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Studies the rise of civilization from its beginnings in the Neolithic Revolution through the classical empires, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the hegemony of European and American civilization throughout the world. Explores in greater detail the influence of Judaism and Christianity in this process.Instructor: Sharmishtha Roy ChowdhuryExamines history in a variety of non-Western contexts. The content will vary based upon the non-Western context selected for the semester. Students will focus upon historical events and the impact of these events for civilization in Asian, African, or Middle Eastern contexts.Instructor: Sharmishtha Roy ChowdhuryExamines political movements of industrial and agricultural workers, the unemployed, and the poor to gain power and economic rights since the Great Depression. Chronicles movements that shaped the policies of the New Deal and the Great Society, and analyzes the ways in which these movements fostered a conservative response late in the century. Explores history in the context of the ideals of democratic liberalism, the emerging power of corporate capitalism, and the modern conservative political coalition. Students study historical texts and a variety of cultural sources (literature, films, photographs, songs, and museum exhibitions).Instructor: Lester LeePursues an interdisciplinary study of the origins of Islam and the role of Mohammed, the global expansion of the faith, the theology and thought of the Koran and Moslem traditions, and forms of art and architecture generated by the teachings of the prophet. Explores the impact of the renewal of Islam and its increasing role in the modern world.Studies the history of England from the Norman Conquest through the 20th century. Focuses on understanding the personalities of the rulers, the rise of parliamentary government, the interaction of England and other European nations, and the rise and decline of the British Empire. Included are discussions of how Shakespeare and Hollywood have depicted and often distorted English history.Explores and develops an understanding of modern history by focusing on an examination of the Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the origins and events of World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War.Instructor: Bradford VerterSurvey sub-Saharan history of the pre-colonial era, and the history of African Americans from the slave trade through the Civil War to the present.Instructor: Roger HouseSurveys Russian history from the 9th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on the growth and development of Muscovite and Imperial Russia; the revolution of revolutionary thought and action; the nature of Russian communism; the significance of the Bolshevik Revolution; and the growth, collapse, and aftermath of the Soviet state. Offered at Kasteel Well only.Explores the creativity of the Renaissance and Reformation through the new ideas of the great thinkers of the period, including the Italian Humanists Petrarch and Machiavelli and the Protestant Reformers Luther and Calvin. Offered at Kasteel Well only.Studies the history of the United States from its colonial beginnings to the present, focusing on the Civil War and its consequences.Instructor: Bradford VerterExplains how journalism has changed America and the world. Considers the role of journalism as a public service in a democratic society. Students read, view, and listen to the finest and most influential stories. They chart the news in U.S. history, from the American Revolution to today's digital revolution. Students analyze how print, broadcast, and online news have evolved and examine media from other parts of the world. They also explore ethical issues confronting the contemporary journalist and develop knowledge of the First Amendment principles.Instructor: Emmannuel ParaschosStudents appraise and apply the fundamentals of reporting, writing, and producing news. They cover stories in the Greater Boston community and learn how to develop story ideas, define the focus, and identify and evaluate sources. Students also examine and implement reporting strategies for print, broadcast, and online news stories. They incorporate journalistic standards and practices in all newsgathering and news story presentation. Students write and organize basic news stories with skill, accuracy, and clarity and develop a disciplined use of form and style in news writing.Instructors: Maria Burns Ortiz, Doug StruckCovers the use of audio and visual media to tell news stories. Examines modern media, analyzes still and moving images, sound, and best web practices. Students learn how to use photography, videography, and audio to tell compelling stories. They develop and report multimedia stories in and around Boston. Image and sound manipulation and other ethical challenges in the digital age are discussed.Instructors: Michael Beaudet, William Broadway, Catherine Jordan, Amelia Kunhardt, Ralph Ranalli, Tim Riley, Cindy RodriguezStudents learn to cover a geographic or community beat, developing and producing stories in text, audio, and video about a community in Boston. Lectures emphasize the role and function of major institutions in public life, from courts to city hall to Congress; basic public records and research; interviewing; and story origination. Students are assigned to a neighborhood beat and must develop stories in specific areas of civic life, from public safety to demographics change and its impact on community.Examines the American legal system and its relationship to the press. Students gain an understanding of journalists' rights and legal responsibilities and study case law that sets legal limits for journalists. Examines ethical decision-making in gray areas. Covers basic structure and processes of federal and state courts.Instructor: Marc CantorConsiders journalists' ethical responsibilities, in relation to professional standards and legal limits. Examines ethical decision-making and current ethical questions using case studies.Instructor: Jerry LansonProvides intense writing for visual and audio news. Students continue to develop news judgment as it relates to video and audio. They produce and write radio newscasts and reporter