JRNL 4480-001 Advanced Publication Design

Spring 2001
Lecture: T 1-1:50/Room 301A
Lab: T 2-5:20/Room 301A

Professor: Nan Fairley
Office Hours: M-W: 2-4 p.m. & by appointment
Office Phone: 844-4593
E-Mail: fairlln@auburn.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to introduce students to Web publishing and expand skills acquired in the prerequisite design course. The major project for the course is the design, production, and publication of an on-line magazine. Additional hands-on projects will allow you to develop related new media skills. This course lets you adapt the many things you've already learned about journalism for the emerging demands of new media. You'll tell stories in ways that work for online readers and learn design techniques useful for online news sites. Reading assignments, lecture and lab topics, and in-class assignments will vary based on the week's lecture and the lab schedules. Topics and assignments will be posted on the schedule, which you should check at least once each week.

GOALS:

To develop an approach to news that encompasses visual journalism and new media, with an emphasis on Web publishing.
To understand, and prepare for, changing methods of news gathering and news delivery.
To become proficient in creation of high-quality Web sites that meet traditional standards of fairness, accuracy and quality.
To become comfortable with appropriate computer software.
To become the kind of journalist who thinks about the Web as well as print or broadcast while reporting or editing.
To decide if new media will be a part of your professional future.

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