A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbers 281 are offered primarily for lower-level undergraduate students. Introduces students to the principles, practices, programs, and possibilities in the various areas of public relations. Includes traditional paste-up and desktop publishing in the design of ads, newspapers, newsletters brochures, and magazines. JN220 Stresses basic practices such as copyediting and headline writing while also focusing on guidelines for improving accuracy, clarity, transition, spelling, and punctuation of copy.
Students use wire service stylebook extensively.
A current events course, this is a critical study of news and its relationship to the mass media and the public. Seminar and discussion format. 120 or 220 Students examine critical case histories of ethical and professional situations and circumstances in the mass communication industry in a lecture and discussion format. JN220 Emphasizes skills for covering, writing, and editing of sports and introduces students to specific practices in newspaper, radio-TV, and sports information work. Survey of the major Supreme Court and state court rulings governing the mass media, especially the news media.