University of Virginia record :: February 1, 1916 :: University of Virginia Library

Students are advised not to elect these courses before their second year
in college and not to register for both courses in one year. Practical work
will be required in both courses, and will take the form of writing for the
university publications and for the daily newspaper in Charlottesville. The
professor in charge is ready to help students outline courses of study in
preparation for the profession of journalism.

For Undergraduates.

Journalism B1: Newspaper Writing.—Technical training in writing
and editing news. Instruction by lectures, texts, reference reading, study
of newspapers, and constant practical work. Laboratory fee: $2 a term.

First Term: Newspaper organization; definition of news; the news
story; reporting; correspondence; newspaper rhetoric.

150

Second Term: Copy-reading and desk work; headlines; make-up; type
and printing; proof-reading; exchanges.

Third Term: Human interest stories; features and special stories; department
editors; syndicate matter; country journalism.

(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 3-4, or 8-9. Rotunda, S. E. Adjunct Professor
Whipple.

Journalism B2: Principles of Journalism.—Combined technical and
cultural instruction for students who expect to enter journalism, or who
need to understand and interpret democratic public opinion. Instruction
as in Journalism B1, with research and formal writing as well as practice in
the forms studied.

First Term: Principles of publicity and editorial management; psychology
of public opinion; advertising; circulation; mediums.

Second Term: The editorial page; editorial writing; paragraph and
columns; newspaper policies; newspaper jurisprudence; southern problems.

Third Term: History of journalism; American papers and editors;
comparative journalism; functions and ethics of the press; the modern paper;
profession of journalism.

(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
9-10. Rotunda, S. E. Adjunct Professor Whipple.