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Using Newspapers in the Classroom
From: bdonovan@post.wesleyan-college.edu (Barbara Donovan)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 11:20:27 -0500
On newspapers in the classroom:
I have students subsribe to the NYT (which has excellent student subsription
rates) in my American Govt and International Relations classes. They are
expected to submit a discussion (via email) of one article a week. In my
American Govt class, they are to select articles on any one of five policy
areas that I have selected for students to focus on in debates and policy
papers required for the course. Their reading of the newspapers thus feeds
into their preparation for these assignments. I have found that students' reading
of the Times has enhanced considerably class discussion and students'
political awareness. I also found that linking reading of the newspaper to a required
assignment was essential. Last year, I just suggested daily reading of the
Times as a way of enhancing class discussion and, of course, no one complied!
I will be setting up something similar in my IR class this spring.
Barbara Donovan, PhD
Department of Political Science
Wesleyan College
4760 Forsyth Rd.
Macon GA 31210
Barbara_Donovan@post.wesleyan-college.edu
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