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Journalism and Mass Communications
	JOUR 101 - Introduction to Mass Communications Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: Not open to seniors. This course serves as a gateway for both majors and non-majors to examine the role that the mass media play in society. The course examines the pervasiveness of mass media in our lives, and the history and roles of different media and their societal functions, processes, and effects. Students learn to tell the difference between fact and opinion and examine the links among theory, research and professional experience, while analyzing the ethics, methods, and motivations of the media and the expectations of their audiences. We discuss how media cover diversity issues and evaluate the policies and freedoms that guide and shape the mass media and the news media in the United States. Students complete the course as better informed consumers and interpreters of mass media and their messages. Staff.
	JOUR 152 - Photojournalism Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Winter An introduction to photojournalism. Through hands-on assignments, students learn the importance of visual images in communicating ideas and information and gain an appreciation for the qualities and principles that set photojournalists apart from other photographers Staff.
	JOUR 162 - Broadcast-Announcing Practicum Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Admission by audition only. Students learn the skills required to effectively anchor news, weather, or sports on the weekly Rockbridge Report cable broadcast. May be repeated for up to three degree credits. Finch.
	JOUR 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies. First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-Year standing. .
	JOUR 190 - Beyond Google and Wikipedia: Finding and Evaluating Information Sources in the Digital Age Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter An introduction to information sources that academic researchers, journalists, public relations and advertising professionals rely on increasingly in the digital age to conduct scholarly research, report and write news stories, and to find, analyze and present research on trends in mass communications. Students learn how to evaluate sources of information for credibility and quality, while they strengthen their basic research skills to go beyond Google and dig below the surface of today’s high-tech world. Grefe, Journalism faculty.
	JOUR 201 - Introduction to Reporting Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 101. The principles and techniques of information gathering and news writing, with emphasis on fulfilling the role of the news media in a democratic society. Extensive laboratory work preparing assignments for print, electronic and online media, stressing accuracy, clarity and the appropriate use of the different media. Staff.
	JOUR 202 - Introduction to Digital Journalism Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 201. Concepts and practices of news gathering and presentation in a multimedia, interactive environment. Combines classroom instruction with a converged news media lab in which students contribute to a website, television newscast, and newspaper. Note: The laboratory requirement is limited to three sessions during the term, as arranged with the instructor. Artwick, Locy.
	JOUR 210 - Sports Journalism Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A seminar surveying, analyzing, and critiquing local, regional, national and international converged sports reporting and writing by working sports journalist. In addition, students read and analyze several longer pieces by working journalists, and write extensively. Staff.
	JOUR 212 - The Journalist in Fiction and Film Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years Since the time of Sophocles, at least, citizens have been tempted to “kill the messenger.” Those bearing news are often at odds with the citizens to whom they bring the news. This class explores the tension between citizens and modern-day messengers by reading and viewing fictional depictions of journalists. Students examine the role of popular culture in forming myths, stereotypes and false expectations of journalists - and other groups - to understand better the role of journalists in a free society. Luecke.
	JOUR 214 - The Vietnam War and the Journalists Who Covered It: 1961-1975 Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Appropriate for non-majors. A critical in-depth study taught on campus and in Vietnam of reporting and reporters during the Vietnam Conflict, from the death of the first American military adviser to South Vietnam’s last hours. Students meet journalists who covered the conflict on both sides and are exposed to numerous examples of journalists’ work, through readings, class visits, and documentaries and films. In Vietnam, students receive instruction on the war from the Vietnamese perspective through a series of lectures and tours to heighten the students’ knowledge of the war and the country’s progress since the cessation of hostilities. Students write essays and an inclusive final project or research essay. Staff.
	JOUR 215 - The Magazine: Past, Present, Future Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years. Magazines are probably the most resilient mass medium we have, which is good news in the digital age. Even though the magazine business was hit hard in recent years, a look at its past and future is far more cheering. In this class, students learn how to investigate a magazine from the past as a way of doing history, and of understanding the magazine business from the inside. They also learn from current magazine editors, writers, and publishers what it takes to create, produce, and sustain a magazine. And they create a team, with the other students in the class, to produce a tablet-ready digital “magazine of the future. Cumming.
	JOUR 216 - The Press and The Civil Rights Movement Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: Journalism 101 or instructor consent. Appropriate for history majors or African-American studies students. This research seminar examines the press’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the South in the 1950s and ‘60s. It includes a 10-day tour of key sites of the movement and archives related to its history (Greensboro, Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville), oral-history interviews with press veterans, readings, discussions, and proposals for a research paper and a magazine article. Cumming
