Department: Journalism

Code Name Description
JRN 2500 The Individual and the News in the Information Age This course examines the changing role of journalism, the impact of the Internet and social media and the emergence of alternative news sources. To develop critical faculties, students will study the evolution of the American media, focusing on chang...
JRN 2500H Honors - The Individual and the News in the Information Age This course examines the changing role of journalism, the impact of the Internet and social media and the emergence of alternative news sources. To develop critical faculties, students will study the evolution of the American media, focusing on chang...
JRN 3050 Journalistic Reporting and Writing This course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of journalism - reporting, researching, and writing news and feature articles, with a focus on fairness, accuracy, balance, and thoroughness. The course involves intensive writing and reporti...
JRN 3050H Honors Journalistic Reporting and Writing This course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of journalism - reporting, researching, and writing news and feature articles, with a focus on fairness, accuracy, balance, and thoroughness. The course involves intensive writing and reporti...
JRN 3060 Feature Article Writing This course is intended for students who wish to learn how to write for general magazines as well as for specialized journals. Stress is placed on an analysis of magazines and markets, techniques for writing effective query letters, methods of resear...
JRN 3060H Feature Article Writing This course is intended for students who wish to learn how to write for general magazines as well as for specialized journals. Stress is placed on an analysis of magazines and markets, techniques for writing effective query letters, methods of resear...
JRN 3064 Photojournalism Students combine skills learned in photography and journalism courses to complete several short photojournalistic essays/assignments as well as a larger final essay. Areas of study include visual imagery, theories, techniques, and the history of the...
JRN 3065 Electronic Research Methods and Resources for Writers This course explores the impact of information research on writing. Through the use of the library and online classroom, including the Internet, students develop proficiency in evaluating, identifying, and using relevant print and electronic sources...
JRN 3100 Editing Copy editors traditionally edit stories, write photo captions and headlines, and must have keen eyes and ears for language and style while being aware of legal, ethical, and news quality issues. Online convergence adds the need for proficiency workin...
JRN 3110 Editing in the Digital World This advanced copy-editing course, building on basics learned in JRN 3100, will provide students with a foundation in editing across digital platforms including websites, blogs, and social media. Traditionally, copy editors edit stories, write photo...
JRN 3150 Business Communication This is a course in the concepts, tools, and skills of basic business communication, both written and spoken. Using the case study method, the course offers practical experience in researching business problems, editing, and using language to reach d...
JRN 3200 Business and Financial Journalism This hands-on course is designed to develop students' skills in reporting, researching, and writing about business and economic issues and to expand their knowledge of the business world and the critical challenges facing the economy. Students will l...
JRN 3201 Covering the Financial Markets This course introduces students to the world's financial markets and how to report on them. Students will learn how to find sources, how to translate the jargon of the markets into conversational English, and how to follow daily trading and also see...
JRN 3202 Covering Wealth and Poverty More than ever, wealth and poverty and the tension between them are the key themes of the economy. How the economic system promotes wealth creation and economic stability, as well as winners and losers, have become key questions for both society and...
JRN 3210 Video Field Reporting This course prepares students for 21st Century newsrooms by teaching them foundation video field production and reportage techniques. Building on ¿print¿ research and writing news skills, students learn to produce video news/features for broadcast te...
JRN 3220 Media Ethics What are the legal and ethical rights and responsibilities of journalists, the news media, and anyone who publishes on social media? From privacy, to censorship, to defamation, to fake news and fabrication, to conflicts of interest, students will res...
JRN 3220H Honors Media Ethics What are the legal and ethical rights and responsibilities of journalists, the news media, and anyone who publishes on social media? From privacy, to censorship, to defamation, to fake news and fabrication, to conflicts of interest, students will res...
JRN 3280 Documentary Film This course reviews the historical development of documentary films and explores the ethical responsibilities of the documentary filmmaker, the use of the camera as a tool of political and social activism, and the role of documentary as an art form....
JRN 3280H Honors Documentary Film This course reviews the historical development of documentary films and explores the ethical responsibilities of the documentary filmmaker, the use of the camera as a tool of political and social activism, and the role of documentary as an art form....
JRN 3300 Science Communication This course focuses on understanding scientific, medical, environmental, and technical information and expressing it in clear and concise English. It is designed for those who seek proficiency in reporting and writing science journalism, science-rela...
JRN 3400 Journalistic Criticism and Reviewing What kind of expertise does a reviewer have to bring to an object of criticism? What makes a review more than a mere blurt of opinion? How does a writer both describe and comment upon a work in a limited amount of space and on a tight deadline? These...
