Course Syllabus

Each week of your internship, beginning Monday September 17 and regularly thereafter until the end of October you are asked to post a log of about 500 words that summarizes the work you completed the previous week as part of your internship. The log should reflect on how that week's work has aided you in developing content for your final project (see details below), due no later than 6 pm Friday December 14.

The Final Project:

For your final project you are asked to create a presentation designed for first-year students considering concentrating in journalism.

The presentation--in whatever format you wish--should consider what first-year students can reasonably be expected to understand about the nature of journalism and the misconceptions they may have. Based upon this, it should use your own experiences to illustrate what you would encourage them to learn, to do and to think about as they study at Salem State so that upon graduating they will be well set to make their mark in their chosen area of work.

Grades:

The logs themselves will not be scored as they are designed to support your development of a professional understanding of your field of study and to help you prepare your final presentation.

Your final presentation will be 50 percent of your final grade. We will discuss the criteria on which the presentation will be judged individually prior to the penultimate draft being submitted.

The other 50 percent of your final grade will be determined by your supervisor's response to a SurveyMonkey questionnaire distributed toward the end of the semester, We will review prior to their submission.