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Successful online storytelling requires more than just a good story. In this course, students will learn basic web design and development skills to better pursue their journalism goals online. Topics covered include basic design principles, HTML, CSS, working with images, logo design, typography and how to incorporate external plugins and modules.

This course examines how the politics of gender, sexual identity and race play out in the arena of sports. Through readings, writing, documentary viewing and discussion, students will explore the ways in which sports either constructs or breaks down barriers among individuals and groups and how journalism is involved in the process.

This course introduces students to writing and reporting for radio or podcasting. Students will practice pitching stories, arranging and conducting interviews, as well as writing and mixing radio scripts. The course explores how writing in broadcast journalism differs from print. Students will practice writing in a conversational style that works for "the ear". This is a "hands-on" course that requires students to report, record and write several stories on deadline. It's designed to give students the confidence to pursue audio stories for broadcast or the web.

This is the class for you if you are looking to create your own news site, magazine or brand. We will look at new and emerging for-profit and non-profit news organizations, how they work and how they sustain themselves (or not) financially. We'll learn about tech tools that help us work successfully as independent news publishers, including content management systems, tech tools and other digital resources. Other topics include: idea strategizing and development, marketing and audience development through social media, time and business management.

The biological aspects of being human. Evolution, how and where the human species originated, and biological similarities and dissimilarities among contemporary human groups. (Gen.Ed. BS)

This course will help you see the world sociologically and understand how your own life is affected not only by yourself and other individuals, but also by the social structures and social circumstances in which you live. You will learn to translate complex sociological ideas and concepts into clear sophisticated written arguments that illustrate a nuanced understanding of our social world.

Topics may include Frege's theory of sense and reference, Russell's theory of denoting phrases, elocutionary aspects of speech acts, modal and epistemic contexts, theories of tense.

Springfield was the birthplace of the industrial revolution in America and a manufacturing powerhouse into the 1960s when its major industries left for lower cost locations and the city?s economy collapsed. After decades of economic challenges and demographic changes that made Springfield a ?majority minority? city, significant projects are under development including a casino, union station, and subway manufacturing by a Chinese company, Changchun Railway, in addition to new community-based development.