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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Journalism
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Bachelor of Arts
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53-1010 Journalism 101
Course is designed to inform and inspire students about the important public service role of journalism in a democratic society, including the rights and responsibilities protected under the First Amendment. As technology advances, journalists must be grounded in the history of the profession and its enduring standards and values. Students will become more sophisticated media consumers as they prepare to become professionals in this evolving field. Students will also be introduced to a broad array of journalism careers, through guest speakers, presentations, and occasional field trips.
3 Credits
53-1011 Introduction to Journalism
This course will explain the changing media landscape to new journalism students, present them with a spectrum of journalistic philosophies, prerogatives, rights under the Constitution, and ethical and legal limits on those rights, and will introduce them to reporting and writing skills through hands-on in-class and out-of-class assignments.
4 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I
53-1015 Reporting and Writing I
Course introduces students to writing and reporting skills used in all major media formats, with an emphasis on newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. Writing exercises are combined with field reporting so that students gain practical experience. This course is designed to give students a solid foundation for further studies in print, broadcast, or online journalism. Non-Journalism Majors seeking a Writing Intensive credit may enroll in this course with Permission of the Department of Journalism. Equipment is required for this course. Refer to www.colum.edu/Academics/Journalism/Equipment Guide/ for details.
3 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-1010 Journalism 101 and 53-1016 Grammar for Journalists or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-1010 Journalism 101 and 53-1016E Grammar for Journalists: Enhanced or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-1010 Journalism 101 and Grammar for Journ Placement Test score >= 28 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-2010 History of Journalism COREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
Students in this sophomore-level class serve as reporters and writers for The Columbia Chronicle, the college’s award-winning weekly newspaper and its website. The class has learning objectives that parallel those of Reporting and Writing I (53-1015) and it may be substituted for Reporting and Writing I. Half the class time is devoted to an accelerated introduction to the fundamentals of journalism, and the other half to carrying out Chronicle assignments. Students receive the same training they would receive in Reporting and Writing I, but also gain hands-on experience in writing and reporting stories intended for publication and interact extensively with student editors. This class is also open to a limited number of photography majors interested in photojournalism and building their portfolios. Equipment is required for this course. Refer to www.colum.edu/Academics/Journalism/Equipment Guide/for details.
3 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-1010 Journalism 101 and 53-1016 Grammar for Journalists or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-1010 Journalism 101 and 53-1016E Grammar for Journalists: Enhanced or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-1010 Journalism 101 and Grammar for Journ Placement Test score >= 28 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 53-2010 COREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-1016 Grammar for Journalists
Two-credit course enables Journalism majors to improve essential grammar and punctuation skills before embarking on reporting and writing courses. Score of 21 to 27 on Journalism Department Grammar Proficiency Test
2 Credits
53-1016E Grammar for Journalists: Enhanced
This two-credit course enables Journalism majors to improve essential grammar and punctuation skills before embarking on reporting and writing courses. This enhanced version of the course offers students more curricular support via smaller class size and individual teacher-student conferences. Students are required to meet regularly with a Journalism Department tutor. Score of 0 to 20 on the Journalism Department Grammar Proficiency Test.
2 Credits
53-1017 Editing Essentials
This foundational course teaches students how to improve grammar, punctuation and spelling skills, while learning how to spot errors, correct English usage, sharpen copy’s clarity and conciseness, remedy inconsistencies and redundancies, and edit stories to meet generally accepted journalistic standards and Associated Press (AP) style.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1010 Journalism 101 CONCURRENT: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-1020J Smartphone Photojournalism
This is a hands-on class focusing on the technical, aesthetic and journalistic skills needed to produce images with a smartphone for publication of news and feature photography.
1 Credits
53-1100J Place, Process and Portfolio: Travel Stories
This multidisciplinary class engages students in all departments in the travel-writing skills of research, exploration and documentation. Students will examine what they see, hear and read and collaborate to create a multidisciplinary portfolio of work based on their travel experiences. Their final projects will be mounted in an exhibit on campus.
