Required courses for the concentration:

• G54.1021.xx Writing, Research and Reporting I (incorporating Journalism Ethics/Law)
• G54.1022.xx Writing Research and Reporting II
• G54.1182.xx Two Specialized Reporting Workshops: specified as the Portfolio Workshop I and II, which includes The Master Class
• G54.1050.xx and/or G54.1023.xx Non-Fiction Narrative I and/or II (with the second substituting for the Reading/Writing seminar above)
• G54.1290.xx One-credit Apprenticeship
• G54.1299.xx One-credit Masters' Project

Elective courses:

• One Specialized Reporting Workshop taken electively from the Writing Literary Reportage group of Journalism Specialized Reporting electives open to other students
• One Reading/Writing Seminar taken electively from the Reading Literary Reportage group of Journalism seminars open to other students
• One open elective
• One Interdisciplinary course, referred to as a relevant non-Journalism elective related to the student's project

Literary Reportage Courses

Required Courses

• G54.1021 and G54.1022 Writing, Research and Reporting I and II (4 credits each)
  Workshop I is taken the first semester; Workshop II, the second semester. These courses provide a foundation in the principles and practices of basic news reporting. Includes lectures on reporting principles and techniques, study of specialized areas of reporting, and completion of increasingly challenging in-class assignments. Students use New York City as a laboratory to gather and report actual news events outside the classroom. Journalism Ethics/Law will be incorporated into WRRI.
• G54.1182.xx Portfolio Workshop I and II (4 credits each)
  A two semester, structured workshop during which Literary Reportage students will build a body of work. Additionally, every semester an expert in some facet of literary reportage will conduct a two session Master Class that focuses on a particular skill.
• G54.1050.xx OR G54.1023.xx Non-Fiction Narrative I OR II (4 credits)
  Non-Fiction Narrative, Part I: The course focuses on "the language of narrative," those compelling and interesting sentences that drive narrative discourse, and how to create them. We do this through close reading of literary non-fiction and through regular workshop writing exercises. We will read a survey of non-fiction literature in English from John Milton to John McPhee... and beyond.
  Non-Fiction Narrative, Part II: Through careful reading, analysis of structure, a survey of critical literature and a look at books about books (Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction, for example) we will attempt to discover how fine non-fiction books are made. We will read at least five book-length narratives (among them, Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean, Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Faye Greene, The Duke of Deception by Geoff Wolf) in an advanced graduate seminar in which the seminar members "present" the books for analysis and discussion. The final paper can take several forms: either a chapter from a work in progress (yours), a monograph that might appear in the middle of a book you are considering writing, a detailed outline for a book you want to write or a formal academic paper.
• G54.1299.xx Master's Thesis (1 credit)
  The degree will conclude with a substantial piece of literary reportage (6,000 to 10,000 words). The Project will be evaluated by the faculty member designated as the project's adviser, reported during the second and third semesters, and written and completed during the student's fourth semester.
• G54.1290.xx Apprenticeship (1 credit)
  All students will be paired with a working writer, whom they shall assist with research and reporting. In exchange, the writer will meet with the student for a weekly critique of his or her work.

Elective Courses

Writing Literary Reportage (Students must take one of these Specialized Reporting Workshops) (4 credits) They will be offered in informal rotation, depending on professor availability. Other options may be added as the concentration evolves.

• G54.1182.xx SPECIALIZED REPORTING The First Person
• G54.1182.xx SPECIALIZED REPORTING: Reporting as Participant-Observer
• G54.1182.xx SPECIALIZED REPORTING: Point of View
• G54.1182.xx SPECIALIZED REPORTING: Writing Lives: From Profile to Biography
• G54.1231.xx The Storytellers

Readings in Literary Reportage (Students must take one of these Reading/Writing Seminars) (4 credits). Other options may be added as the concentration evolves.

• G54.1023.xx Great City Books
• G54.1023.xx Storied New York
• G54.1023.xx Magazines of the 20th Century
• G54.1023.xx Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception

Other Shared Existing Department Electives of Particular Interest to this group (Students may take one of these electives) (4 credits)

• G54.1050.xx The Fiction of Nonfiction
• G54.1182.xx The Newest New Yorkers
• G54.1019.xx The "R" Word
• G54.1182.xx The Medium Formerly Known as Radio
• G54.1182.xx The Journalism of Empathy
• G54.1182.xx Plagues and Panic: The World is a Dangerous Place
• G54.1182.xx Journalism of Ideas

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