2025 - Spring

Feature Writing

Course Number: JOUR-GA 1230.002

Day & Time: Mon | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Location: Online

Instructor: Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Prerequisite Required: Reporting the News

4 Credits.

Use your words: learn to captivate and enthrall readers.

Person writing at a desk on a laptop

Dissect great works of journalism for story, character, dialogue, scenes, structure, transitions, verb tense, point of view, style and impact. The goal is to create memorable narrative non-fiction stories that hold a reader’s attention to the last word. We’ll operate like a newsroom to maintain a class online publication with students working to write, edit and publish stories, blog on a topic, find and post art and photos, track traffic and analytics, and market the site by engaging in social media.