JOUR 234 - A Sense of Place: Multimedia News Features

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

No prerequisite. JOUR 201 recommended for journalism majors. 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.