gender portrayal in sports journalism, Olympics in East Asia
Teaching
courses taught
APRD 3103 - Strategic Writing for Public Relations
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Summer 2022
Emphasizes communication tactics: How to plan, write, and produce public relations tools; select audience and media; utilize print and electronic media. Focuses on Associated Press style and advanced writing techniques.
JRNL 3402 - Social Media Storytelling
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
Investigates the theory, ethics and best practices in storytelling across a variety of social media platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Medium and YouTube. Examines best practices for social media engagement. Students develop a story for multiple platforms and analyze the story performance n the sites and make recommendations for best practices.
JRNL 3704 - Sports Writing
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Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Prepares students for the world of sport journalism. Combines the skills of a hard news reporter, the perspective of an entertainment reporter and the persuasive abilities of an editorial writer.
JRNL 3804 - Sports, Media and Society
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Summer 2021
Examines how sports, culture and especially the media, with a specific focus on journalism, all come together to influence society. Explores how sports communication affects, and is affected by, the issues and tension that touch society at large, such as law and politics, race, gender, sexuality and disability. Same as MDST 3331.
JRNL 3904 - Sports Journalism and Gender
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Spring 2022
Analyzes the role gender has played in providing opportunities for women to compete in athletics and journalistic coverage of those athletes and the sporting events in which they participate. It will also examine how gender has influenced opportunities for sports journalists in the past and in the contemporary sports media industry.
JRNL 4011 - Principles of Media Relations
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Provides students with information about the ethics, history and practice of media relations (community affairs, community relations, customer relations, government relations, industry relations, internal communications, public relations, press agentry, public affairs, publicity, etc.). Introduces students from multiple academic disciplines to the genres of writing required for a media relations career.
JRNL 4931 - Internship
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Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022
Internship
JRNL 5804 - Sports, Media and Society
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Summer 2021
Examines how sports and journalism intersect and impact society. Class focuses on how sports, specifically areas of sports such as law and politics, race, gender, sexuality and disability, impact culture and society as a whole.
