Specialized Journalism

Catalog description

Instructional Method: Four hours lecture and laboratory. Prerequisites: COMS 104 , COMS 204 , COMS 130 (with a grade of “C” or better), and COMS 330 (with a grade of “C” or better), or permission of instructor. Strategies for computer assisted reporting, practice in gathering information from first-person participants and expert sources, and experience in writing investigative and exploratory articles and/or documentary scripts. The course concentrates on several themes evident in journalism today, including diversity reporting, community journalism, financial reporting, reporting for the web, international issues and others.