Course Description:
Introduction to Sports Writing and Reporting offers a semester-long course focusing on craft, practice,
voice, interviewing, and storytelling skills, all grounded in real-world experience. We’ll be viewing our
subject matter as a laboratory and lens through which to focus on the human experience. The course will
include: Reading and discussion, on-the-ground reporting at local events, drawing out reticent interview
subjects, narrative strategies, and drafting and revision as the foundation for serious sports writing and
reporting.
Students will complete a series of smaller assignments – a reported column analysis project and a personal
essay among them – and produce one meaty feature that is developed over the course of the semester and
is suitable for publication. The course will conclude with a group video broadcast project or podcast—
essentially a “Semester (or Season)-in-Review” focusing on local/UNE sports.