Sports Journalism

Catalog description

This course teaches students how to report on all aspects of sports- from game stories to features to opinion columns. To familiarize students with the scope and history of sports journalism and to provide models for reporting, texts will be drawn from a wide range of sports journalism in various media: newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and podcasts. The class will consider the ways in which sports journalism has evolved in response to digital technologies. It will also cover the ethical dilemmas common to sports journalism. Students will produce numerous pieces of original sports journalism of various lengths and in different media, as well as analyses of published sports reporting. Prerequisite(s): WRT 101 .