Enrolment of first year students in journalism leaps up by 30% in 1979. Why?
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"Possibly because the Information scandal has made journalism seem like a glamorous profession." At least this is the opinion of Journalism staff who compare the jump in numbers with a similar phenomenon at journalism schools in the United States after Watergate.
Of course, the increase may also be linked to the growing reputation of the Rhodes department, the only one of its kind at an English-language university in South Africa.
Bulletin, 1979 (2): 3
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HEADS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Every Head of Department in the Journalism School developed different angles of the Department's curriculum; influenced not only by their own experience and environments, but also deeply porous to the social and political climate of their contexts.
VIEW TIMELINE
CURRICULUM IN ARCHIVES
THEORY (&/) PRACTICE
"In a higher education context, journalism is located at the nexus where the twin imperatives of intellectual knowledge relevant to the field and vocational training meet - demands that are frequently reduced to a crude dichotomy of theory versus practice," (Prinsloo, 2010; Jones, 2014:55).
CURRICULUM IN CONTEXT
FLASHBACK: 'A DAY AS A JOURNALISM STUDENT'
Narrated as if you were a journalism student at Rhodes in 1979, 1996 or 2016; your choice; a look at what you would have been reporting on, archival student handbooks, course outlines, where your classes would have been & who would have been lecturing you.