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. Required for Communication majors with a Journalism concentration in their senior year.
Students create individual book publishing projects and invent a magazine as a group project.
Finished book and magazine dummies are prepared by using Page-Maker desktop publishing software. Magazine project requires students to serve as editors for articles written by students.