Indiana University School of Journalism

Seminar on content analysis, experiments, survey methods, qualitative research, historical and legal methodology. Development of media research proposals.

Reporting and publishing in a hyper-local news environment, on government and other areas of public interest.

Open to graduate students only. The purpose of this course is to teach students about research/methodology and scientific evaluation as it is applied to all mass communication professions, from investigative journalism to public relations and advertising. This is a hands-on course. The primary objective is to teach students how to collect, manage, evaluate, interpret and understand data. The course will focus entirely on quantitative methodologies that journalists and communication practitioners commonly encounter in their daily professional lives, and it will help students engage in data analysis, and work toward a better understanding of scientific and social-scientific methodology.

1:30-4:30 pm, Daily, EP 210. Open to Graduate Students only. Obtain on-line authorization from department. Above course required for the broadcast track.

This course introduces graduate students to the fundamental practices and principles of writing, reporting, editing and design for the print media. Students will develop skills in news judgment, document-based information gathering, interviewing, observation and description, news and feature writing, ethics, page layout, headline writing, copy editing, content editing, and photo editing.

9 am to noon, Daily, EP 102, Open to Graduate Students only. Obtain on-line authorization from department. Above course required for the broadcast track.

Monday, July 30 – Friday, August 17.

Examination of structure, functions, ethics, and performance of communication and mass media, stressing a review of pertinent research literature. Analysis of media policies and performance in light of communication theory and current economic, political, and social thought.

Comparative analysis of international media systems. Course topics and geographical regions studied vary from semester to semester.

This course is a continuation of J516: Digital Journalism Practicum and is open to Digital Journalism track students only.

Professor Hans Ibold will guide students through the world of social media and new technologies. The class includes attending South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, where students attend conference sessions with professionals on the bleeding edge of new media innovation, meet high-profile journalists and new media professionals, and explore the local art and music.

Travel over spring break is a required component of this course. Travel for this course is dictated by the dates of the SXSW conference; please note that some days of regular coursework will be missed.

For people whose heritage isn’t the same as that of the larger society around them, the mass media can provide both links to their own culture and negotiations with the other cultures that color the immediate landscape. In this dual role, the newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, and websites that serve ethnic minority groups must take on roles that differ sharply from those of the “mainstream” media.

This course will look at those roles and how the people who create the media enact them. We will explore and discuss ethnic minority groups around the world and the media that serve them. As our prime common example, we will examine the ethnic-minority mediascape in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world. Each student will explore an additional ethnic minority media outlet from another part of the world as well.

Contact Michael Evans, for permission.

Class requires travel to Europe during Spring Break March 11-20.

Class requires travel to Italy during Spring Break March 11-19.

Class requires travel to Japan during Spring Break March 10-19.

Class requires Spring Break travel to Australia.

Professor Lars Willnat will help students explore the differences between the western-style free press and state-sponsored media in China. Students will develop a better understanding of the history, functions and current state of media in China. Over spring break, students will visit Beijing, explore Chinese media organizations, meet with Chinese journalism students, and experience Chinese culture first-hand.

Travel over spring break is a required component of this course.

Professor Bonnie Brownlee will help students explore the media environment in Latin America, and specifically Chile. Students will spend the semester studying issues in an assigned country, and then will together explore the media environment in Santiago in May, including meeting their Chilean counterparts.

Travel after the spring semester, May 8-18,2012, is a required component of this course. However, this is still a spring semester course.

Open to Graduate students only.

P: Graduate students: JOUR-J 505 or exemption. Requires travel to Eldoret and Nairobi, Kenya. Dates: May 18-June 17. Cost is: $2,250. Application required. By permission only.

Integration of advanced visual communication skills, including photography, writing, and editing. Individual projects in packaging news and public affairs information. Emphasis on experimentation with message forms outside constraints of the traditional news media.

Examination of problems in teaching journalism and supervising school publications. Topics may include impact on scholastic journalism of changes in educational philosophy, law, financial support, and technology. May be repeated for state certification to teach secondary school journalism, but no more than 6 credits may be counted toward graduate degree. Meets with J453.

