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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02341 On-Camera Field Reporting provides the fundamentals of reporting and includes writing, TV news photography, editing, gathering sources, and on-camera presentation. Students will gain extensive hands-on experience that will prepare them to work in any television market.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02205 This course teaches students basic reporting and writing skills. They learn newspaper style and use a computer to write basic stories that deal with accidents, obituaries, construction, statistics, speeches, interviews and polls. Students also learn how to write humorous stories and how to rewrite news releases. Students take weekly spelling and style quizzes to sharpen writing skills.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02310 This course stresses government reporting. Students learn about the Sunshine Law and how to deal with government sources. They use a computer to write stories about governing bodies, zoning and planning boards, school boards, budgets, arrests, hearings, arraignments, indictments and trials. Students cover a local community and write various meeting stories.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02311 Designed to develop competence in the writing of features, editorials, sports, reviews and columns, the course offers students ample opportunity to become familiar with each journalistic form through writing.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 45 credits required Students get started as freelance magazine article writers by conceiving article ideas, interviewing, researching, and writing. The course provides instruction in adjusting style and slant to reach potential readers. Students learn to sharpen writing, resolve clarity problems, and add vigor to writing. The course analyzes freelance markets. Students submit work for publication.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 45 credits required This course covers the practices and techniques used by photojournalists on modern American newspapers. Students take digital photographs and edit in Photoshop. Weekly laboratory assignments are required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 45 credits required This course focuses on design, layout and make-up of brochures, magazine and newspaper pages, newsletters, and advertisements. It stresses how to coordinate art and typography with content. A workshop approach is used to show students how creativity in design can increase the effectiveness of communication. Students learn how to work with the QuarkXPress program on the Macintosh computers to achieve effective layout.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02310 This course acquaints students with federal and state public records laws. They learn where to find and how to use public records at federal, state, county, and local levels. Students investigate property records, records on public officials and business and nonprofit records. They use this and other information to write long-form journalism articles.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02205 Media Ethics examines decision-making in media professions. The course examines the moral aspects of media conduct, and helps the student develop a more complete understanding of not only the historical background of ethics, but how the interplay of politics, science, economics, law, philosophy, and other disciplines have influenced the way we view right and wrong. The course also strengthens analytical skills as they relate to ethical decisions, cultivating a perception of how media professionals come to a decision and the many factors that influence that decision.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: JRN 02310 This course provides training in the necessary skills students must demonstrate to obtain entry level employment as news reporters and editors in radio. Students learn broadcast writing and reporting techniques. The course is designed primarily for those interested in newscasting as a career.
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