STS 3020

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STS 3020
Science Writing for the Media

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

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.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: sophomores or higher.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: college-level writing course.

Distribution Category (SSC-AS)

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.

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Syllabi:

  •   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