Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Students use journalism skills to report and produce a podcast and other digital elements suitable for publication/broadcast.

Collaborate with students and professors to report on and produce engaging digital products for the campus community by utilizing multimedia skills, learning interactive production systems and gaining an understanding of the changing media landscape.

Course enables students to determine and effectively manage the editorial direction of TheNewsHouse.com while learning and experimenting with the technical, visual and social media aspects of producing digital content across multiple platforms.

Copy editing, headlines, visuals, design, and technology. Handling departments and special sections, editing complex copy. Significant trends in newspaper editing.

Criticism and its function in journalism and society. Reviewing books, plays, motion pictures, and other art forms.

This course focuses on producing fashion and beauty editorial content across platforms, explores the use of social media in building a personal brand, and discusses the industry¿s ethical challenges.

Writing and selling magazine articles about traveling and specific geographic areas. Students will write in a variety of styles, especially exploring the narrative form.

This course is for students in professional communications degrees to learn to tell stories interactively using virtual and augmented reality. Techniques incorporate 360-degree video and computer-generated scenes, often using headsets.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Key ethical and diversity issues confronting journalists on all media platforms: digital, magazine, news, and social media. Evaluation of journalism standards and practices, especially when interests of audiences and revenue conflict. Case studies and media criticism.

Gather news and information for storytelling on multiple platforms: reporting, writing for print, introduction to taking photos, shooting video, capturing audio, using social media. Learn traditions, responsibilities of a free press, ethics, plagiarism, libel.

Writing and selling basic types of magazine articles: ideas, slanting, research, organization, dealings with editors. Students write one full-length article. Additional work required of graduate students.

This class covers editorial skills demanded in media organizations: editing and rewriting copy, identifying audiences, creating content across platforms, generating ideas, working with writers, story organization, writing display copy, fact checking. Additional work required of graduate students.

In this project-based course, you will learn the mindset, tools and skills used by investigative reporters. Students will work with their colleagues to produce a significant piece of journalistic work. Additional work required of graduate students.

This course examines the editorial experience for digital audiences and explores innovation in new storytelling platforms. Students will produce journalism for delivery on web and mobile devices. Additional work required of graduate students.

This hands-on course teaches students to gather, analyze and present data as part of the journalistic enterprise. Students will find stories in existing datasets, and/or build custom datasets, as part of writing data-driven news stories.

Learn to identify and embrace opportunities posed by emerging media technologies. Includes a survey of the latest technologies and trends that are changing how people access, interact with and publish news and information. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Learning to find, report, and write enterprise stories using the beat system.

In this course students will learn techniques for acquiring, analyzing and reporting on information from databases, archives, governments, survey research firms, academics, and other sources.

This skills course focuses on the production and distribution of journalism via mobile devices and the web. The class requires critical and conceptual analysis of how digital story experiences demand new approaches, techniques, and strategies.

The principles, practices and processes of multimedia journalism are taught in the context of public understanding of science and technology. Additional work required of graduate students.

Capstone experience for graduate magazine, news, and digital journalism students. Students produce a professional digital project with original content supported by social and multimedia, and launched on a responsively designed website.

A hands-on introduction to data journalism, including data collection, data visualizations, data analysis, how to use data in journalistic stories, and other related skills.

Sports Interviewing supplements a student's Newhouse curriculum in developing stories applied to sports. It focuses beyond the final story product, showing students the array of information provided by interview subjects based on questions asked. Additional work required of graduate students.

This class focuses on expressing opinions on sports issues, personalities and events in all media. It covers differences in platforms, the challenge of producing quality work on deadline, and the importance of establishing credibility. Additional work required of graduate students.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.