	JOUR 218 - Online Speech: Refuges, Harbors and Perils Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years Prerequisite: JOUR 101 or sophomore standing. An examination of how the marketplace of ideas created on the World Wide Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities through looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. The online experience includes clashes of interests, conflicts between content producers and content users, issues of privacy and defamation, and amplified roles and effects of anonymous speech in the society. Students examine how courts and lawmakers have dealt with these conflicts, the kinds of public policies engendered, and the effects on the First Amendment. Specific cases include controversies involving Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, etc. and legislative instruments such as the DMCA and the CDA. This seminar focuses on online speech as it affects defamation, privacy, anonymity, pornography, social networking, and citizen journalism. While technical knowledge is not required to take the class, students must be willing to actively participate in class projects. Abah.
	JOUR 221 - Communication in Global Perspectives Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring in alternate years Prerequisite: JOUR 101. Open to majors and non-majors. This course examines how the marketplace of ideas created by the Web impacts, impedes, and affects our communication and discernment abilities by looking at the laws that empower, encourage, and inhibit these abilities on the Web. Abah.
	JOUR 225 - Crisis Communications Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 273 or instructor consent; at least junior standing. A case-study approach to current methods of forecasting problems and responding effectively to crises and consequences in the public and private sectors. Topics include identifying and communicating effectively with stakeholders during crises, effective media-relations strategies during emergencies, building an effective crisis-response plan, regaining public credibility following a crisis, and avoiding public relations mistakes during litigation. Abah.
	JOUR 231 - Communication Theory Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: JOUR 101 or instructor consent; at least sophomore standing. A critical overview of leading theoretical traditions in communication studies. Examination of the concepts of general and thematic theories in use, describing the similarities and differences among the concepts and applying them in practical situations. Some attention is paid to epistemological foundations, the structure of communication theory as a field, and examining the relationship between communication theory and sociocultural practice. Artwick.
	JOUR 232 - Research Methods in Mass Communication Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 231 or instructor consent; at least junior standing. This course introduces students to the systematic study of communication, including quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in both theory-building and applied contexts. Students examine the research process, conceptualization, design, measurement, and analysis. Modes of inquiry studied include survey research, content analysis, experimental research, focus groups, depth interviewing, ethnography, and historical research. The class also engages students in a research project that may serve a local nonprofit agency. Artwick.
	JOUR 234 - A Sense of Place: Multimedia News Features Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: JOUR 201 or instructor consent. This writing and reporting class creates an intensely experiential setting for students to “learn by doing” one of the more elusive but rewarding aspects of journalistic feature writing: writing about a place. Interspersed with relevant readings in literary journalism and short exercises in nonfiction writing and multi-media storytelling, assignments will have students drive out of Lexington, anywhere from five to 50 miles, to spend most of a day in a spot on the map. Their stories about such places are produced online in print, audio, and digital photography. Cumming.
	JOUR 240 - Poverty in the Media Credits: 3 Not open to students with credit for JOUR 241. No Prerequisites; appropriate for non-majors. An in-depth examination of portrayals of poverty, chiefly in the United States, from the late 19th century to the present through an intensive review of distinguished print journalism, nonfiction books, documentary film, and movies. By consulting social science literature as well, students gain a deeper understanding of the various conceptual paradigms through which poverty has been understood and explained. Counts as part of the Shepherd Program in Poverty and Human Capability Staff.
	JOUR 241 - Media and Poverty: The Poor in Journalism and Film Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Not open to students with credit for JOUR 240. This course offers an in-depth examination of portrayals of poverty, chiefly in the United States, from the late 19th century to the present through an intensive review of distinguished print journalism, nonfiction books, documentary film, and movies. By consulting social science literature as well, students gain a deeper understanding of the various conceptual paradigms through which poverty has been understood and explained. Staff.
	JOUR 242 - Media Ownership and Control FDR: SS5 Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: At least junior standing or instructor consent. This course explores the relationship between what the media do and how they are owned and run. It examines the influence of market pressures and state regulation, and asks how commercial objectives affect the media’s ability to meet their traditional responsibilities within a democratic society, as a forum for discourse, an organ of accountability and a means by which popular culture is sustained. Although the chief focus is on news media, the course also looks at the entertainment industries and the Internet as increasingly integrated parts of a consolidated media system and as interpreters of social and political realities. Staff.
	JOUR 258 - Beat Reporting Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter. Prerequisite: JOUR 202. Using the community as the laboratory, students develop competence in the principles and techniques of reporting and writing news for print, broadcast, online and social media in a democratic society. Working on assigned beats, students learn source development, news judgment, information gathering, news presentation and time management. Work is published and aired on the Rockbridge Report website and broadcast. Staff.