packages, as well as organize a video news brief and reporter packages. Students shoot, write, and edit video and audio voiceovers and soundbites for storytelling.Instructors: Marianna Edmunds, Stephen IandoliIntroduces the history and theory of the news media on the Internet and web and to the reporting, writing, and designing of online news. In the first half of the semester, students analyze best practices of online news publications and write their own blogs. In the second half, they report, write, and design a multimedia website.Instructor: Tim RileyExplores photography as a journalistic storytelling medium by teaching how to communicate news visually in a variety of situations. Develops skills such as shooting pictures on deadline, writing concise and compelling cutlines, and editing for impact. Through historical and contemporary examples, students learn about the power of photojournalism to document, inform, entertain, persuade, and provoke emotion. Examines the ethical and legal challenges of photojournalism.Provides real-world basis for sports coverage in print, broadcast, and online media. Students produce a range of stories in each media, learn the basics of sports beat reporting, learn the necessity of research and reporting for sports stories, deepen knowledge of sports as it appeals to media consumers, and learn how to compete for positions in the job market.Instructor: John RookeStudents learn to research, organize, and write feature articles for newspapers, magazines, and online media. They develop techniques for finding and focusing stories, interviewing in-depth, improving observation, structure writing, and storytelling. Students understand the variety of feature writing approaches.Instructor: Mark LecceseIntroduces the structure and functions of state, local, and federal government from a journalist's perspective. Students report and write in-depth stories on proposed legislation, campaign finance, and current issues in government. Students also become familiar with and make use of public records and open meeting laws, learn advanced reporting skills through readings and class lectures, and review and critique each other's stories.Instructor: Mark LecceseStudents experience deadline-driven television newsroom operations by producing newscasts and rotating through newsroom jobs such as tape editor, writer, producer, anchor, reporter, and videographer. They write news scripts, edit video to tell a news story, organize and produce a newscast, coordinate video elements for a newscast, and work together as a broadcast news team.Instructor: Stephen IandoliExplores the content and approach of persuasive writing styles used in reviews, editorials, columns, and blogs. Students write, produce, and publish a variety of pieces of journalism criticism.Students move beyond straight news, inverted pyramid, and short features to understand longer features, narratives, analysis, profiles, investigative, and other forms of in-depth writing. They learn to look for ideas, how to organize reporting, and how to pursue the serious reporting needed for these stories, as well as how to structure a longer, complex story to produce exemplary, stand-out journalism.Students develop and practice the craft of editing: refining news copy and choosing how and where it will run in a newspaper or on a website. They learn to edit stories for content, structure, word usage, and story flow. Students write headlines and learn appropriate software needed to design pages. Explores issues of style, bias, stereotyping, fairness, and taste.Instructor: David RichwineDevelops background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of journalism. Topics may include politics, blogs and the media, the media and the presidency, war reporting, and impact and Pulitzer stories. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.Instructors: Roger House, Martha C. LittleDevelops background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of culture, arts, entertainment, or sports. Topics may include music journalism, food/fashion reporting, or performing arts reporting. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.Instructor: Cindy RodriguezDevelops background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of science, health, or technology. Topics may include environmental journalism, science reporting, health and medical reporting, or reporting on new technologies. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.Instructor: Doug StruckDevelops background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of reporting on business, the economy, or consumer topics. Topics may include business reporting or consumer news/reporting. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.Develops background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of advanced multimedia. Courses focus on producing journalism across media or the web. Topics may include investigative journalism, telling narrative or complex stories across platforms, computer-assisted reporting or multimedia editing, web design, and production. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. Students are encouraged to have completed JR 220 prior to enrolling in this class.Students work in the field to research, shoot, write, and edit video news stories. They develop reporting and interviewing skills, visual acuity, writing for the eye and ear, and general TV performance abilities. Students also learn and utilize the technical aspects of video shooting and editing.Instructor: Marsha Della-GiustinaStudents cover local news stories and a local news beat to produce on-deadline stories in all media, to be published in collaboration with the Our Town sections of the Boston Globe, a city news bureau, or some other college-professional collaboration.Instructor: Mark LecceseAvailable only to students appointed to top editorial positions at The Berkeley Beacon newspaper. Does not apply to the Journalism major. Assignments include journal writing, critiques of the paper, and discussions of problems in management.Develop background knowledge, understanding, and expertise in a specialized area of journalism. Topics vary from semester and year and explore various aspects of journalism theory and practice. This is reserved for courses being