Reporting the Nation: In Multimedia

Curriculum

Reporting the Nation: In Multimedia students are required to complete 37 credits, over three semesters, including a one-credit, for-credit internship. All students are also required to take three interdisciplinary courses. These may be Institute sponsored courses taught by economists, sociologists or political scientists, or existing courses offered elsewhere in the university. (see below)

Typical full-time course of study

Semester 1 (Fall)

• Writing, Research and Reporting I – The National Beat: Covering national issues in New York. Students travel to West Point to participate in embedded journalism exercises with cadets, cover local and national stories in NYC and learn the fundamentals of multi-platform reporting.
• Law or Ethics or a combination of the two
• Interdisciplinary course: American Capitalism (American Studies) or another course on the U.S. economy

Semester 2 (Spring)

• Writing, Research and Reporting II – Beat Reporting.  Students will pick one serious national problem and report, write and produce multimedia during the course of the semester.
• Interdisciplinary course (students choose from departmental interdisciplinary courses or the list below)
• Choose from a list of several journalism elective courses offered in the Institute.

Semester 3 (Fall)

• Investigative Reporting: This is an investigative reporting course in which students would learn in-depth reporting skills and apply them to investigative journalism on stories involving New York concerns. In addition to skills and strategies, it will also require substantial reading and discussion of great investigative stories of the past.
• Choose from a list of several courses that could include broadcast courses, The Local East Village Newsroom, entrepreneurial journalism, writing about culture and entertainment, magazine writing, radio/podcasting etc.
• Interdisciplinary course (students choose from departmental interdisciplinary courses or the list below)

Interdisciplinary Courses

The following list is representative of the interdisciplinary courses for students in Reporting the Nation. Actual choices will vary semester by semester, depending on availability:

• Reporting the Middle East
• Photojournalism
• Photography I
• International Human Rights
• Human Rights in Latin America
• Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in American Cities
• Documenting Reality
• Public Policy and Planning
• Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
• Transforming the Urban Economy
• Abnormal Psychology
• Urban Poverty
• The City and Gender Politics
• The Poetics of Witnessing
• Sustainable Cities
• Urban Economic Development: Theory and Practice
• American Capitalism
• Modern City Culture
• Race and Place: Local, Regional, National, and Transnational Explorations
• American Social History Since 1870
• Urban Blacks in 20th Century America
• Local Government Law