Journalism Symposium Course

BACHELOR OF ART IN JOURNALISM

JR 400

Breyer State University

Instructor:

Sherri Kvamme, BS, BA

Syllabus

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to your Journalism 400 Symposium, a Bachelor Level course in the curriculum for your degree in Journalism.

If you have arrived at this course, weary of writing, we have a problem. Obviously, you have discovered that I am not particularly impressed with Multiple Choice and True or False Examinations. You have spent a lot of time writing rough drafts, re-writing, revising and re-writing. Your Symposium will be more of the same. You can't learn how to write, if you don't write. During the next ten weeks you will be writing an editorial, an investigative feature story, a column and a compilation along with your reading assignments.

It is my most fervent hope that you have been energized and motivated to spend hours, days, weeks, months and years writing!

One of the things you might have noticed during your studies is the element of surprise in your own writing experience. Career journalists are often times surprised to read what they have written. What comes into your mind and flying out of your fingers onto the keyboard while you work can be very exciting!

Writing gives us the opportunity to share our ideas with others. It offers us a chance to be part of dispersing information, new ideas, exciting discoveries, challenging news and entertainment. There is something uniquely special when you are involved in the world of journalism! It taps our creative resources and allows us to express ourselves with words. Write often! Have fun with it! Be the best you can be. Be a professional.

This is the second to the last course before you graduate. It is an important course. Read and weigh your options carefully, giving the importance of each task and what you can accomplish, serious consideration and then have fun with it! Be creative and most importantly, be professional.

TIME FRAME: This is a twenty (20) semester hour course and you have the same ten-week time frame for your Symposium as you have had for all of your previous Journalism courses. Keep in mind that you are welcome to accelerate your assignment if the quality of your work is not negatively impacted. All of your work must be completed by the last day of the tenth week. If you are mailing materials to me via the U.S. Postal Service, please remember that I will use the postal mark as an indicator. If you find yourself mailing your material on the last day of the ten-week period, be sure to have the postal clerk handstamp the date so that I can clearly see it. If it is late, your Symposium will not be credited. The first day of week one will start the day which you notify me that your textbooks have arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Extensions of time are very rare. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded twenty (20) semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOKS: The required textbooks for this course include your permanent, personal reference library. This course also requires that you have;

Book 1: Lapsing Into A Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide To The Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print and How to Avoid Them. Bill Walsh ISBN: 0809225352.

Book 2: American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices. W. David Sloan and Lisa Mullikin Parcell ISBN: 0786413719.

Book 3: The Associated Press Guide To Punctuation. Rene Jack Cappon (Editor and Jack Cappon (Editor) ISBN: 0738207853.

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Use all of your reference material often It will be apparent to me if you have used them, when I receive your presentation. By now, your books should be showing wear, have highlighter on most of the pages, notes in the margins, tabs and paperclips galore just from consistent use of them by you. Is your notebook being used daily?

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: I check my email messages frequently and will look forward to hearing from you regularly. Feel free to contact me whenever you have questions, comments or just want to talk shop. You will hear from me by return email the same day.

INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this program, you may contact us at adm@breyerstate.com.

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