APRD 3008 - Qualitative Research Methods
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Spring 2022
Exposes students to the principles and methods of qualitative methodology including interviews, focus groups and ethnography. Explores how these methods inform the practice of strategic communication.
APRD 4405 - Strategic Communication Capstone
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Spring 2023
Puts into practice knowledge from previous coursework to plan and execute a strategic communication campaign. Students work with others, operating as an agency. Students will develop one or more strategic communication campaigns. In addition, students will practice organizational and leadership skills; design and layout skills; produce a plans book; and pitch the proposed campaigns to the class and the client.
JRNL 1000 - Principles of Journalism and Networked Communication
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Surveys the history, practices and responsibilities of journalism in a democracy. Examines ethics, best practices in institutional and network settings, reporting and writing, international news systems, personal branding, and strategies for creating and distributing content across media platforms. Promotes the highest professional values and encourages students to be leaders who recognize the possibilities of journalism in a democratic society.
JRNL 2000 - Reporting and Writing
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Fall 2022
Introduces students to writing news for a range of news media platforms, and teaches them how to use the appropriate grammar and style conventions. Also introduces students to reporting and writing various types of stories, from breaking news to features to profiles.
JRNL 2001 - Multimedia Reporting Technologies
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Fall 2024 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Develops news-gathering skills for work in news enterprises. Students learn skills for working with technologies used in news reporting and in storytelling for various media formats. Students are introduced to a range of technologies for recording, editing and producing.
JRNL 2301 - Journalism Ethics and History in Film
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Fall 2020 / Spring 2023
Examines how the depiction of journalists evolves over time through watching classic films. Also, the course studies how journalists depicted in film enact (or do not enact) ethical norms of the profession. Through the reading of cinema as text, and in conjunction with written texts, the class will discuss how these depictions in popular culture have, over time, impacted the way American society views the media.
JRNL 2401 - Media Coverage of Diverse Populations
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Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Explores the ways in which issues of gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and religion play out in news coverage and how news organizations approach coverage of marginalized groups in society.
JRNL 3651 - Media Law and Ethics
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Studies state and federal laws and court decisions that affect the media in order to develop knowledge of media rights and responsibilities and an understanding of the legal system. Provides students with an overview of the theories, ethics, codes, and analytical models that are used in journalism, and introduces students to a variety of ethical issues that can arise in journalism.
JRNL 4011 - Principles of Media Relations
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Fall 2022
Provides students with information about the ethics, history and practice of media relations (community affairs, community relations, customer relations, government relations, industry relations, internal communications, public relations, press agentry, public affairs, publicity, etc.). Introduces students from multiple academic disciplines to the genres of writing required for a media relations career.
JRNL 4402 - Journalism and Social Identity
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Spring 2025
Provides a discussion-based inquiry into the role of journalism and journalists in the representation of intersectional identities, focusing on race, gender, sexual expression and socioeconomic class in the United States. The study and practice of journalism in this course will address issues of trust, power, privilege and ethics inherent in reporting across difference. Recommended prerequisite: JRNL 2401. Same as JRNL 5402.
JRNL 4562 - Influence Journalism
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Fall 2024
Prepares students for the emerging field of influence journalism and media entrepreneurship. Applies journalism norms and values to a digital media sphere through the study of contract law, social and production distribution, media literacy, strategies to dismantle dis/misinformation, monetization models, media management, generative AI and ethical storytelling. Students will gain the skills to become credible news influencers or digital media managers within both digital-native and traditional news organizations. Same as JRNL 5562.
JRNL 4931 - Internship
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Spring 2025 / Summer 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Internship
JRNL 5402 - Journalism and Social Identity
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Spring 2025
Provides a discussion-based inquiry into the role of journalism and journalists in the representation of intersectional identities, focusing on race, gender, sexual expression and socioeconomic class in the United States. The study and practice of journalism in this course will address issues of trust, power, privilege and ethics inherent in reporting across difference. Same as JRNL 4402.
JRNL 5562 - Influence Journalism
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Fall 2024
Prepares students for the emerging field of influence journalism and media entrepreneurship. Applies journalism norms and values to a digital media sphere through the study of contract law, social and production distribution, media literacy, strategies to dismantle dis/misinformation, monetization models, media management, generative AI and ethical storytelling. Students will gain the skills to become credible news influencers or digital media managers within both digital-native and traditional news organizations. Same as JRNL 4562.
JRNL 5651 - Journalism Law & Ethics
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2025
Explores the legal and ethical frameworks of journalistic practice and media production. Covers historical as well as current frameworks used in examining the legal and ethical issues that arise in newsgathering and publication. Examines the relationships between ethics and the law in various media context.
JRNL 5851 - Graduate Professional Project
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Summer 2025
Gives students experience pitching and working on a long-form, independent journalism project as a final portfolio piece in their degree.
