printer friendly pageCOMM 177C: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Environmental Journalism (COMM 277C, EARTHSYS 177C, ENVRES 277C)
(Graduate students register for COMM /
ENVRES 277C.) Practical, collaborative, writing-intensive course in science-based environmental journalism. Science and journalism students learn how to identify and write engaging stories about environmental issues and science, how to assess the quality and relevance of environmental news, how to cover the environment and science beats effectively, and how to build bridges between the worlds of journalism and science. Limited enrollment: preference to journalism students and students in the natural and environmental sciences. Prerequisite:
COMM 104,
ENVRES 200 or consent of instructor. Admissions by application only, available from thayden@stanford.edu.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Hayden, T. (PI)
COMM 177D: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Magazine Journalism (COMM 277D)
(Graduate students register for
COMM 277D.) How to report, write, edit, and read magazine articles, emphasizing long-form narrative. Tools and templates of story telling such as scenes, characters, dialogue, and narrative arc. How the best magazine stories defy or subvert conventional wisdom and bring fresh light to the human experience through reporting, writing, and moral passion. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Brenner, R. (PI)
COMM 177G: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Covering Silicon Valley (COMM 277G)
(Graduate students register for
COMM 277G.) Business reporting basics in the context of Silicon Valley's technology scene. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Grimes, A. (PI)
COMM 177S: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Sports Journalism (COMM 277S)
(Graduate students register for
COMM 277S.) Workshop. An examination of American sports writing from the 1920's Golden Age of Sports to present. Students become practitioners of the sports writing craft in an intensive laboratory. Hones journalistic skills such as specialized reporting, interviewing, deadline writing, creation of video projects, and conceptualizing and developing stories for print and online. Prerequisite: 104 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Pomerantz, G. (PI)
COMM 177Y: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Foreign Correspondence in the Middle East and Asia (COMM 277Y)
(Graduate students register for
COMM 277Y.) What's involved in working as a foreign correspondent in these important and volatile parts of the world, where in many cases journalists are not respected and may face danger -- taught by a journalist who has worked extensively in both regions. (no pre-requisites)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Brinkley, J. (PI)
COMM 177I: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Investigative Reporting (COMM 277I)
Graduate students register for
COMM 277I.) Under the supervision of editors from the Center for Investigative Reporting, students will work on a group investigative project with the end-goal of publication and distribution through CIR's California Watch project. The class will emphasize the history and role of investigative reporting as well as skills and techniques needed to do it. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: instructor consent. Go to
http://comm.stanford.edu/faculty/grimes for application instructions.
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