Courses here are listed in order by number. Core course in reporting and writing on which much of the students' work is built. Using metropolitan new York as a laboratory, students cover a variety of news events. Street reporting is supplemented by weekly deadline writing exercises under the supervision of the faculty and by home assignments designed to familiarize students with material they will encounter in professional work. Subject area competence is stressed.
Weekly sessions explore such topics as criminal justice, politics, science and health, and others.
Weekly seminars review student work and examine the craft. The working unit is a section of 16 students under the direction of two instructors, one an adjunct instructor from the city's working press. Seeks to blend instruction in the craft and in the substance of journalism so that, on completion of the course, students are accurate, clear, and complete in their writing, can meet a deadline, understand how to gather and to verify material, report in a fair and balanced manner, and have an understanding of several subject areas that are essential to reporting. Students are expected to keep current with the news by reading newspapers and watching newscasts. They should know about the city of New York and about the reporting and writing techniques they will use to cover the city.