Course feedback
Please fill in responses below, save and send this as an email attachment to Karen
Armstrong, karmstrong@ithaca.edu.
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Karen will check off your name and give us these forms. This way the form is
anonymous, but Karen will be able to verify you completed one. Once I have all the
forms returned, I will record grades. Please submit by Friday the15th.
1. Major (and concentration, if there is one in your degree program): _______
a. ___Freshman___
b. ___Sophomore__
c. ___Other (what are you?) ______________
2. Below are the Student learning objectives for Spark!: Type in the numbers of the
objectives you are able to do after completing the minicourse: _______________
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an introductory knowledge of the media and communications landscape,
domestically and globally
2. Be able to describe the basic content, distribution, marketing and sales structure of one
medium (e.g. television, film, radio, broadband, print and mobile)
3. Prepare and present strategies and tactics in response to an immediate challenge facing the
current media environment
4. Build an academic plan reflecting their current career goals in the new media environment
5. Identify and locate the key resources to remain current in swiftly shifting media industry
trends.
3. What is the most important thing you learned during the course?
4. Describe any impact the course had on your academic plans for the future?
5. Which session did you find the most valuable? Please tell us why.
6. Which session did you find the least valuable? Please tell us why.
7. There were four challenges associated with the course Please comment on the value
of each challenge as a learning experience (including work involved, future value to
the next group of students who take the course,:
a. Craig and Budd Mikhitarian pitch:
b. Seeking the audience with Muir and Sawyer:
c. 1Degree challenge:
d. Final in class challenge:
8. Give us some feedback on the use of technology in this course (twitter, wireless,
skype, etc). Did any of it help or hinder the learning experience for you?
9. Considering any of the different components of the course (e.g. challenges, speakers,
instructors, challenges, etc):
a. What needs to stay in the course for sure?
b. What needs to be jettisoned from the course?
10. Tell me at least one thing that would make this a better course.
11. If you had it to do over, would you take the course? Why or why not?
**THANKS!!!**