JRN 3400H Journalistic Criticism and Reviewing What kind of expertise does a reviewer have to bring to an object of criticism? What makes a review more than a mere blurt of opinion? How does a writer both describe and comment upon a work in a limited amount of space and on a tight deadline? These...
JRN 3450 Journalistic Blogging This course introduces students to the world of journalistic blogging and social media in all its diversity, from exploring complex policy, social and economic issues to offering commentary on local art exhibits, music clubs, and local food stands. S...
JRN 3500 Advanced Reporting and Writing: Cyberspace, Databases, and Other Sources This course builds on students' basic skills in reporting, researching, and writing learned in ENG 3050. Students are introduced to more complex, multi-layered stories. Intensive writing and reporting is involved, as students must write 8-10 article...
JRN 3510 Multimedia Reporting This course helps prepare students for the newsrooms of the 21st Century by teaching them the essentials of multimedia reporting. Building on the students? Basics skills in news reporting, researching, and writing, this course helps students learn to...
JRN 3510H Honors - Multimedia Reporting This course helps prepare students for the newsrooms of the 21st Century by teaching them the essentials of multimedia reporting. Building on the students? Basics skills in news reporting, researching, and writing, this course helps students learn to...
JRN 3520 Advanced Multimedia Reporting This course will build on the tools learned in JRN 3510 and bring students' skills in multimedia journalism to an advanced level. Students will learn to be sophisticated multimedia storytellers, proficient in video and audio. The course includes deve...
JRN 3530 Journalistic Podcasting In this course, students will develop an appreciation for and the ability to produce high-quality podcasts. This course builds on the tools learned in JRN 3510 and brings students’ skills in podcasting and radio news to an advanced level. Students l...
JRN 3600 Creative Nonfiction What must a journalist do to move beyond the bare bones of the news? How does the journalist, trained to gather facts and evidence, achieve a personal style that is both honest and imaginative? The class explores how creative journalists combine the...
JRN 3600H Honors - Creative Journalism What must a journalist do to move beyond the bare bones of the news? How does the journalist, trained to gather facts and evidence, achieve a personal style that is both honest and imaginative? The class explores how creative journalists combine the...
JRN 3610 Workshop: Fiction Writing This workshop aids students to craft short stories out of their creative ideas. Early emphasis is placed on journal entries, in-class exercises, and sensory writing practice. Techniques of characterization, setting, description, dialogue, and pacing...
JRN 3610H Honors-Fiction Writing This workshop aids students to craft short stories out of their creative ideas. Early emphasis is placed on journal entries, in-class exercises, and sensory writing practice. Techniques of characterization, setting, description, dialogue, and pacing...
JRN 3615 Sudden Fiction - Crafting Short Short Stories This workshop introduces students to the art of writing "sudden" fiction -- short stories of less than 1,000 words. In addition to the basic elements of fiction, students will study symbolism, spare prose, selective omission and subtext as key device...
JRN 3630 Workshop: Playwriting This course provides beginning and advanced playwrights with practical techniques for developing works for the stage. Concentrating on the dynamics of live human interaction as the substance of drama, the course emphasizes the structure of action and...
JRN 3630H Honors Workshop: Playwriting This course provides beginning and advanced playwrights with practical techniques for developing works for the stage. Concentrating on the dynamics of live human interaction as the substance of drama, the course emphasizes the structure of action and...
JRN 3650 Workshop: Film Writing This course focuses on adapting story ideas to the particular demands of moving pictures. Students learn basic film grammar and the power of the juxtaposition of images and sound in telling a story. Students write extensive character biographies, out...
JRN 3650H Honors Workshop: Film Writing This course focuses on adapting story ideas to the particular demands of moving pictures. Students learn basic film grammar and the power of the juxtaposition of images and sound in telling a story. Students write extensive character biographies, out...
JRN 3660 Fiction Podcasting In this hands-on course, students will learn how to plan, write, record and edit audio plays. This is a fiction-writing class for which podcasts are the means of publication. Students will listen to and discuss podcasts, mostly fiction, and create a...
JRN 3670 Creating and Writing a Web Series In this course, students will immerse themselves in digital storytelling and learn how to write for this burgeoning, ever-evolving medium. Students will be introduced to the basics of creating dramatic, filmic writing for the moving camera, while adh...
JRN 3700 International Reporting This course will introduce students to international reporting and the work of foreign correspondents, starting with coverage of New York’s immigrant communities and immigrants' ties to the lands from which they came, and including the world of inter...
JRN 3770 Cultural Reporting In this course, students will report on the arts and culture in its many forms, from street artists and performers, to the music scene in all its venues, art galleries and theater companies, television and film. Students will profile people in the ar...
