JOURN 212 College Newspaper Photojournalism (1 to 5 credits)
Course Description
Practical experience in shooting, developing photos for the school newspaper. Students should already have a basic working knowledge of photography.
Course Content
A. Researching effective photojournalism examples
B. Executing photojournalism assignments for the student newspaper
C. Learning how to write effective cutlines (photo captions).
D. Maintaining a clip book of published work and favorite photojournalism examples
Student Outcomes
1. Recognize photojournalistic “moments” that are publishable for the market.
2. Generate ideas to illustrate and complement, with photos, any given news story.
3. Identify and execute appropriate camera skills needed for any given photo assignment (for example, posing, lighting, shutter speed, depth of field, flash). 4. Write an effective cutline (photo caption) for any given news photograph.
5. Create and maintain a professional clipbook (portfolio) of 10 published photos.
6. Identify and apply key photojournalistic techniques used in professional photo samples.
7. Scan negatives and adjust in Photoshop.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 10-50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10-50
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