Pop-up classes are short, one-credit hour courses designed to allow students to dive into emerging industry trends and gain skills to prepare them for future careers.
ADPR 391: Sketch with Me
Tuesdays | 5:30-8:20 p.m. | Aug. 20 - Sept. 21 | Mollie Cox
1 credit hour
Photoshop who? The days of the cumbersome photo editor for web design are over. Sketch offers a simpler UI made for the latest trends in web design. It offers a wealth of tools and features to make it the perfect application for today's designer. The less you need to worry about the tool you use, the more you can focus on your ideas. Simply put, this class will make you a proficient user of Sketch.
ADPR 391: Get Nuclear with Atomic Design
Tuesdays | 5:30-8:20 p.m. | Sept. 24 - Oct. 26 | Mollie Cox
1 credit hour
Atomic design is blowing up around the world. It is transforming our web design practice and this class will bring the same creative combustion to your process too. We will explore the methodology for thinking of user interfaces as thoughtful hierarchies and how to integrate pattern libraries into your workflow.
ADPR 391: The Universal Language of Digital
Tuesdays | 5:30-8:20 p.m. | Oct. 29 - Nov. 30 | Mollie Cox
1 credit hour
Navigating the world of website design systems can be overwhelming. Together we will explore setting up a design system through foundational planning, design principles, functional and perceptual patterns, and shared languages.
ADPR 391: Getting to insight
Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:15 p.m. | Aug. 20 - Sept. 21 | Diane Krajicek
1 credit hour
Research is the art and science of understanding your marketplace and your audience. Together, we'll explore fundamental ideas and practices that lead to good reasearch results and actionable insights.
ADPR 391: That's a good question
Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:15 p.m. | Sept. 24 - Oct. 26 | Diane Krajicek
1 credit hour
There's an old saying, "garbage in, garbage out." You get good survey results when you write good questions and get responses from the right people. Together, we'll work on writing questionaires that get to answers that matter.
ADPR 391: Please, tell me more
Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:15 p.m. | Oct. 29 - Nov. 30 | Diane Krajicek
1 credit hour
Qualitative research is a conversation. It's about diving deep to understand desires, dreams and motivations of your audience. We'll focus on techniques and approaches that help you open up ideas that lead to insight and differentiation.
JOMC 391: 360 Storytelling
Wednesdays | 5:30-8:20 p.m. | Aug. 22 - Sept. 26 | Alan Eno
1 credit hour
We know how to tell a story with conventional video. We know how to frame that story so the viewer sees everything we want them to see. How do we tell a compelling story when there is no frame; when there is no control over where the viewer is looking? With conventional video, we can move the camera, point it at where we want the viewer to look, and edit between shots to change perspectives. With 360, that luxury doesn't exist; viewers can look anywhere at any time. How do you effectively prompt the viewer to look behind them, or even beside them? Before that, how do you even determine if an environment is appropriate for 360 video? The 360 Storytelling class will explore the difficulties and possibilities of telling a story where the setting is difficult to control, in a format where the director and editor have no control over where the viewer is looking.
JOMC 391.952: Social Media Promotion and Event Planning
Tuesday and Thursday| 11 a.m. - noon | Sept. 18 - Nov. 8, includes Oct. 26 and 27 | Gary Kebbel
2 credit hours
Help make this year’s national MobileMe&You conference on the UNL campus a success by running the conference’s Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts. Use social media to increase the number of people attending the conference. Plan and organize the event coverage. Live report the two days of the conference on all of our social media. Analyze and evaluate your work. Learn new techniques from conference speakers.
JOMC: 491 | How to get your drone license
Sept. 21- 23 | Matt Waite | Section 951 | 1 credit hour
Learn how to pass a Federal Aviation Administration test to obtain your drone license. Students in this course will learn side by side with professionals on how drones are being put to use in newsrooms across the country.
Visit https://journalism.unl.edu/pop-up for more information.