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Course Criteria
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One unit. Intensive participation in the student newspaper in the area of writing. Students will complete articles assigned by the instructor, who will grade them. Not required of staff members of student publications, but recommended for English majors with a minor in Journalism. May be repeated. Prerequisite: completion of the English composition requirement. Offered fall and spring semesters.
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One unit. An introduction to newspaper and magazine writing, including news, feature articles, and editorials. Offered fall and spring semester.
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One unit. Students will learn the elements of newspaper and magazine design by exploring such programs as Photoshop and QuarkXPress, and will learn how to combine photographs, graphics, and type for a successful page layout. In addition, students will learn editorial technique, including copy editing and headline writing. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
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One unit. Preparation for successful writing for both newspapers and magazines. Extensive classroom editorial sessions. Attention to techniques of style, organization, lead writing, use of quotes and attribution, ethical questions, generating article ideas, and surveying contemporary magazine outlets. Emphasis on covering trends in the arts, politics, popular culture, and social issues. Human interest stories, interviews, profi les, in-depth investigative, and how-to articles also explored, according to the student's interests. Attention to proposals and correspondence with editors, and identifying marketing of fi nal copy. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
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One unit. The art and craft of reviewing theatre, dance, recordings and concerts, restaurants and cuisine, television and fi lm, new books and magazines, exhibits, and a variety of culture events. The course will focus on freelance techniques for devising story ideas, researching publications, proposing story ideas to editors, writing letters of inquiry, and completing assignments. Students will contribute articles to the Wagnerian. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years.
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One unit. An introduction to the craft and business of sports writing, with emphasis on conceiving, researching, drafting, and revising marketable sports stories. Students learn to prepare feature columns, Profi les, interviews, and editorials for both newspapers and magazines. Readings in the New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, Sports Illustrated, and other publications, as well as in collections of contemporary sports writers. Assignments include news coverage of Wagner College sports as well as local professional teams and events (live and televised). Emphasis on publishing in the Wagnerian and freelancing for commercial outlets. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of the instructor. Offered as required.
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One unit. An exploration of the codependent relationship between these two fi elds. Students will learn how news people rely on PR people for story ideas and information, and how PR people rely on news people to bring credibility and success to their concepts. They will learn how to market an idea creatively, prepare press releases from press kits, and deal with reporters and editors from the PR angle. They will also learn how to identify and develop a story idea from a press release, and become profi cient in handling "rewrites. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of the instructor. Offered fall semester of oddnumberedyears.
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One unit. Newspaper editors make tough calls every day, based on a professional code of ethics that differs from newspaper to newspaper. What's un-publishable for one is frontpage news for another. This course explores ethical issues including sensationalism, libel and slander, the right to privacy, confl icts of interest, and the blurring line between journalism and entertainment. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of instructor. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years.
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One unit. This course traces journalism from the primitive days of wooden type, invented by the Chinese, to the implications of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press and the computerized complexities of the fi eld today. Students will read articles by some of America's earliest reporters (Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe) and study how writing styles, topics, and newspaper design have changed through the centuries. A collection of old newspapers will be used to illustrate the changes. Prerequisite: JR 261 or permission of the instructor. Offered as required.
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One unit. Part-time, on-the-job experience at a New York area newspaper, magazine, television network, or public relations outlet. Prerequisites: JR 261, minimum 2.5 GPA in the major, and approval of the advisor to the journalism minor. Offered as required.
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