This course will examine the role of the sports photographer and how it has evolved over the decades. There will be special emphasis on various sports and methods of photographing them. Students will shoot, edit and transmit photos from a wide variety of local events to gain real-world skills in covering games and meeting tight deadlines.

Online video journalism contains multitudes. You can find everything from award-winning Frontline documentaries to embeddable CNN interviews to 45 seconds of snowstorm video from newspaper writers carrying around a point-and-shoot. This class will focus on studying and producing narrative video that stands out from the crowd. It also fulfills the University's Integrative Experience (IE) requirement for BA-Journ majors.

This course will cover the theory and practice of photojournalism and documentary photography. Students will photograph a diverse range of community events, including news, sports, portrait and photo essay assignments. They will also learn about the history, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics and contemporary multimedia practice of photojournalism.

This course explores career development as students start to prepare for life beyond UMass. Topics include career options for journalism majors; resumes, cover letters and networking; job search techniques and preparation. This course provides a structure and supportive environment for helping students define and pursue their career goals.

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This course will develop an understanding of the ethical questions raised by media coverage in a democratic society at a time of focus on profit over news values and on entertainment over substance. Issues discussed will include: accuracy and fairness, diversity, conflicts of interest, privacy, deception, relationships with sources and photojournalism. We will also learn to identify news values--or lack of them--both as professionals and as consumers. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Journ majors.

Introduction to Journalism is a survey class that covers the basic principles and practices of contemporary journalism. By studying fundamentals like truth telling, fact checking, the First Amendment, diversity, the watchdog role of the press and public engagement, students will explore the role of the journalist in a democratic society. Students will also assess changes in the production, distribution and consumption of journalism through new technologies. Students will examine case studies across the media, and learn how different audiences, media and perspectives affect the news.

This course covers the basic requirements of newswriting and reporting, including interviewing, covering news events, and more. This class will include in-class and outside reporting assignments, and fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement.

Almost all journalism job descriptions these days require some level of
multimedia experience. In this class students will continue to develop
their online writing skills through blogging while at the same time learning
how to create packages and tell stories with audio and video. This class
will focus on ways to merge the traditional methods of storytelling and
present them on the Web. Students will learn what makes for good Web
presentations and will be introduced to tools to help them with editing

This class is an introduction to radio & television news writing, videography, editing and visual storytelling. Students will learn the basics of radio reporting, videography and broadcast journalism. They will produce a variety of radio and television reports to expand their understanding of the various formats, styles and types of reports used in the media. Students will also work on news judgment, sourcing stories, interviewing subjects and writing and editing their stories for radio, television and the web.