Journalism/Public Communication

This course teaches writing structures in a variety of media, including print, broadcast, public relations, blogging, and social media. Fundamental skills are taught and practiced in information gathering, source evaluation, interviewing, and writing for delivery to a mass audience. Students complete a final journalism project that involves research.

Creating effective photos and photo essays for newspapers, magazines, and television. Learning to recognize, develop and create photo stories; how to coordinate words and photos and to lay them out on a page. Photo editing. How to present material to potential markets.