COMM 275 Interviewing

Effective interviewing enables you to obtain information, capture dynamic quotes and incorporate personalities into a story. In this course, students develop skills and strategies, including how to land an interview, thoroughly research the topic and subject, get the subject to open up and offer candid responses, handle follow-up questions, and select and edit quotations. These techniques apply to documentary practices of all kinds in journalism, audio, fiction, creative nonfiction, marketing and other fields.

Repeatable: N
Formerly 41-2730
Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B or ENGL 111 Foundations of 21st-Century Writing or ENGL 111H Foundations of 21st-Century Writing: Honors or ENGL 121 International Foundations in 21st-Century Writing or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3