Describes implementation and content of a course in developing videotapes for use by business and by educational, medical, governmental and other nonprofit organizations. (HTH)

Describes a course in mass communication that prepares media producers as media consumers. Discusses the use of simulation as a teaching strategy in such a course. (RL)

Describes a course that documents in often laborious and relatively uncritical detail the history of the Canadian press and its American and British antecedents. Describes a course on the contemporary press consisting of various forms of press criticism. (HTH)

Discusses how property records served as the basis for assignments in one news reporting course. (RB)

Proposes a three-course sequence of research courses for master's degree programs in journalism, to better prepare journalism graduate students to understand quantitative research. (SR)

Describes the University of Missouri at Columbia's specialized economic-analysis course, an offering designed to teach journalism students to understand economic systems and to relate business developments and problems. (KS)

Arguing that students in journalism need to have more exposure to the design aspects of communication, this article describes a course that simulates employment at a design company. (HTH)

Argues that under strict deadlines students develop into more careful writers, making fewer errors and creating better news stories, than do the students writing a story at a more leisurely pace. (RB)

Presents a model outline for the international news reporting class, focusing on news language and global journalism. Shows how concepts from philosophy, political science, and rhetoric were applied the language of international news and the reporting process by which a very few global events are selected and crafted into the symbolic form of the…

Details useful and interesting extra credit exercises that maintain student interest in a media ethics course. (CRH)