Welcome

Welcome to my online journal for the course JRL300z, Introduction to Journalism for Non-Majors. I'll be using this blog to keep students up to date on assigned readings and projects. I will post material (e.g., links to certain readings) here as the course goes on.

The first assigned reading for the course is Paul McLeary's profile of obituary guru Steve Miller, "Dead On," which appeared in a recent issue of Columbia Journalism Review. Here is the link: Dead On

Here is a link to an upcoming assigned reading for the course, George Orwell's famous 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language." A hard copy from another source (The Seagull Reader, Norton, 2002) will be provided in class Thursday, June 29, so you can take it to the beach and not have to worry about getting sand in your laptop. This essay will be discussed in class on Thursday, July 6.

Hard copies of the following important documents will also be provided at the first meeting of the course, but I'm posting them here for your convenience:

Course syllabus

Course calendar

Introductory Assignment: Your Blog

Assignment 1: Classmate Interview

(Thanks to Bryan Hart for correcting my mistaken dates on the assignment hand-outs. I was thinking "June" when I typed "July" ... The dates have been corrected in the above-linked versions of the documents. These two quick assignments are indeed both due Thursday, June 29.)