Katherine Borgerding-JMC Overview

JMC 2033: Writing for Mass Media is the next level course taken after JMC 1013: Intro to Mass Communication. This class is for all majors within the Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma and primarily teaches students to write for all media professions.
This course will also teach students professional values and skills as well as enhance media literacy and hone student's interests and strengths within mass media. The course will also prepare students to be multi talented media professionals, who are well prepared for jobs that demand multimedia skills. Most of all, this class will teach students to inform, persuade and entertain readers and listeners through multimedia writing skills.
The class combines lecture time with lab instruction to give students practice and application of various writing skills and information gathering. The lab instructor will act as a writing coach and will assist in student's learning of media writing. Lecture time will be comprised of teaching students the concepts of media writing and testing student's knowledge of language and current news. Attendance and participation are essential to successful learning in this course. The grade in this course is divided up between tests and quizzes in lecture and work done in lab.
This is a demanding but rewarding course that will push students to be better media professionals. Students should expect to be held to high standards and to show effort in learning and practicing writing for mass media.