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112 their perception of family planning programs. Reading for next week: Blum (Chapter 2) Week 8 The mass media and science/health: How the mass media can be more meaningfully used as tools for disseminating science and health information Assignment: Write a critical account of a science or health story in your local news media, with a response from an editor or news editor. Reading for next week: Blum (Chapter 6 ) Week 9 Feature writing on the science and health beat: The effectiveness of the newsfeature as a vehicle for reporting science and health matter Assignment: Do a full length publishable feature (about 750 words) on the scourge of malaria or poliomyelitis in your area. Reading for next week: Blum (Chapter 5) Week 10 Reporting on the weather: Issues such as climate change, rainfall, drought, desertification, forestation, agricultural production, and famine and the consequence for society is discussed. Assignment: Monitor weather predictions for five days and write a 10- paragraph story on their accuracy, with a response from a local meteorologist. Reading for next week: Blum (Chapter 11) Week 11 The environment: pollution: carbon monoxide emission from vehicles, from industries, industrial effluents and noise pollution; sewage treatment and contamination of water sources; domestic and industrial solid waste disposal. Assignment: Monitor the noise level in your area for two days and interview the authorities on what they are doing about the problem. Reading for next week: Blum (Chapter 11) Week 12 Investigative journalism in science and health. Assignment: Do an investigative story on illicit drug manufacturing in your state OR on a major oil spillage or other environmental problem (due end of week 15 of this semester). Reading for next week: Blum (Chapter 12)
113 Week 13 Building news sources. Emphasis is on cultivating experts who will be regular sources of information and education. Assignment: List 10 sources you plan to contact for your investigative story Reading for next week: Loder (Chapter 3) Week 14 How to cover science and health conferences, seminars, symposia, colloquia. Assignment: Cover a meeting on health and write a publishable story based on it. Reading for next week: Read an article in a science or health journal and be prepared to report on it to the class next week. Week 15 Science and health literature as a source of information: how to report academic papers presented at conferences and journal articles. Submit investigative story, with a list of sources. Assignment: Groups of students conduct a seminar in class on legal and ethical issues involved in science and health matters. Readings for next week: handouts on media law and ethics issues for science journalists. Second Semester Week Legal and ethical issues in science and health reporting: privacy; doctor/patient confidentiality; copyright; patent and other legal matters. Reading for next week: Handouts on alternative sources of health care. Assignment: Students report on progress in their major story on a national science issue. (Story due end of second semester.) Book report (1) on Gawande or Green or Nieman Reports (due end of Week 5). Week 2 Alternative sources of healthcare: medicinal herbs, leaves and roots; synergy between alternative and orthodox medicine; quality control. Assignment: Write a story on the level of acceptance of alternative medicine by people where you live. Reading for next week: Instructor to collaborate with guest instructor to build a reading list. Week 3 Tropical diseases: parasites, tropical diseases – plasmodium, onchocerciasis,
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