Hello,
There
are four journalism courses that are open to any undergraduate. Please
let interested students know.
Thank
you,
Jean
Person
Journalism
855-1698
1.
JOUR-J261 Media Literacy, 33190, 4-5:15 pm, TR. 3 credits
Description:
This course aims to help students become informed, critical
consumers of media, especially digital media. Students will explore the goals
and methods of media industries by analyzing news media, social media,
strategic media and entertainment media. Students also will identify the
effects, both negative and beneficial, media have on individuals and society.
Counts
as a Journalism Elective in the degree.
Instructor:
Teresa A. White, Lecturer and Director of
the High School Journalism Institute. http://journalism.indiana.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/bio/?person=808
2.
JOUR-J360, 33205. Behind the Prize. 4-6:30 pm, W, EP 220. 3 credits.
Description:
This course will take students deep inside America's most
powerful and prestigious journalism. Seven Pulitzer winners will meet with the
class to talk about their work, about the ethics and craft of depth reporting,
and about the crucial role such journalism holds in today's world. The class
will be taught by Thomas French, himself a Pulitzer winner, and will be graded
with exams and a paper where the students will be asked to research
Pulitzer-winning work.
Several
of the speakers have written about or photographed war and other issues
overseas, and others have covered issues related to government, democracy and
the courts.
Speakers
will include:
*
Michel duCille, Washington Post photojournalist and editor (and IU alum), who
has won three Pulitzers, one for covering a volcanic eruption in Colombia,
another for covering crack addiction, and another for exposing the mistreatment
of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
*
Lane DeGregory, the Tampa Bay Times reporter who won for a riveting story about
a little girl so neglected by her family that when she was finally rescued, she
was a feral child who could not talk and barely walked.
*
John Branch, the New York Times reporter whose coverage of a fatal avalanche in
a project called Snow Fall has galvanized journalism with the possibilities of
multi-media storytelling in the 21st century.
Counts
as a Journalism Elective in the degree.
Instructor:
Tom French, Pulitzer prize winner and
Professor of Practice. http://journalism.indiana.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/bio/?person=1512
3.
JOUR-J460 Community Journalism, 33199. 11:15 am -12:30 pm, ME, EP 157. 3
credits. Service Learning class.
Description:
"J460 Community Journalism was the most influential
course of my college career. I saw what goes into making a newscast happen. I
put a piece together for air, and heard it come across the airwaves. I felt
like a reporter for the first time. But more importantly, I got out of the IU
bubble and into the community." -Eleanor Beck, WBIR-TV, Knoxville,
TN
At
the 2012 Indiana Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists Awards
Banquet, five J460 Community Journalism students were honored for work they did
in class. They won one first place and four third place awards. These weren’t
student awards; instead the students were competing against the top
professional journalists in the state.
Some
say journalism’s funding model is broken and can no longer support the effort
needed to cover the news. This class will take a hard look at today’s
journalism environment and explore alternatives to the corporate media model.
In
addition to studying and investigating different models of journalism, students
will be getting first-hand experience in what has been called “grassroots,”
“community” and “citizen” journalism by working at WFHB Community Radio in Bloomington.
Students will be investigating and reporting on important community issues as
part of the WFHB news staff. Community Journalism is a recognized IU
service-learning class.
WFHB
has a volunteer news and public affairs staff; reporting and producing several
hours of local news programming each week. Even with a non-paid news
department, WFHB has won more Society of Professional Journalists awards than
almost any radio station in the state over the past few years.
J460
Community Journalism will provide hands-on experience, using the latest digital
technology in news-gathering and presentation. WFHB presents a daily, half-hour
local newscast as well as five separate hour-long public affairs programs,
including programs targeting African-Americans, GLBT, and Hispanic communities.
WFHB is a leader in news podcasting, with its programs regularly being
downloaded around the world.
*Even
though WFHB is a radio station, students will be able to do video stories for
their projects during the semester. WFHB may features those stories on its
website.
Counts
as a Journalism Elective in the degree.
Instructor:
Mike Conway, Associate Professor. http://journalism.indiana.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/bio/?person=175
4.
For Juniors and Seniors:
JOUR-J460
Muslims and the Media, 33428. 9:3010:45 am, TR, EP 207. 3 credits.
Description:
P: Junior or Senior standing. After the 9/11 attacks, Islam
and Muslims feature regularly in news, politics and conversations in the United
States and across the globe. This course will allow students to critically
understand the nuances of Islam as a religion and the gendered lives of Muslims
around the world. Students will be introduced to the diversity in the Muslim
community, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the role of media in
fostering Islamophobia – fear of Islam outside the Muslim world and
Westernophobia – fear of western influences in the Muslim world. Students will
learn how to represent Muslims and Islam accurately in their journalistic
writing through critical analysis of media messages in terms of their content,
target audiences and possible consequences. Media messages will include
examples from traditional and online news, advertising and citizen-generated
media.
Counts
as a Journalism Elective in the degree.
Instructor:
Rosemary Pennington, Associate Instructor. http://journalism.indiana.edu/graduate/directory-of-graduate-students/bio/?person=231
