Journalism Class - Thursday December 1

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider's standing in front of his desk wearing a santa hat this morning and does not look at all pleased by it. The cat is nowhere to be seen. "Good morning class," he greets them, two shades short of an actual grumble. "This morning I want to hear a discussion on whether or not I should offer Journalism 101 next term. Due to having to separate the classes and having to have two class meetings a week, I'm going to be making the classwork mandatory and the homework a bit more interesting."

Sighing, he sat on his desk. "Photojournalism students will be having an amusing time of it, but it's time they got to do more than just wander around with you lot and take pictures. There's far more to Photojournalism than that, so they'll be doing journalism classwork AND a complete project for the term involving real photojournalism." He paused. "In case you're wondering... In case you're wondering, I'm lobbying with Dean Bristow to make Advanced Journalism an option to take several times for accruing credit with a cap of three terms. Photojournalism also, on the basis that it takes longer to give a student a solid journalistic background than it does to teach them a few of the basics. All other journalism classes (said basics) will remain on a term basis only. Let me emphasize that I am still in negotiation and this is by no means a decided thing."

He raised a finger. "I am accepting limited enrollment in Advanced Journalism and Photojournalism this next term as it is the second term of the year. I am planning on offering 201 this coming term and 301 the last term, but whether or not to take 101 next term and then offer 201 the term after is something I wish to hear your opinions on today before I submit any further class applications to the Dean."

Comments

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Maybe offer Journalism 101 as a subsection of another class? Say, instead of Journalism 101, use the basic parameters of that class as an introduction to Journalism 201? So new students get an introducation to journalism but all semester is not spent on that introduction of sorts."

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

"That's a possibility, but with the current guidelines for class structure, I'm not sure I can get away with it." Batting irritably at the tassle of his Santa hat, which was thumping against his glasses, he continued, "I think I need to get a good idea of how many students I have to work with."