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JAPANESE — JOURNALISM
JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I SUN# JPN 2201
5 cr. hrs. 5 periods (5 lec.)
Continuation of Japanese 102. Includes speaking and listening, grammar, personal transactions, and the cultural context
to which Japanese conversations take place. Also includes reading and writing Hiragana, Katakana, and 250 Kanji
characters.
Prerequisite(s): JPN 102.
Offered: Fall, Summer.
JPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
5 cr. hrs. 5 periods (5 lec.)
Continuation of Japanese 201. Includes speaking and listening, grammar, personal transactions, and using more complex
sentence structure in a cultural context within which Japanese conversations take place. Also includes Hiragana, Katakana,
and 365 Kanji characters.
Prerequisite(s): JPN 201.
Offered: Spring.
Journalism
For courses numbered 098, 198, 298, see “Topic Courses” on page 292
JRN 101 Introduction to Reporting and Media Writing SUN# JRN 2201
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to news reporting. Includes journalism as a career, the journalist and the organization of the newsroom,
defining news, news style, elements of a news story, fundamentals of writing news, and news gathering and reporting.
Also includes organizing and writing the story, revision of stories, and ethics, libel and medial law.
Prerequisite(s): WRT 100 or required score on the writing assessment test.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
JRN 102 Survey of Media Communications
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of theory, nature, function, and impact of today’s mass media. Includes a review and evaluation of important
journalists’ work and of various media and auxiliary industries, such as book and magazine publishing, newspapers, radio,
television, film, recordings, advertising and public relations. Also includes an overview of related career options.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
JRN 185 Newspaper Publishing
3 cr. hrs. 9 periods (9 lab)
Publication of the college’s weekly student newspaper and online edition of the newspaper. Includes news judgment, news
gathering, news and editorial writing, editing and headline writing, photography, page design and computer pagination,
advertising, and other publication activities. Also includes newsroom management and ethical and legal considerations.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 101.
Information: May be taken three times for a maximum of nine credit hours.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
JRN 186 Writing for the Web
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to basic concepts and techniques for writing on the World Wide Web. Includes introduction to Web technology,
basic journalistic techniques useful for Web writing, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for Web editing software, linear
forms, nonlinear forms, clicking and scrolling effect on writing, process for writing and writing online, tips for writing
online, citations, communication law in the electronic age, and journalism ethics in the new media.
Prerequisite(s): WRT 100 or required score on writing assessment test.
Offered: Fall.
JRN 187 Introduction to Electronic Publishing in Journalism/Media
3 cr. hrs. 4 periods (2 lec., 2 lab)
Introduction to electronic (on-line) publishing with applications to new media. Includes work with computers, desktop
publishing, imaging, and internet software, HTML formatting, and designing Web pages/sites to create camera ready
publications and maintain a Web site. Also includes methods to navigate and do research on the Internet and the World
Wide Web, concepts, principles and ethics of publishing on the Internet, responsibilities of an electronic journalist,
disinformation and privacy issues.
Prerequisite(s): JRN 101.
Offered: May not be offered this year, check class schedule.
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