Students practice writing features and news features in a workshop environment. Emphasis on developing feature writing techniques that add dimensions of emotion, human interest, and personal style to the basics learned in news writing. A continuation of Journalism 1. Students practice writing the more complex story types and learn how to report on society's primary institutions. Public affairs emphasis includes government, elections, budgets, criminal justice system, environment, labor and major issues facing the urban and suburban communities.
Students work with wire service copy and other raw copy, editing, rewriting, and copy fitting.
Required of Communications majors with a Journalism concentration in their senior year. In the fall semester, students are guided through readings and discussion of significant journalistic nonfiction writing by a Visiting Journalist. In a seminar setting, students learn to apply various modes of writing and reporting to topics of their choosing. In the spring sememster, students, working independently, prepare a major journalistic piece of writing under the supervision of the Visiting Journalist. Credit for the course is given at the end of the spring semester.