Journalism students are required to take media lab fours times and for that reason it is important to switch up the material that is covered in the class each semester. The elections will be a great topic for the fall semester section of the class. Each student can pick a candidate and write about them. It would be interesting to have the students have a pseudo question and answer session with fictional politicians.
I really enjoyed when we did the news writing lab with crime reporting and think it would be neat to do with political reporting as well. It would also be a good idea if the class touched upon the difference of being a political columnist and a journalist that reports politics. I really think it would be great to devote a semester to working with the online edition of the Setonian. I also think it would be a good idea to do a little workshop/tutorial regarding photography.