Small Programs 2009 Abstracts
Small Programs Interest Group
Does Size Really Matter? Small Programs and the Shift to Convergence • Robert Bergland, Missouri Western State University; Cliff Brockman, Wartburg College; Matthew Fowler, Missouri Western State University; Spencer Albers, Wartburg College • Small programs are wrestling with how to incorporate convergence in their curricula with limited resources. To discover the amount of convergence in small programs we examined 97 journalism and mass communication programs with fewer than 100 majors. We found that smaller programs are somewhat less likely than the often larger ACEJMC-accredited schools to have majors, minors, tracks and required convergent courses, but not as much as one might expect.
GIFTed Teaching: An analysis of 228 Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT) awards in journalism education • David Cuillier, University of Arizona; Carol Schwalbe, Arizona State University • A content analysis of all 228 Great Ideas for Teaching (GIFT) awards presented 2000 through 2008 at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference found that the most effective teaching exercises were submitted by women, were intended for skills courses, were ideal for small classes, and incorporated teams. Relatively few ideas incorporated technology or elements of diversity. Other findings and implications for journalism education are discussed.
The Effect of Audio Recording on Reportorial Accuracy: Implications for Teaching Beginning Reporters • Cody Winchester, Baylor University; Amanda Sturgill, Baylor University; Julie Freeman, Baylor University • The contemporary changes in the media industry in general and newspapers in particular make it important to consider how educators are training future journalists to use technologies available to them. Our experiment takes a fresh look at an older technology, looking at the influence of using an audio recording on accuracy in a speech story for beginning journalists.
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