JRN 3800 Environmental Reporting This course exposes students to an array of local, national, and international environmental issues that will serve as a basis for analysis and reporting. Students will focus on environmental problems facing metropolitan New York such as solid waste...
JRN 3800H Hon Environmental Reporting HON Environmental Reporting
JRN 3810 Sports Writing Sports play an enormous role in culture, and this course examines sports from highlyvisible professional games to uncovered recreational sports. Students will learn to cover games as theyunfold and to write feature articles. They will learn to use th...
JRN 3900 Topics in Journalism This course studies timely and complex journalistic issues, allowing for close, up-to-the-minute examination of their impact on reportorial decisions and their presentation in print and broadcast news. From semester to semester, topics will vary. For...
JRN 3900H Honors Topics in Journalism This course studies timely and complex journalistic issues, allowing for close, up-to-the-minute examination of their impact on reportorial decisions and their presentation in print and broadcast news. From semester to semester, topics will vary. For...
JRN 4050 Investigative Reprtg Investigative Reprtg
JRN 4200 Press Coverage of Politics and Policy This course equips students to examine the interplay of legal and regulatory policies and the political process that creates them. Students learn: to gauge the impact of lobbyists, corporate support for public events, business organizations, politica...
JRN 4220 A Century of Muckraking: Investigating Corporation, Corruption, and Governmental Crooks. This course will examine the impact, both positive and negative, of the muckraking trend in American journalism over the last century by considering work by journalists from Ida Tarbell to Michael Moore. In class discussions and short writing assignm...
JRN 4500 Advanced Video Journalism In this capstone course, students will focus on advanced video storytelling and production and will build on fundamental skills learned in the prerequisite courses. Students will learn the theoretical and technical concepts of visual storytelling, in...
JRN 4730 Journalism and the Literary Imagination This course examines the kinship and stylistic connections between literature and journalism within a chronological framework. Readings span the centuries and encompass such diverse literary forms as the diary, political pamphlet, and newspaper colu...
JRN 4750 Investigative Reporting This course gives students experience in investigative reporting techniques and approaches and in researching and preparing investigative reports in print (newspapers and magazines) and electronic (radio and television) media. Students review the Fre...
JRN 4750H Honors - Investigative Reporting This course gives students experience in investigative reporting techniques and approaches and in researching and preparing investigative reports in print (newspapers and magazines) and electronic (radio and television) media. Students review the Fre...
JRN 4910 Advanced Fiction-Writing Workshop In this advanced course, students will build on the skills and concepts introduced in JRN 3610 Workshop: Fiction Writing to tackle and produce more challenging work. Drawing on their hearts, minds and imaginations, students will learn tocreate charac...
JRN 4920 Narrative Writing This capstone course, in workshop format, provides each student the opportunity to produce an in-depth project: print or online journalism, a biography or extended profile, or a substantial work of creative writing, such as a series of short stories...
JRN 4920H Honors Narrative Writing This capstone course, in workshop format, provides each student the opportunity to produce an in-depth project: print or online journalism, a biography or extended profile, or a substantial work of creative writing, such as a series of short stories...
JRN 5000 Independent Study Journalism I Contact department for the course description.
JRN 5000H Honors Journalism Independent Study I Credits and hours to be arranged.
JRN 5001 Independent Study Journalism II Contact department for the course description.
JRN 5002 Independent Study Journalism III Contact department for the course description.
JRN 5050 Media Internship I The internship provides 10-to-12 hours weekly of on-the-job experience in print journalism, Internet and new media, publishing, film, television, radio, and other writing-related professions. Interns put their journalism classroom experience into pra...
JRN 5051 Media Internship II The internship provides 10-to-12 hours weekly of on-the-job experience in print journalism, Internet and new media, publishing, film, television, radio, and other writing-related professions. Interns put their journalism classroom experience into pra...
JRN 5052 Summer Media Internship The internship provides a minimum of 140 hours of on-the-job experience in print journalism, Internet and new media, publishing, film, television, radio, and other writing-related professions. Interns put their journalism classroom experience into pr...
JRN 6001H Honors - Journalism I These courses offer students of superior academic achievement the opportunity to work individually with a professor on a major research project in Business Journalism or Journalism and Creative Writing. This project involves in-depth and original res...
JRN 6002H Honors - Journalism II These courses offer students of superior academic achievement the opportunity to work individually with a professor on a major research project in Business Journalism or Journalism and Creative Writing. This project involves in-depth and original res...
JRN 7000 Journalism Electives Journalism Electives
JRN 7050 Journalism Intermediate Electives Journalism Intermediate Electives
JRN 7100 Journalism Advance Electives Journalism Advance Electives