Investigative and Project Reporting is an advanced seminar that will teach select students the practice of depth reporting and writing. Students will use a variety of reporting techniques – from computer database searches to shoe leather -- in pursuit of long-term projects ideally destined for publication in one of several professional publications that have entered into cooperative agreements with the Boston University Department of Journalism. Among them are The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine and the Boston Phoenix. Story subjects will range from public system failures to questionable convictions, narrative reconstructions to explanatory journalism. 4 cr, 2nd sem