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Welcome to Winter Term

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Welcome to Winter Term 2010.

Whether you’re just starting on the road Gateway 1 or 2 or wrapping up your travels in Gateway 3, we are looking forward to working with you to integrate your critical thinking with basic storytelling skills and deliver those stories in a multimedia format.

You need these skills whether you’re heading into journalism or public relations or advertising. These are fundamental, gotta-have-em skills.

A breakdown of what we expect you to learn:
  • an ability to think critically about an ever-shifting media
  • an understanding of how and why information is reported and used in the media
  • an ability to apply that information creatively
  • an ability to recognize and use basic report and story forms
  • an understanding of the interplay between text, image and sound to report, tell stories and persuade
  • an understanding of basic visual principles in print, online and in multimedia
  • a basic understanding of interviewing and finding sources outside of the traditional academic environment
  • the maintenance of an online blog that collects and reflects on their work
  • an ability to manage an in-depth project that investigates multiple points of view

To get there you’ll choose a public policy issue and explore it in depth from both a national and (more significantly) local angle. You’ll write, take pictures, record audio and shoot video. You’ll think, you’ll listen, you’ll get inspired and you’ll learn a ton about yourself, your issue and what you love about this work.

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