3 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-1101J The Living News
THE LIVING NEWS is a hands-on, intensive, and collaborative seminar fusing Theater and Journalism. This course is sparked by The Federal Theater Project’s Living Newspapers of the 1930’s – dynamic theatrical productions created by teams of journalists and theater artists, designed to challenge audiences to consider complex social and political issues of the day. Adopting the same collaborative structure, the ensemble of students will create a brand new Living Newspaper – selecting and refining a topic, researching and news-gathering, conducting direct, in-the-field interviews, holding intensive writing sessions leading to a draft theatrical script, and rehearsing and performing a public staged reading. Students will sharpen interdisciplinary skills in questioning, exploring, evaluating, and communicating as they study, and ultimately enter into the social politics of our day. Participants will address larger questions of integrative inquiry, considering how their individual creative and scholarly perspectives can contribute to the larger academic and civic dialogue.
3 Credits
53-1105J The Living News
THE LIVING NEWS is a hands-on, intensive, and collaborative seminar fusing Theater and Journalism. This course is sparked by The Federal Theater Project’s Living Newspapers of the 1930’s – dynamic theatrical productions created by teams of journalists and theater artists, designed to challenge audiences to consider complex social and political issues of the day. Adopting the same collaborative structure, the ensemble of students will create a brand new Living Newspaper – selecting and refining a topic, researching and news-gathering, conducting direct, in-the-field interviews, holding intensive writing sessions leading to a draft theatrical script, and rehearsing and performing a public staged reading. Students will sharpen interdisciplinary skills in questioning, exploring, evaluating, and communicating as they study, and ultimately enter into the social politics of our day. Participants will address larger questions of integrative inquiry, considering how their individual creative and scholarly perspectives can contribute to the larger academic and civic dialogue.
3 Credits
53-1122J So You Want to be a Movie Critic ?
This three-week writing workshop focuses on sharpening the tools of arts criticism, and how to apply those tools to writing about film. Particular emphasis will be placed on researching and writing reviews. This class will focus on movies of different eras, from His Girl Friday and Amadeus to The Bourne Ultimatum and There Will Be Blood as the instructor and students discuss research, adaptation, screen acting, direction, editing and musical scoring. The goal is to describe what is seen, and felt, and why; and to better inform an opinion worth reading.
1 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-1500J Journalism that Changed the World: Jane Jacobs’ Text & The City
This seminar course involves a close reading of primary sources of Jane Jacobs( 1916-2006) –her newspaper and magazine articles and investigative reports. Her reporting and writing styles will be examined along with contextual information from biographies, documentaries and conferences about her influence, contributions and legacy. Prerequisite: Writing & Rhetoric I
1 Credits
53-1510J Journalism Images for your Portfolio
This course examines the role of imagery as an interpretation of journalism information. Students will visually translate information, features stories and opinion columns, and produce images through a means of their choice: photography, illustration or mixed media. This course offers a unique opportunity for students to work on real pieces of information for print and online and build a portfolio.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-2010 History of Journalism
Course covers multicultural evolution of news from ancient spoken, aural, and visual forms through printed, broadcast, and online journalism of today. Major developments in news media are examined, especially American newspapers, magazines, newsreels, radio, and television, with emphasis on Chicago examples.
3 Credits
PL
53-2015 Media Ethics and Law
Course instructs students in legal and ethical issues that working journalists confront in the gathering and dissemination of news; First Amendment history and interpretation are highlighted.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2010 History of Journalism or 53-1010 Journalism 101
53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast
Course concentrates on interviewing, newsgathering, and lead-writing techniques for print and broadcast. Reporting with accuracy and objectivity is stressed.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I and 53-2010 History of Journalism or 53-1010 Journalism 101 and 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I
Requirements Department Permission
53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
Course helps students refine their interviewing, researching, and writing skills as they report in and around Chicago. The course will emphasize accuracy, objectivity, and critical-thinking skills. After successfully completing this course, students will be able to report and write clear, precise, and well-organized stories. Students also learn the basics of multimedia reporting. Equipment is required for this course. Refer to www.colum.edu/Academics/Journalism/Equipment Guide/for details.
