| source University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (X) |
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department Journalism (X) |
A changing array of courses focusing on special topics in journalism. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours in separate semesters, if topics vary.
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Discussion of the history, freedom, technologies, ethics, and functions of the news media. Training in clear, descriptive writing techniques, using journalistic models. Prerequisite: Completion of Composition I general education requirement.
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Focuses on media decision-making and news judgment, specifically ethics and diversity in newsgathering with regard to scope, privacy, bias, economic concerns, and accountability. Examines real-life news decisions and the thoughts of journalists who lived through famous and infamous ethics situations. Key provisions in the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics regarding use of diverse voices will be discussed and applied in practical ways, and both students and the instructor will find current examples of ethics issues to present to the class. Diversity education is part of the required standard for achieving journalism accreditation from the discipline's national accrediting body. Prerequisite:
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Fundamentals of journalistic writing; reporting news of public affairs. Prerequisite:
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Surveys the history of the field of journalism since pre-colonial times. Includes the evolution of the media in the United States and the evolution of cultural concepts concerning the media, including rights granted under the First Amendment.
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Designed to acquaint students with the fundamentals of digital photography, video, audio and multimedia as it applies to journalism. Instruction will include conceptual frameworks and techniques to create multimedia journalism content; the conception, planning and creation of multimedia projects; coverage of events with audio, video and photographs; the technical and creative aspects of digital photography, video, and multimedia; delivery platforms for multimedia content including the Web and evolving communication technologies. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite:
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Detailed analysis of the theories of freedom of expression, the legal doctrines of greatest concern to mass communicators, and contemporary issues related to free speech and press, including libel, copyright, and news-gathering.
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Study and extensive practice of in-depth public affairs reporting - its concepts, techniques, traditions, ethics, and social obligations. Prerequisite:
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Newspaper editing and headline writing, news judgment, ethics and leadership. Prerequisite:
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Principles of visual reporting and editing. Introduction to newspaper page design, information graphics research and design, photojournalism, online design, and project planning. Prerequisite:
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Reporting and writing news for radio news programs. Prerequisite:
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Introduces TV news studio and field production and principles of field news reporting and editing; principles of planning, producing, and directing news and public affairs programs. Prerequisite:
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Advanced techniques for reporting, producing, writing, shooting, and editing television news stories and for producing and airing regularly scheduled news programs on deadline. Prerequisite:
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Theory of public opinion and communications; relation of communication systems to public opinion, social systems, and the political order.
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Introduction to social science principles of measurement, sampling, statistical inferences and logic of research design in collection, analysis and interpretation of information used in journalism and mass media. Prerequisite: Completion of Quantitative Reasoning I and
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Traces historical development of press commentary about the President, press conferences, news flow from Washington, radio and television coverage of the White House, the White House press corps and more since the Hoover Administration. Reporters' personal relationships with chief executives and the influence of news organizations upon national policy and issues will be covered.
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A changing array of special projects, research or reading in journalism. May be repeated in the same or subsequent semesters if topics vary.
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This course is designed to acquaint students with fundamentals of photojournalism. Instruction will include techniques to produce photographs; the conception and planning of pictures; the pictorial coverage of news events and human interest situation; the planning and execution of photo layouts. Cameras provided by college. Prerequisite: College of Communications major or consent of instructor.
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Role of international news in daily lives. Examines those who report it and those who pioneered it. Students monitor how U.S. and international media cover selected countries and learn how to write international news.
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Preparation of feature stories and articles; techniques of marketing, market analysis, and publishing articles written in the course. Prerequisite:
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Advanced reporting projects or techniques, with separate sections for a varying array of topics such as investigative reporting, immersion journalism, literary journalism, business and financial journalism, online publishing, radio news features, sports writing, broadcast documentary production, digital journalism, and photo journalism. May be repeated in the same or subsequent semesters if topics vary. Prerequisite:
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Basic principles of editing for consumer, business, trade, and company magazines; communications theory, market analysis, editorial process, design process, production process, and distribution process as they relate to magazine publishing. Prerequisite:
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Individual and team-produced advanced enterprise projects in specialized fields typically with separate sections for news-editorial and broadcast journalism students. May be repeated in the same or subsequent semesters if topics vary. Prerequisite: Either
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Seminar based on internship experience. Offered for College of Communications students who complete an approved professional, industry related internship. Approved for S/U grading only. May be repeated in the same term to a maximum of 2 undergraduate hours or 2 graduate hours. May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 3 undergraduate hours or 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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Seminar on issues of contemporary importance in journalism in their historical, multicultural contexts. Emphasis on ethical, legal, social, professional aspects of those issues. Aimed at helping students to develop their own journalism philosophies and high standards of conduct. Prerequisite: Consent of department.
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