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  • 4.00 Credits

    Take a behind-the-scenes look at TV news magazines and documentaries with a focus on research, reporting, and production techniques. Explore how to put together longer-form stories from the initial pitch to the final product. Examine the importance of character development and dramatic storytelling. Understand effective management practices from controlling budgets to directing personnel. Prerequisite: JR 419. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Learn about the magazine as a journalistic form. Originate, research, and write articles, and attempt to market them to professional outlets. Critique the magazine industry, from analyzing editorial decisions to understanding the importance of niche and audience. Prerequisite: JR 460. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Understand the mass media in other countries. What are they like? What are their differing philosophies? How do their practices differ? Examine concepts of press freedom, media conglomeration and globalization, and the use and impact of new media technologies. Go online to communicate with other journalists around the world and to monitor international news and issues. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Two approaches may be offered. One focuses on the range of issues faced by media managers. Examine operations, personnel recruiting, training and evaluation, newsroom skills development, ratings, budget control, use of new technologies, and planning. The other focuses more directly on women and media management and involves conducting case studies and developing career strategies and leader profiles. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Examines the history of propaganda and its relationship to journalism. Look at propaganda during war, in political campaigns, and in coverage of business and entertainment. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Develops background knowledge and expertise in a specialized area of journalism. Topics vary from semester and year and explore various aspects of journalism theory and practice. Course category is reserved for courses being introduced on a one-time or developmental basis. Prerequisites vary with topic. Designated for seniors and graduate students only. (Semester varies)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Create a series of multimedia stories for a personal portfolio of online journalistic work. Learn advanced tools for creating interactive stories to produce immersive journalistic stories. Use text, video, audio, and photos to produce journalistic stories that are difficult to tell in print or broadcast alone. Prerequisite: JR 408.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Refine and further develop ENG or producing skills at an advanced level with the goal of putting together a professional portfolio by semester's end. In addition to completing a body of work, students are expected to engage in in-depth research and critical analysis. Prerequisite: JR 419.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Explores and tackles the challenges of depth reporting about issues of government and civic life. Prepare print, online, or radio news reports related to Massachusetts state government and local municipal government for outlets throughout the state, culminating in a portfolio of best work. Gain some expertise in the workings of state and city government through readings, trips, and lectures. Prerequisite: JR 404 or JR 419.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Learn to produce all facets of the Journalism Students' Online News Service (JSONS). Use the city and the College as a news laboratory to write news in text form and produce audio and video news stories. Work as editors to process the news for the daily news site. Work individually and in teams, utilizing state-of-the-art Internet-ready equipment to produce journalism in a "newsroom without walls" environment. (Semester varies)
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