Teaching

I taught for 40 years. I began at the University of Georgia while earning my PhD, taught at the University of Tulsa for three years in my first academic job and then taught at Lehigh University for 34 years. I retired in January 2025.

I think most teachers would agree that creating a syllabus for a class is a real creative exercise. I have saved many of mine through the years. I refer back to them. I borrow from them. I will try to link to some of the syllabi here. For me, this will be a kind of archive including some of my first and last classes (Media and Society changed quite a bit from Fall 1989 to Fall 2024). For others, they might find interest, for example, in how online classes were taught in the late 1990s as the Internet came to the classroom.

Mass Comm Law, Spring 1988

Media and Popular Culture Spring 1989

Mass Comm and Society, Fall 1989

Analysis of Media (Freud to Marx) Spring 1990

International Reporting, Spring 1991

International Reporting, Summer 1991

Media Ethics and Law, Spring 1992-1999

Advanced Reporting Fall 1992, 2005

Advanced Reporting, Fall 1995

Proseminar (Required Senior Thesis) Spring 1993, 95, 96

Children and Television, Summer 1995

Online Journalism, Spring 1997 (5-page introduction)