	JOUR 266 - Cross-Cultural Documentary Filmmaking Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring The United States is a melting pot of nationalities and cultures. As people move to the U. S. from other countries they go through cross-cultural adaptation, and identity becomes an issue for everyone. Students in this course work in three-person teams to produce five-minute documentaries on cross-cultural adaptation by an ethnic community in our region or by selected international students at Washington and Lee. Students are expected to immerse themselves in learning about the home countries and current communities of their subjects. The course includes instruction in the techniques of documentary film-making, allowing student to develop their writing, storytelling, shooting and editing skills. Staff.
	JOUR 270 - Digital Media and Society Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Facebook, YouTube, and iPhones are popular, if not essential elements in college students’ busy lives. Being born into the digital age, students have grown up with profound and rapidly-changing media and communication technologies, yet likely take them for granted. This course takes an in-depth look at digital media, exploring the relationship between technology and social change. The concept of technological determinism guides our examination of social networking, online news/information, digital entertainment, and health online. Artwick.
	JOUR 273 - Principles of Public Relations Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 201. This class focuses on understanding what public relations is and what those who practice public relations do. Students examine the origins of public relations, the nature and role of public relations, the major influences that affect organizational behavior, the ethics of public relations, and the professional development of public-relations professionals. Emphasis is placed on the planning, writing, and management functions, working with media and developing effective public-relations strategies. Hanna.
	JOUR 280 - Covering Courts and the Law Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisites: At least junior standing. Appropriate for non-majors. Courthouses make the best beats by providing a window on what is important to the American people. This course introduces students to the U.S. court system, its players, language and impact on the public at large. Students learn how to identify newsworthy legal stories, read court documents, and make sense of them in order to write clear, compelling, fair and accurate news stories for mass audiences. Locy.
	JOUR 295 - Topics in Journalism and Mass Communications Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring Planned Offering: Offered when departmental resources permit. Study of a selected topic in journalism or mass communications. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Appropriate for non-majors. Spring 2015 topic: JOUR 295-01: News Media, Race & Ethnicity (4). Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course looks at how the news media cover race and ethnicity. How accurate is the portrayal of racial and ethnic groups? How do news media deal with clichés, ignorance and fear when it comes to differences? Do they offer a comprehensive and contextual view? This course will highlight some of the best examples of reporting on race and ethnicity and how such reporting delves into the complexity of culture that can educate and surprise. Colόn
	JOUR 296 - Topics in News Media History Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. This course uses a variety of research methods to explore a particular era or focus in the history of the American press. Past topics, likely to be offered again on a rotating basis, have been on civil rights coverage in the South since 1945 and on early American newspapers as represented by the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers in W&L’s Farrar Collection. Open to non-majors.
	JOUR 297 - Topics in Public Science Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Open to nonmajors. Co-taught interdisciplinary study of selected issues in science or social science and how those issues are presented to the public by the news media. This course gives a basic presentation of research and other information about particular topics. The emphasis is on how a journalist would find this information, evaluate the quality of various sources, and create a meaningful written presentation that contributes to public understanding. Student work involves extensive writing. Richardson, Staff from a science discipline.
	JOUR 301 - Law and Communications Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: Junior standing. An examination of the development of First Amendment jurisprudence, the law of defamation, privacy, access, free press-fair trial, journalists’ privilege, obscenity and pornography. The case study approach is used, but the emphasis is on the principles that underlie the landmark cases. This course can serve as an introduction to and preparation for further studies in communications law and/or the legal system in general. Abah.
	JOUR 303 - Covering Great Trials in History: The Impact of the Press and Public on Justice Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years. From the Salem Witch Trials and the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping to the Charles Manson Family and O.J. Simpson, Americans have long been fascinated by crime and punishment. Rich or poor, admired or scorned, defendants in high-profile trials captivate the public because they illuminate our potential for good and evil by revealing our hopes, dreams, and fears at a particular time in history. Often in dramatic fashion, trials expose society’s weaknesses by dissecting the violent tendencies and obsessions of the people we thought were worthy of our respect or our fear. But does this obsession with the law serve the greater good? Are prosecutors playing on the public’s fears? Are judges doing enough to ensure fair trials? Are defense attorneys serving their clients-or themselves? Does the press, in sensational, simplistic coverage, do more harm than good? And is the public becoming disillusioned with the American legal system? This course examines these issues by placing great trials in their context in history and exploring the complexities of the conflict between the freedom of the press and the ideal of a fair trial. Locy.
	JOUR 318 - The Literature of Journalism FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2014 Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and completion of FDR FW writing requirement. Appropriate for non-majors. A study of the seminal writings in American journalism, focusing on their literary styles, their influence in the development of American journalism, and their impact on U.S. history. Cumming.
