Fall 2010: RPW 262, section 01: Introduction to Journalism
NOTE: This syllabus may change as class needs dictate.
Overview and Objectives

Overview:
This course is designed as a balance between theory and application, with a critical analysis component. For the theory, we will read and discuss some underlying concepts about journalism. For the application, we will write and produce a class newsletter. For the in-between critical analysis, we will read news stories from our text and locate other news stories to critique and examine.

Course objectives are designed to enable students to:

  • develop strategies for for critical reading and analysis of texts [editorials, class discussions, news story rewrites]
  • write an effective, researched article [feature story]
  • gain experience in writing, distributing, and receiving feedback on journalistic work [class newsletter]
  • collaborate in groups and project teams [class discussions, news groups, class newsletter].


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