NewsHour Criteria - EXTRA CREDIT OPTION UPDATE!!

 

PBS News Hour

Critical Viewing - Requirements

Economics Winter/Spring Semester 2024

****UPDATE****

  Wednesday 4/3 (A day) and Thursday 4/4 (B day) will be an in-class workday. If you work on and complete your NewsHour report and turn it in by the end of the class period in which you are enrolled, you will get 20% extra on your paper! 

What a deal!

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The NewsHour program will be viewed and critically assessed according to the listed criteria. The assessment will be worth up to 50 points.

**The NewsHour assignment requires only the TWO segments we viewed during class. TWO paragraphs (one for each segment) would be the minimum for your paper. **

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE BY MIDNIGHT, April 8 (A-day Classes)/April 9 (B-Day Classes). 

Please turn in through Canvas, under the module NewsHour

Here are the directions:

Each NewsHour program contains several major segments.

Analyze each segment separately (two segments):

1.    Create a summary of the main points; and   

2.  Identify specific economic aspects of the report, i.e. scarcity, allocation of resources, opportunity cost, demand/supply, government intervention, market, command, tradition, etc. (e.g. “This is an example of scarcity because...”)

Economic aspects may include

• Resources
• Scarcity
• Opportunity Costs
• Resource Allocation
• Tradition
• Government Intervention (Command)
  
• Market
  
• Demand
  
• Supply 

[This is the BIGGEST part of the assessment!]

A suggested approach is to take notes while viewing the videos, and create your analysis from those notes. Most of these assignments are between 1 and 3 pages in length.

 Everyone will view the selected segments from the March 27 and 28, 2024 NewsHours. The assessment will be due by

***MIDNIGHT April 8/9***

Please turn in through Canvas, under the module NewsHour

 

CLICK HERE for A.I. and Wildfires (Wed. 3/27

CLICK HERE for Economic Equality Book (Thurs. 3/28)

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<< Don't want to turn it in on time? 

Final (late) date for the NewsHour submission is 

11:59 pm  May 5 – 

work after that date WILL NOT be accepted.>>

 

 Please turn in through Canvas, under the module NewsHour