JOUR 3400 - Advertising and Public Relations Research and Theory

• Analyze consumer speech and behavior.
• Apply research tools and technologies appropriate for advertising and public relations professionals.
• Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the advertising and public relations professions.
• Uncover the roots of truthful consumer thought and emotion.
• Understand the basic theories of research in advertising and public relations.

JOUR 3500 - Radio and Television Reporting and Writing

• Be able to critically evaluate own and others’ work for accuracy, fairness, clarity, and effective use of writing, audio and video for compelling storytelling.
• Be able to produce an audio or a video news package from start to finish, including reporting, writing, recording/shooting and editing.
• Learn interview techniques to elicit compelling soundbites.
• Understand audio and video editing principles for news and be able to edit using appropriate equipment/software.
• Understand audio journalism, and be able to gather audio elements and use recording gear.
• Understand how to ensure a diversity of perspectives and context in every story.
• Understand video journalism using NPPA style and be able to shoot with DV cameras.
• Understand visual storytelling, story flow, pacing, and personalization.

JOUR 3620 - Community Journalism

• Learn how writing for community news media may differ from writing for media serving larger population areas.
• Learn the common ethical issues that arise in writing news stories, including those that deal with diversity, gender, and freedom of speech.
• Understand differences and similarities between community media and broader mainstream media.
• Understand different business/operating models for community media.
• Understand professional values, practices, and ethics as applied to community media.
• Understand the history of community media and the cultural importance of community media today.
• Understand various forms of communities (geographic, cultural, goal-oriented, etc.) and the media that serve them.

JOUR 3630 - Reviewing and Criticism

• Demonstrate an understanding of gender, race ethnicity, sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in domestic society in relation to mass communications.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Understand the role that new media plays in the field of reviewing and criticism.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 3700 - Advertising and Public Relations Writing

• Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style, and grammatical correctness.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Learn how to navigate complex client requirements and information to generate clear, persuasive copy.
• Learn the basic principles and techniques of sound writing for advertising and public relations and work through the writing process.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Write to specific objectives as part of an overall communications strategy.

JOUR 3750 - Advertising Media Planning and Buying

• Learn the skills for presenting and defending their work in a professional fashion.
• Understand the criteria for evaluating data sources and advertising options.
• Understand the development of a media plan to meet an advertising/marketing goal.
• Understand the impact of the fast-changing mediascape on the advertising business in general and on media planning and buying in particular.
• Understand the interrelationships among important factors of media-planning decision making.
• Understand the media planning and buying terminology.
• Understand the role of media in delivering messages to current and prospective customers.
• Understand the sources of information necessary to make sound media decisions.

JOUR 3920 - Reporting Practice

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the reporting profession.
• Critically evaluate work for accuracy, fairness, clarity, and appropriate style and grammar.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate to for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 3921 - Editing Practice

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the editing profession.
• Critically evaluate work for accuracy, fairness, clarity, and appropriate style and grammar.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Improvement of journalism editing skills through professional practice.

JOUR 3922 - Broadcast News Practice

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for broadcast news professions.
• Critically evaluate your own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, style, and grammar.
• Demonstrate professionalism in a working newsroom environment.
• Demonstrate understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Write correctly and clearly, in forms and styles appropriate for broadcast news.

JOUR 3970T - Journalism Tutorial (Advanced Tutorial)

• To analyze and understand specialized issues, topics, and concepts of journalism.
• To teach students to apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work.
• To teach students to work effectively with difficult, multidimensional subjects in their field.
• To understand the role of journalists and the diversity of audiences in a complex and global society.

JOUR 3980T - Journalism Tutorial (Research)

• To acquire the skills necessary for pursuing an independent and effective research.
• To find a realistic, feasible thesis topic and develop a meaningful prospectus and timeline.
• To gain a sophisticated understanding of the requirements for and challenges of the thesis.
• To locate necessary resources, find a thesis adviser, and develop problem-solving strategies for the process.

JOUR 4001 - Semester in DC: Covering Washington DC

• Student will be able to demonstrate critical analytical and thinking skills to be applied in the shaping of reportage in Washington, DC.
• Students will be able demonstrate an understanding of the professional practices of their major.

JOUR 4001X - Semester in D.C.: Covering D.C.

