(1) To examine the literary and cultural and theoretical and critical and anthropological determinations of key literary (or first-person or gonzo or submersion or creative) journalistic texts from the 1960s to today;

(2) To evaluate established and emerging approaches to investigative journalism that challenge still-conventional and still-tenuous distinctions between ostensible objectivity and subjectivity;

(3) To address the complicated role(s) of the journalist in his or her reportage/making of "the newsworthy"; and

(4) To foster and develop an informed and self-aware media-analysis-savvy individual voice and deliver clear and concise (and maybe ironical) reportages on events of students' personal choosing.