Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

DINS-0010

Organization's ID:

DINFOS-IPC

Organization:

Defense Information School

Location:

Classroom-based

Length:

8 weeks (320 hours)

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	introduction to photojournalism
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	writing for mass communications
Upper-Division Baccalaureate	3	visual storytelling
Upper-Division Baccalaureate	3	photojournalism managing and editing

This course is recommended for a total of 6 semester hours in the lower-division degree category and a total of 6 semester hours in the upper-division degree category.

Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide the services with trained communicators ready to apply intermediate photojournalism and communication techniques to support public affairs and visual information objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate foundations of photography
Apply ethical considerations to photojournalism
Demonstrate visual communication techniques
Demonstrate feature writing techniques
Demonstrate multi-media production
Demonstrate design concepts and procedures
Produce a personality feature, a human interest feature, and a military-tie feature.
Demonstrate fundamentals and mechanics of news.
Explain the roles and requirements of DoD photojournalism