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