	JOUR 319 - Mass Media and Society Credits: 3 Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A review of the current research into and theories of how people use the mass media, emphasizing the impact of the mass media on public knowledge, attitudes, and discourse. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of mass media to other cultural institutions. Richardson.
	JOUR 320 - Covering Crime and Justice: A Practicum Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring This course exposes students to how the news media cover the three branches of government as they act separately and in concert in dealing with crime and justice. Through the creation of a Washington and Lee “courts bureau” in Washington, students spend five days covering “real” cases in “real” time in the D.C. District Court, arguably one of the nation’s most important federal trial courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, which is widely considered second in importance only to the U.S. Supreme Court. Students learn how courts are structured, how they work, and how the press covers the Judiciary as it interacts with the other two branches of government in the administration of justice. Locy.
	JOUR 338 - The Documentary Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: Junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A critical study of the documentary in film and television, with analysis of prominent directors and genres. Finch.
	JOUR 344 - Ethics of Journalism Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: POL 203 and at least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A study of the moral issues arising from the practice of modern journalism and communications. Includes examination of philosophical and theoretical foundations of ethics, the place and role of journalism in the larger society, and moral choices in the newsroom. Topics include: First Amendment freedoms, privacy, confidentiality of sources, conflicts of interest, cooperation with law enforcement, free press/fair trial, photojournalism, and issues of accountability. Colón.
	JOUR 345 - Media Ethics Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and at least junior standing. This course enables students to explore ethical challenges that arise within the various communication practices of contemporary media: journalism, public relations, advertising, documentary film, blogging and fictional programming. The course offers a grounding in moral reasoning and an understanding of professional ethics as an evolving response to changing social and industrial conditions in the media industries. Colón.
	JOUR 351 - Editing for Print and Online Media Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and at least junior standing. The principles and techniques of editing copy and producing publications for the print media and the World Wide Web, with emphasis on clarity of thought, legal and moral responsibilities, and effective communication. Extensive laboratory work. Attention is given to the latest computer-based production and editing applications, as students participate in producing prototype newspaper pages, the Rockbridge Report cablecast and website. Staff.
	JOUR 353 - Opinion Writing Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for majors and nonmajors. Opinion writing is growing in popularity and importance, though much of it is derivative and shrill. This course develops students’ ability to write opinion based on fact and reasoned argument across a range of genres, including editorial writing, column writing, criticism, and blogging. Currency in public affairs is emphasized along with building skills in persuasion, formulating coherent positions, developing voice and encouraging civil dialogue. The course is highly interactive and participatory. Staff.
	JOUR 356 - In-depth Reporting Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring Prerequisite: JOUR 351 or 362 or instructor consent. The principles and techniques of developing and creating enterprising, heavily researched journalistic work for the mass media. Students produce in-depth work for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the World Wide Web. Extensive group work is required. Richardson.
	JOUR 357 - Magazine Feature Writing Credits: 3 Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. The principles and techniques of developing and polishing long-form journalistic articles for print media. Extensive writing and reporting are required. Cumming.
	JOUR 362 - Producing for Broadcast and Online Media Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall, Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 253 or 263 and at least junior standing. Preparation for leadership roles in electronic media. Extensive work in decision making and management in the newsroom through television news producing and Internet content construction. Finch.
	JOUR 365 - The Broadcast News Magazine Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: JOUR 201. The principles and techniques involved in developing and creating enterprising longer-form journalistic work for a converged environment, principally television and the World Wide Web. Students research, write, and produce news and feature packages similar to those of network television news magazines for broadcast on the local cable-access channel. Staff.
	JOUR 371 - Reporting on Business Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover the world of business, focusing especially on companies and their employees and customers. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. A part of the business journalism sequence; also appropriate as an elective for other journalism majors and for business majors. Luecke.
	JOUR 372 - Reporting on the Economy Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites: At least junior standing. Reporting and writing techniques used by journalists who cover the world of economics and business, focusing especially on the economy and financial markets. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. A part of the business journalism sequence; also appropriate as an elective for other journalism majors and for business and economics majors. Luecke.
	JOUR 377 - Media Management & Entrepreneurship Credits: 3-4 Planned Offering: Fall, Spring Prerequisite: At least junior standing. Appropriate for nonmajors. A seminar examining trends and challenges in media management, including a close examination of industry economics, changing reader and viewer habits, revenue and profit pressures, and labor and management issues unique to the news profession. Staff.
