J219 – Sports Reporting

This is a five-week mini course that covers how to report sports news. It may include game stories, but our primary interest in this class will center more on sports features, and generally presenting sports stories in a way that is accessible to a wider audience. This class could touch on narrative techniques, the intersection of race and education in sports, ethics when reporting sports topics, and how to find human stories within a wide range of competitive gaming topics. This is a mixture lecture/seminar course that will require one final project related to sports reporting.