Welcome back! Check out the new courses and speakers in the spring term

Welcome to 2007. We have an exciting term upcoming with several new classes and lots of lectures and special guests.

Our graphics guru, Karl Gude, is teaching a general information graphics class and a news graphics class. His students are already hard at work creating models of the human body.

Master’s students are taking the first ever digital public affairs reporting class running the entire 15 week term. Students who took the immersion class last May continue to tell us how valuable the course was. All journalism students need to learn how to report the news online with different elements including words, video, audio, photos, graphics, info boxes, interactive elements and blogs. Alternative news delivery to iPods, cell phones, etc. is part of this brave new world.

Students in and out of the class, faculty and media professionals will be invited to special Friday talks by professionals including Jennifer Carroll, vice president new media content at Gannett (March 16), and Washington Post Deputy Multimedia Editor Chet Rhodes (February 23).

Other upcoming speakers include Jeff Alexander of the Muskegon Chronicle on February 14 and Nancy A. Youssef, Iraq Bureau Chief, McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder) Newspapers
as the Neal Shine Ethics Lecturer in April.