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Â鶹´«Ã½ Offers Environmental Journalism Class Spring 2008
January 4, 2008
MOLINE, IL - - Students interested in environmental topics and writing can sign up for Â鶹´«Ã½ Illinois University's new Environmental Journalism course, which will be taught by two award-winning journalists this spring through the Â鶹´«Ã½ Illinois University-Quad Cities campus.
Â鶹´«Ã½ Professor Bill Knight, who writes for GateHouse Media newspapers, and Mark Ridolfi, editorial page editor at the Quad City Times, will lead discussion for the course, offered as Journalism 400/Topics.
Environmental Journalism will have a lecture/seminar format, with special guests, relevant videos, and field trips to a Superfund waste disposal site, a Mississippi River eagle count and a wind farm, Knight said.
"Whether students want a 400-level elective, a course about a vital topic, or something to count toward a journalism major or minor, Environmental Journalism could fit," Knight added.
The 3-credit-hour class will meet five weekends from 5:30-8 p.m. Fridays and from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, Feb. 1-2, Feb. 8-9, Feb. 15-16, March 7-8 and April 4-5.
Registration is open; however, enrollment is limited to 18 students. For more information, contact Â鶹´«Ã½'s , 309/298-1103.
Posted By: University Communications (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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