Students conduct interviews with health and science professionals and do extensive analysis of popular publications to help identify styles and topics used. Basic writing skills necessary. This course examines homicide from crime scenes to autopsies, from investigations to trials. Guest lecturers include detectives, medical examiners, prosecutors, and defense lawyers, judges, and criminologists. They explain high-tech forensics, the First Amendment, the right to province, and why the most heinous murderer deserves a fair trial.
Crime victims tell how the crime never ends.
Ellen Harris Women have played a critical role in the history of American journalism and the news media. This course will profile influential women, including Ida Tarbel, Dorothy Thompson, Gloria Steinem, Frances Fitzgerald, Katherine Graham, Barbara Walters, and Tina Brown. Students will explore the past and current role of women working as journalists, what barriers they have faced and overcome, and how they work as professional journalists today. In-class visits by local journalists. Ava Ehrlich A course where you can watch TV, and learn about a dynamic, powerful medium that has changed the way society works and influences others.