	JOUR 399 - Contemporary Problems in Law and Journalism (LAW 242) Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites: JOUR 301 and instructor consent. Enrollment limited. A seminar devoted to the study of issues on the frontier of developments in law and journalism. Issues to be addressed include limits on the dignitary torts of privacy and emotional distress; limitations on public availability of governmental information; the impact of new technology on communications law; proposals for reform of libel law; and the role of reporters, editors and legal counsel in the news process. Abah, Murchison.
	JOUR 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
	JOUR 402 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 2 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
	JOUR 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Directed study individually arranged and supervised in any area of the mass media. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
	JOUR 421 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 1 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
	JOUR 422 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 2 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
	JOUR 423 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 3 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department faculty. Research or creative projects, individually arranged and supervised, in any phase of mass media and related operations. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54254.xml for details. Staff.
	JOUR 451 - News Internship Credits: 1 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared Journalism or Strategic Communication majors. . Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
	JOUR 452 - News Internship Credits: 2 Prerequisites: JOUR 202 and permission of the department. Limited to declared Journalism or Strategic Communication majors. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
	JOUR 453 - News Internship Credits: 3 Prerequisites: JOUR 202 and permission of the department. Limited to declared Journalism or Strategic Communication majors. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, with newspapers, radio and television stations, Internet news sites, or other news media or business institutions, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by November 15 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship in the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
	JOUR 461 - Communications Internship Credits: 1 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared Journalism or Strategic Communication majors. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
	JOUR 462 - Communications Internship Credits: 2 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared Strategic Communication majors. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . Staff.
	JOUR 463 - Communications Internship Credits: 3 Prerequisites: JOUR 201 and permission of the department. Limited to declared Strategic Communication majors. Professional service, arranged and supervised individually, in public relations, advertising, corporate communications, or other mass media-related businesses, as appropriate. Students proposing to undertake an internship must meet and coordinate their plans with the department’s internship supervisor by March 1 of the year in which they plan to serve the internship. Students undertaking an internship during the summer may receive credit in the following fall term only as an overload. For details about internship requirements, see the department website at www.wlu.edu/x52080.xml . . Staff.
	JOUR 493 - Honors Thesis Credits: 3-3 Planned Offering: Fall-Winter Prerequisite: Senior standing, honors candidacy and consent of the department faculty. Students interested in honors work are expected to receive departmental approval no later than the middle of the spring term in the junior year. See the department website at www.wlu.edu/x54253.xml for details. Staff.
Latin
	LATN 101 - Elementary Latin Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Study of Latin declensional patterns and sentence formation. Staff.
	LATN 102 - Elementary Latin Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: LATN 101. A continuation of the materials and methods in LATN 101 with emphasis on syntax. Staff.
	LATN 201 - Republican Prose Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: LATN 102 or equivalent. Reading selections from some or all of the following: Cato, Nepos, Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, and Varro. Emphasis on style and syntax, along with the political and social background of the later Republican period. Staff.
	LATN 202 - Introduction to Verse FDR: FL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: LATN 201 or equivalent. Introduction to the language, meter, and style of Latin verse with readings from Horace, Ovid, Virgil, and Propertius. Benefiel.
	LATN 301 - Advanced Prose FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent. Selections from among Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, and Quintilian. Crotty.
	LATN 302 - Advanced Republican and Augustan Verse FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent. Selections from among Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Staff.
	LATN 310 - Letters of Cicero and Pliny FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall 2014 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. This course examines different styles and purposes of letter writing in the Roman world, focusing on the historically revealing letters of Cicero and Pliny, but also including samples from the Epistles of Horace and Seneca, as well as a few “fictional” letters by Ovid. Benefiel.
	LATN 320 - Literature in the Age of Nero FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. This course provides an opportunity for advanced Latin students to understand a very complicated period by examining representative literature of the age. Readings include the Thyestes of Seneca, as well as selections from his Moral Epistles , selections from Lucan’s de Bello Civili , Petronius’ Satyricon , and Tacitus’ Histories . Images of art and architecture of the period are shown, and lectures cover such topics necessary for understanding the literature as slavery, public entertainment, and patronage. Carlisle.
	LATN 321 - Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus Carlisle.
	LATN 323 - History: Tacitus FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. History: Tacitus Benefiel.