introduced on a one-time or developmental basis.Instructors: Paul Niwa, Maria StenzelStudents create a series of multimedia stories for a personal portfolio of online journalistic work. They use advanced tools for creating interactive stories to produce immersive journalistic stories. Text, video, audio, and photos are used to produce journalistic stories that are difficult to tell in print or broadcast alone.Refines and further develops ENG or producing skills at an advanced level with the goal of putting together a professional portfolio by semester's end. In addition to completing a body of work, students are expected to engage in in-depth research and critical analysis.In this project-based course, students pitch, research, report, write, and revise a single long-form story or a series. Work might range from long-form narrative magazine articles or mini-documentaries to multiple-part series on a topic of public importance.Instructor: Kevin RothsteinStudents carry out a project from start to finish, learning skills of self-employment, multimedia, marketing, self-editing, and pitching stories. They learn the basics of budgets, taxes, benefit, and legal implications of freelance and sole-proprietor journalism. Students learn about the risks and benefits of practicing journalism without the shelter, and restrictions, of a newsroom. They discover how to juggle technology, reporting, and entrepreneurial skills.Students learn to produce all facets of the Journalism Students' Online News Service (JSONS). They use the city and the College as a news laboratory to write news in text form and produce audio and video news stories. They also work as editors to process the news for the daily news site. Students work individually and in teams, utilizing state-of-the-art Internet-ready equipment to produce journalism in a "newsroom without walls" environment.Develops the knowledge and critical thinking skills needed to function and thrive as a journalist in America's culturally diverse society. Analyzes media coverage of a wide spectrum of underrepresented groups, and challenges personal and societal stereotypes. Students learn from guest speakers, readings, and videos about the realities of different groups as well as the job of journalists trying to cover them.Instructor: Carole SimpsonTakes a behind-the-scenes look at TV news magazines and documentaries with a focus on research, reporting, and production techniques. Explores how to put together longer-form stories from the initial pitch to the final product. Examines the importance of character development and dramatic storytelling. Covers effective management practices from controlling budgets to directing personnel.Instructor: Marianna EdmundsStudents learn about the magazine as a journalistic form. They originate, research, and write articles and, if suitable, attempt to market them to professional outlets. Students critique the magazine industry, from analyzing editorial decisions to understanding the importance of niche and audience.Students learn about the mass media in other countries. What are they like? What are their differing philosophies? How do their practices differ? Examines concepts of press freedom, media conglomeration and globalization, and the use and impact of new media technologies. Students go online to communicate with other journalists around the world and to monitor international news and issues.Examines the history of propaganda and its relationship to journalism. Looks at propaganda during war, in political campaigns, and in coverage of business and entertainment.Develops background knowledge and expertise in a specialized area of journalism. Topics vary from semester and year and explore various aspects of journalism theory and practice. Course category is reserved for courses being introduced on a one-time or developmental basis. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.Instructor: Ebony ReedCreate a series of multimedia stories for a personal portfolio of online journalistic work. Learn advanced tools for creating interactive stories to produce immersive journalistic stories. Use text, video, audio, and photos to produce journalistic stories that are difficult to tell in print or broadcast alone.Instructor: Paul NiwaRefine and further develop ENG or producing skills at an advanced level with the goal of putting together a professional portfolio by semester's end. In addition to completing a body of work, students are expected to engage in in-depth research and critical analysis.Instructors: Marsha Della-Giustina, Dana RosengardStudents develop fundamental reporting and writing skills to cover and produce stories for a variety of news media. They craft news reports that are tightly written, sharply focused, and manageable in scope for any type of journalistic writing. They also learn research and interviewing skills to infuse news stories with a voice of authority provided through sound, accurate information. Students develop a sense of news judgment and an ability to produce stories quickly, efficiently, and accurately in print, broadcast, or online. They participate in a weekly lab to understand a range of tools for multimedia storytelling.Focuses on the history and principles of journalism. Traces the roots of journalism back to Gutenberg, the colonies, industrialization, and follows the history of journalism up to today's new media. Students view critically the political, economic, social, legal, and ethical dimensions of the mass news media, and develop the context from which to view the profession, its standards, and its practices.Reviews communication theories used in the analysis of news dissemination processes and the performance and role of journalists in a contemporary society. Reviews the qualitative and quantitative research methodologies used to assess media and media messages as well as their impact on news consumers.Instructor: Melinda RobinsStudents understand and learn reporting, writing, and producing online news. They explore, evaluate, and analyze "best practices" of online news publications, online technologies, and their use in digital storytelling and delivery of breaking news. Students configure and maintain a blog to critique news sites and learn to work in a team or individual environment