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Apr 23, 2024
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JOURN 125 - Introduction to Journalism I
5.0 Credits
Supports student-writing staff of the campus newspaper, The Triton Review. Covers fundamental journalism techniques, e.g., writing news and feature stories, editorials and reviews. Explores digital and Web-based journalism, including gathering, creating and posting multi-media content. Addresses basic layout and design. Prerequisite: Placement in ENGL& 101 (was ENGL 105).
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Integrate critical thinking, reading, and writing independently to locate, research, analyze, evaluate, and use various kinds sources. [REASON]
- Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by independently using rhetorical principles and journalistic concepts in varied, complex ways. [REASON]
- Apply composition principles and journalistic concepts independently by connecting ideas coherently, explaining them thoroughly, and arranging them logically in major news stories. [COMMUNICATE]
- Demonstrate writing processes by independently choosing and applying suitable strategies to different writing stages, such as idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. [COMMUNICATE]
- Apply journalistic conventions for sentence-level writing and use APA style independently for formatting, documenting, and managing multiple sources of various kinds.[COMMUNICATE]
- Describe and evaluate journalism theories and trends. [REASON]
- Demonstrate interview skills, write in a range of journalistic modes, and apply journalistic ethics. [ACT]
- Evaluate both print and electronic publications for content and design. [REASON]
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