Most journalism courses should cover a wide range of content, from terminology to skills to strategy.
This post continues my response to a colleague who asked for advice for her first gig teaching journalism as an adjunct faculty member. I had emailed Jenn Lord Paluzzi asking if I could use her name in answering the question and hadn’t heard back from her when I posted yesterday, so she was unidentified in yesterday’s post, which was about the different ways that you teach.
Jenn quickly claimed the question, though:
@SpitzJ_MW @MeredithOBrien @JournalismBuzz That colleague would be me! Thanks @stevebuttry !
— Jenn Lord Paluzzi (@jpaluzziSun) January 14, 2014
Continuing the discussion, I can think of at least seven levels on which you need to teach the content of most courses: (more…)