Journalism

• COM JO 718: Magazine Workshop
  This final magazine writing course is designed to create a published magazine as a writing portfolio for students. This is a studio course, taught by two professors, which covers writing and design in a setting that captures the dynamics of professional practice. Students within each group, assume professional positions and conceptualize, write, edit, design, and publish magazines. Magazines are designed and published using QuarkXPress and Adobe Photoshop. Design concepts and techniques, along with computer programs used in this course, are taught with step by step instructions. 4 cr 2nd sem
• COM JO 721: Journalism Principles and Techniques
  Required. Students acquire techniques of newswriting and reporting by covering a full range of news stories in a laboratory situation. Stress on deadline pressure, writing, and reporting. Includes weekly seminar on journalism principles as illustrated by current events and controversies.
• COM JO 722: Advanced Journalism Seminar
  Required. Newswriting and reporting in Boston and surrounding communities. Students cover working beats.
• COM JO 723: Science Newswriting I
  Students develop experience in writing about science, technology, and medicine for the consumer press. At instructor's option, students may write scripts for broadcast and/or articles for publication in scientific, professional, or business magazines and periodicals.
• COM JO 724: Science Newswriting II
  Continues COM JO 723.
• COM JO 732: Science and the Mass Media II
  Continues COM JO 705.
• COM JO 733: Enterprise Reporting
  Students seek news and design original stories, develop contacts and beats, and plan minidocumentary productions.
• COM JO 734: Broadcast Journalism I: Television News Production
  Introduction to basic techniques of video news, with emphasis on function of the writer. Includes on-air techniques, editing, and feature and documentary planning and production.
• COM JO 735: Broadcast Journalism II
  Production of graduate creative project.
• COM JO 736: Television Newsroom
  Intensive training in daily news operations. Gathering, writing, editing, producing, and broadcasting of a live, on-air televsion news program using advanced production and studio techniques.
• COM JO 737: Broadcast Journalism Internship
  Required broadcast internship under supervision of faculty.
• COM JO 754: Science Journalism Internship
  To be taken during the summer between second and third semesters of the program.
• COM JO 807: Advanced Journalism Research
  A rigorous grounding in research and investigative methods from interviews and records searching to computer-assisted reporting and use of the Freedom of Information Act.
• COM JO 881: Broadcast Science News
  The application of broadcasting techniques in science reporting. How to present complex scientific, environmental, and medical topics on radio and television.
• COM JO 954: Directed Study: Broadcast Journalism
  Faculty and students work together in tutorial situation to produce a project of mutual interest.

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