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Fall 2008 Course AtlasJRNL 190: Freshman Seminar: Journalism: Discovering International Atlanta JRNL 201WR: News Reporting & Writing JRNL 301WR: Advanced News Reporting & Writing JRNL 305: Communication Law JRNL 380WR: Health and Science Writing JRNL 430WR: Journalism History & Ethics JRNL488: The Press and the Presidential Campaign JRNL 495A: Honors in Journalism JRNL 496: Internship in Journalism JRNL 497R: Directed Study JRNL 190: Freshman Seminar: Journalism: Discovering International AtlantaFaculty/Time/Location: Tefft, Sheila; W, 10:00a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 5, Freshman Only Faculty/Time/Location: Tefft, Sheila; W, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 5, Freshman Only (Same as ASIA 190 = 5, LAS 190 = 5; ) Content: New immigrants are shaping international Atlanta. This seminar explores the city's international character through news coverage, field trips, meetings with journalists, politicians and other newsmakers and volunteer work in diverse neighborhoods. Students examine how the news media shape Atlanta's identity as home to growing immigrant communities and define public opinion and policy on major immigration issues. Students taking this course as LAS 190 would focus on Latin American and/or Caribbean migrant communities. Texts: TBA Particulars: Freshman Only. JRNL 201WR: News Reporting & WritingSECTION 00P -- Faculty/Time/Location: Campbell, Doniver; TT, 10:00-11:15 a.m.; Callaway - S108; MAX 16 SECTION 01P -- Faculty/Time/Location: McCarthy, Sissel; TT, 11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m.; Callaway - S108 - MAX 16 SECTION 02P -- Faculty/Time/Location: Foust, Russell; TH 6:00-8:30 p.m.; Callaway - S108 - MAX 16 Content: This is an intensive writing workshop designed to teach specific skills -- reporting, intervieewing, editing, hard news and feature writing. The instructor will critique, edit and evaluate students' work intensively. Texts: TBA Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. All sections are open to interested students but due to space limitations, permission of the Journalism Program is still required. Contact the Journalism Office (Callaway Center S106 OR 747-4221) to enroll. JRNL 301WR: News Reporting & WritingFaculty/Time/Location: Wilson, Kristopher; TT, 1:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 16 Content: This is an intensive writing workshop. The goal is to advance the students' abilities as journalists -- research, reporting, analysis of official documents and budgets, interviewing techniques, beat reporting, news writing, feature writing. Instructor will work closely with students to expand their writing. Texts:
Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. Acceptance into the Journalism Program required. Satisfactory completion of JRNL 201 required. JRNL 305: Communication LawFaculty/Time/Location: Cohen, Dale; TH, 6:00-8:30 p.m.; TBA; MAX: 25 Content: This course provides a basic constitutional law background for journalism students. In addition to a study of fundamental free speech issues, the course will cover: defamation, privacy, fair trial/free press, reporter's privilege, commercial speech and pornography. Students will be expected to read and to analyze the major Supreme Court decisions in the area. There will be a series of short papers and a final examination. Texts: TBA Particulars: Permission of Journalism Program required. Acceptance into the Journalism Program required. JRNL 380WR: Health and Science WritingFaculty/Time/Location: Wilson, Kristopher; W, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 16 Content: An introduction to magazine feature writing, this course will be conducted as a professional workshop. Students will be required to produce two original, non-fiction magazine articles. Class sessions, assignments, and one-on-one consultations will be devoted to nurturing the requisite skills, discipline and ethical standards needed to become a successful magazine writer, including how to find, develop and sell story ideas, interviewing and research techniques, writing, rewriting, editing and fact-checking. Texts: TBA Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. Satisfactory completion of JRNL 201 required. JRNL 430WR: Journalism History & EthicsFaculty/Time/Location: Wilkerson, Isabel; M, 2:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 16 Content: This course explores the history of journalism from the hard-hitting work of the muckrakers through the time of Watergate, to the present. Making ethical decisions about accuracy and fairness, conflict of interest, deception, source/reporter relationships, privacy, and other journalistic issues are studied. Texts: TBA Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. JRNL 488: The Press and the Presidential PoliticsFaculty/time/Location: Wilkerson, Isabel, M, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 14 Content: Content: This course will explore the challenges of covering a Presidential Campaign in the final months of the 2008 Election and its aftermath. In class sessions and writing assignments, students will study the larger forces that shape coverage of presidential campaigns, compare news coverage across the media spectrum, and analyze such factors as gender, race, political bias, use and accuracy of polling and campaign ads, and examine how the election, debates and candidates are covered, spun and analyzed. Texts: TBA Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. Satisfactory completion of JRNL 201 required. JRNL 495A: Honors in Journalism Faculty/Time/Location: Tefft, Sheila, TBA, TBA; Callaway - S108; MAX: 16 Content: Critical methods in analysis and interpretation, bibliographical materials and methods of independent scholarly research, and honors thesis. Texts: TBA Particulars: Satisfactory completion of JRNL 495A. Permission of Journalism Program required. Senior Journalism Program students only with GPA eligibility and permission of the Program Director. JRNL 496: Internship in JournalismFaculty/Time/Location: McCarthy, Sissel, TH, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX 16 Content: Students report and write for a newspaper, magazine, broadcast outlet or other news medium for the equivalent of 10 weeks (for credit of four semester hours). The requirement may be met by several shorter internships totaling 10 weeks. Texts: None Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. Acceptance into the Journalism Program required. JRNL 497R: Directed StudyFaculty/Time/Location: Tefft, Sheila, TBA, TBA; Callaway Center - S108; MAX 16 Content: Advanced directed studies on an approved journalism topic by special arrangement. Texts: TBA Particulars: Only open to senior students in the Journalism Program. Permission of the Journalism Program required.
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