Students that have declared a major and have been accepted into the Gaylord College of Journalism are required to enroll in the gateway course Writing for Mass Media. Students must pass this course to be able to continue in the journalism college. The semester long class comprises of a lecture and lab portion, both essential to the completion of the semester.
Kathryn Jenson White, the course instructor, stated in the course syllabus that the goals of Writing for Mass Media are to "improve your writing, understand the specific conventions of writing for mass media/multimedia outlets, understand the core values of your professions, build media literacy, practice various types of media writing, develop professional skills and begin to define yours interests." Students will reach these goals by learning to "report, write and edit for a variety of media outlets and for a variety of purposes."
In the lecture portion of the course, there are four textbooks that are required. It is crucial for each student to have these books available to them because a quiz will be conducted within the first ten minutes of class over material from the textbooks. If you arrive after the first ten minutes of class, you are automatically counted as being absent and will not be able to make up the quiz. The quiz also doubles as an effective way to take attendance and makes sure that each student remains under the four absences policy.
Students must try to attend each lecture and lab because it is easy to fall behind with the work load that is given in this course. The routine quizzes will make up 25% of the final grade, as well as three exams that will make up another 25% of the final grade. The last 50% of the final grade will come from the lab. Students final grade must be a C or higher in order to pass and be admitted into the Gaylord College.
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