Final Proposal Paper B3A's

Proposal

Part One: Summary

We are a public relations team formed at Utah State University. As a team we are asking for the Advancement Department to help us find the resources which can provide the money necessary to add an additional section to the Mass Media Law course. It is not our intention to remove the current professor, but to add another section and remodel the current teaching methods, specifically in creativity and grading distribution. Adding another section would require the budget request of between $3,000 and 4,000 dollars. Currently, the Mass Media law course lacks creativity and diversity in classroom methods and is inconsistent in grading and bias. With such a respected PR program at USU, Mass Media Law must be the highest quality of education offered. We hope to add to the reputation of the highly esteemed PR program at USU at the same time giving students the education they yearn for.

Part Two:

We are approaching the Advancement Department because currently the Journalism and Communication department does not have the funds necessary to add an additional section. With the current budget cuts, we recognize funds are tight. Adding a second section would cost the department between $3,000 and $4,000 dollars. It is understood that the funding for the section will pay the additional instructor. We are asking for the instructor to be a lawyer with a Jurist Doctorate. With this being said, adding an additional section will make students pleased. In turn, once these students graduate they will be more likely to donate money, resources, and time back to USU because of their positive experience.

Part Three:

Currently, students are far from happy with the level of education they are receiving from the Mass Media Law class. Students are frustrated because they are paying for a class which is not being taught at a professional level. We are not asking for the additional class to be easier by any means because it is understood USU offers challenging and beneficial courses. Reading directly out of a book from class lacks creativity and limits the learning capability of students. With a world full of constant revolutionized technological innovations, the question can than be posed; Why is the professor reading from a book? Utah State’s Journalism department’s reputation is at stake due to the inconsistent grading and bias toward particular students.



Part Four:

Our objective is to have a lawyer come in and teach the second section of Mass Media Law. We will not be using public tax payer’s money (we can pick whoever we want to be the executive in residence), it will be donated money for that specific purpose.
The money will be put into an endowment account, which draws the interest, which is the money that will go toward paying the lawyer.


Part Five:

As students in the esteemed Journalism and Communication emphasizing in Public Relations department, we have taken what we have learned from classes such as Beginning Newswriting, Introduction to Mass Communications, Media Smarts, Introduction to Public Relations, and Writing for Public Relations we as students have developed the skills these courses educate, and in turn have applied it to real life. We have set up interviews, decided upon appropriate media outlets, followed the ethics of journalism, and most importantly compiled the information necessary for purposing a campaign that will benefit the Journalism department and its students.

Part Six:

We need to find out how much it would cost to actually add another section as well as add the funds necessary for hiring another professor to teach this section. Considering we are concerned with the current teaching methods, we as a group must decide if additional funds need to be added for speakers, technological expenditures, etc.

Part Seven:

We are asking for your help in advancing the funds necessary in creating a Mass Media Law class which is highly academically esteemed. We are asking for an additional section to be added due to the vast amount of students in the class and the numerous frustrations towards the course itself. This section can be taught by the same professor, but an entire revamp of teaching methods must be required. It is our proposal that the Journalism Department decide upon appropriate teaching methods for the course and fair grade distribution.

Please call any team member at your convenience for more information or any additional question.




Amanda Clyde Amanda Kramer Brittany Clark Amy Morris
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