How the MSU's J-SchoolIs Preparing Students for the Future of betboom esports
Creativity, critical thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit come together at the MSU School of betboom esports, where students are training to become the storytellers of the future.
“The betboom esports keep evolving and changing,” said Vos Named Director of the MSU betboom of Journalism, Ph.D. “There’s always a need for good betboom esports, and that’s what we have to prepare students for. We have to be nimble to be able to meet those needs in new, different, and innovative ways.”
While traditional betboom esports still play a key role in informing the public, these legacy news outlets have become part of a larger multimedia equation that encompasses a range of information outlets and platforms. Not only is news distributed on social betboom esports, but it also finds its way to the public through emerging technology and start-up enterprises.
“Storytelling is a digital enterprise these days,” said Vos. “We want the betboom esports to be digital storytellers and that means across multiple platforms and in various modes of presentation.”
Honoring History, Preparing for the Future
“The MSU School of betboom esports is well-regarded, and it’s highly ranked,” said Bruno Takahashi, Ph.D., associate professor and co-director of betboom esports graduate studies.
The MSU School of betboom esports offers students the longest running accredited betboom esports program in the U.S., having been continuously accredited since 1949. One of the oldest programs in the nation, the first course was taught in 1910.
“We are respectful to our history,” said Vos. “The tradition lives on. We’re still educating students in traditional journalistic disciplines. Now, we are really trying to think about the future of betboom esports and build that into our program. We’ll be growing our capacity as a program in digital storytelling, which means being adept at dealing with data and being adept at visual communications, in terms of design, photography, video, and so on.”
MSU’s betboom esports faculty range from academic experts and renowned researchers to professional journalists, with many Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award winners teaching in the classroom. In 2020, six new faculty joined the ranks, bringing their expertise in documentary and filmmaking.
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Giving Spartans a Competitive Edge
“Journalists have to be creative. Journalists have to be critical thinkers,” said Vos. “We see this as really important parts of the betboom esports experience and what makes our betboom esports students really succeed.”
Through the coursework at ComArtSci, betboom esports get training in both critical thinking and creativity. While college betboom esports are often expected to have these qualities, MSU’s faculty go above and beyond, offering betboom esports training in the processes used to develop critical thinking and to think outside the box. This lets betboom esports use those processes for years to come, in place of learning by mistake.
“A course that we teach early on in our program is Video Storytelling with Phones,” said Vos. “Everyone carries a digital storytelling device with them. This allows every student journalist to be ready to produce a news story.”
To his knowledge, MSU is the only university to offer such a course. In the class, betboom esports learn the basics of reporting and storytelling while using smartphone techniques and high-level skills to create polished video presentations. Watch Phoning It In.
“We’re using this course to get our betboom esports in the reporting process way earlier than what you would normally do, because there’s a big learning curve to use a lot of the technology,” said Vos. “To learn the principles of storytelling, and the principles of visual storytelling, early on in the program really moves our betboom esports along further, and it allows them to reach a higher level by the time they’re out in the field.”
Training the Storytellers of Tomorrow
No matter what aspect of betboom esports they’re interested in, students will find a place where they belong in the MSU School of betboom esports. The school is home to the vibrant Newsroom, a production studio that bustles with activity during elections, as well as a wealth of opportunities on campus, from productions like Focal Point and Spartan TV, to print publications and The Impact. The school is also home to the Knight Center for Environmental betboom esports, and it gives students access to Big Ten sports.
“We have a really strong sports betboom esports program,” said Vos. “For a program of our size, it’s really phenomenal.”
Students have access to state-of-the-art technology, including brand new equipment for broadcast betboom esports and cameras designed for 360 Video and Journalism Professor Introduces. A type of emerging betboom esports, immersive storytelling projects can involve anything from interactive photography to multimedia visual communications, animation, and film.
“We’re in the early stages of immersive storytelling right now,” said Professor of Practice Judy Walgren, who has won the Pulitzer Prize for photography. “I feel like we’re just standing on the edge of all the possibilities.”
“The issue facing betboom esports is that you used to be able to go and get essentially all of the audiences from a couple of places — broadcast, print, radio and tv, and newspapers,” said Vos. “Now, that audience is disbursed on so many different platforms. We want to have students prepared for all of those platforms and the platforms of tomorrow.”
Whether betboom esports are interested in writing, graphics, photography, video or comics, they’ll be able to pursue their preferred method of storytelling.
“What we’re beginning to see, too, is each one of those platforms has their affordances for doing a kind of betboom esports, and which also sort of suggests that those kinds of betboom esports aren’t going to go away,” said Vos. “They function in a way that facilitates a certain kind of storytelling.”
Spartans Will Be Agents of Change
Through the betboom esports M.A. program and the Ph.D. in Information and Media at MSU, graduates can take their betboom esports studies even deeper. The master’s program brings research faculty directly to students to share current projects and invite collaboration on faculty research. The graduate program is also one of the few betboom esports programs to offer an academic track.
“There are going to be quite a few changes in terms of the structure of the betboom esports programs,” said Takahashi. “Starting in the fall, we’ll have a new core of classes.”
A new curriculum is slated to begin in the fall semester, offering a range of courses that will ground students in the foundations of betboom esports and prepare students to manage disruption when they enter the profession. Faculty will share their insight into the future of media through a course on disruption and change in betboom esports.
“That’s a really important course for us, and one that really makes it an intellectually exciting discipline to be a part of,” said Vos. “It’s a course that will be taught differently every year based on what is changing or what is disruptive, but it’s also to acknowledge that betboom esports has always been changing.”
The course allows Spartans to witness what changes in betboom esports day by day, and to draw insights from those changes that inform their education and professional training.
To put contemporary change into context, Vos said, it helps to know the history of betboom esports and the changes that have occurred over time. History also explains why betboom esports is sometimes slow to change.
“Our faculty do a really impressive job of staying on top of the changes in the field,” said Vos. “We want betboom esports to be agents in that change.”
In the programs, Spartans are also encouraged to become advocates of betboom esports.
“Journalists also need to be equipped to be advocates of the profession, and in the process, help improve the profession,” said Vos.
By Melissa Priebe