Leaders of the Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative have created an annual course, Exploring Computational Journalism. Jointly offered by the departments of Communication and Computer Science, Comm 281/CS 206 is a project-based course that explores the use of data science, information visualization, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to help journalists discover and tell stories, understand their audience, advance free speech, and build trust.

Journalism and Communication

COMM 1: Introduction to Communication

COMM 1B: Media, Culture and Society

COMM 104W: Reporting and Writing the News

COMM 106/206: Communication Research Methods

COMM 108/208: Media Processes and Effects

COMM 113/213: Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere 

*COMM 116/216: Journalism Law

COMM 120W/220: Digital Media in Society

COMM 124/224: Truth, Trust and Tech

*COMM 125/225; AMSTUD125: Perspectives on American Journalism

COMM 135W/235/335: Deliberative Democracy and its Critics

COMM 137W/237: The Dialogue of Democracy

COMM 145/245: Personality and Digital Media

COMM 151/251: The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Press

COMM 153B/253B: Free Speech, Democracy and the Internet

COMM 142/242: Media Economics

COMM 154/254: The Politics of Algorithms

COMM 158/258: Censorship and Propoganda

COMM 162/262: Campaigns, Voting, Media and Elections

COMM 164/264: Psychology of Communication about Politics in America

COMM 177B/277B: Big Local Journalism

COMM 177C/277C: Science & Environmental Journalism

COMM 177P/277P: Programming in Journalism

COMM 177Y/277Y: Foreign Correspondence

COMM 177S/277S: Sports Journalism

COMM 177T/277T: Building News Applications

COMM 184/284: Race and Media

COMM 186W/286: Media, Technology, and the Body

COMM 230: Digital Civil Society 

COMM 180: Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change

COMM 253: Political Campaigning in the Internet Age

COMM 262: Campaigns, Voting, Media, and Elections

COMM 266: Virtual People

COMM 272: Media Psychology

*COMM 273D: Public Affairs Data Journalism I

*COMM 274D: Public Affairs Data Journalism II

*COMM 275 Multimedia Storytelling

COMM 276: Advanced Digital Media Production

COMM 277D: Narrative Journalism

COMM 277I: Becoming a Watchdog

*COMM 279: News Reporting + Writing Fundamentals

COMM 280: Virtual Reality Journalism

COMM 281/CS 206: Exploring Computational Journalism

*COMM 289P: Journalism Thesis

* Course required for students seeking the MA in journalism.

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