2026 - Summer

Through the Lens of Food: Social Media Reporting (Session 1) (2 credit)

Course Number: SS1: JOUR-UA 25

Day & Time: Tue/Thurs 5:30-7:30pm

Location: 20 Cooper Sq.

Reported stories about food, both restaurant dining and home cooking, are often best told in formats beyond the written word. Social media platforms like Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok present opportunities to present journalism in highly visual, extremely dynamic formats. In this course, you’ll hone the skill set of combining writing, video and photos to create original reporting about trends, recipes, history and politics, all through the lens of food.

Over the course of six weeks, you’ll work towards building an account on the platform of your choice that has a strong, consistent point of view on food, and every week you’ll develop new pieces of content to populate your channel. At the end of the course, you’ll have a final portfolio social media account that showcases your reporting through different pieces of content that engage, and quickly reach, the desired audience for your journalism.

Notes: Counts as an elective for the journalism major and both journalism minors.