Late-Breaking Assignment

Professor McCune gave us 3 separate assignments to write about and we had to choose one. The first one was to watch Superbowl Sunday and write on the commercials and our opinions on it. The second one was to attend the AMC JMC session within the school of JMC. It was an accrediting team for University of Washington who were having a sort of discussion, interview type session with students in the department. The final one was about your experience with the primary election. I knocked out one because my radio show was during the same time as the Superbowl but from what I heard, I didn’t miss much. And unfortunately I am not registered to vote, but I will soon! So I went to the session for the Journalism students for the AMC JMC discussion.
In my opinion, it seemed a bit unorganized because once I entered the room 209 where this session was suppose to occur, I was told to go to another room, but apparently that was the wrong room then I was sent to 2 other room coming to find out that the original room of 209 was to begin with. So after scrambling around the whole department, I honestly didn’t have to feel of even being there. But I stayed because I knew it would be a good experience for me. Most of the students there were practically done with their major so I really didn’t have much to say since I just started taking core classes this semester. Which I felt bad because I really would of liked to state my opinion on something.
Some of things that were examined were mainly how the department is. With advising, majority said that the department is doing a good job and the bluesheet is pretty much self explanatory on what classes we need to take. They also said that the department gives students great opportunities in internships and job opportunities once they graduate. With the department itself, everyone agreed upon saying based on the experience and what they learned if they could do it again they would. And that the department has more of a closure and intimate setting based on other departments just because of the simple fact that the classes are smaller and you can get more of a one-one with the professor. With equipment, students said that they would like more equipment because it seems as if the students are “battling for the software”. Not all the labs have the systems needed if not few. Especially for editing like Apples, Final Cut, Pro & Adobe Premier. Some students even have to stay later than wanted to just to get a hold of computer that has a system that’s needed and available. Finally when asked what do they want more out of the department was “more cooperation with other majors.” This was specifically speaking on the RTVF department by doing some collaboration as well as Print Majors and Advertising majors.