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November 25, 2008

MEMO: M.S. Electives, MA/KB elective & Skills for M.A. Students

Dear M.A. Students,

As you know, you have the option to attempt to take one of your two spring electives at the Journalism School (list below; see full course descriptions

To attempt to register for these classes, you must complete an Add/Drop form beginning on January 9, at 7 am. Admission to these classes is based soley on space availability and is handled on a first come, first served basis.

You are also eligible for the MA/Knight Knight Bagehot new media elective and spring skills courses. For the skills courses, you must complete the spring course ballot that goes live tomorrow at 7 am. Link en route.

Spring Electives open to MA students via Add/Drop

Advanced Photojournalism – Sara Barrett
Business and Economics Reporting - Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
Covering Conflict – Judith Matloff
Covering Race & Ethnicity – Arlene Morgan
Decision Making in the Newsroom – Michael Shapiro, Bill Grueskin & Peter Kann
Feature Writing A – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Feature Writing B – Paula Span
Foreign Reporting – Kati Marton
Graphics in the Newsroom – Hannah Fairfield Wallander
History of Journalism – Andie Tucher
Journalism of Ideas – Alissa Quart
Managing Broadcast Newsrooms in the Digital Age - David McCormick and
Lloyd Siegel
Narrative Writing – Kevin Coyne
News Editing – Nancy Sharkey
Opinion Writing – Seth Lipsky
Politics & the Press in America – Evan Cornog
Radio Documentary – Alex Blumberg
Reporting Advances of the Modern Newsroom – Tom Torok
Sports Journalism – Sandy Padwe

For spring skills courses open to MA students via the spring ballot, please see http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/students/Skills_SP09.html

Spring 2009 Course Ballot

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