Posted on 10/17/2004 10:35:16 AM PDT by lainie
This summer, Patrick Henry College Dean of Academic Affairs Paul Bonicelli announced that Journalism will be added as a new major to the academic program. Previously, Journalism was offered as a track within the Government major. Because of the importance of journalism as a course of study in its own right, the major is now being instituted as a stand-alone program.
The new major's purpose is to prepare students to be outstanding journalists. Objectives include:
The program requirements will remain the same as when Journalism was a Government track, with a heavy emphasis on the study of government. Journalism majors study News Writing, Basic Reporting, and Communication Theory and have the opportunity to study Newspaper Design, Media Law, and Journalism History.
Seniors and juniors earn apprenticeship (directed research and writing) credits either by completing internships at local- or D.C.-based news media or by designing and producing freelance print media projects to be submitted for publication at newspapers and magazines. All Journalism students, including freshmen and sophomores, participate in the production of the Patrick Henry Herald, PHC's weekly student newspaper.
Specific skills students learn include finding story ideas and developing "beats," basic reporting and interviewing techniques, writing "hard" and "feature" news stories and editorials with good structure, color, and style, and finding markets for their work. Students also develop a strong sense of professionalism, a respect for the institution of journalism and its role in the maintenance of a free society, and the ability to understand and evaluate trends and practices in contemporary journalism.
The major is directed by Dr. Les Sillars, who recently completed his doctorate in Journalism at the University of Texas-Austin, where he also served as a graduate assistant to Dr. Marvin Olasky, editor of WORLD magazine. Dr. Sillars has 10 years of experience in journalism, and his byline has appeared in many U.S. and Canadian dailies and weeklies. He edits the Mailbag section of WORLD, regularly teaches at the WORLD Journalism Institute, and continues as a freelance writer. The Journalism major will remain in PHC's Department of Government under the overall leadership of Dr. Robert Stacey.
For more information about Patrick Henry College and its new Journalism major, visit http://www.phc.edu or call 1-877-546-1776.
Just thought I'd share this news -- for once, a positive step toward American/liberty principles.
I have a friend who transferred to PHC this semester after attending college with me at UT last year for his freshman year. He's a journalism major and he cannot stop talking about how much he enjoys it there.
Just curious but has any well known journalists/reports come from Patrick Henry?
I wouldn't put it past Kerry to pull a "Waco" on PHC if elected......
I think the college has only been around for a few years so probably not yet.
"Apply a biblical worldview to the study and practice of journalism."
I imagine an article from, say, city beat or "food and leisure" section written in Elizabethan/King James English, with [for stylistic purposes] every verse... er, sentence starting with "And"...
Something remotely similar was provided by Mark Twain in his "Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", IIRC.
So who would hire a journalist from PH? Certainly not the NY Times.
That might lead to truth and balance in reporting, and they certainly can't have THAT.
The ombudsman for the NYT has already declared they have no interest in being balance on social issues.
recently, there was an article in the Washington Post lamenting the fact that conservatives' birthrate was outstripping liberals'(one can see why). If that translates to "a shift in the electorate" as the article feared, solid, alternative journalism may help cement the majority and level the playing field for the first time in generations.
From the website:
Vision: To create a university that equips its graduates both with the skills and confidence to build and participate in sustainable businesses, and with a dynamic orthodoxy of faith for passionate practice in the work place and marketplace.
Mission and Core Purpose: NCU will shape innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs at the intersections of business, technology and communications media, guided by the spiritual, moral and social teachings of Jesus Christ.
How about putting out a few conservative leaning journalists. Nahhhh. That would be a radical idea.
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