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The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Survey of journalistic principles and practices, and study and practice of methods of gathering, writing, and editing news.
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Critical analysis of the structure and dynamics of contemporary mass media and their impact on society.
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In this course, students learn why sound journalism is so important to a healthy, working democracy. Journalism is rapidly changing. The class will give a context to those changes and provide an overview of comtemporary journalistic institutions. Students will examine how news is made, who decides what news is, who makes it, who profits by it, and what rules guide how reporters and editors work. Central issues affecting journalism, such as bias and professionalism, will be discussed. The class is not specifically intended for future journalists, but students will learn why pursuing a career in journalism can be so fulfilling and thrilling, as well as becoming better consumers of the news. Also listed as Media Studies C103.
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This course is designed to introduce students to the history and craft of modern opinion writing. The primary goal is to help students sharpen their writing and analytical skills in a format that demands clarity of thought and economy of words. We'll experiment with voice and style to see how pithy, insightful, and profound we can be -- about big issues and small ones -- in commentaries on our own blog and in pieces we submit for publication. Columnists, editorial writers and OP-Ed page editors, and a radio producer will be popping in to critique our offerings. The first weeks of the class will examine the role media pundits, celebrity journalists, pollsters, and bloggers have come to play in shaping the country's political debate and policy choices. What credentials do these opinion makers have? Is their influence exaggerated by the politicians who seem so eager to curry their favor? We will raise and debate these questions and others about the media elite and that new realm known as the blogosphere.
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This interdisciplinary course applies sociological methods to understand the dramatic social consequences of the economic reforms underway in China since 1978, while examining the practical problems of how the Chinese and American media represent these developments to audiences at home and abroad. Sociological topics include change in Communist Party/state-society relations; decollectivization of the rural economy; ownership reform in the urban economy; and realization of the urban residence control system. Journalistic problems include how do attitudes toward information, censorship, and secrecy affect professional news gathering; and influences on news agendas. Also listed as Sociology C183.
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Study of the principles and practice of news editing, copyreading, headline writing, and makeup, with later emphasis on creative editing and critiques of manuscripts.
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Fundamentals of photography and taking news photography.
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An exploration of magazine photography as applied to photo essay, day assignments and book projects, as well as content based lectures (location lighting, environmental portraiture, etc.) and critiques. Students work on in-depth assignments that include research, reporting, and photographing. Legal/ethical and business issues are explored, including fund-raising and grant writing to support extended projects.
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This class teaches the fundamentals of using digital video, audio, and photo equipment, as well as editing digital files. The class is designed to expose students to what it is like to report in a multimedia environment. While primarily for students taking new media publishing courses, the class will be valuable to any student who wants to better prepare for the emerging convergence of broadcast, print, and web media.
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This class is about how to tap the power of the Internet to cover China's social and political transition and its emerging role in the global community. Students will learn about weblogs, wiki, and syndication technologies and how to use these information tools to follow unfolding developments in this rapidly changing country. The class will also conduct extensive reading/discussion sessions on China, especially focusing on the intersection of technology, media, and social changes.
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A four- to six-week intensive workshop mini-course designed to accompany and enhance other courses in the program. Workshop topics vary from semester to semester, but have included Using the Flash Animation Program, Audio Editing with ProTools, Designing Web Databases, Dynamic Web Page Design, and Using Geographic Information System Programs.
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This course is designed for students who are interested in foreign reporting. Course will include a broad overview of the issues that need to be researched when reporting on the politics, economics, and social issues of a foreign country. Past classes have traveled to Mexico, China, Cuba, Hungary, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Each semester, this course will focus on a different aspect of Japan. Among other topics, the class may discuss Japan's changing cultural standards or its developing social problems, its political shifts or its history, the changing economy or the shifts in its regional relations and its global role. Through guest speakers--including noted experts, writers, businessmen, and diplomats--and roundtable discussions, students will develop a greater knowledge of the country for use when reporting.
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In this workshop students use the profile form to develop a variety of skills that may be helpful whenever undertaking an ambitious story: figuring out what the story is and why you are writing it; interviewing; observation; background reporting; structuring material; finding your voice; describing people without resorting to cliche; crafting a lead from what seems an infinite number of possibilities. Readings will be from great magazine and newspaper profile writers.
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This seminar examines the role of the media in China since 1949. Students will analyze the development and impact of the mass media (newspapers and magazines, radio, and television) and of the popular media (revolutionary operas, films, short stories, reportage, wall posters, cartoons, advertisements) from the period of the Communist victory and the Korean War through the Cultural Revolution to the democracy movements of 1979 and 1989 and the subsequent ideological retrenchment.
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Study of investigative reporting, analysis of its technique with outside reporting assignments.
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A study of outstanding examples of journalistic literature.
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Study and analysis of the techniques of writing and editing of articles for publication.
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The first eight weeks will concentrate on First Amendment and media law, including libel and slander, privacy, free press/fair trial conflicts, and litigation arising from controversial reporting methods. The closing weeks will focus on ethical dilemmas faced by reporters and editors. Using case studies, readings and guest lecturers, the course examines the murkier conflicts that don't necessarily make it to court but nevertheless force difficult newsroom decision-making.
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Examination of the structure and philosophy of the legal system to prepare the journalist for reporting legal affairs.
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Study of techniques, practices, and methods of gathering and writing radio news. Students will produce weekly live radio news programs. Enrollment is limited to 15.
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Study of the history and institutions of broadcast journalism (nine weeks), practice, techniques of reporting news for radio and television.
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Producing, directing, writing, and videotaping of live weekly television news program.
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