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Apr 28, 2024
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JOURN 125 - Introduction to Journalism I
5.0 Credits
Supports student-writing staff of the campus newspaper, The Triton Review. Covers techniques for writing journalistic pieces. Focuses on information gathering and the research process, including evaluating, using, and documenting sources. Explores digital and Web-based journalism, including gathering, creating and posting multimedia content. Addresses basic layout and design. This course may be used as a substitution for ENGL& 102. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 (was ENGL 105) with a grade of 2.0 or higher.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Integrate critical thinking, reading, and writing independently to locate, research, analyze, evaluate, and use various kinds sources. [REASON]
- Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by independently using rhetorical principles and journalistic concepts in varied, complex ways. [REASON]
- Apply composition principles and journalistic concepts independently by connecting ideas coherently, explaining them thoroughly, and arranging them logically in major news stories. [COMMUNICATE]
- Demonstrate writing processes by independently choosing and applying suitable strategies to different writing stages, such as idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. [COMMUNICATE]
- Apply journalistic conventions for sentence-level writing and use APA style independently for formatting, documenting, and managing multiple sources of various kinds.[COMMUNICATE]
- Describe and evaluate journalism theories and trends. [REASON]
- Demonstrate interview skills, write in a range of journalistic modes, and apply journalistic ethics. [ACT]
- Evaluate both print and electronic publications for content and design. [REASON]
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