JOUR 4100:Data Journalism

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: JOUR 3330 and must be a declared major in the School of Communication & Media. Non-majors: permission of the School required.
This course offers theoretical and applied approaches to data journalism, including citizen media strategies and tactics needed for the profession. This course focuses on developing the skills and understanding needed to analyze and understand data and then use that data to tell engaging journalistic stories including data scraping and data visualization. Students develop an understanding of many of the methods used to collect data in journalism such as surveys and content analysis.