2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course Numbers
Courses numbered 100 are open to all students without prerequisites. Ordinarily, courses numbered 200, 300, and 400 have prerequisites and may not be taken by freshmen. Consult the individual department course listing for exceptions to this general policy.
Students are advised to check the final schedule of courses published before each advisement period.
The following courses may be offered during the 2013-2014 academic year—including Summer, Fall, Intersession, and/or Spring semesters/sessions/trimesters on both the Brooklyn and Long Island Campuses, unless otherwise noted. Not all of these courses will be available at night or on weekends on both campuses. Consult the semestral schedule of courses for more specific information, including the Long Island Campus Weekend College Trimester Program.
Online Courses: Academic departments sometimes offer courses in an online format. Check the semester course schedule for details.
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JNM 108 - Intro to Journalism
Learn the fundamentals of reporting as well as how to craft a compelling news story. Explore the differences between traditional print journalism and digital media. Examine the ways in which all successful multi-media storytelling starts with good writing.
Prerequisite: ENG 103 , Grade of B or better (or Program permission)
3 hours a week, one semester, 3 credits
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JNM 110 - Journalism Workshop: The Art of the Essay
Alternative: ENG 125
Focus on the contemporary approaches to journalistic essay writing. Students will analyze the place of essays in contemporary journalism, and learn the art and craft of writing successful ones.
Prerequisite for either one: ENG 108
3 hours a week, one semester, 3 credits
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JNM 200 - History of Media
Analysis of the formative moments in the development of American media, from the Revolutionary pamphlets of Tom Paine through the social media-driven politics of the Obama era. Focus will be on how technological changes affected media coverage, as well as the role of print-based coverage in a world dominated by visual and social media.
Suggested Prerequisite: HIS 170 or HIS 172 with a B or better (or Program permission)
3 hours per week. 1 semester. 3 credits
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JNM 210 - Digital Reporting
Introduction to the art and craft of documentary video, for use either as supplement to print stories or as original reporting itself. Students will create their own short documentaries.
Prerequisite: COM 205 (aka Digital Media I) or Program permission
3 credits
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JNM 300 - Local Reporting (New York City or Long Island)
Conduct interviews as well as pursue document-based reporting on city topics, covering the work of political offices, government agencies, and leading community organizations. Students will write short articles covering issues facing their own neighborhoods.
Suggested Prerequisite: HIS 276 or HIS 274 . Open to majors or by Program permission
3 hours a week, one semester, 3 credits
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JNM 310 - New Media Workshop
ART 267
This course will examine social media from a cultural perspective, with emphasis on the role of new media technologies in contemporary journalism. Focus on how older journalistic techniques such as reportage and crisp writing and analysis can inform new media practice.
3 hours a week, one semester, 3 credits
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JNM 311 - Data-Driven Journalism and Infographics
Infographics (short for informational graphics) are a unique communications format characterized by illustration and the use of typography to communicate an assortment of facts to the reader. Data-driven journalism is a convergent journalism technique that involves mining publicly available databases and other documents for content that forms the basis of reportage. This class teaches students the theory and practice of data-driven journalism and infographics design. While the form originated in magazines, today infographics can be found in print, broadcast, and web-based journalism, advertising and public relations, corporate communications and promotional materials. Interactive infographics are particularly popular on websites as are infographics that allow for the crowd-sourcing of data. This class studies infographics and data-driven journalism as digital communications genres and gives students the opportunity to create their own infographics based upon existing data-sets that they mine as their own original reporting and research.
1 semester 3 credits
Fall
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JNM 370 - Special Topics: Journalism and New Media
This course is an upper division course in Journalism and New Media Studies that varies in topic and focus depending on student interest, program needs and new developments in the fields of journalism and new media. Students may take multiple iterations of the course as upper division elections in the major so long as the topic is different.
JNM 108 or
1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring
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