Courses
Below is a list of courses required to receive my degree, a brief course description and the semester when I took, or will take, the course.
| Course Name | Description | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| Web Design | How to construct a web site from the ground up, including site planning, graphics creation, optimization, and publishing. Students use graphic development tools such as Macromedia Fireworks, as well as the web site editing tool Dreamweaver to turn their ideas into fully functional web sites. Students also study the web site development process, how to create an audience-driven creative brief and subsequent web site, and how to build and critique a site for maximum usability. | Fall 2006 |
| Writing for Converged Media | Newswriting as used in on-line journalism, from in-depth analysis to text bites and abstracts and alternative methods of online writing. | Fall 2006 | Digital Story Telling | This course incorporates traditional journalistic reporting and writing skills with digital elements used for online news sites. Students write and adapt stories for an online audience using non-linear storytelling methods, and discuss how audio, video, and interactive elements can complement and enhance news for the online reader. | Spring 2007 | Seminar in Public Affairs | Current issues in the making of domestic, international, and economic public policy in Washington with emphasis on the role of the media. | Spring 2007 | Legal Aspects of Communication | Current legal problems; theory of controls in journalism, visual communication, television, and radio; libel suits, copyrights, and infringement. | Summer 2007 | Advanced Editing | Students edit news and feature stories. Emphasis is on the dynamics of stories and the refinement of stories for publication. Students learn and practice the techniques used in producing a final printed product. | Fall 2007 | Broadcast News 2 | Guidance and training in television news, including producing, writing, and editing for TV newscasts; reporting in the field and production of news packages. Team-produced TV documentaries or domestic or international issues. | Fall 2007 | Digital Skills for Reporters | Introduction to the basic digital presentation and information-gathering tools used in the practice of journalism. Includes use and creation of digital audio, web page design, spreadsheets, and relational databases. | Spring 2007 | Seminar in Journalism | Examines ethical and economic issues affecting the press and initiates studies to add to the literature of media criticism. Students become acquainted with team journalism and magazine writing through in-depth projects focusing on press issues. | Spring 2007 |
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