Gateway is a new course—actually a series of courses—that will be offered at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in the winter term of 2009. Its intent is to immerse our journalism majors in an online media environment, using new tools to build fundamental skills. Students will maintain a blog and add their research to that blog as critical aggregators. They will use the research that they report in the blog to develop multimedia reports, stories and arguments. Students will also step out of the digital world and into the physical with structured presentations of their arguments and stories to peers.
Gateway replaces a series of courses in the J-school developed in the 1980s: Information Gathering, Writing for the Media and Visual Communication. Gateway takes key concepts from each of those courses and applies them in a new media environment. Our desire is to get students excited about the concepts that they will use in the J-school, give them basic tools for creating media and guide them as contributors to a critical dialogue about the profession.
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