You’ve just agreed to teach a semester-long course at a University—something you’ve never done before—and the Dean expects to see your syllabus next week. Syllabus?
The good news is that your fellow journalism educators are more than willing to share. Look on the school’s Web site for syllabi from previous semesters. And consult these online resources to develop your own course outline without reinventing the wheel.
BEA-Poynter Syllabus Project
(http://www.newsu.org/tools/syllabus-exchange)
The Broadcast Education Association has teamed with Poynter to produce a syllabus exchange center for educators at NewsU.
Computer Assisted Journalism
http://powerreporting.com/syllabi.html
Extensive collection of syllabi on computer-assisted and database journalism, and news research.
Diversity
http://newswatch.sfsu.edu/diversity_syllabuses/
Collected by the Newswatch project at San Francisco State University.
Indiana Syllabi
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/syllabi/
Multiple versions of journalism course outlines.
IRE Syllabi
http://www.ire.org/education/syllabi.html
Computer assisted, online research, and investigative reporting syllabi.
UNC Syllabi
http://www.ibiblio.org/journalism/jomcsyllabi.html
Wide-ranging list of links to journalism and mass communication course outlines.
Visual Journalism
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/abacon/syllabi.html
Syllabi on photojournalism and Web design.
