Not all our students in Television Studies are good writers. (We have two tracks, production and broadcast). Even some students who aspire to be television journalists need to improve their writing, and this is especially true at a time when scriptwriting a three-minute package is far from sufficient preparation for a multi-media career. The other challenge will be to make the transition (or rather, the addition, since the broadcast curriculum will stay firmly intact) from broadcasting to webcasting. This will take financial and technical resources that will strain our department and the school at large.
Though we tend to have pretty good writers, we don't have much in terms of technology. There is some video and editing equipment, to which students generally have access only if they're in related courses. We are now in the process of trying to figure out what technology we should add, when we can, and how to fund it. Also, because of the size of the school, we have a limited range of courses--something I frankly have mixed emotions about, since one of the biggest shortcomings I see among professional journalists is an inability or unwillingness to provide enough historical or political context. The liberal arts-vs.-technology balance is one we have yet to completely figure out.
