Course Description: Introduction to Sports Writing and Reporting offers voice, interviewing, and storytelling skills, all grounded in real-world experience. We’ll be viewing our a semester-long course focusing on craft, practice, 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.

Student Description: In this course we read a book on how to properly write stories covering sports games as a sports journalist. Throughout the course we practiced these learned skills by developing stories on games. There was a class-led discussion held every class, bouncing back and forth off of ideas and going into depth of we’ve learned.