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2.00 Credits
This two-credit course enables Journalism majors to improve essential grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills before embarking on reporting and writing courses. 2 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 WRITING AND RHETORIC I OR CMPS
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3.00 Credits
Course covers multicultural evolution of news from ancient spoken, aural, and visual forms through printed, broadcast, and online journalism of today. Major developments in news media are examined, especially American newspapers, magazines, newsreels, radio, and television, with emphasis on Chicago examples. 3 CRE DITS
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3.00 Credits
Students are instructed in legal and ethical issues that working journalists confront in the gathering and dissemination of news; First Amendment history and interpretation is highlighted. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 53-1010 INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM OR 53-2010 HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
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3.00 Credits
Course concentrates on interviewing, newsgathering, and lead-writing techniques for print and broadcast. Reporting with accuracy and objectivity is stressed. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 53-1010 INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM OR 53-2010 HISTORY OF JOURNALISM, 53-1015 REPORTING AND WRITING I
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3.00 Credits
Students will refine their interviewing, researching, and writing skills as they report in and around Chicago. The course will emphasize accuracy, objectivity, and critical-thinking skills. After successfully completing this course, students will be able to report and write clear, precise, and well-organized stories. 6 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 53-1010 INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM OR 53-2010 HISTORY OF JOURNALISM, 53-1015 REPORTING AND WRITING I COREQUISITES: 53-1016 GRAMMAR FOR JOURNALISTS
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3.00 Credits
Teaches students how to spot errors, correct English usage, improve clarity, remedy inconsistencies and redundancies, and edit stories to meet generally accepted journalistic standards and Associated Press (AP) style. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 REPORTING AND WRITING I, 53-1016 GRAMMAR FOR JOURNALISTS
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3.00 Credits
Course introduces students to technology-based news reporting techniques, ranging from library database research to computer-assisted reporting applications, such as internet search engines and analytical software. Assignments emphasize acquisition and evaluation of quality information and knowledgeable sources, using computer tools in an internetconnected news lab. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 53-1015 REPORTING AND WRITING I
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3.00 Credits
Takes students step by step through process of creating magazine articles: idea generation, research, interview techniques, structure, targeting an appropriate magazine, writing, and rewriting. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 53-2020 REPORTING FOR PRINT AND BORADCAST, 53-2030 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER-ASSISTED REPORTING OR 53-2020A REPORTING AND WRITING II
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3.00 Credits
Visual Journalism is both a theoretical and a hands-on course that immerses students in all aspects of the visual side of print journalism, including typography, photography, illustration, informational graphics, design, and layout. 3 CRE DITS
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