JOUR 4002X - Semester in D.C.: Communication Business

JOUR 4003X - Semester in D.C.: Data Reporting and Use

JOUR 4007X - Semester in D.C.: Strategic Communication

JOUR 4008X - Semester in D.C.: Broadcast in the Capital

JOUR 4130 - Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media

• Students will be able to demonstrate a wide-ranging understanding of issues of diversity that are encountered in the mass media.
• Students will be able to explore strategies for diversity-oriented journalism and to appreciate journalists’ social responsibility for including in journalistic work the voices of societal minorities.
• Students will be able to raise their own awareness of diversity and inequity in mass communication and in the media.
• Students will be able to understand the concepts of gender, race, and class as socio-culturally constructed categories that are built upon, but not defined by, biological and material/socio-cultural differences.
• Students will be able to understand the influence of socio-cultural categories on journalistic production, media policy, infrastructure, and reception.

JOUR 4150 - Environmental and Science Journalism

• To become familiar with the basics of environmental and science journalism and the techniques used to translate complicated matter into everyday language.
• To gain understanding of conceptual/ theoretical issues of environmental and science issues, including ethical and philosophical approaches to these areas.
• To learn how to research, report, and write about the environment and the sciences for a number of different topics and publications/platforms.
• To raise awareness for the socio-political role and ethical responsibility of the environmental and science journalist.
• To stimulate intuition and reasoning with an emphasis on “an informed concern for truth, accuracy, fairness, diversity, and respect” as outlined by the AEJMC Accrediting Council.

JOUR 4180 - Digital Information and Innovation

• Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions.
• Create and manage interactive elements of digital-based journalistic media.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Learn effective strategies for creating online news sites and mobile applications.
• Understand concepts and apply theories in the use and presentation of images and information.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4190 - Legal Issues of Online Journalism

• Demonstrate an understanding of gender, race ethnicity, sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in domestic society in relation to mass communications.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of peoples and cultures, and of the significance and impact of mass communications in a global society.
• Think critically, creatively and independently.
• Understand the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press in the U.S.

JOUR 4200 - Podcasting and Audio Journalism

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the professional ethical principles inherent to journalistic podcast production, which include truth, accuracy and diversity of ideas.
• Students will be able to write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness
• Students will be able to describe and apply current tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work, and to understand the digital world.
• Students will be able to apply basic numerical and statistical concepts central to podcast series planning.

JOUR 4230 - International and Cross-Cultural Advertising

• Achieve a deep understanding of the cultural, economic, political, legal/ethical, and technological issues surrounding advertising practice in today’s global and cross-cultural environment.
• Gain a great familiarity with the concepts, strategies, and executions frequently used in international and cross-cultural advertising today.
• Have a clear awareness of the challenges and trends in today’s international and cross-cultural advertising practice and research.

JOUR 4300 - Magazine Editing and Production

• Analyze magazines, brands, and their application to ancillary products.
• Consider new technology and its application for content creation and delivery.
• Create a new product prototype from conceptualization to publication.
• Critique design, including art, typography, and placement of elements.
• Define characteristics of existing and prospective audiences.
• Develop a publishing plan.
• Discuss other publishing functions such as advertising, circulation, and marketing.
• Explain the difference between conceptual editing, line editing, and proofing.
• Gather and assess complex information from multiple sources.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Think strategically about editorial packaging and positioning.
• Understand editorial formula, including architecture and mix.

JOUR 4320 - Specialized Business Media

• Analyze the information needs of business audiences.
• Critique business-to-business editorial and design in print and online.
• Describe the role of circulation, marketing, and new product development.
• Prepare a résumé and cover letter appropriate for a business-to-business publishing job.
• Read and interpret a publishing company’s financial statements.
• Research and write an in-depth case study of a trade publication’s audience, circulation, editorial, design, revenue streams, major competition, and parent company.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Understand the differences between writing and editing for consumer vs. trade publications.

JOUR 4350 - Advanced Editing

• Learn advanced content packaging, including multimedia content, interactive content, and developing publication prototypes.
• Learn advanced principles of routine content management, including making assignments, establishing and managing deadlines, allocating resources, budgeting content, and providing oversight.
• Understand and apply the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press.
• Understand and practice the role of editors in special or one-time projects, including in-depth reports, special issues, and blanket coverage of major news events, among others.
• Understand principles and aspects of building and managing a staff.
• Understand the role of editors in addressing legal, ethical, and cultural dilemmas.
• Understand the role of editors in broader organizational goals (business, marketing, organizational changes, etc.).
• Understand the various roles of editors in contemporary news and information media.

