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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisite: ITM 470) Technical aspects of information security for computer systems and networks. This course helps students understand the technologies used to design secure information systems and networks. This course is divided into six sections covering various technologies pertaining to information security. With the understanding of what security is, this course discusses access control mechanisms, methods of attack, and secure protocols. It includes how to secure telecommunications networks and the Internet. Cryptography is discussed to provide privacy and secrecy. It emphasizes physical security followed by application and system development security. This course together with ITM 470 help students prepare for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisite: 10 of the core ITM courses must be successfully completed) A capstone project for information technology application. Students work on an original and significant project that integrates concepts, principles and tools that are taught throughout the program. Grading is H, S, or U only.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisite: ITM 490A) Two-month course, meets once a week. A capstone project for information technology application. Students complete their projects and present their original and significant projects to a panel of academic and business professionals. Grading is H, S, or U only.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) This class covers the organization of news stories and their preparation for newspaper, online, TV and radio formats and the fundamentals of news journalism, including standards of objectivity, fairness and accuracy. The course focuses on how journalists report the material they ultimately need for their finished stories and provides students with the opportunity to understand what counts as news and how to write focused news stories on deadline. Students learn to identify the structure and basic ingredients of news and master different types of leads and such style conventions as the inverted pyramid, the nutgraph and other non-fiction storytelling techniques.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) This course provides an introduction to copyediting and includes the roles and responsibilities of a copy editor on a daily newspaper, which go beyond being able to spot grammatical and spelling errors in copy. Students learn how a copy editor approaches a news story and how to edit that story for clarity, sense and organization, as well as for spelling, grammar and style, and fairness. Students will edit copy and write headlines and cutlines, as well as learn the basics of layout and design.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) This course focuses on numerous aspects of interviewing for print, radio and television journalism and the variety of ways in which professional interviewers go about their work. It also includes an historical perspective of the development of interview techniques for various news media. Students will learn how to select an interview subject, prepare for an interview, conduct the interview and write an article based on their interview.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101, COM 100 or COM 220) This course covers the technological and organizational convergence that has changed the operations and workflow of many news organizations and the ways in which news content is communicated across multiple media platforms. Students will acquire familiarity with the demands of each medium, create news stories for print, audio, video, and online media platforms and be able to move content fluidly from one media channel to another.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: JRN 300, JRN 301 and JRN 305) Investigative reporting extends beyond partisan claims and counter- claims to offer verifiable facts that can be found in court documents, state or company reports. Such news stories require collecting enough evidence to allow an editorial judgment to be made about whether what people say is, in fact, true. Students will learn how to select an appropriate investigative topic, narrow the focus of a story from a broad subject to a suitable topic, and to conduct the "shoe-leather reporting" that is needed todiscover a story's shape and weight. Students will come up with questions, determine whom they will need to interview, conduct the reporting, and then finish by writing an in-depth piece in several drafts that illuminates the chosen subject.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Beat Reporting is an advanced course that focuses on adopting a news beat or coverage area by developing and cultivating sources, researching sources, conducting interviews, reporting objectively and writing tightly using the inverted pyramid as the primary style. The course will explore the traditional news beats including city hall, the police, the courts, the military, the environment, religion, education and health. In addition, students will investigate emerging beats such as personal finance, technology, and entertainment, and beats specific to regions of the country, such as aviation, space, and immigration.
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4.50 Credits
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) Feature Writing is an advanced course that focuses on the art of writing features for newspapers, magazines, online publications and other media outlets. The course will teach students how to spot creative ideas for features and how to turn these ideas into stories that others will want to read, hear, or watch.
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