Sharpen your photo storytelling and editing skills as you receive hands-on experience shooting assignments on digital cameras and editing images for publication and the Internet on the latest computer software. Also learn to collect and edit sound for basic multimedia presentations. Computer applications include Adobe Photoshop CS4, Expressions Media, and Photo Mechanic for imaging and editing digital pictures. Applications for teaching and advising student media in the secondary school also included.

Obtain online authorization for section from department.

Obtain online authorization for above section from department.

Our goal is to redesign your publication, be it a newspaper, news magazine or yearbook. We'll start with the fundamentals in design, visuals, graphics and typography. We'll quickly move into the trends from a wide array of publications. Along the way, we'll tackle daily exercises to strengthen your design skills. We'll critique your publications, look at others for inspiration, explore story-telling tools. It will be a busy but productive week. We'll try to have some fun along the way.

Lectures, projects and discussion on legal and ethical aspects of advising school media and on designing, producing and financing school-produced student media, including print, broadcast and online media.

Designed to enable students to manage a public relations department. Theories and principles relevant to public relations practiced in agency, corporate, and not-for-profit organizations will be covered. This will include developing goals and objectives, working with clients, developing budgets, and research methods.

Designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop and execute a Public relations campaign for a local not-for-profit organization. Students will be exposed to relevant Public relations theory and in-depth case study analysis.

Study of the political, economic, social, legal, and historical issues involved in the introduction and diffusion of communication technologies. Research on the uses and potential effects of new technologies on the structure and practice of journalism and mass media.

This graduate seminar focuses on how a nonprofit organization creates images and how it shapes its programs and goals to gain public support. Assignments and readings are designed to foster a theoretical and practical understanding of promotional techniques and campaigns using journalistic and other media.

Study of issues in arts journalism and the role of the arts in mass

media and society. Lectures by guest experts and independent research on current trends and problems in the field, emphasizing the public affairs aspects of the arts.

An examination of science in society, with a particular look at research and commentary on media coverage of science and technology. Reading, reflection, and discussion of both theoretical and practical issues, and independent reading and research on a topic of the student's own choosing.

Study of public affairs aspects of the law. Research and reporting on timely topics pertaining to the courts, the legal profession, and law enforcement agencies particularly as they relate to the social-political-economic order.

Course provides students with training in the coverage of the arts. Writing assignments range from feature articles to news to criticism for the journalistic media. Course includes coverage of issues revolving around the arts and society. Of value also to those who plan to write about the arts for promotion or development purposes. Close attention is given to information gathering and writing. Good opportunity for a student to sharpen writing skills in an area of special interest

Study of problems and issues in such areas as school finance, curriculum development, teaching methodology, and the politics of education. Research and reporting on current trends in the field.

Exploration of the challenges and opportunities associated with writing about science for nonscientists. Reading and discussion of articles and texts about communicating science to nonscientists, and practical exercises in reporting and writing.

2:45 pm – 5:05 pm, Daily, EP 208, Open to Graduate Students only. First 4 weeks, Tuesday, May 8 to Friday, June 1.

Exploration of the challenges and opportunities associated with writing about science for nonscientists. Reading and discussion of articles and texts about communicating science to nonscientists, and practical exercises in reporting and writing.

Exploration of the theory and practice of college pedagogy. Specific attention to skills required for teaching mass communications. Includes development of a new course syllabus and teaching portfolio.

Study of current urban problems, such as air pollution, transportation, inner-city redevelopment, ghetto life, and metropolitan government. Research and reporting on timely topics.

This online skills course, taught by web programmer/online education coordinator, Andrew Koop, teaches students how to create an attractive and easily maintainable online portfolio that represents an ongoing body of professional work.

Students will individually select their best work, build a portfolio site with instructor guidance, and work in classmate critique teams to refine. The course’s final assignment is a finished portfolio along with classmate critiques.

Most modules in the course are asynchronous to accommodate a variety of student schedules. Correspondence will take place through Oncourse’s Forum, Chat, and Messages tools.

Covering Murder and Mayhem is an advanced reporting class that teaches how to pursue deadline stories on murders and other major crimes. The students will learn how to gather and write daily stories from the police and courts beats. You must have access to a car or other transportation and must be ready to tackle sensitive subjects under intense deadline.

