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Journalism (JOUR) 1 JOUR 2712. Intermediate Print Reporting. (4 Credits) JOURNALISM (JOUR) This is an intermediate reporting course which focuses on developing investigative skills through the use of human sources and computer- JOUR 1701. Introduction to Multimedia Journalism With Lab. (4 Credits) assisted reporting. Students will develop beat reporting skills, source- A course designed to introduce the student to various fundamentals building and journalism ethics. Students will gather and report on actual of journalism today, including writing leads; finding and interviewing news events in New York City. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 sources; document, database and digital research; and story minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per development and packaging. The course also discusses the intersection week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal of journalism with broader social contexts and questions, exploring the instruction. changing nature of news, the shifting social role of the press and the Attribute: JWRI. evolving ethical and legal issues affecting the field. The course requires a JOUR 2714. Radio and Audio Reporting. (4 Credits) once weekly tools lab, which introduces essential photo, audio, and video A survey of the historical styles, formats and genres that have been used editing software for digital and multimedia work. This class is approved for radio, comparing these to contemporary formats used for commercial to count as an EP1 seminar for first-year students; students need to and noncommercial stations, analyzing the effects that technological, contact their class dean to have the attribute applied. Note: Credit will not social and regulatory changes have had on the medium. Four-credit be given for both this course and JOUR 1702. Four-credit courses that courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional an additional hour of formal instruction. hour of formal instruction. Attribute: JWRI. Mutually Exclusive: JOUR 1702. Prerequisites: COMM 2083 or COMM 2082 or JOUR 1701 or JOUR 1702. JOUR 1702. Introduction to Journalism. (4 Credits) JOUR 2722. Intermediate Feature Writing. (4 Credits) A course designed to introduce the student to various elements In this intermediate-level class, students will be required to report out of reporting- including writing leads and articles and finding and a number of feature stories, such as soft news stories (human interest, interviewing sources- as well as the nature of news, the social role of profiles) and news features. They will build skills by editing their own the press, and the ethical and legal issues that face it. Students are stories as well as those of their classmates. They will also study, learn encouraged to submit work to the college newspaper for possible from, and challenge an established set of writing from journalists who publication. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week blazed the path long ago, including the "masters" of New Journalism, as require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of well as those who continue to provide high-quality narrative nonfiction the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. today from a variety of viewpoints. This course will also touch upon the Mutually Exclusive: JOUR 1701. changing landscape of news publishing to help us better understand the JOUR 1761. The Power of News. (3 Credits) demand for longer features, and the spaces in which they can exist today This course studies the interaction between the American mass media, (and perhaps in the future). Students who have not taken the necessary politics and public policymaking. We will examine some of the most prior courses (JOUR 1701 or JOUR 1702) may request permission from important interactions between the press and politicians to answer the instructor to take this course. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for questions about the role of media in American society. The point of the 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation course is to demonstrate the power of news by examining in depth some per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal of the most important interactions of media and American government. instruction. After all, the media is no longer just an institution that covers the news- Attribute: JWRI. the media now actually help shape the political process as an important Prerequisites: JOUR 1701 or JOUR 1702. political institution in their own right. JOUR 2725. Writing Workshop. (4 Credits) Attributes: AMST, APPI, ASAM, FRSS, JPLH, MANR, SSCI. The writing workshop is about writing in all of its forms- press releases, JOUR 1800. Internship. (1 Credit) op-eds, movie reviews, short stories, more. There is one writing JOUR 2711. Intermediate Multimedia Reporting. (4 Credits) assignment per week. The emphasis is on writing professionally, for This course further develops the skills learned in Introduction to either online or print publications. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 Journalism focusing on how to utilize medium effectively across minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per platforms. Students will gain hands-on experience in multimedia week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal reporting, taking into account the unique strengths of each medium. instruction. Students will focus on narrative technique and reporting while learning Attribute: JWRI. the technical skills required of each platform. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attribute: JWRI. Prerequisites: JOUR 1701 or JOUR 1702 or DTEM 2421 or COMM 2082 or COMM 2083. Updated: 10-01-2021 2 Journalism (JOUR) JOUR 2735. Video Journalism. (4 Credits) JOUR 3712. The Multimedia Newsroom Experience. (4 Credits) Today, Video Journalists are offered a vast array of outlets and This is a newsroom experience course where students produce possibilities. From “basic” broadcast, to thousands of cable channels, journalism at WFUV public radio, the National Public Radio affiliate satellite TV, and the internet. From transmedia to social media, twitters station based on Fordham’s Rose Hill campus. Students will be required and texts, iThis and iThat, all the way to IMAX! What use3d to be called to attend a weekly 2.5-hour class meeting each week and will also “simply” Television News, today covers a media cornucopia.From the spend approximately 8 hours per week training and working in the most mundane, to extraordinary facts, fictions, ideas, sounds, pictures, WFUV newsroom. This hands-on journalism experience would form and effects, the sky seems to be the limit. This class will help students the core of the course. This class will provide undergraduates with bring that down to earth, to give birth to their ideas and imaginations, experience working in a professional workplace. It will provide them desires and dreams, in very concrete form. Together, we will explore the with an opportunity to work collaboratively and communicate ideas, in vision, the art, and the craft of Video Journalism, and create pieces that addition to how to research and report on deadline. During the Multimedia will (hopefully!) make people sit up, watch, and listen. Stories that will Newsroom Experience course offered in the fall, students will work at challenge them, make them think, and ideally inspire them to make their WFUV as a newscaster and/or general assignment reporter and/or an lives and the world a better place. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 interviewer for one of the station’s news programs. JOUR-3712 is the first minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per half of a year-long sequence of hands-on journalism at WFUV. Students week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal have the option of taking just the fall semester but are encouraged to instruction. commit to both fall and spring semesters, when the second half of the JOUR 2786. Sports Writing and Reporting. (4 Credits) sequence, JOUR-4712 The Advanced Multimedia Newsroom Experience, In this course, students will read from the canon of great sportswriting, will be offered. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per from print to broadcast to digital. To gain practice in this craft, students week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the will also complete original reporting assignments in a range of forms, part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. such as game story, column, feature profile, broadcast script, and live Attribute: JWRI. tweeting. The evolution of the sports genre will also be connected to Prerequisite: JOUR 2711. essential social movements, such as civil rights, women’s liberation, and JOUR 3715. Writing for Broadcast News. (4 Credits) the consequence of big money following the birth of TV. For perspective, An overview of the skills required for the writing of news stories for specific attention will be paid to the treatment of iconic modern American radio and television including hard news and features. This course is sports figures, including such seminal athletes as Babe Ruth, Muhammad designed to strengthen the student’s ability to write clearly, concisely, and Ali, Lance Armstrong and Serena Williams. Pre-Req: Introduction to accurately for broadcast, emphasizing critical thinking skills. Storytelling Journalism (Jour 1701 or COMM 2082 or COMM 2083) or permission of techniques are explored, as well as writing to film/videotape.
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