Course Preface

  Journalism has been called the “first rough draft of history,” and the practice of journalism has value in education as a vehicle to teach critical thinking, basics of law and ethics, writing, media literacy, management and organization, technology, multimedia, mass media, and digital citizen-ship. Students who get involved in journalism graduate with skills that can help them in a variety of college majors and a host of careers. Journalism courses are applied or advanced courses that may be used to fulfill up to one credit of the English Language Arts graduation requirement. These stan-dards align with the Utah Core Standards for English Language Arts.

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http://www.uen.org - in partnership with Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and Utah System of Higher Education (USHE).  Send questions or comments to USBE Specialist - Naomi  Watkins and see the Language Arts - Secondary website. For general questions about Utah's Core Standards contact the Director - Jennifer  Throndsen.

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