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Discipline: Arts: Journalism Unit
Course Name Course Number
Beginning Writing and Reporting for the Mass Media JOUR 101
  • Students will demonstrate news judgment.
  • Students will be able to identify and write summary and other leads.
  • Students will understand AP style.
Editor Training JOUR 105
  • Students will understand journalistic codes of ethics.
  • Students will edit for AP style, English, and journalistic writing.
  • Students will edit for AP style, English, and journalistic writing
Intermediate Writing and Reporting for Mass Media JOUR 102
  • Students will write an in-depth news story.
  • Students will write an in-depth news story.
  • Students will understand journalistic codes of ethics.
Introduction to Mass Communications JOUR 100
  • Students will be familiar with basic mass media law and ethics.
  • Students will understand the respective functions of the fields that comprise the mass media, advertising, and public relations.
Introduction to Public Relations JOUR 108
  • Students will understand the code of ethics in public relations.
  • Students will understand the role of public relations in media activities and related publics.
  • Students will be write and edit copy for features, newsletters, institutional publications, and other PR writing styles.
  • Write and edit copy for features, newsletters, institutional publications, and other PR writing styles
Magazine Staff Production Laboratory JOUR 103
  • Students will understand journalistic codes of ethics.
Magazine Writing and Production JOUR 110
  • Students will recognize how the magazine industry and its markets function.
  • Students will contribute to the production of the student magazine.
Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 116
  • Students will be able to construct news stories through blog and social media posts that are short and concise and follow the journalistic guidelines learned in class.
Online Media Laboratory JOUR 106
  • Students will understand journalistic codes of ethics.
  • Students will create, edit, and upload a basic podcast to the Web.
  • Students will create, edit, and upload basic a videocast to the Web.
Public Relations Internship JOUR 109
  • Students will write a public relations plan for a client.
  • Students will execute a public relations plan for a client.
Race, Culture, Gender, and Mass Media Images JOUR 107
  • Students will recognize how the mass media contributes to racial, cultural, gender, and sexual stereotyping.
  • Students will analyze how the mass media and advertising contributes to racial, cultural, gender, and sexual stereotyping.
Student Media Photography Laboratory JOUR 104
  • Students will understand journalistic codes of ethics.
  • Students will contribute to the production of the student newspaper.
Student News Media Editing Staff JOUR 115
  • Students will be able to edit news stories and information into a publishable form, with attention to accuracy, clarity, thoroughness, fairness, AP style, and media law and ethics.
  • Students will be able to edit news stories and information into a publishable form, with attention to accuracy, clarity, thoroughness, fairness, AP style, and media law and ethics.
Student News Media Staff JOUR 114
  • Students will be able to develop news and feature stories through written, visual, audio, video, or other multimedia formats.
Work Experience in Journalism JOUR 112
  • Students will understand journalistic codes of ethics.
  • Students will fulfill the requirements of their media internship contract.
Writing Broadcast and Web News JOUR 111
  • Students will understand broadcast law and ethics.
  • Students will gather news and write for radio, television, and all digital media.
  • Students will incorporate video and/or audio into a digital news story.