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  "college": "butte-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "JOUR",
  "name": "Journalism",
  "sourceUrl": "https://butte.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/25393/28400/28014",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "JOUR 2",
      "subject": "JOUR",
      "number": "2",
      "title": "Introduction to Reporting and Newswriting",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [
        "JOUR 110"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "An introduction to gathering, synthesizing/organizing and writing news in journalistic style across multiple platforms. Includes role of the journalist, exploration of career options, identification of areas of interest and overview of related legal and ethical issues. Students will report and write based on their original interviews and research to produce news content. Experiences may include covering speeches, meetings and other events, writing under deadline and use of AP Style. (C-ID JOUR 110).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/jour/#jour-2",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/jour/#jour-2",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "JOUR 10",
      "subject": "JOUR",
      "number": "10",
      "title": "Beginning Newspaper Production",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "34 hours lecture, 51 hours lab",
      "cid": [
        "JOUR 130"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "Student media practicum that includes a lab that regularly produces a news or feature non-fiction product with a journalism emphasis by and for students and distributed to a campus or community audience. Must include weekly news assignments. May include a variety of student media across multiple platforms, including print, broadcast, and online. Includes practical experience in design/layout, visual, online, multimedia journalism and emerging technologies. Must be student produced with student leadership. (C-ID JOUR 130).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/jour/#jour-10",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/jour/#jour-10",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "JOUR 12",
      "subject": "JOUR",
      "number": "12",
      "title": "Intermediate Newspaper Production",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "34 hours lecture, 51 hours lab",
      "prerequisite": "JOUR 10",
      "cid": [
        "JOUR 131"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "This course requires higher skill level and/or leadership/management involvement than JOUR 10. Intermediate student media practicum that includes a lab that regularly produces a news or feature non-fiction product with a journalism emphasis by and for students and distributed to a campus or community audience. Must include weekly news assignments. May include a variety of student media across multiple platforms, including print, broadcast, and online. Includes practical experience in design/layout, visual, online, multimedia journalism, emerging technologies and leadership/management. Must be student produced with student leadership. (C-ID JOUR 131).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/jour/#jour-12",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/jour/#jour-12",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "JOUR 97",
      "subject": "JOUR",
      "number": "97",
      "title": "Special Problems-JOUR",
      "units": "1-3",
      "hours": "51-153 hours independent study",
      "prerequisite": "Permission of instructor",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "Supervised study and practice in solving special problems in the student's career major. Any student interested in registering for a Special Problems course should contact a full-time instructor or chair/coordinator in the appropriate area no later than the last day of the tenth week of instruction. Students may not petition for a Special Problems course until they have completed satisfactorily 12 units of study at Butte College. 51-153 hours Independent Study. This course may be repeated to a maximum of 3.00 units.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "JOUR 99",
      "subject": "JOUR",
      "number": "99",
      "title": "Work Experience-JOUR",
      "units": "0.5-8",
      "hours": "25.5-408 hours independent study",
      "prerequisite": "Permission of Work Experience Education instructor and employment supervisor",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "Work experience is an experiential course where students apply what they have learned in the classroom to a work environment. The course offers students the opportunity to develop technical skills, explore possible career choices, build confidence, network with people in the field, and transition into the world of work. Work experience may include paid or unpaid employment. Students may earn one semester unit of college credit in this course for every fifty-one hours of work experience. Students may enroll in this course up to 8 unit(s) to complete the entire curriculum of the course. A maximum of sixteen units can be earned in work experience courses during a student’s enrollment with Butte College.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/jour/#jour-99",
          "subject": "JOUR"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}