Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 2 hours per week. Comprehensive analysis of techniques and styles of radio commercials and public service announcements, researched news documentaries and dramatic radio plays. Also incorporates videography, tape editing. Lab component arranged. Laboratory component arranged.
Students prepare and present television newscasts for air.
Laboratory component arranged. Stresses public affairs coverage, interpretive, investigative, and analytic journalism, involving research, work with documents, public records, and budgets and specialized reporting. More advanced study of non-fiction article writing for newspapers and magazines, with emphasis on writing articles for submission to editors and on determination of markets. Research methods of utility in journalism. Emphasis on survey research, electronic data base searching, and traditional library research.