Jl MC 201: Introduction to Reporting and Writing for the Mass Media. This course is designed to help you develop professional reporting and writing skills and practice writing publishable assignments on deadline. It will provide instruction of media writing as a basis for upper-level courses in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. This includes the development of fundamental reporting skills. JLMC 201 also will offer a broad overview of media-writing careers and will help you develop an approach to starting your professional life. If you are a major in this school, you must earn no lower than a “C+” in the course – or a 76.5. A grade lower than this will require you to re-take the course in the future. You must have completed ENGL 105 before taking this class and scored 26 or higher on the ACT English Exam, 590 of higher on the SAT Verbal or a passing score on the Greenlee School's English Usage Test.

Jl MC 202: Intermediate Reporting. This class is designed to teach you the primary skills that reporters use on the job. By the end of the semester, your skills should be sufficiently developed for you to work as a general reporter for a newspaper. Your previous classes in journalism and English taught you something about writing, including the basics of grammar and style. You learned to write basic news stories. You got your feet wet as a writer. The objective in this class is to polish your writing skills. We will do this by doing plenty of writing. The industry’s emphasis on style, grammar and story structure is a major part of journalistic writing, but there’s more. You will have the opportunity to expand your horizons as a writer, to write more stories, longer stories, more sophisticated stories.