JOUR 4390 - Business Reporting

• Critically evaluate work for accuracy, fairness, clarity and appropriate style, and grammar.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Understand business concept of capitalism, and the economic, financia,l and societal forces governing for-profit enterprises.
• Understand the political economy of business and the role government plays in business and the economy.
• Understand the role business writers play and their importance to the market economy.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate to business publications and media.

JOUR 4410J - Magazine Feature Writing

• Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
• Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions in which they work.
• critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style, and grammatical correctness.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4420 - Advanced Magazine Feature Writing

• Analyze the voice and technique of noted magazine writers.
• Apply elements of fiction to nonfiction articles.
• Conduct in-depth research, including interviewing and observation.
• Craft tight, targeted articles.
• Edit one another’s work and provide constructive, actionable feedback.
• Recognize characteristics of literary journalism.
• Tell more compelling stories to keep audiences engaged and reading.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Understand the role of the narrator in magazine features.
• Use language as a tool to convey meaning, as well as emotion.
• Write effective profiles and issue-oriented articles.

JOUR 4450 - Creative Concepts

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the strategic communication professions.
• Become familiar with the most widely accepted approaches in the development of strategic communication creative concepts.
• Gain a working knowledge of the basic steps in the development of creative strategy.
• Recognize the relationship between strategic communication disciplines and creative strategies and executions.
• Think critically, creatively and independently.
• Understand concepts and apply theories in the use and presentation of images and information.
• Understand the critical role creative strategy and execution plays in the development of strategic communication.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4490 - Economics Reporting

• Demonstrate an ability to interpret the economic data released by the US government.
• Understand financial markets, how securities are valued and priced, and the role financial markets play.
• Understand how to read the Wall Street Journal and find important financial and economic information.
• Understand the forces of regulation and competition in the market place.
• Understand the political economy of business and the role government plays in business and the economy.
• Understand the role business writers play and their importance to the market economy.
• Understand trade, tariffs, currencies, and economic forces behind the world economy.

JOUR 4510 - Corporate Social Responsibility

• Acquire a deeper knowledge of some social and environmental issues related to business, society, and the environment.
• Become familiar with at least ten specific companies’ corporate social responsibility programs.
• Know what strategic communication elements are needed to implement corporate social responsibility programs effectively.
• Recognize ethical, legal and regulatory issues involved in corporate social responsibility programs.
• Understand the role of public relations and advertising in corporate social responsibility programming and communication.
• Understand what constitutes social responsibility programs in various industries.

JOUR 4520 - Radio and Television Producing

• Be able to write all story forms and create transitions between adjacent stories.
• To understand and effectively use graphics in the production of newscasts.
• To understand and use the concepts of flow and balance and their relationship to how the audience processes information.
• To understand audience demographics and how to design relevant newscasts for a specific audience.
• To understand how to handle live, breaking news producing.
• To understand producing content for different platforms.
• To understand the goals of headlines and teases and be able to write/produce effective headlines and teases.
• To understand the importance of a diversity of voices and perspectives in a newscast.
• To understand the management function of a producer and the newsroom relationships vital to producing newscasts.

JOUR 4530 - Strategic Social Media

• Students will be able to provide strategic counsel, based on their understanding of core concepts of social media, to organizations about why and when to use social media tools in their public relations, marketing, and advertising campaigns.
• Students will be able to create a social media plan that chooses the tools (tactics) designed to meet the objectives, emphasizing that some companies don’t need or aren’t ready for social media, and some objectives cannot be met with social media.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how social media tools can help organizations reach their objectives and when these tools are most appropriate.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the core concepts of social media including interactivity and conversation-building.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the background of social media and the concepts and theories that inform their use for organizations.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the ethical decisions organizations must make when engaging in social media.

JOUR 4630 - Media and Conflicts

• Demonstrate an ability to conduct research and analysis using a variety of sources and to present findings.
• Demonstrate an ability to function as part of a team containing students from a variety of major disciplines.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Understand how conflicts escalate, how they can be contained, and why some persist and others do not.
• Understand how new media present and negotiate national and international conflicts and governance.
• Understand the challenges media face in covering internal, state, and international conflicts among others.
• Understand the changing landscapes of media to mitigate, settle, and resolve internal and external conflicts.
• Understand the courses or origins of conflicts and the journalist’s role in peace building.
• Understand the fundamentals of crisis leadership and strategic planning in the changing media landscape.