	LATN 324 - Roman Historiography: Livy FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Readings from the Augustan historian Livy’s History of Rome. Carlisle.
	LATN 325 - Virgil’s Aeneid FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Virgil’s Aeneid Carlisle.
	LATN 326 - The Poetry of Ovid FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Readings from the masterpieces of Ovid’s poetry, including one or more of the following: The Metamorphoses (a grand mythological epic), The Fasti (festivals and the Roman calendar), The Heroides (fictional letters written by mythological heroines, Ars Amatoria and Amores (love poetry) and Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto (his poetry from exile). Topic varies by term but course may be taken only once. Benefiel or Carlisle.
	LATN 327 - Medieval and Renaissance Writers FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Readings from Augustine, Bede, the Crusader historians, medieval hymns, the Carmina Burana , Petrarch, and texts proposed by students. Staff.
	LATN 328 - Roman Elegy FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2015 and every third year. This course explores the diverse genre of Roman elegy through a close reading of extensive portions of the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and other writers. Themes to be discussed include different ideas about love, women in elegiac poetry, and the relationship between the poet/lover and his wider social and political environment. The course also addresses the place of elegy in Greek and Roman poetic traditions. Dance.
	LATN 331 - Early Republican Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. This course explores the literature of early Rome, most importantly Roman comedy. Crotty.
	LATN 332 - Latin Prose Composition FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015 Prerequisite: One 300-level LATN course or instructor consent. A consideration of several masters of prose style, including Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus and Pliny, as well as extensive exercises in Latin prose composition. Carlisle.
	LATN 395 - Topics in Advanced Latin Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: LATN 202 or instructor consent. Selected subject areas in Latin literature. The topic selected varies from year to year. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	LATN 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	LATN 402 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 2 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	LATN 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	LATN 421 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	LATN 422 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 2 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Fall 2014 topic: LATN 422: Herculaneum Research Project (2): Processing and interpreting finds from archaeological field season in Herculaneum (Summer 2014). Benefiel
	LATN 423 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
	LACS 101 - Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies FDR: HU Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall A multidisciplinary, introductory course designed to familiarize students with the pertinent issues that determine or affect the concept of identity in Latin American and Caribbean societies through a study of their geography, history, politics, economics, literature, and culture. The purpose of the course is to provide a framework or overview to enhance understanding in the students’ future courses in particular disciplines and specific areas of Latin American and Caribbean study. Barnett.
	LACS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies. First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. .
	LACS 195 - Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies FDR: FDR designation varies with topic, as approved in advance. Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. A topical seminar that focuses on an interdisciplinary examination of a singular theme relevant to the overall understanding of Latin America and the Caribbean region, such as Hispanic Feminisms, the Indigenous Americas, or Shifting Borders, among others. As an introductory seminar, topics are selected with the purpose in mind to present the student with a broad, regional view within the scope of a restricted focus or medium. Staff.
	LACS 256 - Trans-American Identity: Images from the Americas (LIT 256) FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter 2015 and alternate years Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Counts toward the literature distribution requirement for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. A multi-genre survey of representative literary works from the Americas, defined as those regions that encompass Latin American and Caribbean cultures. In particular the course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how exemplary artists from the region have crafted images to interpret and represent their American reality. Selected narrative, film, and poetic works by Spanish-American (Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, and Carpentier), Francophone (Danticat), Lusophone (Amado), and Anglophone authors (Walcott, Brathwaite, and Naipaul), among others. Barnett.
	LACS 257 - Multiculturalism in Latin America: The Case of Brazil FDR: HL Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Offered in Spring when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit This seminar studies Brazil as an example of a multicultural society. Students examine the meaning of multiculturalism and related concepts of identity, heterogeneity, and Eurocentrism, not only in regard to the Brazilian context, but also, comparatively, to that of US culture. The course focuses on the social dynamics that have engaged Brazilians of different backgrounds, marked by differences of gender, ethnicity, and class, and on how multiculturalism and the ensuing conflicts have continuously shaped and reshaped individual subjectivities and national identity. Some of the key issues to be addressed in class are: Brazil’s ethnic formation; myths of national identity; class and racial relations; and women in Brazilian society. Readings for the class include novels, short stories, poetry, and testimonial/diary Pinto-Bailey.
