Medill School of Journalism

John Reque
Editorial B01
BASIC WRITING
Time: Tues 9-10:20 a.m.
      Three-hour evening lab once a week.
Office Address:  Fisk 108B
Phone:  491-2063
Expected enrollment:  45

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Sharpens non-fiction writing skills 
in description, narration and exposition; requires 
journalistic standards of accuracy; gives a solid grounding 
in grammar and Associated Press style, introduces 
newswriting and copyediting; surveys newspaper, magazine 
and broadcast as areas of journalism; gives an overview of 
the school and the profession and prepares for the more 
specialized courses to come.

PREREQUISITES:

TEACHING METHOD:  Once-a-week lectures (guest lecturers 
in weeks 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) combined with once-a-week labs.

EVALUATION:  Lecture grade (20%) based on a final exam, 
three grammar/style quizzes and six short paragraph 
assignments.  Lab grade (80%) based on lab assignments.

READING LIST:  
-The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual
-When Words Collide by Lauren Kessler and Duncan McDonald


Richard Schwarzlose
Editorial C02-0
HISTORY OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS
Time:  TBA
Office Address:  Fisk 204B
Phone:  491-2066
Expected enrollment:  30 per section

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  A survey of the history of print and 
broadcast journalism -- its institutions, practices, 
principles and philosophy -- primarily in the United 
States.   The course also emphasizes contemporary media 
issues and their historical development.  MAIN OBJECTIVES:  
First, to provide an understanding of journalism's history 
in the United States; second, to encourage students to 
discuss some of the issues confronting journalism today; 
and third, to conduct research and make judgments about a 
journalism topic of the student's choosing.

PREREQUISITES:  Sophomore standing.  P/N not allowed.

EVALUATION:  The students final grade is based on a midterm, 
a final exam, and a research project.

READING LIST:
-G.J. Baldasty, The Commercialization of News in the 
Nineteenth Century
-J.L. Baughman, The Republic of Mass Culture
-Handouts in class


Mary Ann Weston
Editorial C02-0
HISTORY OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS
Time:  TBA
Office Address:  Fisk 204C
Phone:  491-4635
Expected enrollment:  30 per section

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  A survey of the history of print 
and broadcast journalism -- its institutions, practices, 
principles and philosophy -- primarily in the United 
States.   The course also emphasizes contemporary media 
issues and their historical development.  MAIN OBJECTIVES:  
First, to provide an understanding of journalism's history 
in the United States; second, to encourage students to 
discuss some of the issues confronting journalism today; 
and third, to conduct research and make judgments about a 
journalism topic of the student's choosing.

PREREQUISITES:  Sophomore standing.  P/N not allowed.

EVALUATION:  The students final grade is based on a 
midterm, a final exam, and a research project.

READING LIST:     
-G.J. Baldasty, The Commercialization of News in the 
Nineteenth Century
-J.L. Baughman, The Republic of Mass Culture
-Handouts in class


Leland "Buck" Ryan
Editorial C21-1
COPY EDITING
Time:  M & F afternoons w/3-hr. W lab
Office Address:  Fisk 305B
Phone:  491-2067
Expected enrollment:  60

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Focus on quality writing through 
editing and compelling presentation of ideas.  Language 
Skills:  spelling, grammar, punctuation, style and usage.  
Copy editing and writing:  editing a variety of news and 
feature stories, headlines, captions and refers.  News 
judgment:  the changing nature of news judgment; comparing 
your decisions with Chicago metros.  Visual Communication:  
layout and design, use of color, photo editing and 
information graphics; increasing your "visual literacy."

PREREQUISITES:  B01 Basic Writing, C20 Newswriting.

EVALUATION:  Factors in determining grades:  Language skills, 
ability to "catch" major errors in a story, line editing 
skills, headline writing skills, news judgment skills, 
layout and photo editing skills, and lecture/workshop 
quizzes.  Final two labs are key.

REQUIRED STUFF:   
-B. Ryan and M. O'Donnell, "The Editor's Toolbox."
-B. Ryan, "The Editor's Exercise Pack."
-T. Harrower, "The Newspaper Designer's Handbook."
-A 1994 almanac.  Recommended:  The World Almanac and 
Book of Facts 1993.
-The Chicago Tribune's Chicagoland Map (Rand McNally).
-The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual.
-A good dictionary.


Leland "Buck" Ryan
Editorial C28
NEWSPAPERS TODAY AND TOMORROW
Time:  TBA
Office Address:  Fisk 305B
Phone:  491-2067
Expected enrollment:  15

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Helps student succeed in a newspaper 
career over the next decade.  Focus on newsroom of the 
future.  Concentration on The Maestro Concept: a team 
approach to integrating writing, editing and visual 
communication and The Coaching Writers Process: a reform 
movement fostered at the Poynter Institute for Media 
Studies.  The class will study the latest research on 
understanding readers, discuss newspaper projects designed 
to attract new readers and analyze prototypes developed 
by the Future of Newspaper Committee of the American 
Society of Newspaper Editors.  Teams will build a prototype 
geared to Evanston teen-agers in the Young Readers Project.  
Desk-top publishing techniques and visual communication 
skills will welcome student to the future.

PREREQUISITES:  Teaching Newspaper.  P/N not allowed for 
journalism students.

EVALUATION:  Young Readers Project  (50%)  Grading on 
reasoning, attention to detail, ability to meet deadlines 
and performance and cooperation as a team member.  
Management Project  (20%)  A strictly formatted 5-page paper 
on application of readings to a case study of a professional 
news organization.  Wild Card Project  (20%)  A project of 
student's choice.  Class discussion, short papers, quizzes  
(10%)

REQUIRED TEXTS:  
-James A. Belasco, "Teaching the Elephant to Dance. The Manager's
Guide to Empowering Change." 
-Robert H. Giles, "Newsroom Management.  A Guide to Theory and 
Practice"
-Roy Peter Clark and Don Fry, "Coaching Writers:  Editors and
Reporters Working Together."


Patricia Dean, Ava Greenwell, Edward Planer
Editorial C60-1
BROADCAST WRITING
Time:  TBA  (One lecture and one 3-hour lab per week)
Office Address:  Fisk Hall
Phone:  491-2060 (Dean) 467-2579 (Greenwell) 
        708-835-1139 (Planer)
Expected enrollment:  

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Writing television news scripts that 
are accurate, clear, concise and conversational; 
coordinating scripts with video; and becoming proficient 
in the use of the Newstar computer system and videotape 
editing in our state-of-the-art broadcast newsroom.

PREREQUISITES:  Junior standing.  C20-1 Newswriting.

EVALUATION:  Final, Midterm, lab exercises, homework, 
quizzes, class participation and attendance.

REQUIRED TEXT:     AP Broadcast News Handbook


Charles Whitaker
Editorial C81-0
MAGAZINE EDITING
Time:  TBA
Office Address:  Fisk 304C
Phone:  491-3014
Expected enrollment:  

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  We will deal with handling copy 
and editing (proofreading and fact-checking).  We will 
explore the entire magazine industry:  current developments 
and trends in the industry, strategies for garnering 
advertising, building circulation.  The goal is to develope 
an eye for the tone and pace of a magazine and its articles 
and departments.  

PREREQUISITES:  Senior standing.  C20-2 Teaching Media.  
Knowledge of newswriting, copyediting, and style.

EVALUATION:  Based on a group project, an individual 
mid-term project, in-class exercises and a final exam.

REQUIRED TEXTS:  
-J. William Click and Russell N. Baird, "Magazine Editing &
Production."
-Handouts in class
-Dictionary
-Stylebook
-Grammar or writing handbook