JOUR 4650 - Opinion Writing

• Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style, and grammatical correctness.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the history and role of media columnists and editorial writers in shaping communications.
• Learn methods of persuasion and offer evidence when praising and criticizing.
• Learn to explain and interpret news and cultural events through editorials and editorial columns for the print and online media.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4660 - International Mass Media

• Come to informed conclusions about current trends that are transforming media systems.
• Compare and contrast national media systems, placing them within historical, political, social, and cultural context.
• Demonstrate an ability to conduct research and analysis, using a variety of sources.
• Discuss how government regulations, world and domestic markets, and social, religious and cultural factors shape media systems.
• Explain the factors that have influenced the development of media systems in a selected group of countries in the developed and developing regions of the world.

JOUR 4670 - Foreign Correspondence

• Consider obstacles faced in complex and unfamiliar regions and dangerous territories.
• Critically assess the roles and challenges facing foreign correspondents.
• Critically seek newsworthy stories and be aware of cultural differences.
• Learn how to report and relate global events to their local, wide-ranging audiences.
• Learn the current trends and criticism of international journalistic roles.
• Produce two publishable international news articles in form of “Special Reports.”
• Understand the conditions under which embedded scribes operate in wars and other conflicts.

JOUR 4700 - Sportswriting

• Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts in preparing sports stories.
• Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style, and grammatical correctness.
• Demonstrate an understanding of gender, race ethnicity, sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in domestic society in relation to sports writing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles as they relate to sports reporting, and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Learn to gather information and write sports stories.
• Uderstand the particular challenges of sports reporting and writing.

JOUR 4710 - Public Relations Planning

• Learn to write public relations plans in a variety of formats and to adapt them based on company or client demands.
• Solve complex public relations problems that confront today’s public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.
• Understand the role of research in the development, implementation, and evaluation of public relations plans.

JOUR 4790 - Data Journalism

• Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Enhance traditional investigative reporting skills with analysis of public records.
• Evaluate information critically and apply principles learned when writing news stories.
• Learn to examine computerized records using a spreadsheet and a database manager.
• Learn to make computer-assisted reporting relevant to everyday reporting and big reporting projects.
• UInderstand and apply the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press in the U.S.
• Understand the role of computer-assisted reporting in the journalistic professions.

JOUR 4810 - News Media Management

• Learn how management theory is used to motivate professionals.
• Learn how management theory is used to solve practical problems that arise when people with different skills must work together to make the firm successful.
• Learn to analyze markets and develop an editorial/marketing plan for a new media firm.
• Learn to write and present a prototype for a media firm that you would like to create.

JOUR 4820 - Strategic Communication Management for Advertising and PR Professionals

• Become comfortable with the reality that you won’t always have the right answer and learn how to address the best approach given the situation.
• Build on your ability to work as a team and improve your interpersonal skills.
• Build skills for working with creative media account planners, researchers, and other experts in traditional and specialty agencies.
• Develop an understanding of what advertising and public relations agencies do and the critical role of the account manager.
• Develop an understanding of what constitutes a healthy client-agency relationship by learning how to achieve it and how to manage it.
• Equip yourself with a set of tools to deal with the challenges and opportunities you will encounter as you progress in an agency position.
• Familiarize yourself with the language used within the advertising and public relations business and the lingo for the account manager.
• Instill an understanding and appreciation for the personal traits that define success in account services.
• Learn how to think through advertising, communication, and client management problems.
• Strengthen your writing skills by creating documents commonly used in advertising, public relations, and interactive agencies.

JOUR 4840 - Supervising School Publications

• Learn and apply skills related to editing copy, visual design, digital production, and other logistical aspects of school production and distribution.
• Understand concepts and apply theories in the use and presentation of images and information.
• Understand the basic legal and ethical issues pertinent to supervising school publications.
• Understand the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press as they relate to school publications.
• Understand the purposes and functions of various school-based publications.

JOUR 4850 - Journalism in the Secondary School Curriculum

• Analyze and apply appropriate content for high school journalism classes, including ethical and legal issues pertinent to high school journalism.
• Create course outline and curriculum material for a specific high school journalism class.
• Demonstrate an understanding of gender, race ethnicity, and sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in domestic society in relation to development of content for high school journalism classes.
• Understand and apply to course curriculum the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press in the United States.

JOUR 4860 - Advertising and Public Relations Capstone

• Students will be able to critically state, describe and analyze marketing/advertising/public relations/communication issues and problems thoroughly and accurately.
• Students will be able to synthesize academic knowledge and relevant experience in creating and testing integrated marketing communication message executions.
• Students will be able to understand and apply a variety of communication strategies used in the competitive industries of advertising and public relations
• Students will be able to create and plan media programs to reach target audiences effectively and efficiently using integrated communication platforms.
• Students will be able to analyze and solve practical real-world problems in a collaborative classroom setting while fostering a constructive team climate and managing team conflict.

