This class will be taught Fall 1999. This is the starting course for students interested in print and broadcast journalism as well as communications. This is a writing intensive course. Students are expected to write something for every class. Most of the assignments are exercises from the text book, but they will also be assigned to cover speeches and meetings.
Students also learn the basics of journalism ethics and communications law.
By the end of this course students have the skills to write entire news stories that meet the standards of nearly all the newspapers and broadcast stations in the nation. I teach this course in the fall semester and sometimes in the summer. This is really a course in reporting. Students who learned how to write news stories in JRN 201 will now get a chance to work on real stories and real issues. Instead of using exercises from the book, students use interviews, documents and reports to gather the information and then write the stories.