USC Annenberg offers new fall 2014 journalism courses

With a new building, new Master's degree program, and new classes, the USC Annenberg School of Journalism will see some exciting changes this fall. The majority of the new journalism classes being offered are directed toward students in the new nine month journalism Master’s degree program, and undergraduate students who will be taking upper-division, special topics courses. USC Annenberg’s JOUR 499: Glass Journalism course is among the most buzzed about and highly anticipated of the new journalism courses being offered this fall, having received national attention after Mashable’s coverage of the course offering in March. The class, which will be taught once weekly by Professor Robert Hernandez, is the first of its kind and was capped at just 12 students. Other new special topics classes being offered include JOUR 499: Real Time Social Media Monitoring and Analysis for Converged Communication, taught by Professor Matthew LeVeque, and JOUR 499: Sports and Media Technology, which will be taught by Professor Jeffrey Fellenzer and still has a few open spots for students. The first class of the new nine month journalism Master's degree program, JOUR 528: Summer Digital News Immersion, will begin in August, and will be taught jointly by Professors Laura Castaneda, Vince Gonzales, Robert Hernandez, and Larry Pryor. Following this, students will take JOUR 531: Fall Digital News Immersion, a team-led eight unit course which will entail Master's program students spending eight hour shifts working in the new USC Annenberg media lab each week. Other classes which will make up the new journalism Master's program curriculum have been condensed from the previous fifteen week long courses to just seven weeks in order to accommodate the nine month program. These include JOUR 523: Public Radio Reporting, JOUR 539: Introduction to Investigative Reporting, and JOUR 553: Coding and Programming for Storytelling.