JOUR 4870 - News and Information Capstone

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the professional projects in which they are working.
• Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of peoples and cultures and of the significance and impact of mass communications in a global society.
• Think critically, creatively and independently.
• Understand and apply the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press for the U.S.
• Understand concepts and apply theories in the use and presentation of images and information.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the multimedia projects, audiences and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4900 - Special Issues and Topics in Journalism

• Students will be able to demonstrate an advanced understanding of a contemporary topic in journalism and mass media selected by the instructor.
• Students will be able to identify and apply theoretical frameworks related to a contemporary topic in journalism and mass mediaselected by the instructor.
• Students will be able to demonstrate historical and current knowledge about a contemporary topic in journalism and mass media selected by the instructor.

JOUR 4901 - Topical Journalism

• Students will be able to apply tools and technologies appropriate for the journalism topic under study.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate work for accuracy, fairness, clarity, and appropriate style and grammar.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Students will be able to demonstrate how to write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate to for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4902 - Semester in DC: Seminar I

• Students will be able to apply skills learned in this special topics seminar to their career choice.

JOUR 4903 - Scripps in DC Semester: Seminar II

• Students will be able to apply skills learned in this special topics seminar to their future careers as political journalists.

JOUR 4904 - Scripps in DC Semester: Seminar III

• Students will be able to apply skills learned in this special topics seminar to their future careers as political journalists.

JOUR 4910 - Internship

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work.
• Think creatively and independently.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4920 - Advanced Multimedia Reporting Practicum

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the reporting profession.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Improvement of journalism writing and reporting skills through professional practice.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Understand concepts and apply theories in the use and presentation of images and information.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4921 - Advanced Multimedia News Editing Practicum

• Apply tools and technologies appropriate for editing, design, and layout.
• Critically evaluate and edit work for accuracy, fairness, clarity, and appropriate style and grammar.
• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Improvement of journalism editing skills through professional practice.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences, and purposes they serve.

JOUR 4922 - Seminar in Broadcast News

• Be conversant with current commercial and academic news research and the role it plays in daily news decision making.
• Understand how ethical principles collide with financial pressures in daily news decision making.
• Understand market demographics and how to complete a demographic profile of a television market.
• Understand the current economic and regulatory environment for the media, including consolidation and convergence.
• Understand the importance of multicultural and multi-perspective diversity in news coverage.
• Understand the need for racial, ethnic, and life experience diversity in a television news staff.

JOUR 4923 - Seminar in Online Journalism

• Demonstrate an understanding of professional ethical principles and work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness, and diversity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of peoples and cultures and of the significance and impact of mass communications in a global society.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the history and role of professionals and institutions in shaping communications.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.
• Understand principles and laws of freedom of speech and press in the U.S. especially as they relate to online journalism.

JOUR 4926 - Scripps in DC Semester: Practicum

• Students will be able to apply professional skills related to their career goals.

JOUR 4926X - Semester in D.C.: Practicum

JOUR 4930 - Independent Study

• Independently conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions.
• Think critically, creatively, and independently.

JOUR 4940 - Research in Journalism and Communications

• Be able to define research problems and develop research questions and hypotheses.
• Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to research questions.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate to research questions and methodologies.

JOUR 4970T - Journalism Tutorial (Thesis Tutorial)

• To communicate their research/creative work effectively in their own discipline and to a wider audience.
• To create a thesis that is the result of sustained research and sophisticated inquiry.
• To pursue independent research and/or creative activity at a level of uncontested excellence.
• To understand, explain, and work within the ethical parameters that govern scholarly and professional activity.

JOUR 4980T - Journalism Tutorial (Thesis Tutorial)

• To communicate their research/creative work effectively in their own discipline and to a wider audience.
• To create a thesis that is the result of sustained research and sophisticated inquiry.
• To pursue independent research and/or creative activity at a level of uncontested excellence.
• To understand, explain, and work within the ethical parameters that govern scholarly and professional activity.

KHMR 1110 - Elementary Khmer I

• The student should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet, basic sentence structure, vocabulary, and basic geography and culture of the country where the target language is spoken.
• The student will be able to know how to greet others and introduce him/herself, as well as say goodbye according to the circumstances.

