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Fall 2008 Course Atlas

JRNL 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 Atlanta

Faculty/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 & Writing

SECTION 000 -- Faculty/Time/Location: Campbell, Doniver; TT, 10:00-11:15 a.m.; Callaway - S108; MAX 16

SECTION 001 -- Faculty/Time/Location: McCarthy, Sissel; TT, 11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m.; Callaway - S108 - MAX 16

SECTION 002 -- 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

JRNL 301WR: News Reporting & Writing

Faculty/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:

• Mencher, Melvin, News Reporting & Writing; Norm Goldstein, ed., Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual

Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required. Acceptance into the Journalism Program required. Satisfactory completion of JRNL 201 required.

JRNL 305: Communication Law

Faculty/Time/Location: Cohen, Dale; TU, 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 Writing

Faculty/Time/Location: Wilson, Kristopher; W, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m.; Callaway Center - S108; MAX: 16

Content: This is a specialized reporting class designed to introduce students to the basics of science journalism and provide training in researching and writing about science and medicine for a general audience. Emphasis: news and feature writing, with a secondary focus on basic science concepts, medicine and math.

Texts: TBA

Particulars: Permission of the Journalism Program required.

JRNL 430WR: Journalism History & Ethics

Faculty/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 Presidential Politics

Faculty/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: Permission of Journalism Program required. Senior Journalism Program students only with GPA eligibility and permission of the Program Director.

JRNL 496: Internship in Journalism

Faculty/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: Independent Study

Faculty/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.