'Climate Change Magazine Production' and 'Being Black in Lincoln' are the only Spring 2021 special topics courses that require students to submit an application.
The Climate Change Magazine Production course is taught by Jenn Sheppard. In this class, students will convert a year's worth of deep-dive reporting and transform it into an elegant page-turning Climate Change Magazine that will be found everywhere -- from Nebraska coffee tables to dental offices to high school science classrooms.
Jenn is looking for 20 art-savvy students from across campus to have a hand in laying out the first-ever journalistic magazine focused on the problems and solutions to Nebraska climate change and establishing a new creative dynamic for Nebraska's K-12 public school science curriculum.
You can apply for the Climate Change Magazine Production course here: https://journalism.unl.edu/climate-change-magazine-production
Award-winning journalist, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, Joe Starita is teaching the course 'Being Black in Lincoln'.
Students who take the class will examine the question: What’s It Like to Be Black in Lincoln in 2021? It will display the complex range of answers to that question in a variety of ways – in print, on video, via a class website and through community-wide public discussions.
15 students will be chosen to write major profiles of 12 Black residents of Lincoln. Those 12 residents will represent a diverse cross-section of Lincoln’s Black community – from politicians, preachers, teachers and athletes to businessmen and women, students, BLM leaders and single mothers raising young children with few resources.
These stories will be scrupulously researched, written and edited and will appear in the Lincoln Journal Star on 12 consecutive weeks – a weekly mirror for Lincoln residents to peer into and see an aspect of the community largely hidden from their view.
Apply to be in the course 'Being Black in Lincoln' here: https://journalism.unl.edu/being-black-lincoln
To see a full list of Spring 2020 special topics courses and their descriptions look here: https://journalism.unl.edu/special-topics