| LIT JRN (W27) | 20 INTRO TO LITERARY JOURNALISM | PIERSON, P. |
| Reading of selected texts to explore the ways in which literary journalism and related nonfiction modes formulate experience. Students write several short papers and one final project. The required prerequisite for either section of LJ 20 is satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 20 INTRO TO LITERARY JOURNALISM | PIERSON, P. |
| Reading of selected texts to explore the ways in which literary journalism and related nonfiction modes formulate experience. Students write several short papers and one final project. The required prerequisite for either section of LJ 20 is satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 21 REPORTING FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM | DEPAUL, A. |
| To write convincingly and tell powerful stories that resonate, writers need to be meticulous, thorough reporters. LJ21 teaches students how to report their literary journalism articles accurately and thoroughly, focusing on the three basic means of gathering information for a story: interviewing, observing and reading. Early in the quarter, students will select a topic, or beat, as it is known in news parlance, from which they will develop contacts and story leads. Students will cover an event, conduct an interview and generate articles related to their beats, also learning ways to use Internet resources and databases to find facts and information and examining investigative and legal documents. The required prerequisite for either section of LJ 21 is satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 100 ADVANCED REPORTING | DEPAUL, A. |
| Advanced Reporting asks students to complete a series of writing and multimedia assignments that require proficiency in varied reporting strategies such as interview, observation and research. Assignments will include profile, photo story, social problem/community reporting, and a final group digital project on a subject of our choosing. Guest speakers will offer insight into professional paths. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 101A HISTORY & THEORY OF LITERARY JOURNALISM | SIEGEL, B. |
| The “New Journalism” that began to appear in the 1960s was far from “new.” Writers have long strived to craft nonfiction that adopts the aims, techniques and standards of the finest fiction. In this course students will study some of those writers, among them Nellie Bly, Stephen Crane, Jack London and George Orwell. Students will then look at how the early pioneers inspired and influenced later literary journalists such as John Hersey, Lillian Ross, A.J. Liebling, Joseph Mitchell, Truman Capote, Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe and Michael Herr. At each stage, our central focus will be the evolution of ethics in literary journalism. Covenants with readers versus covenants with subjects; fundamental truth versus factual accuracy; the blurred lines between fiction and journalism; entering the minds of your characters; reconstructing past events; imposing meaning by seeing stories in situations—literary journalists wrestle with these issues constantly. So will we in this course. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 101BW IMMIGRANT NARRATIVES | TOBAR, H. |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 101BW CROSSING BORDERS | KATZ, J. |
| Good journalism is, at heart, a form of translation: the process of discovering and deciphering and ultimately reconstructing the world in a way that makes the unfamiliar more comprehensible. This workshop will focus on stories that explore “foreign” terrain, that seek to navigate and illuminate the bewildering cultural landscape of Southern California. Students will be invited to insinuate themselves into a community not their own—one, perhaps, that is concealed or misunderstood or even demonized—and immerse themselves in its vocabulary and traditions. They will be encouraged to emerge with a narrative that is at once daring, humane, curious, and nonjudgmental, that explains something new without condescending to or exoticizing the subject. The reading list will be anchored by Ted Conover’s Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America’s Illegal Migrants, a quite literal interpretation of the course’s title. Other classic and contemporary works of creative nonfiction also will be considered. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 101BW MAGAZINE STORYTELLING | CORWIN, M. |
| Magazine writing takes many forms: the in-depth piece, the insightful personality profile, the short impressionistic story that usually runs in the front of the publication. When written with style and insight, all of these stories can embody the best of literary journalism. Many of America's finest nonfiction writers perfected their style when they were crafting these kinds of pieces. Students will have the opportunity to sharpen their storytelling skills by writing several types of articles. The foundation of this class is weekly one-on-one meetings with your editor (professor) where you will discuss how to come up with story ideas,how your stories were edited and how to improve them. This will give you the experience of shaping story ideas and honing your pieces with an editor. A number of accomplished writers will visit the class and talk about how they research and write. We will focus on the importance of insightful interviewing and dogged reporting. Students will learn to develop their own writing style by reading and analyzing a wide range of stories. The required prerequisite for this course is LJ101A. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 103 DIGITAL NARRATIVES | HAYASAKI, E. |
| The world of literary journalism is evolving and adapting for the Web and e-readers, but the core of the craft remains the same: Literary journalism is about true stories told in captivating ways. In this class students will discuss how these stories are changing with the rising popularity of blogs, websites, iPads, iPhones, Kindles and more. They will be expected to find and report stories that they are passionate about, whether their pieces explore the environment, politics, sports, art, subcultures, crime or interesting places. Stories can be narrative reconstructions, immersion pieces, profiles, longform essays, or first-person reported narratives. Students can choose to learn to build digital narratives from the stories they pitch and write, incorporating photos, video, audio, maps, timelines, music and more. Along the way, this class will read digital narratives produced by The New York Times, The Atavist, and by respected journalists, and students will be expected to polish their literary journalism skills and interviewing techniques, while adapting those skills for the digital age. |
| LIT JRN (W27) | 103 LEGAL STORYTELLING | GOFFARD, C. |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | HAYASAKI, E. |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | SIEGEL, B. |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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| LIT JRN (W27) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
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