JRNL 1101 — Journalism 1: Fundamentals of Reporting and Writing

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath EINUpath SINUpath WIusually offered: fall, springtypical days: T/FBostonTraditional

Covers the foundations of newswriting, including leads, story structure, objective tone, and attribution. Introduces fundamental reporting skills such as interviewing, researching, and observation. Asks students, in their reporting, to step back and analyze the institutions they are writing about and the media itself in order to understand how societies and their institutions function and the validity of theories that explain these processes. Also explores how journalistic writing is leveraged on various publishing platforms and by different types of media organizations.

Corequisites (same term)

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 20232333692%1.5
Spring 20246727497%0.3
Fall 20242293097%0.5
Spring 20256657290%1.2
Fall 202523030100%0.0
Spring 20264425281%2.5

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 24% · T 54% · W 20% · Th 34% · F 53%

Common patterns: TF (43% of sections), MWR (16% of sections), F (10% of sections), MR (8% of sections), TR (6% of sections), T (5% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

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Fall

Spring

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

JRNL 2201, JRNL 4370

Courses that list JRNL 1101 in their prerequisites.

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