6 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-2025 Copy Editing
Essential course teaches students how to spot errors, correct English usage, improve clarity, remedy inconsistencies and redundancies, and edit the story to meet generally accepted journalism standards and Associated Press style.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1016 Grammar for Journalists or 53-1016E Grammar for Journalists: Enhanced
53-2030J Digital Storytelling
The Digital Storytelling course offers intensive training in multimedia news production, from newsgathering for multimedia to hands-on instruction with hardware and software to produce stories. Students will be organized into two-person teams to report on a pre-arranged story in Chicagoland and then construct a multimedia package based on that coverage after learning production basics.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-2035J Truth and Beauty: Covering the Cosmetics Industry
This course offers prospective journalists a multi-dimensional look at the billion dollar personal care Industry, focusing on the science and marketing behind these products. Students will meet and interview cosmetic scientists, entrepreneurs, beauty bloggers and editors, b-to-b editors, manufacturers, representatives, retailers, makeup artists and publicists to identify news sources, topics and continuing controversies in this field. The object is to better understand these perspectives and integrate them into informative, multi-sourced, substantive reporting, which will be captured in the students’ blogging assignments.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-2115J Sports Reporting & Social Media
Sports Reporting and Social Media allows students to practice and develop skills for covering athletics via the emerging new platform avenues the name infers by attending events and using these avenues in real time.
2 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-2116 Blogging: Beyond the Basics
Anyone can blog; this course will teach you how to blog well. Students from throughout the School of Media Arts work in teams to create and troubleshoot a custom blogging platform, identify a niche, research the editorial and advertising opportunities for that audience, report and write posts, shoot and upload relevant photos and videos, and implement blogging best practices, including ethics, copyright, links, SEO and monetization.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements 60 Credits Completed
53-2140 The World of Ethnic Media
This course will analyze the role ethnic media - newspapers, radio and television stations play in Chicago and the United States. Students will develop an understanding of the diversity of ethnic media. They will analyze ethnic news media coverage and compare it with mainstream media coverage. Students also will report and write about and for various ethnic media outlets.
3 Credits
PL
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I
53-2212J Producing NPR Features
This J-session course will introduce and explore the production values and elements of the short radio feature utilized in the award winning National Public Radio program All Things Considered. Students will work in teams to produce features that would be suitable for broadcast on NPR stations. This course will also study outstanding examples of the NPR feature reports as examples.
1 Credits
53-2215 Magazine Article Writing I
Course introduces students to the world of consumer magazines and teaches them to pitch and write a variety of types of articles, from front-of-the-book to short features. Course covers idea generation, targeting, research, interviewing, structuring, writing, and rewriting.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-2216 Data-driven Research and Analysis
This course will introduce students to data analysis, mapping and visualization tools and refine online searching and interviewing techniques so that they can more effectively research and incorporate data into their stories. Some familiarity with statistics is desirable.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-2220 Visual Journalism
Theoretical and hands-on course immerses students in all aspects of the visual side of journalism, including typography, photography, illustration, informational graphics, design, and layout. Pre-requisite: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I, or permission of instructor.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-2230 Digital Storytelling
The Digital Storytelling course offers intensive hands-on training in multimedia news gathering and production, as well as distribution through digital channels, for a range of journalism story forms, including audio, video, photo essays, online writing, social networking, and audio slideshows. Equipment is required for this course. Refer to www.colum.edu/Academics/Journalism/Equipment Guide/ for details.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-2310 Broadcast News Writing
Intended for students entering the Broadcast Journalism concentration, course teaches basic techniques for writing radio and television news scripts.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-2410 Medicine & Science in Media
Symposium-style course deals with major scientific and medical issues of public concern. Students consider how media interpret scientific information and make it relevant to lay audiences. Issues covered might include destruction to the environment, morality of euthanasia, funding of manned space travel, or nuclear policy in the post-Cold War era. Expert speakers are a course highlight.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I
