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  • JOUR 4050: Sports Reporting

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Students learn the principles, strategies, and techniques involved in sports reporting by analyzing a variety of sports styles and approaches and producing sports articles throughout the course. Prerequisite: JOUR 1030.
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  • JOUR 4170: Investigative Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    In this course, the advanced journalism student learns the specialized techniques of seeking out hidden, untapped news sources, and interpreting specialized data and information. Students learn the skills of investigative reporting in the beat areas of the environment, medicine, business, consumer issues, politics, elections, crime, and more. Students study major practitioners of investigative journalism, from Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Prerequisite: JOUR 2140 OR permission of the instructor.
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  • JOUR 4200: Teaching Scholastic Publications

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    This course provides an overview of teaching beginning journalism and advising high school publications. Topics discussed include: press rights and responsibilities; gathering, reporting, and editing the news; photo and electronic journalism; mass media and society; design techniques; management and business skills necessary for advising publications; and evaluation techniques necessary for grading students involved in school publications. Students learn how to write lesson plans for daily use in their journalism classes, and each student is required to submit a lesson plan including activities, and tests and projects on teaching the First Amendment. Each student submits a sample staff manual, which he/she adapts to the school publication that he/she will be advising. This course applies to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education certification of teachers of journalism in secondary education. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher post-baccalaureate certification program through the School of Education.
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  • JOUR 4220: Advanced Global Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Students learn six aspects of mass media in countries representing a spectrum of economic and political systems: the nature and treatment of the news; socialization and social control; persuasion and opinion functions; the entertainment function; the organizational and economic structure; and the concept and future of press freedom. The course incorporates the use of shortwave and satellite technology to examine international broadcasts. Prerequisite: JOUR 3080. May be repeated for credit if taken at international campuses.
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  • JOUR 4250: Methods of Teaching Secondary Publications/Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    This course provides the instruction necessary for the teacher to aid in the publication of the high school newspaper, yearbook, or broadcasting medium. Students learn the process of writing bids for selecting the printing company, and techniques needed to publish the school paper or yearbook. Students learn classroom organization, photography (both digital and darkroom procedures), assigning beats, the public relations of scholastic journalism distribution and mailing of publications, press freedom and mass media in society, advertising and business skills for teaching journalism, and newspaper and yearbook production. This course applies to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education certification of teachers of journalism in secondary education. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher post-baccalaureate certification program through the School of Education.
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  • JOUR 4380: Magazine Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Students learn the elements of magazine journalism, including research, interviewing, structure, formats, feature writing, and style. The class is conducted as a workshop, with students producing articles and critiquing the work of their peers. Prerequisite: JOUR 3300 OR permission of the instructor.
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  • JOUR 4400: Business Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Students learn the function, role, and practice of the business press, with emphasis on the strategies, style, and techniques involved in this specialized application of journalism. Students analyze business articles as well as produce a variety of written materials in this subject area. Prerequisite: JOUR 3300.
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  • JOUR 4500: Media Criticism for Publication

    3.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Students learn to research and write media analysis within a journalism format. Students learn about the techniques of writing media literacy analysis designed for popular consumption in newspapers, magazines, and online publications. Students analyze the content of news and entertainment media and prepare articles based on this research for publication. Prerequisite: JOUR 3130 Feature Writing, MEDC 3190 Introduction to Media Research, MEDC 5460 Media Research for graduate students or permission of instructor.
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  • JOUR 4610: Readings in Journalism

    1.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Prerequisites: usually junior/senior standing and permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit if content differs.
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  • JOUR 4620: Senior Overview

    3.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Webster University

    Provides an opportunity for seniors to demonstrate their proficiency in a selected area of journalism. The student assumes responsibility for the production of a writing/research project under the direction of a faculty member. Projects may include an investigative article, a story series, or a thesis. Prerequisites: senior standing, acceptance into the major through portfolio review, AND permission of the instructor.
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