Overview
Description
Introduction to journalism and strategic communications in the 21st century. Learn the foundations of producing news and strategic communications: how to ethically collect, analyze, aggregate create and publish timely information to engage public audiences.
Requirements
Units
Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze types of journalistic messages and identify intended audiences and effects.
- find and evaluate the credibility of information about current events.
- apply ethical principles to the collection and publication of media.
- conduct basic reporting tasks: interviews, data collection and secondary research.
- write clearly and concisely about issues of public interest.
- create an accurate, well constructed story using words, data, and images.
- identify the role of the First Amendment and free expression in a democracy.