3 credit(s) Exploration of and experience in the professional skills needed to produce news and public relations materials. Includes copy editing, grammar, style and headline writing; organization and structure of texts in news and public relations; computerized editing functions. Offered spring semester only. Prerequisites: COM111 and COM201. Students who take COM201 and COM301 must take them prior to, not concurrently with, COM308 unless permission is granted by instructor of COM308.