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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
JOUR 55 | Title:
MULTIMEDIA REPORTING |
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Full Title:
Multimedia Reporting |
Last Reviewed:4/11/2022 |
Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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This course provides students with hands-on training to learn how to create and edit text, audio, video and photos to produce multimedia news and feature stories for the web.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent and Course Completion or Concurrent Enrollment in JOUR 1 ( or JOUR 1A) OR Course Completion or Concurrent Enrollment in JOUR 2 ( or JOUR 1B)
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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This course provides students with hands-on training to learn how to create and edit text, audio, video and photos to produce multimedia news and feature stories for the web.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent and Course Completion or Concurrent Enrollment in JOUR 1 ( or JOUR 1A) OR Course Completion or Concurrent Enrollment in JOUR 2 ( or JOUR 1B)
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 2012 | Inactive: | |
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UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 2023 | Inactive: | |
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C-ID: |
CID Descriptor: JOUR 120 | Multimedia Reporting | SRJC Equivalent Course(s): JOUR5 |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Develop story ideas, arrange and conduct recorded interviews with sources, and write articles for the web.
2. Create update and modify web pages using text, photos and graphics.
3. Write blogs and news stories for the web and create compatible charts, photos and other visual elements.
4. Edit photos, sound and video using the appropriate software program to create compelling packages and stories online.
5. Storyboard, write and construct a multi-layer nonfiction story with the audience's interests as a predominant factor in making decisions.
6. Apply ethical and legal journalism standards, accuracy and balance to web stories.
7. Analyze and evaluate stories told in different media and explain whether the appropriate medium was used to tell that story.
8. Use social media to find sources, and to market blogs and stories.
Topics and Scope
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I. Writing For The Web
A. News stories: ideas, interviewing, inverted pyramid and AP style
B. Headlines and cutlines
C. Interactive elements -- polls, charts, graphs
II. Website Management
A. Principles of effective news sites
B. Uploading stories and photos
C. Wordpress and popular web programs
III. Blogging
A. Creating and maintaining a blog
B. Features of successful blogs
C. Popular blogging software
IV. Ethics and Legal Considerations
A. Ethics for online journalism
B. Features of successful blogs
C. Objectivity
D. Accuracy and balance
V. Photography
A. Digital photography for news and features
B. Photo editing
VI. Audio
A. Audio recording equipment
B. Audio formats
C. Audio editing
D. Podcasting
E. Audio slideshows
VII. Video
A. Video recording equipment
B. Video formats
C. Video editing
D. Video news stories
E. Video feature stories
VIII. Multimedia Packages
A. Layers and levels
B. Viewer-centric
C. Creating packages that combine text, photos, audio and video
D. Analysis of multimedia packages
IX. Social Media
A. Types of social media (Facebook, Twitter)
B. Use for finding sources
C. Use for marketing blogs, stories, multimedia
Assignments:
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1. Representative reading 5 to 25 pages per week and/or representative viewing of online material (e.g. websites, blogs, audio, video, multimedia)
2. Write blog and market it using social media
3. Interview and create podcast and/or audio slideshow
4. Shoot and edit photos and post them to the web
5. Write 2-10 news and/or feature stories and post them on website
6. Create video news and/or feature story
7. Create multimedia package with above assignments.
8. One to two exams including the final.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 20 - 40% |
Articles, blogs, and website content | |
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 5 - 20% |
Homework assignments, multimedia projects | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 25 - 50% |
Multimedia projects | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 20 - 30% |
1-2 exams including a final | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 5 - 20% |
Attendance and classroom participation | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Journalism Next. Briggs, Mark. CQ Press: 2010.
Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency. McAdams, Minda. Most current text available for downloading.
Instructor-prepared materials.
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