An introduction to the field of journalism, its standards, values and practices, as well as key moments in the development of journalism in the United States. Focuses on improving students' news literacy and the news literacy of the audiences they serve.

Covers various reporting strategies, techniques and behaviors. Students build informational resilience through assessing credibility, staying current, relationship-building and audience understanding.

Explores the historical, technical and aesthetic aspects of news photography. Assignments cover control of exposure, light, motion and composition. Lab work includes training and use of 35mm cameras and basic knowledge of software to produce a variety of finished images. Emphasis on visual communication in the digital age. Cameras are available for assignments.

Students learn the basics of reporting and writing as well as the importance of accuracy, mastering interviewing skills and meeting deadlines. Report and write for web and print with focus on producing publishable content.

Learn to write and report well-balanced, comprehensive and visually compelling television news stories. Students draw on video photojournalism, audio and text reporting skills to create multidimensional news packages, with a special emphasis on video journalism.

Students learn how to build trust, foster audience interaction, and create responsive content across media platforms. Students develop skills in reporting, branding, public education and engagement, and digital strategy through audience-driven journalism projects.

Learn the fundamentals of in-depth reporting: identifying possible stories; tracing the backgrounds of groups and individuals; obtaining and analyzing documents and data; cultivating human sources; and evaluating online sources -- all to hold the powerful accountable. Learn to make ethical decisions, improve your interviewing, reporting and writing techniques; find reliable experts; and organize and ensure the accuracy of your work.

Designed to help aspiring journalists explore the moral issues and dilemmas that they can expect to confront while working as professional journalists. Topics include, but are not limited to, truth-telling, conflicts of interest, promise-keeping, social justice, beneficence, avoiding harm and repairing harm. The topics are situated within normative theories of ethics.

Students learn how to cover sports events, athletes and the business of sports for various media platforms. Topics include game-day reporting, athlete profiles, sports ethics and the evolving nature of sports media. Students develop writing, multimedia and interviewing skills through real-world sports reporting projects.

Students learn how to cover political events, public officials and policy issues for various media platforms. Topics include campaign reporting, government accountability, political ethics and the impact of media on public opinion. Students develop writing, multimedia and interviewing skills through real-world political reporting projects. Occasionally offered in terms ahead of national or state elections.

Principles and practices of television news management, including hands-on experience with television news producing, writing, assignment editing, managing reporting crews and ethical decision-making under deadline.

The origin and development of Journalism in the United States considered in relation to American political, social and economic history. Consideration of newspapers, magazines, the electronic media, and important figures within each field.

Apply all aspects of audio storytelling to the creation of a variety of program-length podcasts. Non-fiction and fiction podcast and storytelling techniques are explored based on student interest and career goals. Students also learn how to mix sound and export audio files for professional podcast distribution online. A hands-on learning environment where students work their podcasts from start to finish.

In this service-learning course, students engage with Marquette community partners to cover social justice issues. Students engage in a critical examination of the role of journalism in (re)producing, challenging and enabling social injustice in the United States.

Provides an opportunity to connect teaching and learning theory and research knowledge to the practical setting of schools, specifically in the content area of journalism and media, as well as news, media, and digital literacies in the secondary classroom. Students explore how schools are organized and educational services are delivered. Students interact with students, develop an identity as an educator, and expand the necessary knowledge and skills required to work with students and educational professionals in a supervised school-based setting. Requires 40 hours of field experience.

Study of, and practice in, various areas of specialized work such as regional, small community, union, organization journalism, and the special interest press.

Advanced reporting and producing of news stories on a single topic that varies by semester.

Specific subjects of seminars to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Variable topics.

Work experience and the opportunity for publication in area related to journalism. Supervised by an approved professional coupled with related academic work assigned. May not substitute for a journalism writing requirement. Can count toward the JOUR capstone experience. May be taken more than once to a maximum of three credits. S/U grade assessment.

News reporting internship/co-op assisting professional journalists in ambitious projects as part of the nationally recognized O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, based in the Diederich College of Communication. Students are selected each spring in a competitive process. Juniors and seniors in journalism, and communication graduates can apply.

Faculty-supervised, independent study/research of a specific area or topic in Journalism.

Students identify and conduct in-depth reporting and research on topics of public interest. Emphasizes advanced reporting, writing techniques and instruction. Also explores marriage of audio, video and photography elements in modern story packages. Examines the contemporary media environment, including objectivity, equitable sourcing and the changing audience.

The application of rigorous methodology in developing and writing a thesis under the direction of an adviser.

The origin and development of Journalism in the United States considered in relation to American political, social and economic history. Consideration of newspapers, magazines, the electronic media, and important figures within each field.

Provides an opportunity to connect teaching and learning theory and research knowledge to the practical setting of schools, specifically in the content area of journalism and media, as well as news, media, and digital literacies in the secondary classroom. Students explore how schools are organized and educational services are delivered. Students interact with students, develop an identity as an educator, and expand the necessary knowledge and skills required to work with students and educational professionals in a supervised school-based setting. Requires 40 hours of field experience.

Advanced reporting and producing of news stories on a single topic that varies by semester.

Specific subjects of seminars to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Variable topics.