J298 Intro to Reported Narrative Writing

Sometimes the best way to tell a reported story is to tell the story, using techniques of fine fiction: character, scene, pacing, dialogue, tension, strategically-placed backgrounding. For this course we’ll do a lot of reading—articles, book excerpts, essays, graphic novel-style journalism. Most will come in the form of a two-volume reader, and we’ll focus on different aspects…

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J298 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.

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J298 Race & Journalism

Enrollment by permission only. Please email Lisa Armstrong with a note about why you would like to enroll in this class. Race is an element in most stories, whether you’re covering #blacklivesmatter protests, presidential elections or city council meetings. You can’t accurately report on anything, let alone race, without understanding this country’s history and how…

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J285 Short form Video Reporting

This class is open to second-year J-School students only doing their thesis in short form video and have successfully completed J282 and J283 in their first year.

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J284 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…

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J283 Video Reporting and Storytelling (Section 2)

This spring semester class meets twice a week and is required course for all first-year students who will continue on to the Short Form Video or Documentary thesis concentrations. You can sign-up for either section 1 or section 2. Meets Tuesdays in Rodriguez Room (127) from 9am–1pm Meets Thursdays in Production Lab (101) from 10am–1pm…

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J283 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. Meets Tuesdays in Upper Newsroom (106) from 9am–1pm Meets Thursdays in Rodriguez Room (127) from 10am–1pm It will meet twice a week. The course is structured around 2 simultaneous modules: Module 1: Technical sessions designed…

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J226 Reporting on Infectious Diseases

This course offers an accessible introduction to science reporting. Students in the course will learn what constitutes the science beat and how journalists find and report such stories. By the end of this course, you will have a robust toolkit of science reporters’ resources in your personal files. Because this is a graduate-level course, we…

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J234 Reporting on Latin America (International Travel Class)

This class is by application only, but is open to students of any track. Apply here by Tuesday Dec 13, 11:59pm: https://forms.gle/p4vZpxKkUchtBC8T7 This course is designed to teach students to work as international correspondents for the semester. Students will learn how to operate safely in an unfamiliar setting, how to be resourceful and problem solve,…

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J222 Interactive Narratives

This class is required for first-year multimedia track students. It will require producing three group projects over the course of the semester. So please plan your course schedule accordingly. What happens when narrative becomes interactive? How can journalists harness new technologies in communicating a story’s essence? This class will explore these concepts in-depth through discussions,…

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