10:20 am – 12:30 pm, Daily, EP 210, Cookman, C. Requires special fee--see fee page in the Enrollment and Student Academic Information bulletin. Open to Graduate Students only. First 4 weeks, Tuesday, May 8 to Friday, June 1.

Borrowing the techniques of fiction, literary journalists tell stories that invite readers into the action. Read some of their best work and try your hand at this challenging form. We'll draw on an anthology, The Art of Fact (Kerrane, Yagoda), read Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, and use the web to explore literary journalism in newspapers. You'll write several long pieces, each emphasizing a different kind of reporting experience and narrative strategy. We'll "workshop" your pieces together, a process that will sharpen your editing skills, and talk about where you might publish them.

About the instructor: Carol Polsgrove is author of It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun? Esquire in the Sixties; Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, and Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause (to be published this summer). She has been an editor at Mother Jones and The Progressive and has written for Sierra, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Prospect, and other magazines.

The primary goal of the course is to help students develop the professional writing skills expected of beginning public relations practitioners with special emphasis on the different approaches required for particular audiences and media. Class will focus on the basics of good writing-grammar, punctuation, sentence structure-as well as the art of writing-word choice, rhythm, nuance, tone. Students will learn how to change their writing styles to suit different communications tools. The pace and content of the course will be tailored to the abilities of the students enrolled. Because this is a service-learning course in which students produce public relations materials for a community organization, the class will also learn the fundamentals of effective client relations.

Open to Graduate Students only.

Second eight weeks only.

Topical seminar dealing with changing subjects and material from semester to semester. May be repeated twice for credit with a different topic.

First eight weeks only.

Crisis management is most often aligned with an unusual, unplanned and often a catastrophic event such as natural disasters, terrorism activities and airplane crashes among others. Frequently these events are contained in small geographic areas yet others have more far reaching and long-lasting effects. A health crisis can take many forms ranging from situations with food, pharmaceutical product recalls or new warnings about their use, to pandemics, epidemics and governmental regulation relating to changes to policy and medical insurance coverage. This course explores meaningful case studies addressing a variety of crises effecting public health and potential solutions the media can help create to inform the public and advocate change to resolve issues that put the public at risk. This graduate course is open to junior and senior undergraduates who have a distinct interest in health issues and communication. To be considered for this course students should submit a brief application describing their specific health interests and why they should be considered for this course. The application should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent to elliotdd@indiana.edu.

Surveys twentieth century photography as a medium of art and communication. Considers portraiture, landscape, still life, the nude, conceptual photography, the social documentary tradition, the magazine picture story, fashion, advertising and war photography. Examines the impact of postmodern theories on photographic practice and the understanding of photography.

This publishing design course incorporates typesetting, electronic photo editing, graphics, and page design. Students are instructed in design theory, computer publishing skills, and creative problem solving.

This advanced publishing design course builds on J563 Computerized Design I and incorporates advanced work in color, type design, computer illustration, creative problem solving, and an introduction to print production.

Introduction to the theory and research relevant to mass media studies at the individual level of analysis. Corresponds to R541 in the telecommunications department.

Introduction to theoretical orientations and research findings at the macro-social level of analysis.

Seminar on specialized topics concerning the rights and obligations of mass media under the Bill of Rights. Research and discussion on law of privacy, access, and other constitutional problems.

This course takes the approach that gender is a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon, not merely a biological construct. Hence, we start with the fundamental question “How do males become men and how do females become women?” Throughout the semester, we will examine the ways in which other social categories and identities—race, class, age, and sexual orientation—are central to the creation and maintenance of gender differences. This course seeks to expose you to current and cutting-edge work in the broad interdisciplinary arena of gender and media; hence, the course readings and class discussions will address the complex ways in which conceptions of gender structure the economic and cultural landscape of media including newspapers, television, magazines, advertising, billboards, and photography. The course will go beyond the geographic borders of the United States to consider the relations between gender and media culture in Europe and Asia.

