Monday

• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Advanced Broadcast (Jour72205 - Fertig/Pamintuan) - Room 330
  Students learn to use cameras and audio-recording equipment in fieldwork and post-production to create more effective stories. Students will also be introduced to TV studio operations and produce short newscasts.
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Feature Writing (Jour72103 - Kaufman) - Room 434
  Students learn to report and write high-quality features for newspaper and magazines, emphasizing the art of story telling, human interest, and analysis. Assignments include profiles, criticism, and narrative writing in varying lengths from 1,000 to 2,500 words.
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Business/Econ I (Jour72007 - Bartlett) - Room 430
  Students learn the economic context of the business world they seek to cover, including business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, and globalization. They interpret statistics, identify trends, explain policy, and analyze economic controversies. In-class writing exercises and assignments stress understanding and analysis of our economic system.
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Health/Medical I (Jour72009 - Lieberman) - Room 436
  Why does the health system of the richest country in the world rank number 37 in overall quality? What do we get for the $ 2 trillion we spend each year on medical care? Where does the money go? This course will examine who pays for care: health insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid, profit and non-profit managed care companies, and employers—and who benefits: the pharmaceutical industry, hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and patients. It will also look at the federal and state agencies that oversee health care.
• 5 - 7:50 p.m.
  Int'l Reporting Topics (Jour72011 - Isabel) - Room 434

Tuesday

• All Day
  Broadcast Craft Reporting Day
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Craft II (Jour72000 - Svoboda) - Room 430
  Builds on the skills developed in Craft I. Stories will be longer and more analytic. Some will be features, profiles, or commentaries. Students will choose a neighborhood in New York and concentrate their reporting there for the semester. Class meets for two full days. The first is in a small seminar: lectures, drills, critiques, and discussion. The second day is spent reporting in NY. Frequent writing exercises and story assignments.
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Craft II (Jour72000 - Strasser) - Room 434
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Craft II (Jour72000 - Tsiantar) - Room 436
  
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Craft II (Jour72000 - Svoboda) - Room 430
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Craft II (Jour72000 - Strasser) - Room 434
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Craft II (Jour72000 - Tsiantar) - Room 436

Wednesday

• All Day
  Craft II Reporting Day
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Craft for Broadcast (Jour72001 - Prout) - Room 442
  Broadcast students get practical experience through in-class exercises and field assignments using technology integral to broadcast news. Strong reporting, story telling, and production values are emphasized. Each student will produce spot, feature, and enterprise stories.

Thursday

• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Interactive I (Jour72304 - Junnarkar) - Room 438
  Students learn the tools of interactive media in order to report, write, and package stories for online distribution. Forms include text, photos, graphics, external links, audio, video, and interactivity. Each student will publish stories on an internal blog for review by other students and the instructor. Reporting will focus on a neighborhood or approved topic for ongoing coverage.
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Journalistic Judgment (Jour72002 - Shepard) - Room 442
  To be taught by Dean Stephen Shepard. Journalism is all about making judgments — what stories to do, how to do them, who to call, what to leave out, how to be fair, what ground rules to set with sources, and so on. This course will examine many of those judgment calls that determine how well stories are done. Students will use contemporary examples from current media. They will absorb the lessons of good journalism and discuss the problems of the bad.
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  News Service (Jour73099 - Hester/Stein) - Newsroom
  Students who have demonstrated strong skills may work at least one day a week on a web-based news service run by the Graduate School of Journalism. They will serve as a corps of reporters, writers, and web page designers working closely with the news service's professional editors and faculty. Coverage will focus on NYC neighborhoods and will be made available for use by news organizations. This is an elective capstone course that substitutes for a course, in the student's print or online media track, with permission of the student's faculty advisor and the dean.
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Urban Journalism (Jour72008 - Diaz) - Room 434
  Students learn how to report on local government—how power is wielded and policy decisions reached. They study the vast New York City government, public authorities, and key players, including lobbyists, labor unions, and community organizations. All the basics are covered: budgeting, legislation, and zoning. Assignments include spot news and analytic articles.
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Feature Writing (Jour72103 - Mancini) - Room 430
  Students learn to report and write high-quality features for newspaper and magazines, emphasizing the art of story telling, human interest, and analysis. Assignments include profiles, criticism, and narrative writing in varying lengths from 1,000 to 2,500 words.
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Interactive I (Jour72304 - Tu) - Room 438
  Students learn the tools of interactive media in order to report, write, and package stories for online distribution. Forms include text, photos, graphics, external links, audio, video, and interactivity. Each student will publish stories on an internal blog for review by other students and the instructor. Reporting will focus on a neighborhood or approved topic for ongoing coverage.
• 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.
  Broadcast for non-broadcast majors (Jour72206 - Prout) - Room 330

Friday

• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Business/Econ I (Jour72007 - Bartlett) - Room 430
  Students learn the economic context of the business world they seek to cover, including business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, and globalization. They interpret statistics, identify trends, explain policy, and analyze economic controversies. In-class writing exercises and assignments stress understanding and analysis of our economic system.
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Arts/Culture Reporting (Jour73011 - DeCurtis) - Room 436
  This course will train students to report on the arts as hard news in four distinct segments: Art & Politics; Art & Money; Art & Process; and Art & Society. Topics include public funding of the arts, political and market forces, the practical side of artistic creation, large-scale cultural trends, the business of the arts, arts institutions, and key issues and controversies. Students will learn methods of fact-based reporting and how to access sources of data to enrich cultural writing.
• 9:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
  Feature Writing (Jour72103 - Lewis)
  Students learn to report and write high-quality features for newspaper and magazines, emphasizing the art of story telling, human interest, and analysis. Assignments include profiles, criticism, and narrative writing in varying lengths from 1,000 to 2,500 words.