Indiana University School of Journalism

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.

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.

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.

Open to graduates only.

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.