	LACS 396 - Capstone Seminar in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisites: Declaration and completion of all other minor requirements or instructor consent. This capstone course builds upon the foundations developed in LACS 101 and related coursework in the distribution areas. Students discuss assigned readings centered around a key theme or themes of Latin American Studies in connection with an individualized research project. This project is carried out with continual mentoring by a faculty member and in collaboration with peer feedback. Each student presents his/her findings in a formal paper, or other approved end-product, and summarizes the results in an oral presentation. Staff.
	LACS 421 - Interdisciplinary Research Credits: 1 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, and consent of the instructor. Independent research into a topic centered within Latin America or the Caribbean, directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students are expected to share their work with the public through a public presentation. Barnett.
	LACS 422 - Interdisciplinary Research Credits: 2 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, and consent of the instructor. Independent research into a topic centered within Latin America or the Caribbean, directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students are expected to share their work with the public through a public presentation. Barnett.
	LACS 423 - Interdisciplinary Research Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered in fall or winter when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, and consent of the instructor. Independent research into a topic centered within Latin America or the Caribbean, directed by two or more faculty representing at least two disciplines. Students are expected to share their work with the public through a public presentation. Barnett.
Legal Studies
	LEGL 220 - The Legal Profession Credits: 4 Planned Offering: Spring In recent decades, the percentage of civil and criminal suits in the U.S. which actually go to trial has dropped to about two percent. Yet most popular conceptions of the legal profession remain fixated on the drama of trials, as portrayed in films, on television, and in novels. What is legal practice actually like, for most attorneys, most of the time? This intensive seminar is designed for those who are curious about the legal profession and wish to know more about its inner workings, perhaps before committing themselves to post-graduate legal education. It introduces students to the fundamentals of legal reasoning and analysis, legal research, and legal writing, as well as contemporary issues and concerns facing the profession in a time of profound transition. Students engage in a series of practical exercises designed to mimic the tasks assigned to first-year associates at a law firm, and the seminar culminates with students’ oral arguments on a motion hearing for which they have researched and drafted legal briefs. Osborne, Eller.
Literature in Translation
	LIT 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies. First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. .
	LIT 203 - Greek Literature from Homer to the Early Hellenistic Period (CLAS 203) FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered 2014-2015. Readings in translation from Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, the comedians, and the lyric and pastoral poets, including selections from Herodotus and Thucydides, and from Plato’s and Aristotle’s reflections on literature. The course includes readings from modern critical writings. We read some of the most famous stories of the Western world–from the Iliad and the Odyssey, to Milton’s Paradise Lost and Joyce’s Ulysses, via Virgil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Civil War. All of these works are epic narratives, each presenting a different concept of the hero, and yet, at the same time, participating in a coherent, on-going and unfinished tradition. We consider such questions as the role of violence in literature; the concept of the heroic as it reflects evolving ideas of the individual and society; and the idea of a literary tradition. Crotty.
	LIT 204 - Augustan Era (CLAS 204) FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Not offered in 2014-2015. An interdisciplinary course taught in English, using the tools of literature, history and art to examine a specific, complicated, and pivotally important period in the evolution of western culture, focused on the literary. Readings from the poets predominate (Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphosis , selections from Horace, Propertius, Tibullus and other poems of Ovid) and also including readings from ancient historians dealing with Augustus and the major events of his period (e.g. Suetonius, Plutarch, and Tacitus on such topics as Actium and problems of succession). The topic for each lecture is illustrated with slides of works of art and architecture from the period. Selections from historians and from material remains are chosen according to intersection points with the literature. Carlisle.
	LIT 215 - 20th-Century Russian Literature in Translation FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. Selected Russian literary masterpieces (short stories, plays and novels). Authors include Olesha, Babel, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn. Brodsky.
	LIT 218 - Pre-Modern Chinese Literature in Translation FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Fall Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. A survey of Chinese literature from the earliest period to the founding of the Republic in 1912. Taught in English, the course presupposes no previous knowledge of China or Chinese culture. The literature is presented in the context of its intellectual, philosophical and cultural background. Texts used may vary from year to year and include a wide selection of fiction, poetry, historical documents, Chinese drama (opera) and prose works. Audiovisual materials are used when appropriate and available. Fu.
	LIT 220 - Modern Chinese Literature in Translation FDR: HL Credits: 3 Planned Offering: Winter Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This is a survey course to introduce students to the literature of 20th-century China. Through close reading of key literary texts from the 1910s to the present, students explore the social, historical and literary background that gave rise to the texts studied and the ways in which these texts address various issues that China faced at the time. Taught in English, the course presupposes no previous knowledge of China or Chinese culture. In addition to the selected literary texts, the course introduces several feature films that are cinematic adaptations of modern Chinese fiction and explore the complex and dynamic interchange between literary and cinematic language. Zhu.

