A Point of Entry to the World of JournalismCourse Description:
This one-semester course allows students to explore the fundamental concepts behind the communications industry, including print, broadcast and advertising and the Internet. Students will study history, writing, editing, law and the packaging process, as well as obtain the understanding of deadlines and interviewing through practical application. This course is a prerequisite for newspaper, yearbook, and intro to tv broadcasting. Curriculum Guide: The SRG curriculum scales for journalism are located at the link below. They are organized as a process-based course, meaning that instead of unit structures, the course focuses upon a limited number of essential skills that recur throughout the course in a variety of contexts. |
A Point of Entry to the World of TV BroadcastingCourse Description:
This one-semester course provides students instruction and opportunity to continue developing journalistic skills in the medium of television broadcast. Students will experience interviewing, filming b-roll, editing and producing video news, feature, and opinion packages. Students will collaborate on stories with school newspaper and yearbook staff. Students will continue to build on their knowledge of press law that affects them as student journalists and the deadline process in which all publications operate. Students will also continue to build their skillset in news judgment, interviewing, editing, headline/caption writing, and visual storytelling. Students will be held to set deadlines and will work with numerous computer programs that include Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere. Curriculum Guide: The process-based SRG curriculum scales for Intro to TV Broadcast are located at the link below. |
Additional Resources
All Journalism courses are currently without adopted textbook resources. The status of a new materials adoption for these courses is pending.
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