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__** Journalism 20 Course Description **__

Journalism Studies 20 is concerned with the role of journalism in a democracy and with helping you grow in using many different forms of expression to get your point across to a specific and global audience.

This course is designed to help you learn to gather, write, edit, publish, and produce news and other information for print and electronic media. You will also developing your skill in becoming more organized with your time, meeting deadlines, think objectively, develop original styles, and gain experience in communicating clearly and effectively.


 * There are a number of guiding questions that will be essential to our course, such as**:


 * Who is communicating?
 * What is being communicated?
 * To whom is it communicated?
 * What medium is used?
 * What is the purpose of the communication? To inform or instruct? To persuade? To entertain?
 * How effective is the communication? Does it reach a specific or global audience?

Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to explore the principles governing the publication or production of each medium. Specifically, we will look at understanding the social, ethical, and legal obligations of a journalist, including:

> This course is activity-based. That means learning by doing! This course won't work for you if you just sit there and not take the time and open up your brain and explore. You will be given many opportunities to experiment and explore the various media used by journalists and the issues associated with these media.
 * the duty of journalists to serve the truth
 * the public's right to know of events of public importance and interest
 * the foundations of journalism (truth, accuracy, and objectivity)
 * the legal obligations and restraints on the press

We will definitely be taking a look many different forms of media in this course, such as:


 * Television
 * Print (newspaper/magazine)
 * Social Media
 * Photography
 * Radio
 * STUDENT CHOICE


 * Evaluation for Journalism 20 will be broken down as such: **

Assignments and Projects are 85% of the overall mark Final project will be worth 15% of the overall mark

Please make sure to take a look at "Young's Rules for the Road" so that you know the procedures for the classroom. They should be pretty straight forward and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at young.brett@ccsmj.ca.