TOPICS: ECOLE DE GUERRE MEDIA PRACTICUM in Spring 2025 (CM 4910B)

The Ecole de Guerre media practicum is as close to a real-life newsroom experience as most students will come during their time at university.

This course prepares students to play the role of journalists covering an international crisis. A weekly class will teach you the multimedia skills and the journalistic skills (press briefings, reporting, broadcasting and social media) needed to cover a simulation of military intervention organized and operated by the French War College (Ecole de Guerre) with civilian partners.

In the weekly sessions the class will prepare realtime, multimedia coverage of the war, combining breaking news coverage with TV coverage including a TV news show, a photo feed, a social media feed, and a printed newspaper. Each student will be assigned a specific role, and will train for that role.

The class will move to the premises of the French War College (close to the AUP campus) for the ‘hot’ phase of the practicum which runs for full days from April 1-11, 2025, weekend included. This is when the final, decisive phase of the war simulation is played out by the French military for which our class provides media coverage.