53-2420 Environmental Reporting
Course will train journalists to cover the environment as it relates both to public and private actions. Human stewardship of the planet is at a crossroads. Actions taken now to reduce pollution, halt environmental depredation, and cut fossil fuel consumption will determine the Earth’s future for generations to come.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-2510 Opinion Writing
Course teaches students to write in their own voices for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast. Course includes exercises in editorial, column, and opinion writing for various media. Research required for most pieces.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-2520 Sports Reporting
Course helps students look beyond game scores into the whys behind sports developments, by interviewing Chicago-area athletes and sportswriters. Students cover games, write feature stories, and dig into news developments in the field of sports.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-2526 Intro to Fashion Journalism
Students will examine the historic and contemporary importance of fashion and its influence on the economy and culture of a country or region. Students will develop fashion writing, reporting and blogging skills. Students also will analyze the industry of fashion journalism, the business of fashion and critique fashion trends and designers.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-2535J How to Get a Job in Journalism
Course gives students an overview of the actual business of being a journalist. Students are taught how to put together a resume and design a professional Web site to contract negotiations and the life of a freelancer. Students learn about real world and work related issues as they start working outside the confines of the school or internships. Course provides excellent preparation for job seekers in the field of journalism.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-2540 Reporting for Spanish-Language News Media
Course teaches students to learn how to produce quality journalism for Spanish-language print, online, and television news media in the United States, a fast-growing market. Frequent outside reporting assignments are required. Students will learn to report and write news and feature stories across media platforms. Course in intended for bilingual students.
3 Credits
GA Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES:
53-2545 Travel Writing: Florence
Course teaches students how to craft articles for the popular Food and Travel sections of newspapers, magazines, and Web sites. Students learn the basics of these two types of service journalism, explore the practical and ethical issues, and write pieces of varying types and lengths.
3 Credits
GA
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
Requirements Permission Program Dir
53-2565J The Museum Beat:
Students will visit some of Chicago’s leading cultural institutions to report on temporary exhibits such as the Art Institute’s upcoming blockbuster Picasso and Chicago (opening February, 2013), the Museum of Science and Industry’s Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit, the Shedd Aquarium’s Jellies, the Field Museum’s dazzling Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts and its sublime Fashion in the Field Museum Collection by Maria Pinto. Students will meet museum curators and the exhibit staff who designed and built exhibits meant to educated and entertain the savvy audiences of the 21st Century.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-2570J Issues in Sports Media
Overview sports-industry course consolidating Columbia’s college-wide, sports-related curriculum in tightly knit modules taught by instructors from multiple departments.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
53-2580J Reporting Domestic Violence
The course will cover major issues in domestic violence by talking to victims, experts and professionals closely involved with the problem. The students will take field trips with the instructor to locations in Chicago. Students will learn how to report on and write about domestic violence as it affects women, children and perpetrators.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3110 Multimedia Feature Writing
Course requires that students report and write about human interest, social, and cultural events, creating stories with multimedia elements. The emphasis is on writing concise stories using descriptive writing for online publication.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3115 Investigative Reporting
Course focuses on exploring methods to track a story to its roots, emphasizing the key watchdog and spotlight functions of journalism. Students are taught how to find and report tough stories that powerful interests would rather not have revealed; gather relevant information and documentation; verify that information; and present results for various media.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast and 53-2030 or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3120 Covering Urban Affairs
Advanced reporting and writing course that teaches students how to cover city and county agencies as well as non-governmental organizations that impact urban life. Students interview agency officials, cover meetings, attend press conferences, and write news articles and in-depth pieces (including use of multimedia) that illustrate how government interacts - successfully and unsuccessfully - with neighborhoods and residents.
