Model curricula for journalism education for developing countries ...

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filariass. (Guest instructor)
Assignment: Write a 15-paragraph-story on a tropical disease in your country.
Readings for next week: Guest instructor for next week to assign reading list, to
include the website of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.
ipcc.ch/) and extracts from Lovelock (2007).
For the rest of the second semester, readings for the following week should be
assigned in consultation with that week’s guest instructor.
Week 4
Climate change and the debate on global warming (Guest instructor)
Assignment: Write a story based on the guest instructor’s assessment of the Kyoto
protocol. Assignments following classes given by guest instructors should be based
on the class but could take various forms, such as news or feature stories, group
presentations, invitations to industry representatives to rebut the guest’s analysis,
etc.
Week 5
General agriculture: definition of agriculture; world population and food
production; the livestock industry; systems of livestock production;
management of different types of farm animals. (Guest instructor)
Assignment: Based on the guest instructor’s account of issues in agriculture in your
country.
Book report (1) due.
Week 6
Malaria: Types of mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite; treatment;
environmental sanitation; drug resistance; economic implications of malaria. (Guest
instructor)
Assignment: Write an account of the science of anti-malaria medication. Book report
(2) on Friendman (due end of week 10).
Week 7
Food science and technology: food poisoning and its prevention; food processing
and preservation; contamination of food from natural sources, and other food
issues.(Guest instructor).
Assignment: Investigative story on food inspection OR abortion services OR HIV/AIDS
treatment in your area. (Due Week 12.)
Week 8
Reproductive organs and body functions: maturation; physiological
changes; implications; abortion. (Guest instructor.)