新闻
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《新闻文学》
这门课程是对我们的记者同行所看到的文化史的考察。 It rests on the premise that to be a great writer, one must also be a great reader. With readings from Walt Whitman to the present, we examine the tools and techniques that make nonfiction writing memorable. Subjects include Mark Twain, George Orwell, Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and the great misanthrope, H.L. Mencken. 四学分,秋季学期和春季学期。
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COM JO 543:拯救丢失的故事:从档案中撰写非虚构叙事
The course will prepare students who are interested in writing nonfiction narratives to plan and conduct archival research, especially at BU's Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Students will learn to navigate the archives, then frame and develop historical narratives of significant contemporary events based on research of primary source materials such as personal letters, diaries, government documents and contemporaneous media reports. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following 但是中心 areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive课程, 创意/创新.
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COM JO 544:创伤新闻
创伤是新闻的核心。 A working journalist will most assuredly report on some type of traumatic event at some point in her career, whether covering a national tragedy or one family's personal nightmare. This course will explore the best practices for ethically and empathetically covering traumatic stories. A second important goal of this course will explore how journalists themselves can emotionally process what they have seen and heard on the job.
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COM JO 546:州议会计划
Taking advantage of our location in the state capital of Massachusetts, the 新闻 Department offers students the chance to cover the Statehouse for professional news clients. The prime component of The Boston Statehouse Program, this advanced study in government and political reporting offers the opportunity to write and report from Beacon Hill for a Massachusetts news organization. The course goal is to develop writing and reporting skills through the daily experience of covering state government that will apply in many fields. Working with a professor and a professional editor, students acquire the skills necessary to work in a daily news environment, including interviewing, developing sources, archival research and deadline writing. Students develop a substantial portfolio of published work. Taken with JO 511, eight credits, fall and spring semesters. See Statehouse Program: /statehouse. (Undergraduate Prerequisites: COM JO 200 and JO 210. 毕业先决条件:COM JO 721。)
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COM JO 547:体育故事
This course goes beyond the game and focuses on sports features, learning from journalists, editors, producers and first-hand experience. We'll go through the whole feature process from pitch to final product. We'll explore different techniques for reporting, organizing, and crafting longer form sports stories. The goal: Produce professional-quality, publishable sports narratives.
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COM JO 550:高级在线新闻
本课程着重于制作长格式的交互式多媒体项目。 Working in teams, students learn to produce documentary-style multimedia packages that combine still photography, audio, video, interactives and text. The course will offer an overview of techniques and best practices currently employed by news organizations to produce advanced multimedia projects. 四学分,秋季学期和春季学期。 (Undergraduate Prerequisites: COM JO 304. 毕业先决条件:COM JO 704。)
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COM JO 700: JO Symposium
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杂志写作
This is a course in long-form magazine journalism such as appears in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Outside, and the New York Times Magazine, as well as websites such as Medium, The Atavist and others. Students read and analyze superb examples of the genre and report, research and write long-form pieces. Topics intensive, in-depth reporting and research; the writing process; the use of fine language and the development of a personal voice; 重要性:观点的重要性; 长件结构; digging deeply into subjects in order to truly enlighten readers. 四个学分。 (前提条件:COM JO 721)
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COM JO 704:在线新闻
本课程向学生介绍多平台新闻。 Students will gain practical experience producing and editing news and features for delivery via digital platforms. This class critiques and analyzes news sites to examine how multiple elements such as text, photo's audio, video, social media and interactive graphics are currently used in multimedia reporting. 四学分,秋季学期和春季学期。
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COM JO 707:视频报道
This introductory course is about reporting, writing and producing the news for television and the internet. Students learn the fundamentals of news- gathering, story generation, research, videography, writing, editing and presentation. Strong stories air on BUTV and are posted on the department's news-service website. 四学分,秋季学期。
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视频讲故事
Recommended for students in the TV journalism specialization who are interested in long-form video storytelling. This is a production class and will also include the study of documentary aesthetics, ethics and genres. Students will work throughout the semester to produce, shoot, and edit an eight-minute documentary short, learning to build a story from an idea to the final edited story. Students will be critiqued on their production skills as well as their reporting and storytelling.
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在线广播新闻编辑室
适合喜欢团队合作和真正新闻编辑室肾上腺素的学生。 Students produce a half-hour news show on the student radio station, WTBU, during each class. Students report, write, produce and engineer all the news sports and commentary on deadline. 学生们使用社交媒体报道故事。 Content is uploaded to the department's news- service website. Students file stories frequently, and programs from NPR, BBC, WBZ and other audio news outlets will be critiqued. 四学分,秋季学期和春季学期。
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COM JO 719:特写写作
In this course, students are invited to go beyond the demands of hard-news writing and to explore a much broader range of topics and a richer array of approaches. The essence of feature writing is "enterprise" -- feature stories are those that do not have to happen and cannot be written by formula; 每一个记者都让这些事情发生。 Through readings and by reporting and writing their own features, students develop a sophisticated sense of stories and a stylish prose technique. Emphasis is on telling great stories at various lengths and in different formats. 四个学分。 (前提条件:COM JO 721)
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COM JO 721:报告入门
Students learn newswriting and reporting by covering a full range of news stories in a newsroom environment. This foundation course emphasizes stress on deadline pressure, writing, and reporting for all media. Includes weekly discussion of journalism principles as illustrated by current events and controversies. 四学分,秋季学期。
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电视新闻编辑室
Students produce a weekly half-hour newscast, broadcast on cable TV and the Internet, with live coverage and video reports on local, national and international news as well as sports highlights and weather. Students rotate positions weekly, using television studios and the control booth, collaborating to broadcast a fresh, informative and accurate newscast while facing the daily deadlines of a working newsroom. 四学分,春季学期。
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COM JO 737:新闻实习
学生在实地工作的同时发展了专业工作的组合。 The student works 120-200 hours per semester or summer at the internship. Comprehensive paper, employer evaluation, and portfolio required upon completion of internship. 变量的信贷。
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COM JO 954:定向学习
Faculty and students work together in a tutorial situation to produce a substantial project of mutual interest. 4 cr。
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COM JO 955:专业项目
In their final semester, all candidates for the M.S. degree in 新闻 undertake a capstone project of professional quality. In consultation with a faculty member, the student conceives the project, carries out all necessary reporting and editing, combines multimedia elements as warranted, and seeks to have the work published or broadcast. 4个小时,两个小时。
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