Sample Assignments created out of a Faculty Curriculum Development Workshop connected with the One Book, One Campus program When they Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
15 sample assignments for college-level journalism classes from various universities, most of which could be applied to other disciplines.
- Using US Census Data to Help New Communicators Create Inclusive Communication Strategies
- Calling out stereotypes: Using media literacy to deconstruct media racial/ethnic stereotypes
- Gaining understanding and respect: How case studies on real-world public relations campaigns help students learn about diversity in the U.S. and worldwide
- The Framing of Sexual Orientation Through “Gay-Vague” Ads
- News for New Americans: Helping Students Practice Diversity Reporting
- Through the Looking Glass: Reflections and Corrections on What It Means to Objectify Gender in Advertising
- Teaching ‘Conscious Style’ in Language Use
- Contexts and reflections: Helping students move toward their own diversity understandings
- Journalism Ethics and Diversity
- Get on the Bus: Investigating Diversity in Journalism 1
- Interaction, Involvement: Get Students Engaged in Learning Diversity
- Voices of the Civil Rights Era
- Teaching Social Justice in Journalism Skills Courses
- “If I were….” project
- The Real Hunger Games: When JMC Classes Collaborate to Alleviate Food Insecurity, Diversity Is Met Head-On in Real Contexts
- "Assignments can represent a vehicle for students to personalize a course and give it individual meaning....Soft versus hard assignments allow students to select their own topics - ones they are comfortable with exploring." Branche, Jerome, et. al. Diversity Across the Curriculum : A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education. Anker Pub., 2007, p. 20.
- Rubric for Culturally Responsive Lessons/Assignments created by Dr. Jean Aguillar-Valdez at PSU.
- From Diversity in the Curriculum (ASJMC):
A JMC program in the Midwest states the problem bluntly: “It is important to consider how to take up issues of diversity in classroom discussions and lectures in a way that does not alienate students or shut down the dialogue.” The program’s diversity statement proceeds to critique three common approaches:
- Stand-alone diversity courses. “While offering such courses certainly emphasizes the importance we place on understanding the role of diversity in modern society, there is a tendency to see diversity in this context as a special topic lying somewhere outside the core principles of journalism.”
- Dedicated class sessions on diversity or tied to a textbook chapter on diversity. “Again, such special treatment can create a sense that this subject matter is an isolated topic, marginalized, taken up in an obligatory bow to political correctness.”
- Finding natural points of entry for diversity to be discussed across the curriculum. “It potentially is the more effective approach to ‘doing’ diversity in the classroom…. Diversity is introduced to students in an organic, less self-conscious way that encourages them to cross their own boundaries in search of that untold story.”
