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Students who follow Ernie Pyle's footsteps in England and France visit Paris. Here, a few pose near the Eiffel Tower.

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Thanks to classes that include a travel component, journalism students have become world travelers, learning about media practices and culture in other countries as a complement to their classroom experiences.

The School of Journalism will host an information session at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Ernie Pyle Hall auditorium for those students who want to more details about spring courses that include travel.

Courses scheduled for spring include:

• From London to Paris: In the Footsteps of Ernie Pyle  takes students to England and France to trace the World War II correspondent's journeys.
• Devices of Wonder: New Media, New Identities, New Social Movement examines the roles new media play in journalism by taking students to the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
• Media of Color: Ethnic and Indigenous Communications Worldwide will take students to Australia to study different approaches to gathering and disseminating information, specifically in Aboriginal and Maori culture.
• International Reporting will send students on a reporting mission to Japan to cover a range of international issues, and to meet with foreign correspondents and reporters for international media outlets who report for a global audience.
• International Public Relations: Tourism Communication takes students to see international tourism public relations in action in a major international tourist destination: Italy.

Courses for Summer I:

• Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Africa gives students experience in health reporting while spending three weeks in Eldoret and Nairobi, Kenya, where they work with Kenyan journalism students, meet with African journalists and explore the IU-Kenya Partnership's AMPATH project. Details and applications available in December.

More:

• Applications for spring travel courses will be online soon. Deadline is Oct. 1.
• To read about students’ travels in previous courses, check out the Blogs page.
• Questions?  Contact Kate Lee via e-mail or by phone, 812-855-1725.

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