WFU VIRTUAL STUDY ABROAD FAIR
JOU 288: Travel Journalism
Students take JOU 288 Travel Journalism (3 hrs). Preference will be given to students who enroll in both courses, as they will be taught in conjunction over the duration of the program. The interdisciplinary design of this program gives students a unique opportunity to experience one of the wildest places on Earth and consider its natural and cultural significance through intensive, field based research, on-site interviews and experience.
Course work will consist of daily lectures, readings, hands-on field research, a full range of journalistic interviewing, reporting and writing skills and techniques, and a final project. At all the sites they visit, students will be collecting, analyzing, and identifying a wide variety of plant species, and evaluating the possible stories and blog posts that emerge from interviews and observations. Journalistic reporting is the critical means by which decision makers and the public get information about environmental issues. The communication can be as important as the science itself, but it is rarely explored in tandem.
Students take JOU 288 Travel Journalism (3 hrs). Preference will be given to students who enroll in both courses, as they will be taught in conjunction over the duration of the program. The interdisciplinary design of this program gives students a unique opportunity to experience one of the wildest places on Earth and consider its natural and cultural significance through intensive, field based research, on-site interviews and experience.
Course work will consist of daily lectures, readings, hands-on field research, a full range of journalistic interviewing, reporting and writing skills and techniques, and a final project. At all the sites they visit, students will be collecting, analyzing, and identifying a wide variety of plant species, and evaluating the possible stories and blog posts that emerge from interviews and observations. Journalistic reporting is the critical means by which decision makers and the public get information about environmental issues. The communication can be as important as the science itself, but it is rarely explored in tandem.