Students get started as free-lance magazine article writers by conceiving article ideas, interviewing, researching and writing. The course provides instruction in adjusting style and slant to reach potential readers. Students learn to sharpen writing, resolve clarity problems, and add vigor to writing. The course analyzes free-lance markets. This course covers the practices and techniques used by photojournalists on modern American newspapers.
Students take, develop and edit photographs on a weekly basis.
Weekly laboratory assignments are required. This course focuses attention on design, layout and make-up of brochures, magazine and newspaper pages, newsletters and advertisements. It stresses how to coordinate art and typography with content. This course acquaints students with federal and state public records laws. They learn where to find and how to use public records at federal, state, county and local levels.