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Curriculum at University of San Francisco
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Our journalism minor is three years old, although many of the courses have existed for several years. Until 2002, the journalism sequence was shared by Communications Studies and Media Studies. MS won the battle for journalism -- but lost the CS students who accounted for about half of journalism'...
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Curriculum at Palm Beach Atlantic U
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When I arrived in 2005, the school was teaching publication design with proportion wheels. We now teach with Photoshop and InDesign, and have moved from film photography to digital. So we've gone from the 1970s to the 1990s. But it will take fundamental shifts of attitude to take the next leap to the 2...
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Curriculum Changes at AU
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Ugh. I'm headed to a undergraduate curriculum review meeting on Friday. Maybe I should wait and post after that. Well, we're trying to devise a new set of core classes for all journalism students, one that includes a digital/online media introduction (probably very much along the lines of what this...
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UW-River Falls curriculum
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We revised our curriculum 4 years ago and have been rolling in new courses each fall. This spring's graduating class is the first to go through completely under the new curriculum.
When it comes to skills courses, we shook up the order that they learned various skills. They take two production cour...
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UW-Madison new class
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We have just added a new course called Integrated Multimedia Storytelling that I will begin teaching in Spring 2009 for the MA journalism students. This will be a core, mandated class for those students in our professional track to introduce them to concepts such as database structuring, slide sho...
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UW-Madison Curriculum
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You can see our approach here UG curriculum
And see our main converged course, Mass Media Practices, here
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Curriculum Circle at San Francisco State University
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We're in the process of changing the curriculum -- and have been for years! We recently voted to get rid of three of our four sequences -- online, magazine and news/editorial (we're keeping the photojournalism sequence) to allow students more choice and opportunities to take a greater variety of co...
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Apart from the major curric changes...
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Multimedia Bootcamps
We haven't found the money to add the multimedia faculty we want yet. So in the meantime, current faculty and students are joining forces to find some interim methods for getting up to speed on multimedia. For example, our student chapters of the Society of Professional Journ...
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Curriculum at Webster
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I'm in the process of reworking the major to reflect digital journalism. I'm dropping a currently required print course, adding two digital journalism courses, as well as an Intro to Interactive, designed to help them put their digital content into a viable form.
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Eileen
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Curriculum at Pacific Lutheran University
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One of the luxuries of teaching at a small private school is you can make curricular changes relatively quickly when no one is looking. A couple of years ago we tweaked our offerings to address the shifting tide we were witnessing in the professional world. We addressed the reality that we would never...
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Curriculum at UTPA
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We've hit critical mass in our department, with class sizes growing and a need for more faculty to give our students more of what they need.
We're trying to split our advertising program from PR.
We're trying to incorporate more new media and diverse media courses for our print and broadcast majo...
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Curriculum at Michigan State
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I just realized I posted too much about curriculum to the what's working string so this may be redundant. I'm on a task force looking at changing the curriculum. As someone who just joined academia after 30 years as an editor, I am very frustrated by the pace of change. I'm used to daily and, frankly wi...
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Curriculum Changes at UMass
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Well, again, it's only my second semester, but I've been able to get around to many of the intro classes to talk about the need for students to develop multimedia skills, and my first class today had an overflow of about six students trying to get in, so I think the students are getting it. But, during a fa...
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curriculum changes at UMD
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Our college just went through an exhaustive and exhausting curriculum review and update. We tried to balance what we do well here (journalism fundamentals) with exposure to the technology students will face when they graduate. This, as many of you know, is no easy task when you are trying to stay wit...
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Curriculum Reform at the University of Oregon
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Our school, like many, is enmeshed in a deep and uneasy review of the curriculum. While there appears to be near universal agreement that the curriculum should become more flexible to enable students to gain a mix of media skills, faculty understandably fear diminishing the core education provide...
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Scott
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Curriculum at Baker U.
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We now require all mass media graduates to complete separate news writing courses for print and broadcast. Another recent change involves portfolio assessment as part of a student's senior year. Faculty members have been discussing improvements in the portfolio process to make it more meaning...
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Dave Bostwick
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Curriculum Circle
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At Lyndon State College I am teaching a brand new course that I am inventing as we go along called "Writing for Broadcast in Converging Environment." (This title, admittedly an oxymoron, was handed to me.) It's a blessedly small writing seminar (eleven students) populated mostly by...
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Curriculum at Ole Miss
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The University of Mississippi's department of journalism just received a big chunk of dough from one of it's former grads. Ed Meek gave $5 million and is looking to find ways to make that number multiply by a factor of four. Within two years we will become a school of journalism. How that will differ fro...
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University of Florida curriculum issues
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We have four departments; mine is Journalism. We have a department committee right now that has been charged with reviewing the existing curriculum and suggesting ways to change. One of the areas we have already identified as needing improvement is the lack of emphasis on non-text (non-print) rep...
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