gain experience in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about literature. Course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1600HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 103 Introduction to Literary Interpretation


    Course introduces students to key terms, concepts, and techniques of literary interpretation, with attention to questions of genre, period, and critical perspective. Students analyze selections of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and/or drama representing a range of historical periods and cultural traditions, and they learn to compose evidence-based interpretive arguments. Designed for students in English and Creative Writing.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1701
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  
    Co-requisites CRWR 110 Foundations in Creative Writing  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  
  
  • LITR 120 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction


    A survey class in Creative Nonfiction which will focus on several genres of nonfiction writing: autobiography/memoir, the essay, travel writing, aphorism, prose poetry, biography, etc. This class will introduce students to some of the larger issues in nonfiction and some of the more specific questions that arise within its sub-genres. Students will also have an opportunity to try their hands at writing creative nonfiction through exercises and/or prompts provided by the instructor.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1603
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  
  
  
  
  • LITR 201 English Authors: Beowulf to Blake


    Course surveys English literature from its beginnings to approximately 1800, with attention to its historical, cultural, and artistic contexts. Instruction focuses on such influential figures as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Behn, Astell, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2610
    HL WI
    Prerequisites  ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 202 English Authors: Romantics to Contemporary


    Course’s selected readings range from Blake and the Romantic poets to contemporary figures such as Harold Pinter. Significant writers studied may include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, the Brownings, the Brontes, Hardy, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2611
    HL WI
    Prerequisites   ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 202H English Authors: Romantics to Contemporary: Honors


    Course’s selected readings range from Blake and the Romantic poets to contemporary figures such as Harold Pinter. Significant writers studied may include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, the Brownings, the Brontes, Hardy, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence. This course is part of the Honors program and requires, at a minimum, a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher to register.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2611HN
    HL WI
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 211 American Authors: Through Dickinson


    Course examines early history of American literature, including writings by indigenous peoples, explorers, and settlers. Readings may include works by Bradstreet, Wheatley, Franklin, Douglass, Emerson, Occum, Hawthorne, Melville, Harper, Dickinson, and Whitman.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2620
    HL WI
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 212 American Authors: 20th Century to Contemporary


    Poetry, fiction, and drama in America from approximately 1877 to the present are studied. Significant writers studied may include James, Wharton, Hemingway, Cather, Chesnutt, Hurston, Stevens, Eliot, Faulkner, Welty, Wright, Bellow, and Barth.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2621
    HL WI
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 217 The Beat Generation in Literature


    This course will place the Beat writers firmly within the context of their times and trace the cultural and historical currents which shaped this body of poetry, literature, art and film. Students will explore how these writers broke with the cultural past of America and the West while also building continuities with that past. Authors studied might include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Diane Di Prima and Allen Ginsberg, among others.

    Repeatable: N
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II   or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  • LITR 221 World Literature: To 1660


    Course covers major landmarks of world literature from its beginnings to approximately 1660. Literature from the Bible, poetry, and drama by such writers as Homer, Sophocles, Sappho, Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare are represented.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2630
    HL WI
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 222 World Literature: Since 1660


    Selected readings from world’s great literature from approximately 1660 to the present are studied. Wide selection of writers may include Wordsworth, Pirandello, Sand, Beckett, Joyce, Flaubert, Camus, Kafka, and others.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2631
    HL WI
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 225 Postcolonial Literature


    Course introduces students to the literature and scholarship of postcolonialism. Students examine literature that explores experiences of colonization and decolonization as well as broader postcolonial issues such as globalism and trans-nationalism. Authors studied will vary between sections and might include figures such as Salman Rushdie, Mahasweta Devi, Chinua Achebe, Isabel Allende, Derek Walcott, Buchi Emecheta, and Zadie Smith, among others.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2760
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  
  • LITR 238 Asian American Literature


    A rotating topics course tracing the emergence and development of Asian American Literature. Course examines the artistic contributions of Asian American authors, and how they have explored issues of concern to Asian Americans. Topics may include Survey of Asian American Literature, Asian American Fiction, Asian American Theatre and Film, or others. Authors studied may include Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Lan Samantha Chang, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, and Diana Son.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2647
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 238H Asian American Literature: Honors


    A rotating topics course tracing the emergence and development of Asian American Literature. Course examines the artistic contributions of Asian American authors, and how they have explored issues of concern to Asian Americans. Topics may include Survey of Asian American Literature, Asian American Fiction, Asian American Theatre and Film, or others. Authors studied may include Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Lan Samantha Chang, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, and Diana Son. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2647HN
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 241 Spike Lee and August Wilson


    This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African-American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2707
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 243 Singleton & Hughes


    This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, play, or poetry. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2717
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  
  • LITR 260 Dramatic Literature


    Series of courses focuses on figures, periods, or movements in dramatic literature. Content includes modern American drama, which surveys twentieth-century American playwrights such as O’Neill, Odets, Heilman, Williams, Miller, Inge, and Hansberry, and experimental drama, which explores the development of experimental theater through figures such as Jarry, Beckett, Stein, Ionesco, Shepard, and Shange. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2665
    HL WI
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 260H Dramatic Literature: Honors


    This writing intensive course focuses on dramatic texts by contemporary minority playwrights. We will examine the emergence and development of ethnic American drama, looking at works by African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latino/a playwrights. We will investigate issues relating to the politics of self-representation, the ways hegemonic dominant beliefs discursively construct the Other, and the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality. We will attempt to answer some of the following questions: What is at stake in the representation of people of color and queer people on the American stage How do issues of racial conflict and sexual politics inform the seemingly neutral domestic space of families and personal relations What are the linkages between race and class in contemporary society, as depicted by these playwrights By the end of this course, students will be able to think critically about issues of race, gender and sexuality in American drama, be conversant with theoretical issues of craft and practice in theater studies, and be able to speak and write in a sophisticated, articulate manner about literature in general, and contemporary ethnic American drama in particular. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2665HN
    HL WI
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  • LITR 268 Literature on Film


    Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2690
    HU
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 268H Literature on Film: Honors


    Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. This is an Honors course and in addition to other pre-requisites, students need a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2690HN
    HU
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  • LITR 270 The Bible as Literature


    Course studies literary qualities of the Bible with attention to its poetic and narrative modes. Instruction examines ways in which Biblical literary forms, themes, and images influence American and European literature.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2672
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

 

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