JRNL Courses

JRNL 520D Reporting in Indigenous Communities

JRNL 520D Reporting in Indigenous Communities

Study and practice reporting in Indigenous communities in the Lower Mainland.

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JRNL 520A Decoding Social Media

Learn what journalists and other users do on social media and gain practice with social media storytelling.

JRNL 520G Representations of Blackness in Media and Popular Culture

JRNL 520G Representations of Blackness in Media and Popular Culture

Explores the manufacturing of and reaction to Blackness within public discourses.

JRNL 527 Internship

JRNL 527 Internship

Students must complete a 12-week professional internship before graduating.

JRNL 534 Media Law

JRNL 534 Media Law

Offers an understanding of the Canadian legal system and the workings of legal proceedings, aimed at journalists reporting on the Courts.

JRNL 533 Media Ethics and Leadership

JRNL 533 Media Ethics and Leadership

This course is designed to help students think more broadly about journalism and who they are as journalists.

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JRNL 503B Newsroom Practices and Standards

This course is designed to help students think more broadly about journalism and who they are as journalists.

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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.

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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.

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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.