J216 Multimedia Master’s Project Workshop
This is a class only for second-year multimedia students working on their master’s project. This is a two-semester class. In this course, students will: Participate in critical discussions of best practices in multimedia storytelling and topics in new media publishing so students are prepared to work in and take on leadership roles at digital news…
Read MoreJ213 Visual Storytelling: Realeyes Magazine
An in-depth documentary story telling class where students will work photographing and investigating problems facing California and its people as well as finding uplifting stories of its communities, and will try to visually document the causes and affect, issues such as immigration, schools, homelessness, urban sprawl, development, injustice, individual determination etc. You will work throughout…
Read MoreJ210 Intro to Photojournalism
An exploration of journalistic photography as applied to newspaper, magazine, visual multimedia and the photo essay. The primary goal of the course will be to emphasize the technical aspects in journalistic photography such as composition, editing, and presentation and to support student’s exploration and growth as visual journalists. Students will be working on weekly assignments…
Read MoreJ201 Local Enterprise Reporting
Students will join the corps of local news reporters across the country whose work informs communities and holds governments accountable. You will cover local government in Richmond and Oakland, developing enterprising and investigative stories. This is a hands-on training ground, with the instructor acting as more of an editor. You will be expected to meet…
Read MoreJ298 Covering the Election
This course will explore how to cover campaigns and elections — in the middle of the 2024 campaign and election cycle. Students will learn the basics of how to cover candidates and campaigns: how to source, how to avoid being spun, and how to connect campaign rhetoric with the pressing issues that shape people’s daily…
Read MoreJ298 Dean’s Fellows Seminar
J284A Documentary and Short-Series Workshop
J284A is the first semester of a year-long, immersive workshop where second-year students produce, shoot, and edit their Thesis Projects. In J284A, the classroom is transformed into a professional workshop space where students learn advanced visual storytelling concepts and engage in practices modeled after the field. Students pitch projects in a pitch forum, write detailed treatments, conduct…
Read MoreJ264 Open Source Investigations (OSINT)
In this foundational investigations course, students will use legal, reporting and digital research methods to investigate a series of human rights issues for real-world partners. The outputs will be journalistic, including a series of audio, written and/or visual stories. For 2024-2025, the investigation and resulting publications will be designed to bring broad attention to environmental…
Read MoreJ298 Developing Your Blockbuster Investigative Story
This class is limited to students approved through last year’s J260 Investigative Seminar. This is an intense year-long seminar that aims to help students conceive, execute and publish ambitious investigative journalism with the full support of the Investigative Reporting Program. Students are challenged to identify an investigative project they are passionate about and then they…
Read MoreJ215 Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling
This class teaches the fundamentals of multimedia storytelling covering topics around digital video, audio, photography, graphics and how these media forms work in concert with text. The class is designed to expose students to what it is like to report in a multimedia environment. While primarily for students taking new media publishing courses, the class…
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