3 Credits
PL
Requirements 60 Credits Completed
53-3125 Covering the Courts
Course teaches students the structure of the court system and how to report on criminal and civil cases. Deadline reporting is emphasized.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3130 Interpretive Reporting
Course focuses on interpretive reporting, an advanced journalistic technique that goes beyond the who, what, where of basic reporting to the why and how to bring perspective, clarity, and insight to major news stories. Students use journalistic tools of interviewing, research, and reporting to explain relevance of major issues.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast and 53-2030 or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3210 Magazine Editing
Course teaches students consumer magazine editing skills. Students learn to research, assign, and edit short and long magazine stories for content, structure, and style; analyze and critique how magazines create an editorial mix in print and online; coach and mentor writers effectively; and package a magazine feature story with sidebars, graphics, and illustrations.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2025 Copy Editing and 53-2215 Magazine Article Writing I
53-3215 Business-to-Business Magazine Writing
Course teaches specific research, writing, and editing skills for magazines serving various industries. Students learn to cover specific businesses for specialized audiences. Course provides an excellent preparation for Chicago’s many trade publications.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3220 Magazine Article Writing II
Course develops skills acquired in Magazine Article Writing 1, concentrating on developing and marketing one short-form article, also known as a department or front-of-book piece, as well as one feature-length magazine piece. In addition to working on these stories, students read and discuss examples of long-form magazine writing and investigate immersion reporting techniques and the borrowing of literary techniques for nonfiction use.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2215 Magazine Article Writing I
53-3225 Music Journalism
This writing class focuses on the trends, personality, and culture within the multibillion-dollar music industry, against the backdrop of Chicago’s vibrant contemporary music scene.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3230 Data Visualization
This class combines theory and practice on visual journalism through graphics. It focuses on information graphics reporting and the job of the modern-day visual journalist. Students will gain experience while researching and creating different types of information graphics; including explanatory charts (bars, pies, fever, tables) maps and diagrams for both print and online media. In addition, students will learn how to find graphics potential in stories, what makes a graphic effective, and how graphics combine with other story forms into creating multimedia story packages.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2220 Visual Journalism or 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-3310 Writing & Reporting TV News
Course builds on skills taught in Broadcast News Writing by focusing on development and writing of reporter-news packages as well as news producing. Some stories written in this class are produced in 40-2601 Creating the Television News Package.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2310 Broadcast News Writing
53-3505 Narrative Journalism
Long-form magazine writing course asks students to examine and create long-form, narrative nonfiction stories targeted to specific publications. Students identify markets, conduct research and interviews, structure a story, write and rewrite that story, and participate in workshop sessions. They also study the work of contemporary narrative journalists.
3 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-3515 Online Journalism
This course introduces students to the new and varied ways to report stories online. Through two main projects, a personal blog and a team-built journalistic web site, students become fluent in the language, workflow and rigorous demands of Internet publishing.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast and 53-2030 or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3518 Mobile Journalism
From geo-locational storytelling to a full multimedia reporting suite in the palm of your hands, mobile technology is poised to change how journalism is both reported and read. This class will introduce journalism students to the challenges and possibilities inherent in the mobile medium through hands-on mobile reporting and mobile website development.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3521 Virtual Newsroom Workshop
Virtual Newsroom puts students in the role of community reporter, editor and online publisher. Students gain experience in one-man-band and entrepreneurial endeavors as they find, report, write and post digital stories to ChicagoTalks.org. They learn how to operate the dashboard of the site, and study site analytics, SEO, and social media traffic in order to increase audience engagement with the site. Non-journalism majors may take this course after a portfolio review and permission of the instructor.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-3525 Investigative Reporting Project
Seminar course offers outstanding upper-class students the opportunity to do a significant piece of professional-level reporting and writing project, with a multi-media emphasis and suitable for publication.
3 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-3535 College Magazine Workshop
Fast-paced, hands-on course allows students to put all they’ve learned into practice by producing Echo, a professional-quality magazine, in a single semester. Students assign, write and edit the articles, assign photos and illustrations, design pages, complete the book with a table of contents and coverlines, and send it to the printer.
