STS 3020

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STS 3020
Science Writing for the Media

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

How to write about science, technology, and medicine for the media. Writing assignments focus on writing news for web sites, blogs, magazines, and other media.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: college-level writing course.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: sophomores or higher.

Outcomes

  • Students will be able to define science news.
  • Students will be able to identify audiences for science news and target your writing to them.
  • Students will be able to write basic science news stories.
  • Students will be able to report and write science feature stories.
  • Students will be able to explain key constraints on and opportunities for science journalism, including changes in science journalism as it adapts to a new media world.
  • Students will be able to investigate current topics of concern to the science journalism community.
  • Students will be able to discuss the social context in which science journalism operates.

Distribution Category (SSC-AS)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: COMM 3020

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5852 STS 3020   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    One college-level writing course. No first-year students.

  •  5853 STS 3020   LAB 401

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person