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JOUR 101 - Introduction to Mass Communications

JOUR 152 - Photojournalism

JOUR 162 - Broadcast-Announcing Practicum

JOUR 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

JOUR 190 - Beyond Google and Wikipedia: Finding and Evaluating Information Sources in the Digital Age

JOUR 201 - Introduction to Reporting

JOUR 202 - Introduction to Digital Journalism

JOUR 210 - Sports Journalism

JOUR 212 - The Journalist in Fiction and Film

JOUR 214 - The Vietnam War and the Journalists Who Covered It: 1961-1975

JOUR 215 - The Magazine: Past, Present, Future

JOUR 216 - The Press and The Civil Rights Movement

JOUR 218 - Online Speech: Refuges, Harbors and Perils

JOUR 221 - Communication in Global Perspectives

JOUR 225 - Crisis Communications

JOUR 231 - Communication Theory

JOUR 232 - Research Methods in Mass Communication

JOUR 234 - A Sense of Place: Multimedia News Features

JOUR 240 - Poverty in the Media

JOUR 241 - Media and Poverty: The Poor in Journalism and Film

JOUR 242 - Media Ownership and Control

JOUR 258 - Beat Reporting

JOUR 266 - Cross-Cultural Documentary Filmmaking

JOUR 270 - Digital Media and Society

JOUR 273 - Principles of Public Relations

JOUR 280 - Covering Courts and the Law

JOUR 295 - Topics in Journalism and Mass Communications

JOUR 296 - Topics in News Media History

JOUR 297 - Topics in Public Science

JOUR 301 - Law and Communications

JOUR 303 - Covering Great Trials in History: The Impact of the Press and Public on Justice

JOUR 318 - The Literature of Journalism

JOUR 319 - Mass Media and Society

JOUR 320 - Covering Crime and Justice: A Practicum

JOUR 338 - The Documentary

JOUR 344 - Ethics of Journalism

JOUR 345 - Media Ethics

JOUR 351 - Editing for Print and Online Media

JOUR 353 - Opinion Writing

JOUR 356 - In-depth Reporting

JOUR 357 - Magazine Feature Writing

JOUR 362 - Producing for Broadcast and Online Media

JOUR 365 - The Broadcast News Magazine

JOUR 371 - Reporting on Business

JOUR 372 - Reporting on the Economy

JOUR 377 - Media Management & Entrepreneurship

JOUR 399 - Contemporary Problems in Law and Journalism

JOUR 401 - Directed Individual Study

JOUR 402 - Directed Individual Study

JOUR 403 - Directed Individual Study

JOUR 421 - Directed Individual Research

JOUR 422 - Directed Individual Research

JOUR 423 - Directed Individual Research

JOUR 451 - News Internship

JOUR 452 - News Internship

JOUR 453 - News Internship

JOUR 461 - Communications Internship

JOUR 462 - Communications Internship

JOUR 463 - Communications Internship

JOUR 493 - Honors Thesis

LATN 101 - Elementary Latin

LATN 102 - Elementary Latin

LATN 201 - Republican Prose

LATN 202 - Introduction to Verse

LATN 301 - Advanced Prose

LATN 302 - Advanced Republican and Augustan Verse

LATN 310 - Letters of Cicero and Pliny

LATN 320 - Literature in the Age of Nero

LATN 321 - Lyric Poetry: Horace and Catullus

LATN 323 - History: Tacitus

LATN 324 - Roman Historiography: Livy

LATN 325 - Virgil’s Aeneid

LATN 326 - The Poetry of Ovid

LATN 327 - Medieval and Renaissance Writers

LATN 328 - Roman Elegy

LATN 331 - Early Republican Literature

LATN 332 - Latin Prose Composition

LATN 395 - Topics in Advanced Latin Literature

LATN 401 - Directed Individual Study