2008 Poynter Educators Forum

Teresa · Teresa

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'...

denise · denise

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...

snazzblake · snazzblake

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...

jimmynan · jimmynan

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...

Robinson · Robinson

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...

kbculver · kbculver

You can see our approach here UG curriculum And see our main converged course, Mass Media Practices, here J202 site

RKanigel · RKanigel

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...

Susan Knight · Susan Knight

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...

Eileen · Eileen

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.

Joanne M. Lisosky

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...

donnapaz · donnapaz

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...

Sue · Sue

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...

stevefox · stevefox

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...

PennnyFuchs · PennnyFuchs

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...

Scott · Scott

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...

Dave Bostwick

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...

Charlotte · Charlotte

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...

rbraseth · rbraseth

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...

Mindy · Mindy

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...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Curriculum at University of San Francisco (Preview) 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'...	Teresa	0	1332	Feb 11, 2008 by Teresa
	Curriculum at Palm Beach Atlantic U (Preview) 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...	denise	0	889	Feb 11, 2008 by denise
	Curriculum Changes at AU (Preview) 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...	snazzblake	2	856	Feb 9, 2008 by Mindy
	UW-River Falls curriculum (Preview) 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...	jimmynan	0	749	Feb 8, 2008 by jimmynan
	UW-Madison new class (Preview) 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...	Robinson	0	819	Feb 6, 2008 by Robinson
	UW-Madison Curriculum (Preview) You can see our approach here UG curriculum And see our main converged course, Mass Media Practices, here J202 site	kbculver	0	760	Feb 6, 2008 by kbculver
	Curriculum Circle at San Francisco State University (Preview) 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...	RKanigel	0	765	Feb 6, 2008 by RKanigel
	Apart from the major curric changes... (Preview) 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...	Susan Knight	0	818	Feb 6, 2008 by Susan Knight
	Curriculum at Webster (Preview) 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.	Eileen	0	979	Feb 5, 2008 by Eileen
	Curriculum at Pacific Lutheran University (Preview) 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...	Joanne M. Lisosky	0	773	Feb 4, 2008 by Joanne M. Lisosky
	Curriculum at UTPA (Preview) 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...	donnapaz	0	774	Feb 3, 2008 by donnapaz
	Curriculum at Michigan State change faculty resistance (Preview) 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...	Sue	0	797	Jan 31, 2008 by Sue
	Curriculum Changes at UMass (Preview) 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...	stevefox	0	756	Jan 29, 2008 by stevefox
	curriculum changes at UMD (Preview) 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...	PennnyFuchs	0	731	Jan 29, 2008 by PennnyFuchs
	Curriculum Reform at the University of Oregon (Preview) 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...	Scott	0	775	Jan 29, 2008 by Scott
	Curriculum at Baker U. (Preview) 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...	Dave Bostwick	0	741	Jan 29, 2008 by Dave Bostwick
	Curriculum Circle (Preview) 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...	Charlotte	1	809	Jan 27, 2008 by rbraseth
	Curriculum at Ole Miss curriculum poynter (Preview) 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...	rbraseth	0	829	Jan 27, 2008 by rbraseth
	University of Florida curriculum issues (Preview) 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...	Mindy	0	748	Jan 26, 2008 by Mindy
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