For New Students - Overview of fandomhigh Journalism Courses

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Teaching Philosophy and Course Overview.

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Course Information

Grading Policy


All right. Anyone can register until class ends on Monday, September 12. This gives some of you terminally late people a chance to sit in on the first actual class and see if this is something that you want to subject themselves to. Combat journalism is closed unless you can give me one hell of a convincing argument.

At midnight Monday, I'm going to give the final list to my Assistant and if you want to transfer into any Journalism class, you're going to have to make one hell of a convincing argument, in writing.

This is also the last call for permission slips. There's still a large stack in the box outside my classroom. These aren't the school forms, which I advise you to procure a large supply and my Assistant will be checking with the Administration to see that you do, but my own slips as drawn up by my lawyer. Sign where indicated, have parent, guardian or (if you're over the age of majority) two adult witnesses sign in the appropriate places and turn them in and then make a note below to confirm. My Assistant will keep track of who has and hasn't turned in their forms and if you expect me to take you so much as a an inch beyond campus boundaries without both sets of forms, it's going to be a long, boring school year.

War zones, coups, bordellos, diaster sites, political conventions, massacres, other planets, inquisitional hearings, whale riding and dinosaur farms are not available to anyone without the appropriate permissions.

... not that I'm guaranteeing as much as a trip to the nearest Long Pig for lunch without a good look at what I have to work with.

Here are the current Homework Assignments - Due Midnight 9/14/05 Late work is not accepted. No submission at all is an automatic boot from my classes and forcible ejection from any class fieldtrip or journalistic madness.

Current Student Roster

Any of my students who have to write for other classes can resubmit homework to me for extra credit as long as it meets the requirements for the homework submission for Journalism 101. That is, an essay of 100 words.

For those of you unclear on exactly what I mean by that, I mean precisely 100 words - no more, no less.