JOUR 4810 - News or Sports Practicum

1–3 hours

Supervised, intensive practical experience for journalism students to cover news or sports events on a daily basis. Includes interviewing, writing, reporting, shooting, editing reports for the North Texas Daily, NTDaily.com, NTDaily TV, or other appropriate web, broadcast or print venue approved by supervising journalism faculty. Requires a minimum of 100 hours of work for each hour of credit.

Prerequisite(s): Journalism major status: Passing score on GSP (grammar, spelling & punctuation) exam and successfully completed JOUR 1210, JOUR 2310, JOUR 3300, JOUR 3322 and either JOUR 3321 or JOUR 3323. Consent of school.

May be repeated for credit; however, no more than 3 hours total credit for JOUR 4800 or JOUR 4810 may be applied to the journalism degree requirements.

Course specific fees (in addition to tuition and mandatory):
Academic (AF) per hour: $20