Santa Clara University Digital Course Pack: Comm 40 Intro to Journalism (Fall 2018)

Course Pack Overview

Title:
Santa Clara University Digital Course Pack: Comm 40 Intro to Journalism (Fall 2018)
Type:
Digital Course Pack
Cost:
$14.95

This Digital Course Pack is for students enrolled in Comm 40 Intro to Journalism at Santa Clara University.

About Digital Course Packs

A digital course pack gathers self-directed training and assessments in a convenient package.

This is a series of self-directed courses produced by Poynter's News University covering key aspects of the news-writing process. This online supplement to in-class meetings and traditional texts is crucial for understanding of news, editing and writing. Each of these digital courses has an assessment of your understanding of the information presented, which is part of your final grade in the course.

The courses in this pack are:

  • News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
  • The Interview
  • Understanding News: Processes and Principles

This Digital Course Pack is for students enrolled in Comm 40 Intro to Journalism at Santa Clara University. If you are interested in a course pack for your school, please contact us at info@newsu.org.

Training Partner:

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,000 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's, Ph.D., and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the fourth-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice.

Instructor: 

Lisa Davis

Lisa Davis began teaching at SCU in 2010. She has held staff positions at Village Voice Media publications in Phoenix (New Times) and San Francisco (SF Weekly), and at The Arizona Republic and San Francisco Business Times. Her work also has appeared in Slate online magazine, California Lawyer and various other publications. Davis is the author of The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, Conviction and the Mormon Church.She is a recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, and winner of more than 30 national and local honors, including the George S. Polk Award and Northwestern University’s John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Service Journalism. She also has taught at University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.