KHMR 1120 - Elementary Khmer II

• The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet, the Khmer writing system, special forms of written Khmer, basic sentence structure, vocabulary, and culture that are related to the topics discussed during the semester.

KHMR 2110 - Intermediate Khmer I

• Students will be able to communicate in Khmer in both writing and speaking at an intermediate level within particular Khmer cultural and social themes.
• Students will be exposed to texts in Khmer, exercises in all four macro skills, and various class discussions.

KHMR 2120 - Intermediate Khmer II

• Students will be able to excel their communication skills in Khmer in both writing and speaking at an intermediate level within particular Khmer cultural and social themes.
• Students will be exposed to texts in Khmer, exercises in all four macro skills, and various class discussions.

KHMR 2900 - Special Topics in Khmer

• Students will increase their knowledge in Khmer.

KIKU 1110 - Elementary Kikuyu I

• The students will learn greetings, leave taking, self-introduction and expression, counting, and talking about everyday events as well as asking questions and making requests.
• The will also learn some common verbs and cover at least nine noun classes.

KIKU 1120 - Elementary Kikuyu II

• To order food in a restaurant.
• Students will learn how to carry out simple conversation.
• Express regrets.
• Give out simple commands.
• How to bargain.
• How to describe things.
• Learn Kikuyu grammatical agreement.
• Learn various verbal derivations.

KIKU 2110 - Intermediate Kikuyu I

• The students will learn how to engage in abstract and practical discourse in Kikuyu
• They will also learn to write as well as read and listen to authentic Kikuyu texts.
• They will learn to discuss and creatively use the language.

KIKU 2120 - Intermediate Kikuyu II

• Understand different varieties and registers of Kikuyu.
• Learn to make comparison between Kikuyu and American culture.
• Students will learn improve their grammatical and cultural knowledge by reading and listening to Kikuyu texts.
• Understand contemporary issues in Kikuyu.

KIKU 2900 - Special Topics in Kikuyu

• Students will increase their knowledge in Kikuyu.

LAT 1110 - Beginning Latin I

• Acquisition of classical Latin vocabulary and morphology.
• Building knowledge of English grammar and etymology.
• Comprehension of grammatical concepts.
• Developing an appreciation of the sounds of Latin.
• Development of skills in reading and writing classical Latin.
• Introducing the basics of Roman culture.

LAT 1120 - Beginning Latin II

• Acquisition of classical Latin vocabulary and morphology.
• Building knowledge of English grammar and etymology.
• Comprehension of grammatical concepts.
• Developing an appreciation of the sounds of Latin.
• Development of skills in reading and writing classical Latin.
• Introducing the basics of Roman culture.

LAT 2110 - Intermediate Latin I

• Students will be able to analyze complex grammatical concepts and Latin morphology, and define a wider Latin vocabulary.
• Students will be able to translate Latin into English and compose in Latin with greater accuracy.
• Students will be able to analyze selected political and cultural aspects of ancient Roman society.
• Students will be able to identify the main genres and authors of Latin poetry and prose.

LAT 2120 - Intermediate Latin II

• Acquiring a richer Latin vocabulary.
• Developing greater accuracy and confidence in reading Latin.
• Gaining an appreciation of basic aspects of Roman poetry and prose.
• Introducing selected political and cultural aspects of ancient Roman society.
• Refining and expanding comprehension of grammatical concepts.

LAT 2900 - Special Topics in Latin

• Students will increase their knowledge in Latin.

LAT 3110 - Latin Prose and Poetry I

• Communicating an individual research topic through sophisticated written and oral arguments.
• Constructing a detailed interpretation of an aspect of the author’s work.
• Developing further understanding of the author’s social and cultural contexts.
• Gaining an appreciation of aspects of an author’s prose or poetic style.
• Introduction to multiple analytical methods drawn from several humanistic and social-science disciplines.
• Refining comprehension of grammatical concepts and acquiring a richer Latin vocabulary.
• Training in close reading and rigorous textual analysis.

LAT 3120 - Latin Prose and Poetry II

• Communicating an individual research topic through sophisticated written and oral arguments.
• Constructing a detailed interpretation of an aspect of the author’s work.
• Developing further understanding of the author’s social and cultural contexts.
• Gaining an appreciation of aspects of an author’s prose or poetic style.
• Introduction to multiple analytical methods drawn from several humanistic and social-science disciplines.
• Refining comprehension of grammatical concepts and acquiring a richer Latin vocabulary.
• Training in close reading and rigorous textual analysis.

