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| Semester: | Fall 2024 |
| Number: | 0108-252-001 |
| Instructor: | TBA |
| Days: | Tuesday 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Blodgett Hall 124 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students learn the skills necessary for writing sports stories of professional quality. Student-journalists cover press conferences and sporting events and then follow through with game stories, profiles, columns and other sports-related assignments. Radio, television and web journalism will also be examined. (Learning Goals:CW) |
| Learning Goals: |
This class will teach the responsibilities and skills of a sports journalist. It will emphasize and re-emphasize key job skills, using hands-on experience, including: interviewing, reporting, story construction and basic sports writing as a whole. Most importantly—this course will teach students how to be a sports journalist (writer/reporter/columnist). It will also illustrate the importance of an editor’s job and what happens to a story after the reporter is done with it. In addition to print journalism, we will jump into the sports writing on the web and how video fits into the mix. You will learn from lessons, in-class assignments, as well as various guest-speakers. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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