The Third-Year Plan in Journalism Teaching

Abstract

“The beat curriculum, and the one giving the maximum of academic and professional flexibility, is the one which has only two required courses in the school of journalism. This is partially a matter of nomenclature and organisation, but there is a real purpose behind it. The first course should be a weeding out course, preferably for sophomores. The second should, be an upper division one merely entitled ‘Fundamentals of Journalism,’ or some similar name. The contents of this course could be rearranged from year to year and the sequence, perhaps, altered.”