The legal and ethical framework defining media freedoms and constraints in the United States, including copyright and trademark issues. Historical context and focus on the evolution of constitutional, statutory, judicial, and ethical standards.
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Students in the class will investigate wrongful convictions -- cases in which prisoners were convicted of crimes they did not commit -- and related aspects of the criminal justice system.
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Advanced skills and practice in telling stories with photographs, photo slideshows, photo galleries, and audio slideshows. Ethics as it applies to photojournalism.
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Students learn about the global immigration phenomenon, how to tell multimedia immigrant stories for publication and engage in creating a social network for immigrants across ethnic lines. Using the Chicago metropolitan area, students report on immigrant experiences and develop a forum for community-based personal narratives.
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Seminar explores the myriad issues journalists must understand in order to cover sports in depth. This class is not about game coverage. Students write about topics such as steroid abuse, stadium finance, sexual scandals and other issues swirling about professional sports.
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Class examines the job of covering sports for a newspaper in a competitive environment enhanced by the Internet, talk radio and other media. Students cover local high school and college teams and conferences as beats. Assignments include personality profiles, features, trend/issue stories and notebooks. Goal is publishable, engaging stories.
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Required class for students concentrating in Interactive Storytelling. Class focuses on interactive and multimedia storytelling and development. Students learn techniques for creating Web pages and packages using XHTML/CSS and Flash with video and audio integration, and methods for creating engaging interactive content.
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Course taught by nationally-recognized graphics instructor covers basic visual journalism. The goal is to develop fundamental skills needed to design newspapers, magazines, newsletters. Through weekly hands-on workshop exercises, students gain an understanding of design concepts. Students learn how to choose typefaces according to the readership and publication, impact of color on perception and behavior, how to develop ways of telling engaging stories about ordinary people via design.
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Class is required of anyone planning to go abroad in a Global residency. Course covers a variety of issues that international correspondents need to understand, including contemporary issues and conflicts, international security issues, cultural sensitivity in reporting abroad and the impact of globalization. Students learn how to get started working a beat in another country.
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This advanced weekly seminar focuses on issues of concern to local and regional governments and the communities they serve. Structure is a seminar with deep reporting assignments. Students get behind the scenes in city, state and institutional meetings not normally open to the press, cover urban and regional issues in depth.
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This seminar provides a conceptual framework for writing about business and economics.
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An advanced weekly seminar in the economy and business reporting fields with in-depth reporting assignments. Students gain a deeper understanding of the macro and global trends in the economy and business, learn alongside professional traders how to execute electronic trades at the Board of Trade, delve into substantive readings and explore their areas of topic interest. They will spend time developing each story and they will be allowed to work in their medium of choice (print, broadcast, new media). Students also blog about market developments for a national audience.
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JOUR 424-0 and JOUR 424-1 must be taken together by magazine majors. Classes expose students to the world of magazine-style feature writing and help them develop skills in reporting, writing and editing. Emphasis on interviewing, thinking clearly, writing voice and understanding how to write for different publications, departments, audiences. Students scheduled to take the Magazine Publishing Project learn basics of magazine development and begin to propose concepts. Students produce articles intended for publication in selected magazines.
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This class, taught by a longtime top music critic, focuses on critical writing skills in the context of covering ChicagoÂs robust arts and lively entertainment scenes. Course challenges students to think (and write) critically about the arts. Assignments include reviews and articles about different types of entertainment.
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Students report, shoot and edit packages in Chicago newsroom on Wednesday and Thursday, and produce a show for air in Evanston on Friday.
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Students learn professional shooting and editing techniques using professional video equipment.
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Students learn a variety of video storytelling techniques appropriate for the Web. This includes becoming proficient in conceiving stories and packages that will work well for the Web, shooting video with hand-held digital cameras and producing the pieces, exploring production styles for Webcasts and learning how to conceive and produce stories and packages that integrate well in multimedia reports.
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Students are required to bring to this course a draft of a feature article (2,500 Â 4,000 words) they have reported and written, whether or not for a Medill course. Class focuses on deepening information development and developing the writerÂs command of craft. Emphasis on identifying the right audience, getting an assignment from an appropriate media partner and revising the piece with the expectation of publication in a major outlet. Target outlets include major Sunday newspaper magazines, monthly national magazines and online magazines such as Slate and Salon.
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This class examines methods journalists can use to research consumer behavior and understand audiences, particularly in terms of media behavior and preferences. Students learn a framework for analyzing audience behavior, focusing on developing audience insight. Topics include the cognitive, affective and behavioral processes underlying the choices audiences make (their needs, perceptions and attitudes); descriptive audience characteristics (demographics, psychographics, VALS); and environmental influences on behavior (culture, family, economic situation). Students learn how to develop successful ideas for editorial products (publications, broadcasts, Web sites, mobile) by analyzing the audience needs and desires.
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Starting with an overview of the media industry and its players -- news companies, advertisers, media research companies, etc. -- class examines how they interact and how they make money. Students learn how the media economy works, how that is changing with the arrival of new technologies and publishing platforms, social networking media, mobile media and other developing media.
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Students learn how to become documentary makers: how to make a polished and impressive 12-15 minute trailer, put together a budget, raise money and present to potential funders.
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An ethnomusicological journey through Central/Inner Asia. The diversity of peoples in the region broadly ranging East to West from Northwestern China to the Volga River, and North to South from Siberia to Afghanistan will be explored through the medium of their traditional musical cultures.
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"Human Cloned!!", "Franken-foods!!", ÂGlobal WarmingÂ: Science makes the headlines almost every day, but how should the average consumer react to these stories? In "Science or Fiction? Science, the Media and Public Perception" we will read a selection of popular press articles as well as journal articles to fuel discussion of what factors influence science reporting and how to interpret and analyze science claims in the media. Students will leave this seminar with a better understanding of the process of scientific scholarship, the influence of media, and how to interpret the impact of scientific findings in their everyday lives.
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What is the cellular basis of cancer, the disease that is the second leading cause of death in the U.S.? Why is there such controversy surrounding stem cell research? How is gene therapy being developed and what is its potential in disease treatment? This course will address these and other current biology topics in a discussion-based seminar. Biological, political, and societal perspectives on these issues will be explored through a variety of contemporary media using cancer biology as a unifying theme. Evaluation will be based on class participation and written assignments including papers and journaling exercises.
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The ancient Greeks founded Western civilization as an exercise of reason and rationality, but their writings show an equal fascination with the irrational: for every Apollo a Dionysus. Their poetry, their religion, their philosophies--all pay equal honor both to reason and to madness and intoxication. This course will sample some foundational Western writings on madness in order to examine this apparent paradox. Topics to be discussed will include the importance of wine in Greek and Roman culture, the role of irrational thought in Greek mythology, the roots of drama in Dionysian religious observance, and the presence of madness at the heart of all personal poetry. Class time will focus heavily on analysis and discussion with lectures devoted mainly to putting the readings into their historical, cultural, and literary contexts. All readings will be in English, but many ancient Greek terms will be learned. Texts will include Homer, several tragedies, Plato, Epicurus, Plutarch, Horace, Ovid, and the archaic Greek poets, as well as some secondary literature, including Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. There will be significant analytical writing required and a final research paper.
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