6 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-3210 Magazine Editing and 53-3220 Magazine Article Writing II
Requirements 3.0 GPA required and Permission of Instructor
53-3536 Writing for Echo
In this course, students write short and long-form features and print and online articles for Echo, the Journalism Department’s professional-quality magazine. Student will collaborate with the magazine’s editing and design staff, who produce the magazine.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2215 Magazine Article Writing I
53-3540 Fashion Journalism
Course helps students develop fashion writing and reporting skills with an awareness of fashion history, terminology, and business. Students report on fashion shows, cover boutiques and designers, write collection reviews and trend reports, and complete a fashion news feature article.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-3550 Entrepreneurial Journalism
The future of news is entrepreneurial. Whether it’s building a news business from the ground up, or bringing a startup culture to a legacy media organization, knowing how to think entrepreneurially is a crucial skill for journalists today. This class will teach students how to conceive of a sustainable journalistic business and pitch it to real-world investors and entrepreneurs. Additionally, students will learn about funding methods, understand how journalism businesses run, and meet real-world journalism entrepreneurs.
3 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-3588 Internship: News Reporting and Writing
Course provides advanced journalism students with internship opportunities to gain work experience with online or print publications in their areas of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Internship Coord. Perm.
53-3589 Internship: Broadcast
Course provides advanced Broadcast Journalism students with internship opportunities to gain work experience in their area of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Internship Coord. Perm.
53-3590 Internship: Magazine Writing and Editing
Internships provide advanced journalism students with opportunities to gain work experience with online or print publications in their areas of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Internship Coord. Perm.
53-3598 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.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requirements Department Permission
53-3601A 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 Television Department courses 40-3621A (Producing) and 40-3317 (Direction), produce the live, twice-weekly Newsbeat.
6 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2601 Creating the TV News Package and 53-3310 Writing & Reporting TV News
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-3601B Practicum Television News: Metro Minutes
Course teaches all facets of planning and executing a local news program: story creation and assignment, research, interviewing, shooting, editing, anchoring, and stand-ups. Broadcast Journalism students report, shoot, and edit projects for Metro Minutes and serve as anchors and reporters, working in collaboration with students in the Television Department Producing Practicum.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2601 Creating the TV News Package and 53-3310 Writing & Reporting TV News
53-3602 Multi-Media Sports Reporting
Course teaches the fundamentals of developing, writing, and reporting sports stories for various media platforms. Students will put their sports stories on a Web site, as well as produce a broadcast version for Frequency TV.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2601 Creating the TV News Package and 53-3310 Writing & Reporting TV News
53-4110 The Business Beat
Course teaches students to understand and report on the economy, big and small business, financial markets, technology and media, labor, real estate, personal finance, and more.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4115 Community News
Course stresses the growing importance of local, community journalism in an increasingly complex media environment. Students cover a variety of public policy issues that affect urban neighborhoods and suburban communities, and learn to focus stories for local audiences.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4120 Covering Politics
Students will report and write about local and national political races using multimedia techniques. Employing databases, interviewing techniques and a variety of other advanced reporting skills, students will create a body of work that will help them as political reporters, editors and producers.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4410 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.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4415 Feature Writing in Science and Medicine
Course teaches students the art of creating colorful, descriptive feature stories about medical, scientific and environmental topics employing time-honored principles of narrative and expository writing. Special reporting techniques will also be discussed.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4540 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.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2520 Sports Reporting
53-4550 Reporting Entertainment News
Advanced news and business reporting course focuses on trends, personalities, and popular culture in the world of arts, entertainment, and media.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4550L Reporting Entertainment News (LA)
This advanced news and business reporting class focuses on trends, personalities, and popular culture in the world of arts, entertainment, and media.
3 Credits
53-4551L Covering the Entertainment Industries
This course examines the business organization, legal aspects and current practices of the entertainment businesses. It is intended to ground journalism students in the history, trends, terminology and challenges of the music, film, television and other entertainment businesses. It will examine how technology shapes the entertainment and news media environment. The seminar will require critical thinking and writing skills to analyze business decisions and their impact on the entertainment industries and the public discourse they influence.
