COMM 3020

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COMM 3020
Science Writing for the Media

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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 completion at least one college-level writing course.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: sophomores or higher.

Distribution Requirements (WRT-AG), (SSC-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning 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: none

  •   Three Week - Three.  Combined with: STS 3020

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1456 COMM 3020   LEC 001

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    • MTWRF
    • Jul 13 - Jul 31, 2026

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/.