This course will share methods of investigative and immersive reporting for narrative nonfiction. Students will learn essential techniques for bringing characters and conflicts to life: finding stories, effective research, interviewing skills, and reporting in the field. The class will draw from and participate in reporting for David Kushner's upcoming book on the hunt for the pirate slave ship Guerrero, which wrecked in the Florida Keys two centuries ago. For fieldwork, we will head to the Keys to report on the divers and marine archaeologists searching for shipwrecks today.
