Session I: July 9 - July 21 - Journalism

Morning Option (9AM - 12:30PM)
JOU 12 - Investigative Reporting

This course covers the fundamentals of investigative reporting, including developing story ideas, finding documents and data to support the reporting, including the nature of public information and the use of Freedom of Information and open meetings laws, ethical sourcing, interviewing techniques, and writing long form narrative.

Afternoon Option (2PM - 5:30PM)
BDST 17 - Writing for TV, Radio, and Web

In this course students will organize, outline and write scripts for commercial, documentary, news, promotional and entertainment content for radio , TV and on-line settings. Includes study of various professional format requirements. Emphasis is on the development of strong writing skills and story structure appropriate to each medium and content area.