3 Credits
Requirements Department Permission
53-4555 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.
3 Credits
53-4555L 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.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4570 Topics in Journalism
Course requires that students 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.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II or 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast and 53-2030
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-4570J Covering the Iowa Caucuses
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-4580J 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.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-4590 Latina Voices
Students receive intense hands-on experience in writing and reporting skills as well as the opportunity to be published on the Latina Voices Web site. The online site will feature culture and commentary pieces about Hispanic women, one of the fastest growing populations in the United States.
3 Credits
PL Repeatable
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-4610 International Reporting
Course is a practical guide to covering international stories from here and abroad. Students will analyze issues of importance in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Americans and Europe. In exploring reporting strategies for print and broadcast, students will learn to include historical perspective and provide social, economic, political, and cultural context; they will also learn to look for the human element and downplay crisis-oriented coverage.
3 Credits
GA
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2030 and 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast or 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II
53-4621J 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.
3 Credits
GA Repeatable
Requirements Permission of Instructor
53-4665J In the Field: South Loop
Students will immerse themselves in the South Loop, producing stories in a multi-media, deadline-oriented newsroom environment. This course offers a unique opportunity for students to report and write about a community and the many issues that affect residents. The emphasis will be on meeting deadlines, collaborating with others and producing multi-media work that gets published immediately.
2 Credits
PL Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 Reporting and Writing I or 53-1015A College Newspaper Workshop
53-4670 Covering Religion
This seminar focuses on news coverage of various religious groups and issues of individual spirituality, religious pluralism and politics in the United States and elsewhere. The course covers so-called ‘world religions’as well as American-born sects, along with ecumenical and interreligious movements. There will be briefings from journalists and religious leaders and field trips.
3 Credits
GA Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2020A Reporting and Writing II or 53-2020 Reporting for Print & Bcast and 53-2030
53-4670L Diversity in the Media: Gender, Race and Age in Hollywood (LA)
This course will explore how television and other entertainment media cover issues of race and ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation, age and social class and why it is vitally important in a diverse and multicultural society. We will look at how the media works and who controls it; who gets hired and promoted; and how corporate policies, government regulation, marketing, societal pressures and economic realities dictate the changing attitudes and business decisions of the media.
3 Credits
53-4755J Silent Spring: Journalism That Awoke the World
Course examines poetic, political, and polemical elements of Rachel Carson’s literary journalism as well as personal challenges the twentieth century writer faced. Her final work, Silent Spring, documented the ecological harm of DDT pesticide. Initially rejected by 15 magazines, her investigative reportage went on to become an international bestseller. Despite harsh and often sexist criticism, her findings were confirmed by the U.S. government. Her expose helped rewrite federal laws and create the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
1 Credits
53-4756 Covering the NATO Summit
3 Credits
GA
53-4840 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.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-2230 Digital Storytelling or 53-6675 Digital Journalism
53-4850 Digital Storytelling II
4 Credits
53-5110 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.
3 Credits
53-5115 Community News
This course will stress the growing importance of community journalism in an increasingly complex media environment. Students will cover a variety of public policy issues that affect urban and suburban communities, and learn to focus stories for community audiences.
3 Credits
Requirements Department Permission
53-5120 Covering Politics
Students will report and write about local and national political races using multimedia techniques. Employing databases, interviewing techniques and a variety of other advanced reporting skills, students will create a body of work that will help them as political reporters, editors and producers.
3 Credits
53-5220J 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.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 53-6610 Reprtng Public Affrs/Local
53-5410 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.
3 Credits
53-5415 Feature Writing in Science and Medicine
Students learn the art of creating colorful, descriptive feature stories about medical, scientific and environmental topics employing time-honored principles of narrative and expository writing. Special reporting techniques will also be discussed.
3 Credits
53-5520 Convergence Journlsm Wkshp
No description available.
4 Credits
53-5540 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
3 Credits
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