ENGL 2027 - Magazine Publishing Practicum

Credits: 1-3
Hours/Week: Lecture 0 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This practicum class intended for all students focuses on the practices and procedures necessary to produce a campus magazine. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding and implementing the publication process - including solicitation, review, curation, editing, design, writing, and production - and showcasing the journalistic and creative works of students. Students can choose to take the course for one, two or three credits. Required coursework will be assigned accordingly.

This course may be repeated for up to 6 credits.
MnTC Goals
Goal 1

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None.

Major Content
Topics depend in part on One, Two, or Three Credit option 

1. Editorial criteria and skills necessary to uphold journalistic ethics and publishing best practices, including solicitation, review, and critique. 

2. Standards and procedures necessary to collectively manage the editorial process through the invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing and presentation of a campus magazine, including writing, editing, layout, staff management, recruitment, promotion 

3. Critical listening, reading, and thinking skills, especially as applied to the journalistic and creative work of peers with the goal of curating a diverse selection of student work for publication.

4. Critical listening, reading, and thinking skills, especially as applied to model journalistic and literary publications to inform a personal and collaborative aesthetic for the production and design of an issue of the campus magazine.  

1. collectively produce and curate a diverse selection of journalistic and literary works for publication.

2. communicate in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding related to journalistic and literary arts publishing.

3. demonstrate the editorial criteria and skills necessary to uphold journalistic ethics and publishing best practices.

4. collectively manage the editorial process through the invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing and presentation of a campus magazine that includes both journalistic and artistic content.

5. respond critically to journalistic and literary publications to inform a personal and collaborative aesthetic for the production and design of an issue of the campus magazine.

 
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Goal 1
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
01.01. understand/demonstrate the writing and speaking processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing, and presentation. 

01.02. participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding. 

01.04. select appropriate communication choices for specific audiences.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None

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