Spring 2027

Journalism Theory

An advanced course exploring journalism's content, purposes, cultural values, institutional relationships, and contemporary professional challenges through scholarly critique and written projects.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Susan Robinson

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Review a wide breadth of scholarship in the fields of media studies and communication pertaining to journalism, both classical and contemporary text.

  • Critique scholarship, journal articles, and journalism.

  • Conduct group discussions on these topics.

  • Write a literature review on these topics.

  • Produce a conference-ready manuscript or other kinds of concepts-based journalistic project.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SUSAN ROBINSON is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 120
SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 120

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Content and purposes of journalism.
  • Cultural values associated with journalism.
  • Relationships between journalism and other institutions.
  • Current issues and challenges facing the journalism profession.

Skills

  • Critical analysis of media studies and communication scholarship.
  • Academic writing of literature reviews.
  • Production of conference-ready manuscripts or conceptual journalistic projects.

Grades

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JOURN/LSC 826 · Spring 2027

Journalism Theory

Recorded 2026-10-14
JOURN/LSC 826 · Spring 2027

Journalism Theory

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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