LAT 4110 - Advanced Latin Literature I

• Communicating an individual research topic through sophisticated written and oral arguments.
• Constructing a detailed interpretation of an aspect of the author’s work.
• Developing further understanding of the author’s social and cultural contexts.
• Gaining an appreciation of aspects of an author’s prose or poetic style.
• Introduction to multiple analytical methods drawn from several humanistic and social-science disciplines.
• Refining comprehension of grammatical concepts and acquiring a richer Latin vocabulary.
• Training in close reading and rigorous textual analysis.

LAT 4120 - Advanced Latin Literature II

• Communicating an individual research topic through sophisticated written and oral arguments.
• Constructing a detailed interpretation of an aspect of the author’s work.
• Developing further understanding of the author’s social and cultural contexts.
• Gaining an appreciation of aspects of an author’s prose or poetic style.
• Introduction to multiple analytical methods drawn from several humanistic and social-science disciplines.
• Refining comprehension of grammatical concepts and acquiring a richer Latin vocabulary.
• Training in close reading and rigorous textual analysis.

LAT 4900 - Special Topics in Latin Literature

• Introduce students to an aspect or texts in Latin not usually taught in other courses in the department.

LAT 4930 - Independent Study in Latin

• Become familiar with current scholarship in these genres.
• Become familiar with genres of Latin literature.
• Improve ability to read and analyze Latin texts.

LET 1000 - Introduction to Law Enforcement Technology

• Articulate the primary function of courts and corrections in the criminal justice system.
• Define the crime picture in the United States.
• Define the sentencing options used by the criminal justice system.
• Describe the components of the criminal justice system.
• Describe the main structural components of a contemporary criminal justice organization to include the management structure.
• Differentiate between criminal and civil law.
• Understand vicarious liability and the legal aspects of policing.

LET 1050 - Ethics and Legal Issues

• Analyze contemporary case studies of ethical and legal issues relative to police, courts, and corrections; and the war on terrorism.
• Define the components of the criminal justice system and contexts for understanding justice, crime, and ethics.
• Describe utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethical formulation within the criminal justice system.
• Evaluate formulation of ethical issues in the workplace.
• Examine the ethics of deceptive interrogation.
• Postulate a criminal justice ethic for the future.
• Use theoretical foundations to solve ethical dilemmas encountered in a contemporary criminal justice organization.

LET 1100 - Police Role in Crime and Delinquency

• Articulate choice and trait theory in relationship to juvenile delinquency.
• Articulate the role of the family in the development of the prevention of juvenile delinquency.
• Demonstrate an understanding of developmental factors in juvenile delinquency.
• Demonstrate contemporary issues in juvenile delinquency such as the rise of gangs, female gangs; etc.
• Know the role of the police in developing prevention programs.
• Understand the nature of childhood delinquency.

LET 1200 - Constitution & Criminal Law

• Articulate the circumstances when officers have the legal authority to detain or arrest suspects.
• Articulate the impact of civil rights legislation in our society.
• Define the 6th Amendment rights to a fair trial.
• Define the 6th Amendment rights to the assistance of counsel and the application of double jeopardy.
• Define the Constitutional rights to speech, press and freedom of assembly including its practical application to law enforcement.
• Define the individual’s right to be protected from self-incrimination and issues related to the 5th Amendment.
• Describe the 4th Amendment and its implications for law enforcement including the component of a practical search and seizure policy.
• Describe the history and general application of the United States Constitution.
• Describe the legal implications for law enforcement officers conducting an interrogation or confession.

LET 1350 - Introduction to Corrections

• Demonstrate knowledge of major Constitutional rights and legal issues facing corrections and those under correctional supervision.
• Discuss the history of corrections.
• Explore various correctional philosophies and system outcome goals.
• Identify and discuss the effectiveness of different programs within community corrections.
• Identify the function, purpose and jurisdiction of different forms of institutional correctional facilities.
• Identify various special populations and how the correctional system addresses their needs.

LET 1450 - Introduction to Criminalistics and Forensic Science

• Articulate an overview of contemporary DNA analysis and forensic odontology in the investigative process.
• Articulate the role of the crime laboratory in an arson investigation.
• Conduct a simulated ballistics examination from a simulated crime scene.
• Define the various bloodstain patterns and interpret simulated patterns.
• Discuss controlled substances and recognize the signs of clandestine laboratories.
• Recognize explosives evidence and conduct a microscopic analysis of simulated explosives.
• Recognize fingerprint patterns and lift a latent fingerprint at a simulated crime scene.
• Understand the role of forensics in the criminal investigation process.
• Understand the role of the coronor’s office and the role of the forensic pathologist.

