Last week was spent watching the documentary 9/11 which seemed to affect all of the students tremendously.  Their written responses were powerful to read.  The week culminated with our local first responders (police, fire & EMTs) being honored at Friday’s pep rally.  Journalism students also followed the breaking stories in Libya and Egypt which certainly seemed to have more import after they had learned first hand from eye witness accounts about 9/ll.

This week will be focused on solid academic examination of the historical backgrounds of both psychology and journalism.

Psychology:

Students will be able to:

~identify the historical underpinnings of the field of psychology

~identify the significance of and contribution to the field by the following:

Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Titchener, G. Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud

~explain historical approaches of  structuralism & structuralism

~explain what the micro, macro & molar approaches are to studying psychology

Monday:  Philip Zimbardo Introduction to Psychology film

Tues.-Thurs.  discuss film, introduce historical background through text reading, handouts & lecture

Friday:  Senior Friday:  Study Skills instruction

Introduction to Journalism:

Students will be able to identify and explain the significance of the development of mass media of the printing press to the internet.  The unique underpinnings of American journalism will be focused on with special attention paid to Founding Fathers’ protection of journalism, the only privately owned business specifically protected in the constitution of the United States.

Monday:  Create historical timeline from the invention of the printing press to the printing of the first newspaper in colonial America Boston 1690.

Tuesday:  Lecture & discussion of import of John Peter Zenger Trial 1735 and the foundation for the idea of freedom of the press, elimination of prior review and right to speedy trial.

Wednesday:  Lecture & discussion of the impact of newspapers in the American Revolution & the founding fathers protection of the press.

Thursday:  Study of the significance of the Penny Press on acculturation of immigrants, literacy and the evolvement of the modern newspaper in the United States.  Role of telegraph in mass communication and journalism.

Friday:  Role of newspapers in Civil War, westward movement, yellow journalism, muckraking and the impact of Hearst & Pulitzer.