TCC Journalism Home Page
	It’s yours to use  and yours to lose. Respect and protect it.     Dave Holman, journalism instructor Tacoma Community College  Phone: (253) 566-5386  Office: Building 9-56  Office hours: 1:30-2:20 daily  or by appointment
Welcome to the Journalism Home Page. The content of this page is the sole responsibility of Dave Holman, TCC journalism instructor. The academic materials and classroom policies presented here apply to these classes only. See the appropriate faculty pages for practices in other classes. Refer to the college catalog for college administrative practices and policies.  Please report broken links to Dave Holman.    Last revised on 7/23/2007

Journalism courses available at TCC.

Majoring in journalism at TCC

The journalism program at TCC has been eliminated due to budget constraints and low enrollment. JOUR 209 Online is the only journalism class currently offered at TCC. The Challenge, TCC's student newspaper, will continue publication under the auspices of the Office of Student Life.

Most schools of journalism at four-year institutions are professional programs with their own specific entrance requirements. Generally, students are not admitted into these schools until their junior year. Students wishing to major in journalism are advised to contact the journalism school they plan to attend and prepare themselves at TCC to meet the admission requirements for that school.

TCC’s college-wide student learning outcomes

TCC has identified six college-wide learning outcomes that form the foundation of the college's educational emphasis. They are:

• Communication (COM)
• Critical thinking (CRT)
• Responsibility (RSP)
• Information and information technology (IIT)
• Living and working cooperatively (LWC)
• Core of knowledge (COK)

Translated into simple English, these outcomes represent skills and information that should help you to enrich your life and to become a more productive and responsible citizen. They may, incidentally, prepare you to be a better journalist. In the journalism course syllabi, you may find one or more three-letter codes next to the various course learning objectives. These codes link the course learning objectives and assignments to the college-wide learning outcomes listed above.

Links to journalism/communications programs at public universities in Washington:

• Central Washington University
• Eastern Washington University
• University of Washington
• Washington State University
• Western Washington University 

Other Web Sites of Interest to Journalism Students

Aid & Comfort and Useful Tools
Reporter's Desktop <http://www.reporter.org/desktop/> by Seattle Times reporter Duff Wilson. Very useful reporting tools 
Student Press Law Center: <http://www.splc.org/>
Tacoma City Government: <http://www.cityoftacoma.org/>
U.S. Congress: <http://thomas.loc.gov/>
Washington State: <http://access.wa.gov>
Newspaper Association of America hot links: <http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm>

Education and History
Pictures of the Year Contest: <http://www.poy.org/58/>

Local/Regional Newspapers
The News Tribune's Tribnet: <http://www.tribnet.com>
Peninsula Gateway: <http://www.gateline.com/>
The Seattle Times: <http://www.seattletimes.com/>
The Post-Intelligencer: <http://www.seattle-pi.com/>
The (Bremerton) Sun Link: <http://www.thesunlink.com/>
The Valley Record: <http://www.valleyrecord.com/>
The Everett Herald: <http://www.heraldnet.com/>

Media Criticism
American Journalism Review: <http://www.ajr.org/>
Columbia Journalism Review: <http://www.cjr.org/>
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies: <http://www.poynter.org/>
Project for Excellence in Journalism / Committee of Concerned Journalists: <http://www.journalism.org>

Professional Organizations:
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ): <http://spj.org>
National Press Photographers Association (NPPA): <http://www.nppa.org/default.cfm>
Society for News Design (SND): <http://www.snd.org/>
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB): http://www.nab.org/

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