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Curriculum
Enrichment
Toward
a reinvigoration of the journalism curriculum, offering students
a deep exploration of complex subjects like history, politics, classics
and philosophy
The goal of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism
Education is to elevate journalism schools within university
communities and to integrate them into the academic life of the
campus so that they will attract and prepare the journalism leaders
of tomorrow for a more complex and intellectually challenging industry.
A key feature of this initiative is curriculum enrichment, which
demands a reinvigoration of the journalism curriculum to offer students
a deep and multilayered exploration of complex subjects like history,
politics, classics and philosophy to undergird their journalistic
skills. In partnership with the Corporation , the deans at four
leading journalism schools have developed their vision of what a
journalism school can be at an exemplary research university.
Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley
The Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley will expand its already
flexible curriculum for its two-year master's degree program to
include joint-degree programs with schools and departments such
as law, public health, literature, the arts, public policy, the
sciences, humanities, social sciences and business, while at the
same time creating a more journalism friendly way of bringing this
specialized knowledge to their students. The school will begin reaching
out to other units on campus by initially focusing on three areas
and then expanding outwards to other disciplines: Human Rights Issues
and International Reporting; Public Health; and Urban Reporting
on Design and Planning.
Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University will launch
a new Master of Arts program in Journalism beginning in the fall
of 2005. This new academic program will focus on teaching future
journalism leaders about the substance of complicated subjects central
to their careers. The program will depart from the traditional journalism
school practice of teaching students the skills associated with
various forms of journalism, and focus instead on teaching them
to master complex subjects and communicate their essence clearly
to general audiences. The Corporation's grant will enable the journalism
school to bring experts and other Columbia faculty from other disciplines
, to teach in partnership with journalism professors, in ways that
they believe will be especially useful to journalists.
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University is planning
to offer two new courses for undergraduate journalists as part of
a larger effort at the school to continue its history of enriching
the curriculum. (Move this sentence through innovative approaches
to journalism education and cutting-edge training in the undercovered,
important and complex issues that tomorrow's journalists will need
to be able to explain to their audiences to help ensure an informed
electorate move). The two courses, The Nexus Between the Media and
Military in Conflicts and Terrorism and News and Numbers: Statistics
and Analytical Research for Journalists represents an important
step forward in the quality and substance of journalism education
for the school. These courses also continue Medill's innovative
approach to journalism education and cutting-edge training in the,
important and complex issues that tomorrow's journalists will need
to be able to explain to their audiences to help ensure an informed
public.
Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California
As part of their curriculum reform plan, the Annenberg School of
Communication at the University of Southern California is launching
a new Master of Arts degree in science and technology. This new
degree program is a fundamental element of the school's vision for
transforming journalism education by integrating the School of Journalism
fully into the intellectual life of the university. This program
will be designed to meet the profession's need for journalists who
are not only educated, curious, expert and effective, but who are
also prepared to report on the complex policy issues, social concerns
and ethics that will shape science and technology issues in the
future. Support from the Corporation will cover program planning
and development enabling the school to launch this new approach
to journalism education for the 21st century.
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