It's not a class syllabus. It's a career syllabus.

It's the first day of class and you have just arrived at your class. You take your seat along side your fellow students and your professor hands out the 8 page syllabus that most of us usually cram into our backpacks after the first week of class, never to be seen again. Normally, a syllabus consists of the same standard information that every student has probably memorized by now at least in terms of layout. It has information on what class you're in, what time its at, who your professor is, a calendar, and what you can and can't do. Thats about it, but not the Music Video syllabus. The COMMM 333 syllabus is not a normal syllabus.

While other syllabi tend to just give you basic info regarding the class, the COMM 333 syllabus not only provides the information a student needs to know about the class, but it looks beyond that and covers information that relates to the student and his or her education in the world of communications that the student can use outside of of class, and that's the best thing about the syllabus. If a student needs advice on a subject relative to the class, they can always refer back to their electronic syllabus and get some quality information on things. For example, starting on page 23: blogging, podcasting, critical thinking and even common sense in the digital world. This is something that I have never seen before in any classroom environment, or at this caliber at least, but as a student, I am really impressed by the amount of effort that my professor went through to ensure that we get, what I am now calling a, "Career Syllabus." I call it that because even though it is still a syllabus for a particular class, it is also a resource that is applicable to the job hunting world.

Page 24 from the syllabus.

This syllabus is a great tool for a students, especially freshmen, who may not be as familiar with the Mass Communications world. They now have the basic information they need to create good quality content for whatever medium they're working in. Even students who do know a lot about the comm field can still benefit from this syllabus, including myself.