JRNL 1150 — Understanding Today’s News

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath SIusually offered: fall, springBostonOakland, CAOnlineOnlineTraditional

Examines the media institutions that shape the news and how the challenges of economics, politics, diversity, and globalization change the function of the website, newspaper, news magazine, and news broadcasts. Examines stories and news decisions from different perspectives to evaluate national, political, local, foreign, sports, and science news in the U.S. media. Topics include responsibilities of the press and the changing ways news is gathered, processed, and disseminated. Explores how other societies in different parts of the world view the news; freedom of the press; and the role of reporters, producers, and editors.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 202339111778%8.7
Spring 20242526087%4.0
Summer A 20242465092%2.0
Fall 202439411880%8.0
Spring 20252426070%9.0
Summer A 20251394587%6.0
Fall 20252569062%17.0
Spring 20263577774%6.7

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 49% · T 29% · W 48% · Th 22% · F 27%

Common patterns: MW (29% of sections), TF (27% of sections), async (18% of sections), MWR (14% of sections), MR (6% of sections), W (4% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Summer A

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

Links

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