JOUR - Journalism
JOUR - Journalism
JOUR 4200 Teaching Scholastic Publications (3)
JOUR 5352 Scholastic (High School) Publications (3)
This course provides an overview of teaching beginning
journalism and advising high school publications. Topics
discussed include: press rights and responsibilities; gathering,
reporting, and editing the news; photo and electronic journalism;
mass media and society; design techniques; management and
business skills necessary for advising publications; and evaluation
techniques necessary for grading students involved in school
publications. Students learn how to write lesson plans for daily
use in their journalism classes, and each student is required to
submit a lesson plan including activities, tests and projects on
teaching the First Amendment. Each student submits a sample
staff manual, which he/she adapts to the school publication
that he/she will be advising. This course applies to the Missouri
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education certification
of teachers of journalism in secondary education. Prerequisite:
Admission to teacher post-baccalaureate certification program
through the School of Education.
This course provides preparation for instructing and advising
in the area of publication production. The course will provide
knowledge of publishing houses and the printing business;
knowledge in content and style of contemporary publications;
knowledge of available texts and teaching aids; and knowledge
of legal and ethical issues in journalism. The course is designed
specifically to prepare journalism teachers at the high school and
elementary level for Missouri state certification. Prerequisite:
Admission to teacher post-baccalaureate certification program
through the School of Education.
JOUR 4250 Methods of Teaching Secondary
Publications/Journalism (3)
Designed as a seminar, this course will provide an overview
of teaching and advising publications. Topics to be discussed
include: press rights and responsibilities, news gathering and
reporting, design, photojournalism, copyediting, communication
law, electronic journalism, management and business skills
necessary for advising publications. Participants will receive
hands-on experience that can be used in the classroom.
The course is designed specifically to prepare journalism
teachers at the high school and elementary level for Missouri
state certification. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher postbaccalaureate certification program through the School of
Education.
Course Descriptions
This course provides the instruction necessary for the teacher to
aid in the publication of the high school newspaper, yearbook,
or broadcasting medium. Students learn the process of writing
bids for selecting the printing company, and techniques needed to
publish the school paper or yearbook. Students learn classroom
organization, photography (both digital and darkroom procedures),
assigning beats, the public relations of scholastic journalism
distribution and mailing of publications, press freedom and mass
media in society, advertising and business skills for teaching
journalism, and newspaper and yearbook production. This course
applies to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education certification of teachers of journalism in secondary
education. Prerequisite: Admission to teacher post-baccalaureate
certification program through the School of Education.
JOUR 5360 Teaching Journalism Topics (3)
JOUR 4500 Media Criticism for Publication (3)
Students learn to research and write media analysis within a
journalism format. Students learn about the techniques of writing
media literacy analysis designed for popular consumption in
newspapers, magazines, and online publications. Students
analyze the content of news and entertainment media and
prepare articles based on this research for publication.
Prerequisite: JOUR 3130, MEDC 3190 for undergraduate
students, or MEDC 5460 for graduate students.
JOUR 5345 News Writing and Reporting (3)
Writing for journalism is intended to give the student an
understanding of the various genres of journalistic expression,
including the hard-news story, feature story, and investigative
story, as well as interpretive and explanatory journalism.
Additionally, students are introduced to the trends of journalistic
writing, from yellow and tabloid journalism to muckraking and the
new civic journalism. Students can expect a number of writing/
reporting assignments in this course. Cross-listed with MEDC
5345. Prerequisite: MEDC 5000
JOUR 5350 Communications Law (3)
The student examines the legal structure of the media
communications industry. The course focuses on the formation,
rationale, and implications of policies that form the basis of media
law and regulation. Cross-listed with MEDC 5350. Prerequisite:
MEDC 5000
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