J200 Reporting the News (Section 2)
This course is an intensive 15-week research and workshop experience. It provides the foundation for the rest of the curriculum offered at the J-School. 200 Stresses hard news reporting, writing, and editing. In small classes faculty members with extensive experience in newspaper reporting work to develop the scope and quality of the reporting and writing…
Read MoreJ283 Video Reporting and Storytelling (Section 2)
This is a required course for all students who will continue on to the short form video or Documentary thesis concentrations. It will meet twice a week. The course is structured around 2 simultaneous modules: Module 1: Technical sessions designed to promote advanced proficiency in several technical production skills critical to the process of video…
Read MoreJ222 Interactive Narratives
Welcome to Interactive Narratives! This course will explore how digital narratives are reported, designed, produced, and consumed in digital formats. This is an ever-changing field with new and old technologies evolving constantly. The goal of this course is to understand how media professionals can best utilize any new technologies to meaningfully enhance a story. We…
Read MoreJ219 Narrative Longform Master’s Project Seminar
This class is for second years only and is a continuation of those who were already enrolled in the fall semester. This course meets every other week. News is news: “US, Canada Go To War; Naval Battles in Great Lakes” or “J-School Lecturer Nabbed in Bank Heist.” A reader will read to the end of…
Read MoreJ298 Audio Capstone for Audio Master’s Students
This is a class for second-year audio students to help facilitate their audio theses. Through the course, students will continue working on crafting their audio theses, hear from guest speakers, and workshop and review their work.
Read MoreJ276 Intermediate Audio
This class is the next sequence for first-year audio track students who took the Audio J200 with Shereen. The goal of this class is to produce captivating, narrative, long-form audio stories. Students will learn the fundamentals of creative audio, including: finding, mapping and planning narrative stories; successfully pitching major radio programs and podcasts; interview skills;…
Read MoreJ298 Climate Story Lab: Food, Water and Equity in California (by application)
Since this class will be supported by external funding, this class requires an application to be accepted. Please fill out this application by Sunday Oct 29, 2023 at 9pm Pacific to be considered. This is an application to be considered to take the “Climate Story Lab: Food, Water and Equity in California” class at the…
Read MoreJ285 Short Form Video Reporting Master’s Project
This class is open to second-year J-School students only doing their thesis in shortform video and have successfully completed J282 and J283 in their first year.
Read MoreJ284 Documentary Production
Journalism 284 is the second semester of a year-long intensive documentary production workshop where second-year students develop and produce their thesis films. Students combine rigorous research and reporting with cinematic storytelling, and we work with the styles of cinematography, lighting, sound, and editing unique to documentary film. Guest filmmakers may conduct master classes on various…
Read MoreJ283 Video Reporting and Storytelling (Section 1)
This is a required course for all students who will continue on to the short form video or Documentary thesis concentrations. It will meet twice a week. The course is structured around 2 simultaneous modules: Module 1: Technical sessions designed to promote advanced proficiency in several technical production skills critical to the process of video…
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