9 courses with the subject JOUR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
JOUR 210(3-3-0) Fundamentals of Journalism: This course presents the history and development of
American journalism from colonial times to the present while focusing on its relationship to technical, political, social, and technological changes in America. Specific attention will be paid to events resulting in constraints to the media, attitudes of government toward the media, changes influenced by journalists and trends in journalism.
JOUR 220(3-3-0) News Reporting and Writing I: This course is designed to help students develop their
niche for news reporting and writing. Students will be exposed to news gathering practices, write and report the news, and learn in unique styles of print as well as on-line journalism. It will explore the constant writing of news stories and emphasizes policy, principles, and concepts basic to the field of journalism.
JOUR 225(3-3-0) Layout and Design for Publication: The course is designed to provide practical
journalism experience to students who will help with the production of The Voice. Students will be writing stories, creating artwork, designing pages, and handling advertising for the school newspaper. There are no prerequisites for this course. Students are expected to work with editors of The Voice in order to receive and complete assignments. Assignments will begin immediately and progress to increasingly difficult and complex news stories.
JOUR 240(3-3-0) News Editing: This course will focus on advanced and specialized public life news
reporting for the print media. Employing sophisticated methods, including public records searches, computer-assisted reporting, and archival research, students will develop and polish their reporting and gain a greater understanding of how news is constructed in relation to institutions and people in public life. Students will learn the basis for crafting news stories that convey meaning as well as fact, and insight to the readers.
JOUR 300(3-3-0) Magazine and Feature Writing: This course works within journalistic standards to
focus on the skills needed to write topical, in-depth, human interest stories. Students learn to gather materials through interviews, research, and observation while cultivating their own writer's "voice" for the creation of comprehensive articles for publication in newspapers, magazines, Internet sites, and other media. Students will examine the discursive implications of magazine and feature writing, newspaper, radio, computer, polling, and advertising technologies. Students will assume a concrete understanding of editorial, sidebars, graphs, charts, and other supporting elements that enrich a story.
JOUR 320(3-3-0) News Reporting and Writing II: This course further develops research, organization
and composition skills for the production of professional-quality articles for publication in newspapers, magazines, Internet sites, and other media. The course will introduce students to the field of investigative journalism, including career prospects, ethical concerns, basic interviewing techniques, finding and following documented sources, and writing stories for maximum interest and impact. Students will practice organizing materials and writing with clarity and precision.
JOUR 330(3-3-0) Community Journalism: This course will examine community journalism as a defined
niche within mainstream journalism. It is designed to give students greater insight into the tools and skills needed to work at the community level. Course explores different forms of community journalism from small-town newspapers to new ideas of community, including virtual communities. This course will help students use traditional and new media tools to find sources and to report, gather, and disseminate stories of interest to specific audiences. This course will also introduce students to citizen journalism and how to interact with and leverage citizen journalists.
JOUR 400(3-3-0) Advanced News Reporting and Writing: This course covers the process of gathering
writing, editing, and presenting the news on radio and television. Subject areas embrace the changing industry, finding the news, broadcast news writing mechanics, broadcast news writing style, the interview, writing broadcast copy, color, radio news, writing for the television newscast, delivering the news, broadcast news reporting, covering assignments, reporting planned events, reporting live, ethical issues, producing, hardware.
JOUR 410(3-3-0) Investigative Journalism: This course will introduce students to the field of investigative
journalism, including ethical concerns, basic interviewing techniques, as well as basic investigative reporting techniques. Course will build on earlier reporting classes as well as delve into advanced computer-assisted public record searches and other database reporting techniques. Students will also learn how to organize materials and write compelling stories that cover not only the who, what, when, and where, but also the why, the how, and the so what.