to produce basic multimedia stories.Instructor: Emmannuel ParaschosStudents cover a geographic beat in the city of Boston, developing, reporting, and writing stories for community newspapers and Emerson's Journalism Students' Online News Service. Class time is spent critiquing student work, discussing reporting and writing techniques, and reporting and writing stories in the city on deadline.Instructor: Jerry LansonStudents gain real-time experience of working in a television news operation by putting together a newscast in each class and rotating through newsroom jobs such as tape editor, writer, producer, anchor, reporter, and videographer. They write news scripts, edit video to tell a story, organize a newscast, and coordinate elements for effective storytelling. Students learn to work together as a broadcast news team.Instructor: Shannan AdlerStudents work in the field to research, shoot, write, and edit television news stories. They develop reporting and interviewing skills, visual acuity, writing for the eye and ear, and general TV performance abilities. They also learn the technical aspects of television news shooting and editing.Instructor: Marsha Della-GiustinaExamines the American legal system and its relationship to the press. Students gain an understanding of journalists' rights and legal responsibilities and study case law that sets legal limits for journalists. They examine legal decision-making in gray areas. They study the basic structure and processes of federal and state courts and earn how to conduct research within the legal system.Students gain an understanding of journalists' ethical responsibilities, in relation to professional standards and legal limits. They examine ethical decision-making and current ethical questions using case studies.Students develop and practice the craft of editing: refining news copy and choosing how and where it will run in a newspaper or on a website. They learn to edit stories for content, structure, word usage, and story flow. Students write headlines and learn appropriate software needed to design pages. They explore issues of style, bias, stereotyping, fairness, and taste.Instructor: Joseph PereiraStudents research, organize, write, and market feature articles for publication in newspapers and magazines. They learn techniques for finding and focusing stories, interviewing in-depth, observation, and storytelling. Students analyze and apply a variety of approaches, from the personal essay to the dramatic narrative.Print and broadcast students enroll in a variety of specialized and beat-reporting classes such as sports reporting, investigative reporting, cultural affairs reporting, science and health reporting, political reporting, and business reporting.Instructor: Paul NiwaStudents produce individual and group cross-media projects that demonstrate ability to do professional work in reporting, writing, editing, and producing. They produce a reporting project using some combination of print, broadcast, and online elements. They also report and produce news stories that demonstrate competency in an area of specialization in print, broadcast and/or online journalism.Instructor: Janet KolodzyExplores various aspects of journalism theory and practice, developing background knowledge and expertise in a specialized area of journalism. Topics vary from semester and year. This course category is reserved for courses being introduced on a one-time or developmental basis.Develops knowledge and understanding about the American political system including national, state, and local government. Examines constitutional foundations, citizenship, civil liberties, public opinion, political parties, the electoral system, and the legislative process as well as the judicial history of these issues.Instructors: Michael Brown,Studies historical personalities (such as Napoleon, Bismarck, Lenin, Hitler, Gandhi, Mao, Mandela, and Gorbachev) whose political ideas have contributed to the contemporary debate concerning the origins of the modern world. Students learn about leadership concepts, models, and techniques as they apply to the formation of mass political movements. Examines films, journalistic accounts, and historical commentary for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of political issues and events.Develops an interdisciplinary understanding of the political-legal communication field with emphasis on the U.S. Constitution and the legal system as well as constructing and communicating political-legal arguments.Students use theoretical and empirical analysis to learn about the ways Americans elect their leaders. Examines several themes such as electoral systems, political parties, primary and general elections, the role of money, and the role of the media as they relate to the American system of campaigns and elections.Analyzes the evolution of political theory from early Greece to the present. Studies the formation of the Western political tradition and the relationship of political theory to the development of absolutism, constitutional monarchy, liberal democracy, and socialism. Looks at the issues of idealism and realism in political thought, individual rights versus the needs of the collective, and the relation of these considerations to the emergence of totalitarian political ideologies.Reviews and develops an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, congressional legislation, and Supreme Court cases affecting and controlling minority rights from 1776 to the present.Instructor: Michael BrownEngages in in-depth study of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws as they relate to communication. Develops an understanding of the First Amendment, the Federal Communication Commission, and political speech.Instructor: Michael BrownExamines how Americans have cared for themselves and others in times of need. Students take a long view, starting with the Puritans, at the debate in America regarding the proper way to deal with epidemics, poverty, old age, infirmity, and unemployment. They explore causation, focusing heavily not simply on what has existed, but more importantly, why. Students use the analytical tools needed to understand American social policy and the welfare state.
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