Writing about Science Ii: Feature Writing Journalism
3.0
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This course is designed to teach students the skills of long-form narrative journalism, with a focus on covering science news. Skills taught will include how to compose scenes, create three-dimensional characters, create narrative tension, and conduct on-site reporting. Class speakers will include award-winning science journalists from New York to DC, who will share the secrets of their craft. The primary writing assignment will be a 3,000-word feature piece that is pitched, reported, and workshopped throughout the course of the class. "Writing About Science I" is recommended as a prerequisite for this course. If you have not taken this, please contact instructor (dgrimm5@jhu.edu) to enroll.
Spring 2015
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The best aspects of this course were the class dynamic, fun readings, and freedom to choose assignments. This course helped students to develop strong and diverse characters. Some students felt that having class twice a week and receiving more feedback on assignments would have been beneficial. This course could be improved by providing students with more workshop time. Prospective students should know that this class had a manageable reading load and was discussion, not workshop based.