CODE	NAME	DESCRIPTION
JOUR100	News Media and Society	History and development of print and electronic media. Conflicts between the free press and other social objectives. External and internal controls affecting news media and flow of information.
JOUR101	News Writing and Reporting	Intensive training in basic writing and reporting skills, news values, ethical practices, and research. Includes frequent writing assignments.
JOUR203	Introduction to Visual Journalism	Allows students who have mastered the basics of newsgathering to amplify and clarify those stories with images. Production of still photos and short videos suitable for publication.
JOUR204	Advanced News Writing and Reporting	Prepares students for digital-first, multimedia journalism and related fields. In-depth academic study coupled with practical experience in writing and reporting news articles, podcasting, data journalism, investigative journalism, beat coverage and...
JOUR206	Journalism Law, Ethics	Case studies of ethical conflicts encountered in reporting and editing. State and federal case and statutory law affecting news media, especially libel, privacy, free expression, and "freedom of information."
JOUR207	Editing for Print, Internet	Improving news writing through practice in copy reading, editing and discussion of news styles, grammar, usage, page design, headline writing, picture selection, news judgment, ethics.
JOUR210	History of American Journalism	History of American Journalism from Zenger to Zuckerberg. Examines the development of the concept of fairness and objectivity; the role key personalities played in American journalism; and the role changing technology had on the way news is gathered...
JOUR222	Turning Science into Stories	Explores the craft of turning science into stories, starting with an examination of award-winning works that will include magazine and news stories, plus quick-paced books, movies and documentaries—all of which employed a story-arc format to transfor...
JOUR302	Public Affairs Reporting	Writing and reporting on public institutions such as police, courts, and legislative bodies. Interviewing and research using public documents. Frequent off-campus writing assignments.
JOUR304	Seminar	Study of specialized field of reporting or writing.
JOUR305	Photojournalism	Theory and practice of news and feature photography, properties of light and lenses.
JOUR306	Feature and Magazine Article Writing	Research and writing of news-feature and magazine articles.
JOUR307	Documentary Journalism	An introduction to the practice and art of documentary film.
JOUR311	Covering Election Campaigns	Exploration of roles and responsibilities of the press in reporting on the U.S. political process.
JOUR312	Independent Study	Enables qualified students who have completed basic requirements for major to work independently on special reporting and research projects.
JOUR314	Literary Journalism	The development of non-fiction writing from the early 1900s to the present. Analysis of five or six nonfiction books and more than 30 long-form magazine articles by major nonfiction writers.
JOUR370	Selected Topics in Journalism	Topics vary. Representative topics include drones in journalism, computer-assisted reporting and investigative reporting. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.
JOUR377	Community-Based Journalism	Supervised work in writing, research, or production for media both and on and off campus.
JOUR388	Internship	Supervised work in writing, research, or production for on- or off-campus news media. May be repeated with the consent of the instructor. Offered for pass/fail grade only. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of in...
JOUR406	Summer Undergraduate Research	Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas...

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