This four-credit writing course introduces students to the different forms of magazine writing, including short features and essays, longer-form pieces, first-person narratives, profiles and human-interest feature stories. Students will generate story ideas, develop research strategies, cultivate sources, research markets, and submit queries for publication in print and online formats. Students will read and discuss articles from a range of popular, literary, and trade magazines, and, in a community of peer writers, they will write, review and revise several works of their own.

This course continues the work begun in Community Journalism Project, an intermediate reporting class that sends students to ghettos, barrios and poor white and working class communities in the region. Undergraduates and high school students form reporting teams to produce projects that get at the nuance and complexity of living with and overcoming poverty and racism. Includes intensive fieldwork, substantial newswriting and devotion the reading. Students may take Community Journalism II without taking Community Journalism I beforehand.

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.

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.

This course serves as the final, capstone experience in the Public Relations Concentration. Students will explore and gain practical, hands-on experience with the strategic communication planning process, conducting applied research and developing a comprehensive public relations campaign for a designated client.

Students will become familiar with legal concepts underlying freedom of the press: censorship, obscenity, libel, privacy, free press/fair trial, contempt, access and other legal problems affecting the mass media. The case study approach generally is used, but emphasis is on the principles and philosophy underlying various aspects of communication law as these affect the daily work of journalists.

This class is where documentary filmmaking and traditional journalism meet. People often look at news for the headlines and see little bits of the news. Here, we give them more depth, alternate perspectives, ask deeper questions and look to the future with long form storytelling. David Wilson, a co-founder of the True/False Film Festival calls this a "new era of journalism" and says, "We are getting away from the 'voice of God' narration.

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.

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 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.