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Spring 2027

5 courses

Sports Reporting and Writing

4 credits

Covers core skills for communicating about sports to a mass audience, including career support and professional access, within a changing media landscape.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.89 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=48 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.81 GPA, 95.9% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Matt Hermann

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Spring 2023–Fall 2025

JOURN 457

Storytelling Through Sound

4 credits

Storytelling Through Sound focuses on creating episodic long-form audio narratives, developing interview, writing, field recording, and editing skills for broadcast or online distribution.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

Matt Hermann

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

JOURN 651

Communicating Sports Controversies

3 credits

Explores prominent sports controversies affecting sports communication professionals like journalists, broadcasters, marketers, and PR specialists, focusing on how these issues impinge on professional practices.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Matt Hermann

Matt Hermann led a semester-long group project with unclear grading criteria and unhelpful feedback, which reviewers found frustrating and subjective. While one student found the lectures on sports media and guest speakers fun and passionate, another noted the material was niche and that group members could significantly affect individual grades.