Syllabi Collection

Updated April 23, 2015

Get Started

• How to create a syllabus [link]
• Syllabus checklist [pdf]

Courses

All-in-one portals

•  http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/media/ hosted by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Media Literacy

• Media Literacy Through Critical Thinking [pdf]
• JOUR 175: Media Literacy [pdf]
• Critical Digital Media Literacy [pdf]
• Social Media Literacies [pdf]

Public Speaking

• COM 220: Introduction to Public Speaking at U of Washington[link]
• Introduction to Public Speaking [Coursera]
• Public Speaking by Tara Sanchez [link]
• COMM 1101 – Introduction to Public Speaking [pdf]
• Principles of Public Speaking [link]
• Public Speaking for Non-Native Speakers [video]

Organizational Communication

• COMS 3309 @ UTA : Organizational Communication [link] [lecture notes] [syllabus]

Social media/digital media/new media/ICTs and society

• Covering Social Media, Technology and a Networked World by Daniel Kreiss [link] [pdf]
• Social Media Reading list by Burcu Bakioglu [pdf]

Digital storytelling/digital writing/multimedia storytelling/news visualization/data journalism/data visualization

• My syllabus: Digital Storytelling [pdf – feel free to email me your comments]
• Data Visualization by Kristen Sosulski of NYU [pdf]
• Multimedia storytelling at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism [link]
• Digital Storytelling at Medill Northwestern [link]
• Integrated Media Storytelling [link]
• Computational Journalism at HKU [link]
• Data-Driven Journalism at CUNY [link]

Social network analysis

• Social network analysis by Lada Adamic [coursera]
• Social and economic networks by Matthew O. Jackson [coursera]
• R for Social Network Analysis [link] [labs]
• Network analysis software (UCINET, NodeXL, Gephi, Statnet, ERGM, RSiena) by Katherine Ognyanova [link]

Internet Communication Strategies

• Search Strategy [link] [blog] [Parisian Love – a Google search story – you’ll love it]
• Social Media Analytics by Jure Leskovec [link] [pdf 1 & 2]
• Web Analytics/Web Metrics [pdf] [app] [book]
• Advocacy and Campaigning Course Toolkit [link] [pdf]

Programming for Non-Programmers

• HTML [link] [videos]
• CSS [link]
• JavaScript(jQuery) [link]
• Python [link]
• Java SE [videos in Chinese]

Mass media and society/Introduction to mass media 

• Introduction to Mass Media [pdf]
• Mass Communication and Society [pdf]

News writing

• Basic newswriting [link] [pdf]
• Political reporting [link] [pdf]
• Feature writing [link] [pdf]
• Business reporting [link] [pdf]
• Science reporting [link] [pdf]
• Health reporting [link] [pdf]