COM 410 - Sports Journalism

3 Credits

This course provides students with the creative and technical skills to write and report sports stories across a wide range of print, digital, and social media platforms. Students will utilize fundamental journalism skills of information gathering, interviewing, reporting, and writing, to produce a variety of sports stories, including, athlete or team profiles, game reports, pre and post season wrap-ups, features, and columns. Emphasis will be placed on best journalistic practices and techniques as they relate to the Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics.