Course Description:

Introduction to Sports Writing and Reporting offers a semester-long course focusing on craft, practice,
voice, interviewing, and storytelling skills, all grounded in real-world experience. We’ll be viewing our
subject matter as a laboratory and lens through which to focus on the human experience. The course will
include: Reading and discussion, on-the-ground reporting at local events, drawing out reticent interview
subjects, narrative strategies, and drafting and revision as the foundation for serious sports writing and
reporting. Students will complete a series of smaller assignments – a reported column analysis project and a personal essay among them – and produce one meaty feature that is developed over the course of the semester and is suitable for publication. The course will conclude with a group video broadcast project or podcast— essentially a “Semester (or Season)-in-Review” focusing on local/UNE sports.

My Course Description:

Students will be put into the role of a real life sports journalist through creating articles using real sources around campus. Students will need to choose sports teams and create a narrative surrounding the team or a specific game, then back up that narrative with quotes from real players and coaches. Class time will be used to reflect as a class on skills learned from readings or real life experience, as well as workshop students work to give and receive thoughtful feedback. Skills aimed for students to gain from this course are communication skills, and story telling skills.