JOUR620

Public Affairs Reporting

Prerequisite: JOUR501; or permission of JOUR-Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Designed to add to and sharpen the skills learned in JOUR501. It is primarily an introduction to "beat" reporting that allows students to sample the most common new beats while reporting and writing on deadline. Students are required to develop and hone their multimedia skills by reporting in a variety of media.

Spring 2026

David Lightman

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Fall 2025

Christine Harvey

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Joshua Davidsburg

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Constance Ford

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Spring 2025

David Lightman

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Past Semesters

Christine Harvey

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Joshua Davidsburg

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David Lightman

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Christine Harvey

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Joshua Davidsburg

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Christine Harvey

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Joshua Davidsburg

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Christine Harvey

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David Lightman

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Constance Ford

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Adrianne Flynn

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Carl Stepp

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Elaine Povich

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Sandra Banisky

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Clarence Williams

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.36 between 211 students*

A-: 17.06%

A: 30.33%

A+: 9%

B-: 5.69%

B: 19.43%

B+: 8.06%

C-: 0.95%

C: 0.95%

C+: 1.9%

D: 0.95%

F: 2.84%

W: 0.95%

other: 1.9%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.