Taking a cultural studies approach to the media, course materials focus on masculinity and femininity in media texts, media production processes, and audience reception. While the emphasis of the course on media texts reflects the prolific research in this area, my goal in allocating much of the semester to readings on media representations is to offer you examples of research that can guide your thinking on your own final projects. The range of topics in the portion of the course on media texts includes consumer culture, television news, feminism, sexual violence, celebrities, masculinity, gay and lesbian media, and youth culture. In the section on media production, we will examine the institutional (state and corporate) deployment of gender in the marketplace and in the workforce. Finally, the course introduces students to studies of audiences so we can learn about readers’ and viewers’ engagement with media representations of gender in their everyday lives. For their major assignment, students will critique the social construction of gender in a set of media texts of their choice.

This course is designed for both experienced and relatively inexperienced scholastic journalism teachers and media advisers. We will cover legal and ethical issues in the media, especially as they apply to teaching and advising high school publications and media staffs. The course will examine the basics of media law, ethical decision-making as it pertains to school publication situations, and legal and ethical cases and situations especially relevant to high school newspapers and yearbooks.

Obtain online authorization for section from department

Advisers and prospective yearbook advisers will learn principles of yearbook management, including the important business aspects of advising, as well as yearbook production, design, writing, and legal and ethical issues relevant to yearbook supervision and advising. For beginning or experienced yearbook sponsors, this workshop also includes projects to help advisers keep their staffs organized by preparation of relevant policies, staff job descriptions and tips for how to work with administrators and others in building lasting support for a quality scholastic yearbook program.

Professional experience in media. Students hold work assignments with media organizations. Grading is on an S/F basis. Arranged through the associate dean for graduate

studies office.

Prequisites: J500 or R500, and one statistics course. Advanced behavioral methods in the analysis of mass communication data. Practice in analyzing data with computerized statistical programs.

Globalization remains an imperfect, but ubiquitous term that is widely used in academia and in the business, policy, and cultural arenas to define, explain, and justify the economic, political, and technological forces that shape the lives of citizens across the world. This course seeks to critically examine the phenomena that comprise globalization and explore the role that media technologies (newspapers, magazines, television, and online media) and media genres (news and popular culture) play in constituting our identities as audiences, citizens, workers, consumers, and activists. The topics addressed in the course include globalization and media theory, issues of hybridity and national identity, dilemmas in ethnographic research and fieldwork, journalism and journalists, cultural representations of globalization processes, migration and urbanization, and online activism.

Investigation of theory and practice of communications systems in the region, including history, news content, institutions, journalists, technology, economic and political pressures, as well as audience and international influences.

Lectures and discussion on the origins, the historical growth, and the philosophical roots of the communication media, with particular emphasis on the relationship between the media and political, economic, social, and cultural trends in the United States.

Seminar on qualitative, historical, and legal research methods for mass communication research.

Seminar on topics in the history and philosophy of the communication media in the twentieth century, stressing both continuity and change in an age of rapid technological growth for print and electronic media in the United States and in selected areas of the world.

Exploration of the role of ethics in journalism. Using literature that examines ethics in the context of journalism practice, the course will analyze ways journalists attempt to deny or limit the role of ethical values. Special attention to objectivity, freedom, and casuistry.

9:10 am – 10:10 am, Daily, EP 207, Open to Graduate Students only. First 8 weeks Tuesday, May 8 to Friday, June 29.

Open to graduates only.

Topical seminar dealing with changing subjects and material from semester to semester. May be repeated twice for credit.

This graduate course provides an overview of the research on agenda setting. Since the first study of media agenda setting was published in Public Opinion Quarterly in the summer of 1972, there have been hundreds of replications and expansions, including studies not only of the relationship between media agendas and public/policy agendas, but also between agendas of different media and at different levels of abstraction (first-level and second-level). Contingent conditions that enhance or reduce agenda-setting effects have also been tested empirically, such as need for orientation.

This is both a readings and research seminar that aims to acquaint you with major studies of agenda setting in the first half of the semester and also provides an opportunity for you to do some original research on agenda setting in the second half of the semester.

Independent research and roundtable analysis of selected problems in communication law.

Independent research and roundtable analysis of political communication and government-media relations.

By permission only.

This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

By permission only.

This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

This course is eligible for a deferred grade.

This course is eligible for a deferred grade.