LET 1500 - Police Operations

• Articulate various concepts of traffic operations.
• Critically examine contemporary patrol operations.
• Describe changes affecting police operations for the contemporary law enforcement organization and articulate the changing law enforcement officer, changing police bureaucracy, and community role.
• Discuss the relationship of ethics and police liability.
• Examine violence at home, in the classroom, and on the job.
• Explain crime, disorder and quality of life issues from a patrol perspective.
• Explore emergency operations.
• Identify issues that impact the physical and mental health of police patrol officers.
• Identify sources of operational skills required to initiate lawful arrests.
• Understand the role of communication, technological advances in communication, communication problems when policing a diverse community, and obtaining information from a variety of sources.

LET 1550 - Management of a Correctional Crisis

• Describe the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of ICS, National Incident Management System (NIMS).
• Explain the relationship between ICS and NIMS and its relevance to corrections and law enforcement.
• Fundamentals of the Incident Command System (ICS).
• How to mitigate a crisis.
• Knowledge of the management of a correctional or other major crisis.

LET 2000 - Procedures, Rules, and Test of Evidence

• Apply Constitutional concepts to case studies;
• Apply course content to a mock trial.
• Define the history and development of criminal evidence; and
• Demonstrate an understanding of court room processes through in-class exercises;
• Describe the testimony of witnesses and hearsay evidence;
• Understand theoretical Constitutional foundations to understand important aspects of the criminal justice system;

LET 2050 - Introduction to Legal Issues in Corrections

• Communicate clear ideas and legal viewpoints to proficient writings from a correctional construct.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the balancing of individual, state, and federal rights and how they relate to a correctional system.
• Demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of the many legal issues that have impacted corrections operations and corrections policies.
• Demonstrate the ability to think critically by researching, analyzing facts and data, and synthesizing contemporary legal issues in corrections.
• Develop an understanding of the many complex topics in correction law.
• Learn to analyze and draft a legal brief related to a corrections topic.
• Read with comprehension and become knowledgeable from readings, and to apply practical theory to correctional operational applications.

LET 2100 - Introduction to Occupational Fraud Management

• Articulate corporate sentencing principles.
• Define occupational fraud.
• Demonstrate the principles of criminal investigation as related to elements of occupational fraud.
• Demonstrate the principles of proactive computer audit tests.
• Examine payroll, expense reimbursement, and noncash misappropriation schemes.
• Explore methodologies to examine occupational fraud.
• Learn the role of accounting principles in occupational fraud management.
• Understand register disbursement fraud.
• Understand skimming schemes.

LET 2150 - Cybernetics

• Apply computer systems to crime analysis.
• Describe a police communications facility.
• Describe the emerging and future criminal justice technologies.
• Describe the wireless communications systems, networks, and GIS systems as they apply to the criminal justice system.
• Recognize how computer systems are used in emergency planning and disaster response.
• Understand how law enforcement uses the Internet to accomplish criminal justice objectives.
• Understand how the criminal justice system uses information systems to accomplish systemic goals.

LET 2200 - Court Procedures and Processes

• Demonstrate effective courtroom testimony.
• Effective preparation and presentation of criminal evidence.
• Explore the federal and state court systems.
• Understand contemporary issues facing the court system.
• Understand courts of records and their role in criminal justice.

LET 2250 - Correctional Management & Supervision

• Dimensions of change within a corrections environment.
• Explore the role of an effective corrections manager.
• Leadership in a corrections environment.
• Provide a foundational knowledge of corrections supervision.
• Understand the dynamics of professional and ethical behavior while supervising in a corrections environment.

LET 2300 - Police Community Relations

• Critically analyze a community policing agency to determine successful contemporary strategies.
• Demonstrate problem solving techniques.
• Describe the evolution of policing and contemporary views of community policing.
• Recognize the importance of establishing an organizational mission, culture and discretion in concert with the community.
• Understand how to involve the community in policing functions.

LET 2350 - Introduction to Probation and Parole

• Demonstrate fundamental practices of a probation officer in a contemporary criminal justice environment.
• Explore rehabilitation theory and practice as it relates to the future of probation and parole in the criminal justice system.
• Explore the history of probation and parole in a corrections environment.
• Provide a foundational knowledge of the theory of probation and parole in criminal justice.