CO 3120 - Journalism: Feature Writing Workshop

Feature articles are longer pieces that integrate research and reporting with stylistic techniques learned from great fiction. The course begins with a month of readings exploring different genres (travel, sports, music, politics, etc.), styles (profile, personal narrative, etc.), history (new journalists of the 60s and 70s like Thomas Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson), and craft (feature leads, editing, organization, etc.). Informed and inspired, students then workshop their own articles, receiving constructive criticism from classmates. In person courses generate dynamic features for the college newspaper, The New Englander. Offered every other spring. Credits: 4