Journalism
- Hones Multimedia Storytelling Skills
- Explores Traditional and Digital Media
- Develops Technical Skills
Over the past 25 years, journalism has experienced huge changes in the gathering, creation, and dissemination of news content. These cutting-edge courses ground you in the here and now of writing and producing features, breaking news, and multimedia stories. You will gain practical training in research and reporting, while building technical skills to produce strong narrative stories for a variety of media—newspapers, magazines, video, websites, blogs, podcasts, social media platforms, among others. Learn more about the Certificate in Journalism and Newswriting.
This Fall, study from anywhere in the world in the safety and comfort of your home through online or remote instruction.
Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media
This practical workshop is designed to prepare you for writing and publishing feature articles.
Interviews and Profiles
Learn how to conduct effective interviews, fashion them into articles, and get them published.
Creating a Narrative Podcast
Learn how to develop and pitch your very own narrative podcast series.
Writing About Health and Beauty for Online Publications and Magazines
This nonfiction writing course will give you the tools to write and sell health and beauty stories for a robust and growing market.
Writing Midlife and Beyond
Learn how to shape your personal experiences and reporting into a compelling, publishable essay or feature for the midlife and beyond market.
Podcasting, Radio Reporting, and Storytelling: A Crash Course in Audio
Learn everything you need to launch your own podcast or to begin a career in radio journalism.
Multimedia Storytelling
Receive a comprehensive overview of multimedia storytelling and gain practical experience in all facets of digital story production.
Social Media for Storytellers
As a creative professional, learn to harness the power of social media with easily executed strategies and tactics.
Freelance Journalism: How to Pitch and Sell Stories
Learn how to hatch fresh story ideas that will draw editors’ attention and how to portray these ideas in winning ways.
Writing Parenthood: Writing for a Growing Market
Produce a polished, ready-to-publish work of nonfiction about parenthood for a growing market.
Entertainment Journalism
Raise your arts IQ and gain a solid understanding of how to write publishable articles that inform and entertain and can be pitched to major outlets.
Newswriting: Writing Above the Fold
Learn the central aspects of newswriting, from crafting a lede to organizing complex information into truthful, objective, and accurate prose.
The Political Feature
Learn how to write and sell arresting, well-structured articles that put the human interest into political controversy.