Students will learn research and interviewing skills. Assignments will require researching primary source historical material and/or conducting interviews.

Students will develop judgment and critical thinking skills. The main assignments will require assessments of historical events. Students will examine and compare media accounts with other media accounts and with original source documents.

Students will understand significant principles of journalism and mass communications. Discussions will center on an analysis of historical trends and philosophies to understand journalistic and communications principles.

Students will write in narrative style and properly cite sources.