Advanced Student Media Practicum

Catalog description

This course provides students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by becoming contributing members within Student Media’s newsroom at Washburn. Students will assume assistant-level leadership responsibilities and a specific project to manage. Students will oversee a small group of staff members to complete a more in-depth media assignment, developed in consultation with the director of Student Media and a Core leader of the organization while continuing to build skills in writing, reporting, editing, photography, podcasting, videography and graphic design as a result of their contributions to the Washburn Review Newspaper, the Kaw Yearbook, and the Bod Magazine. Prerequisites: MM 326 or consent.