SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES JOURNALISM

Catalog description

This course directs students in developing a perspective for the basics of the news process: gathering, reporting and disseminating news. The role of the journalist in American society and the changing role of news and society will be discussed. The changing role of news and the newspaper is also discussed and analyzed, particularly as they pertain to an increasing population of society that access, read and interpret the news via on-line newspapers, logs, streaming and archived podcasts, and via the Internet and websites. Prerequisite: completion of an English Sequence (4 credits)