Course details

Name: ENWR - 416

Title: INTERPRETIVE JOURNALISM

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This is the highest-numbered Journalism course offered. As such, it draws on News Reporting and Feature Writing skills to produce advocacy journalism: Writing and reporting where the journalist seeks to persuade her reader of something, takes a position, puts his own opinions into the writing. Think of it as feature writing with attitude. We will do a series of street columns based on actual reporting in communities of your own choosing. The goal--as really for all journalism--is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable". What do you care about? What seems wrong to you? What do you want to change? Whom do you want to help? Through interviewing, descriptive "color", meeting people, fact-based reporting, research, you will seek, first, to move the reader, and, second, to have her act. This is true "save the world" journalism. In addition to such street columns, we also will write editorials and op-eds that are more directly persuasive.

Last updated on 2011-11-02 By Hollander Ron (hollanderr)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

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Teaching Faculty: Hollander Ron (hollanderr)

Is course canceled: No