JRNL 533 Media Ethics and Leadership
This course is designed to help students think more broadly about journalism and who they are as journalists.
JRNL 503B Newsroom Practices and Standards
This course is designed to help students think more broadly about journalism and who they are as journalists.
WRDS 499 Directed Studies in Writing Studies
Individual project on a topic of interest in Writing Studies, completed under the guidance and supervision of a UBC faculty member with relevant expertise.
WRDS 498 Special Topics in Writing Studies
In-depth study of selected topics in Writing Studies. Topics vary year-by-year. Restricted to students with third year standing or higher.
JRNL 425 Journalism and Social Change Movements
Critique the role journalism and news coverage have played in major social movements in Canada and internationally. Learn how journalism has catalyzed, promoted, misrepresented, or undermined social change through news reporting.
JRNL 420 Decoding Social Media
Identify and understand impacts and implications of social media on journalism and society. Apply social media tools and practices in storytelling and engagement with users.
JRNL 325 Fundamentals of Community Reporting
Situates journalism practice in the context of social change and explores the unfair power dynamics inherent in deep reporting and storytelling.
JRNL 320 Multimedia Journalism
Principles of multimedia storytelling with hands-on journalistic methods in information gathering, fact-checking, and ethical decision making.
JRNL 201 Introduction to News Audiences
Introduction to the evolution of news audiences and their relationships with journalists. Examines different approaches to audience engagement and various forms of such engagement.
WRDS 450
Writing Practices for Publics & Publications
Writing processes and strategies conducive to developing larger, long-term research projects into genres of writing intended to publicly engage with scholars, activists, and intellectuals.