Minor in Journalism and Integrated Media

This survey course gives an overview of the origins of journalism (particularly its technological developments), the mandate for press inquiry in the First Amendment, limits on that freedom in the U.S. and developed nations, implications for journalistic inquiry and storytelling in today's digital age, and the role of Christians in truth-telling. The course introduces students to the power of journalism to bridge cultural barriers and how journalism done badly contributes to societal discord and misunderstanding between disparate groups.

This course introduces students to fact-based storytelling that combines print and visuals in a web format that meets the needs of students aiming at careers in the convergent media of journalism. Students learn convergence through readings, discussion, observation and project work. Course content introduces basics in writing for web and for social media and exposes students to digital strategies and tools for media production. Students begin to develop their professional online presence as they create the scaffolding for their e-portfolio site. The course serves as a prerequisite to Digital Technology and Social Strategies for Media.

This course gives students introductory skills in writing for print and digital media, including narratives aimed at audiences who read, who listen and who watch (in video and social media formats). Students learn reporting as a research method, including interviews, use of public documents and data, and the ways visual media interacts with narrative online. Students learn how writing coaching and pitching of stories is part of writing in any journalistic setting. Cross-cultural understanding is introduced in the course as an influence on interviewing and narrative approaches. Grade Mode: A

An examination of the basics of photography-editorial, graphic and technical. This introduction presumes no previous knowledge of photography. Students learn to capture images and some video based on the above criteria with standard digital photographic equipment (DSLR based). It is meant to introduce the basics of the SLR camera as well as composition, use of light, moment capture and some basic video capture. Students also learn basic skills to edit photographs with the "digital darkroom" and prepare them for publications and web-based media.

Students learn basic techniques of broadcast news-writing, video shooting, editing and production. Classes consist of lecture/discussion and guidance in project work for telling visual and/or audio stories adapted to traditional broadcast settings as well as Web audiences. Grade Mode: A

Workshop course to provide an introduction to the field of audio production for radio, film and television. In this course students will learn and practice techniques for recording, editing, mixing and exhibiting radio, film and television sound. Introduces audio production techniques and equipment operation. Includes terminology, basic script writing, editing, producing commercials, public service announcements and news casting in a studio setting. Introduction to the place of sound (voice, music, sound effects) in radio, television, motion pictures, and the Internet. An overview of technology and its use in audio recording and editing; using analog and digital equipment.

Students will learn the essentials in shooting, editing and streaming compelling video; preparing them for the other video courses in the broadcast curriculum. Also, students will learn about multi-media reporting and a convergent newsroom, shooting DV and editing on Final Cut Pro, all necessary skills to become a competitive broadcast journalist.

A portfolio-driven, introductive learning experience beyond the university classroom via working in a company, business or media-related organization. This course will allow students to explore their interest, aptitude and stamina for work within their chosen area of journalism or media-related organization or ministry. This course is aimed at providing students with a beginning portfolio of work suitable for applying to an advanced internship.

Explores reporting and documentation through the visual medium of still images. Students photograph assignments under working press and commercial-type conditions and advance their skills using the DSLR camera.

Practical study and experience in successful strategies for covering youth, varsity and professional sports for deadline news media (print, broadcast and Web). The course will emphasize techniques for interviewing, reporting and writing about sports for print and online media, but will include elements applicable to video and audio components of a convergent approach to sports journalism. Ethics of sports journalism practice from a Christian world-view are applied to the media marketplace through discussion and project-driven experience.

Laboratory, lecture and discussion course in advanced principles of identifying news, its sources and the connection of issues with trends. Course emphasizes in-depth (documentary-style) interviewing, variable deadline writing, introductory use of and analysis of online and retrievable databases, and other online resources. Students will resource professional tools for visualizing data, exploring ways the visual can help tell the story of numbers in compelling ways.

Students will be part of a team that will produce a streaming weekly webcast featuring news of the Biola campus, surrounding community and Los Angeles. Practical skills of producing a TV newscast, the language of TV, writing a reader, a VO, a VO-SOT, a news package, incorporating sound bites, reporter stand ups, and the timing and producing a newscast will be taught. A deeper understanding of multi-media reporting and a convergent newsroom, shooting DV and editing on Final Cut Pro will also be gained.

Exploration of aesthetics and design with emphasis on copy editing and marking skills necessary for quality presentation of material both in printed and digital journalistic venues. Practice of copy editing with attention to style, grammar, punctuation, writing headlines, cutlines, selection of type, use of color and art as all relate to print or digital presentation. Because of this, SEO and analytics are further explored from the management position.

Principles of writing for targeted audiences that win readers and editors at niche and mainstream magazines. Students move articles from inception to querying through the revision processes of medium and long-form features and in-depth article writing. Course includes elements of business self-management, budgeting and copyright guidelines.

Students in this mastery-level course will explore in-depth a topic using a team approach that moves their inquiry from a core idea into a multi-part exploration that, by the end of the semester, becomes a finished book published by the department through on-demand technology. Book topics will vary, but urban and cross-cultural themes will be emphasized, pointing towards the needs and solutions being sought to help the marginalized and alienated within and around the American evangelical church and/or internationally. Projects will include reporting through written and visual form, and as needed, video storytelling and web development that enhances audience understanding of the book's topic.