2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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JOURN 126 - Introduction to Journalism II



5.0 Credits
Continuation of JOURN 125. Students will comprise the writing staff of the campus newspaper, The Triton Review. Article assignments will include news and feature stories, editorials and reviews. Some introduction to layout and design.
Prerequisite JOURN 125.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Build on skills established in Journalism 125 to integrate critical thinking, reading, and writing independently to locate, research, analyze, evaluate, and use various kinds sources.
  2. Demonstrate advanced techniques and methods for gathering information
  3. Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by independently using rhetorical principles and journalistic concepts in varied, complex ways.
  4. Apply composition principles and journalistic concepts independently by connecting ideas coherently, explaining them thoroughly, and arranging them logically in major news stories.
  5. Demonstrate writing processes by independently choosing and applying suitable strategies to different writing stages, such as idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
  6. Apply journalistic conventions for sentence-level writing and use AP style independently for formatting, documenting, and managing multiple sources of various kinds.
  7. Describe and evaluate journalism theories, trends, and evaluate both print and electronic publications for content and design.
  8. Demonstrate interview skills, write in a range of journalistic modes, and apply journalistic ethics.
  9. Demonstrate ability to meet the deadlines and demands of a regular production schedule.



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