Environmental Journalism

About the course: This applied course teaches students to write compelling, substantive stories that illuminate environmental subjects, trends and issues, often in human terms. This course emphasizes the role of the environmental journalist not as an advocate but as a reporter who accurately and fairly reports the news.  

This lesson introduced students to primary sources and guided them in evaluating newspapers as primary sources in topics related to environmental journalism. 

• Learn what primary sources are. 
• Learn about examples of different types of primary sources.  
• Critically evaluate newspapers as primary sources by observing, reflecting, and questioning. 

Discipline(s)

Journalism, Environmental Studies, History

Time Needed

1 full 75 min class period

Original Course

JOUR 455/555: Environmental Journalism

Lesson Plan Created By

Dr. Susan Swanberg, School of Journalism, and Mary Feeney, University of Arizona Libraries