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The Roadrunner wants you to be the voice of Butte College.

Positions available: News Writing, Copy Editing, Photography, Business Management, Ad Sales, Public Relations/Publicity, Distribution, Graphic Design (emphasis on Adobe® InDesign® CS2 and Adobe® Photoshop® CS2) and Basic Web Design.

This course presents practical experience in all operations necessary to design and produce the Butte College Roadrunner, a community newspaper.

Meets Wednesday and Friday from 2:00PM - 04:50PM in LRC 140 on Main Campus. For more information please call 530-879-4342, email bcroadrunner@butte.edu or use the contact form.

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Ctrl # Name and Title Meeting Information Faculty Units Loc Term
JOUR - Journalism
2238 JOUR-6-M2238 Newspaper Production * LRC 140 L-L MW 02:00PM 04:50PM T. Gascoyne 4 1 2007FA

JOUR 6 - Newspaper Production/Roadrunner 4 units
Prerequisite: English 119
Transfer Status: CSU 17 hrs lecture/51 to 102 hrs lab

Emphasis is upon development of critical thinking skills and practical operations necessary in newspaper operation. Students may choose to emphasize one of two options: news writing and editing or graphic design and photography. All students will have some training and instruction in both areas, and all students will have some responsibilities and training in the business management of the paper, including circulation, ad sales, bookkeeping and public relations/publicity. Since skills and proficiencies are enhanced by supervised repetition, this course may be repeated three times.