CODE	NAME	DESCRIPTION
JOUR 100	News Media and Society	History and development of print and electronic media. Conflicts between the free press and other social objectives. External and internal controls affecting news media and flow of information.
JOUR 101	News Writing and Reporting	Intensive training in basic writing and reporting skills, news values, ethical practices, and research. Includes frequent writing assignments.
JOUR 203	Introduction to Visual Journalism	Allows students who have mastered the basics of newsgathering to amplify and clarify those stories with images. Production of still photos and short videos suitable for publication.
JOUR 204	Advanced News Writing and Reporting	Prepares students for digital-first, multimedia journalism and related fields. In-depth academic study coupled with practical experience in writing and reporting news articles, podcasting, data journalism, investigative journalism, beat coverage and...
JOUR 206	Journalism Law, Ethics	Case studies of ethical conflicts encountered in reporting and editing. State and federal case and statutory law affecting news media, especially libel, privacy, free expression, and "freedom of information".
JOUR 207	Editing for Print, Internet	Improving news writing through practice in copy reading, editing and discussion of news styles, grammar, usage, page design, headline writing, picture selection, news judgment, ethics.
JOUR 210	History of American Journalism	History of American Journalism from Zenger to Zuckerberg. Examines the development of the concept of fairness and objectivity; the role key personalities played in American journalism; and the role changing technology had on the way news is gathered...
JOUR 222	Turning Science into Stories	Explores the craft of turning science into stories, starting with an examination of award-winning works that will include magazine and news stories, plus quick-paced books, movies and documentaries—all of which employed a story-arc format to transfor...
JOUR 302	Public Affairs Reporting	Writing and reporting on public institutions such as police, courts, and legislative bodies. Interviewing and research using public documents. Frequent off-campus writing assignments.
JOUR 304	Seminar	Study of specialized field of reporting or writing.
JOUR 305	Photojournalism	Theory and practice of news and feature photography, properties of light and lenses.
JOUR 306	Feature and Magazine Article Writing	Research and writing of news-feature and magazine articles.
JOUR 307	Documentary Journalism	An introduction to the practice and art of documentary film.
JOUR 311	Covering Election Campaigns	Exploration of roles and responsibilities of the press in reporting on the U.S. political process.
JOUR 312	Independent Study	Enables qualified students who have completed basic requirements for major to work independently on special reporting and research projects.
JOUR 314	Literary Journalism	The development of non-fiction writing from the early 1900s to the present. Analysis of five or six nonfiction books and more than 30 long-form magazine articles by major nonfiction writers.
JOUR 370	Selected Topics in Journalism	Topics vary. Representative topics include drones in journalism, computer-assisted reporting and investigative reporting. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.
JOUR 377	Community-Based Journalism	Supervised work in writing, research, or production for media both and on and off campus.
JOUR 388	Internship	Supervised work in writing, research, or production for on- or off-campus news media. May be repeated with the consent of the instructor. Offered for pass/fail grade only. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of in...
JOUR 406	Summer Undergraduate Research	Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas...

Journalism

Department of Journalism