JOURNALISM - PHOTOJOURNALISM ( Official )

JOURNALISM - PHOTOJOURNALISM ( Official )

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Program Type: Certificate of Achievement

Division: Visual Arts and Media Studies

Program Description:
The curriculum prepares students for employment in newspapers, magazines or public relations firms as still photographers. Emphasis is on hands-on applications of journalistic style photography, including film and digital photography , computerized photo manipulation, basic writing and layout.

Effective academic year: 2004-2005

Required Units in the Major: 32

Required Courses

		Semester I (9 units) JOURN 2 - BEGINNING JOURNALISM (3.0 units)
		JOURN 21 - BEGINNING PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY (3.0 units)
	OR
		PHOTO 21 - ELEMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY (3.0 units)
&
		JOURN 199 - INTRODUCTION TO DESKTOP PUBLISHING (3.0 units)
&
		Semester II (10 units) JOURN 4A - REPORTING AND NEWSWRITING (3.0 units)
		JOURN 7A - NEWSWRITING AND MAKE-UP (4.0 units)
		JOURN 22 - ADVANCED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY (3.0 units)
&
		Semester III (7 units) JOURN 7A - NEWSWRITING AND MAKE-UP (4.0 units)
		JOURN 23 - PHOTOJOURNALISM (3.0 units)
&
		Semester IV (6 units) JOURN 22 - ADVANCED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY (3.0 units)
	OR
		JOURN 23 - PHOTOJOURNALISM (3.0 units)
&
		JOURN 110 - JOURNALISM FIELD PRACTICE (3.0 units)

Required Electives (0 Units)

None

Recommended Electives

ART 31A - COLOR AND COMPOSITION--TWO DIMENSIONAL DESIGN (3.0 units)

&
ART 32A - DESIGN-THREE DIMENSIONAL (3.0 units)

&
ART 32B - METAL FABRICATION DESIGN (3.0 units)

&
COMM 1 - SURVEY OF MASS COMMUNICATION (3.0 units)

&
JOURN 5 - MAGAZINE AND SMALL PUBLICATIONS (3.0 units)

&
JOURN 9 - PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION (3.0 units)

&
PHOTO 30 - INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC DARKROOM IMAGING (3.0 units)