Research Methods

1.5 credits · Graduate

This is a course for first-year students that will cover research techniques that can be applied in your JOURN 200 Intro to Reporting class. Topics we will cover include how work with data in the context of journalism; using spreadsheets to sort, clean, interrogate and summarize data; how to request documents from local, state and federal government agencies; understand the respective laws that govern such public records requests; how to use third-party informational services like LexisNexus to find people, information about companies, or perform clips searches on topics related to your story.