Currents in American Journalism

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the history of American journalism in newspaper and magazine writing. The course examines American journalism across several distinct phases: the colonial era; the Revolutionary War and early Republic period; the antebellum and post-Civil War periods; late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century yellow journalism and muckraking; the twentieth-century syndication of the press; and the evolving multimedia age. The course will discuss the interaction between American journalism and the rise of American Literature and art.