Environmental Journalism
✨✨✨WEEK 1✨✨✨
Class Introductions
System of Computing Grades
| Midterm Grade | 10% Class Participation |
| 50% Output and Activities | |
| 40% Midterm Examination | |
| Tentative Grade | 10% Class Participation |
| 50% Output and Activities | |
| 40% Final Exam/Project | |
| Final Grade | 33% Midterm Grade |
| 67% Tentative Grade |
Course Requirements
🖊️ Active participation in class.
🖊️ Passing grade in examinations (short quizzes, midterm, and final exams).
🖊️ Submission of assignments and papers.
🖊️ Submission of final individual or group output or project.
Some reminders:
🖊️ I give a grade of 5 for anyone I catch committing academic dishonesty including cheating in exams, plagiarizing, and recycling a work you submitted in previous or other classes.
🖊️ I give surprise quizzes.
✨✨✨WEEK 2-3✨✨✨
🖊️ Environment and Journalism
🖊️ The Evolution of Environmental Reporting
🖊️ Introduction to the Environment Part I
> Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)
✨✨✨Week 4✨✨✨
🖊️ SHORT QUIZ
🖊️ Introduction to the Environment Part I
> Earth and Its Atmosphere
> Energy: Warming Earth and Atmosphere
> Weather Forecasting
> Global Climate
> Earth’s Changing Climate
> Air Pollution
> Water and Water Pollution
> International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development (2018-2028)
✨✨✨March 7-9, 2023✨✨✨
The Interview – Journalism for Filipinos Chapter 13 [Must use BU email to open]
Interviewing Principles and Practices
> News Interview
> Principles of Interviewing
> Types of Questions
> Interview Ground Rules
> The Profile
> Using and Abusing Quotes
> Anonymous and Confidential
✨✨✨MIDTERM PROJECT✨✨✨
SUBMIT MIDTERM PROJECT HERE
✨✨✨March 14-16, 2023✨✨✨
UPLOAD ASSIGNMENT HERE
✨✨✨For Further Reading✨✨✨
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of, Part I
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of, Part II
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill
You’ve Never Heard Of, Part III
Green Ink: An Introduction to Environmental Journalism
Meteorology Today [use BU email to open]
Mehdi Hasan: ‘Most people ask the question and move on. I don’t’
Karmina Constantino in focus: “When there’s an opportunity to make things right, you take it.”
✨✨✨READINGS✨✨✨
Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise
🖊️All Chapters – Required Reading
Community-Centered Journalism
🖊️Chapter 1 – Required Reading
🖊️Chapters 2-5 – Optional Reading
✨✨✨IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER✨✨✨
ON OR BEFORE MAY 16, 2023 – SUBMIT W/ NO DEDUCTIONS
MAY 17-23, 2023 – SUBMIT W/ DEDUCTIONS PER DAY
BEYOND MAY 23, 2023 – WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED