JOURN 125 - Introduction to Journalism I

5.0 Credits
Emphasizes integrating critical reading, thinking, and writing. Covers academic and journalistic composition methods, rhetorical principals, styles, conventions, and techniques for gathering, evaluating, using, and citing sources. Explores print, digital, and Web-based publications. Addresses basic layout and design. Prerequisite
ENGL& 101 or its equivalent with a minimum grade of 2.0. Corequisite

Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
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.
Adapt writing to audience, context, and purpose by independently using rhetorical principles and journalistic concepts in varied, complex ways.
Apply composition principles and journalistic concepts independently by connecting ideas coherently, explaining them thoroughly, and arranging them logically in major news stories.
Demonstrate writing processes by independently choosing and applying suitable strategies to different writing stages, such as idea generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.
Apply journalistic conventions for sentence-level writing and use AP style independently for formatting, documenting, and managing multiple sources of various kinds.
Describe and evaluate journalism theories and trends.
Demonstrate interview skills, write in a range of journalistic modes, and apply journalistic ethics.
Evaluate both print and electronic publications for content and design.