Teaching

•  Reporting Skills Classes — These skills classes teach students the basics of reporting (Intermediate Reporting), narrative-based reporting and writing (Creative NonFiction), and long-form issues-based reporting (InDepth Journalism).

• Social Media & News – In this skills class, students work with media clients to develop social-media strategies using metrics and other tools. Students also build their own professional online platform and create a strategy for themselves as well.

• Literary Journalism – This undergraduate-level course is primarily a reading-intensive class to learn the genres of literary journalism, or non-fiction narrative. Students follow the trajectory of this kind of writing through time.

• Integrated Media Storytelling – Meant for advanced journalism students, this class guides students in producing stories on an array of digital platforms, including video, photos, podcasts, timelines, maps, and websites.

• Practicing Communication for Social Change: Amplifying Marginalized Voices in Local Community – This service-learning class sends advanced journalism students out into the community to work with youth at non-profit centers to train them in reporting practices. The class also helps students understand their own biases and privileges as they re-conceptualize what it means to build community as a journalist.

•  Journalism Studies Theory Seminar – This doctoral-level seminar introduces students to the classic theories informing the research and study of journalism.

• Qualitative Research Methods – This doctoral-level course teaches graduate students the philosophy and application of qualitative methods. Students work from within a community throughout the semester to conduct hands-on studies of textual analysis, interviewing, ethnography, historical archive work, and grounded theory. They also train in IRB protocol.

• Qualitative Research Group – Sue Robinson joins other qualitative-oriented faculty at the School to lead a research group around issues having to do with qualitative studies.

• The Black Voice — Sue Robinson advises The Black Voice, an online content platform produced by and for Black students at the University of Wisconsin.

• National Association of Black Journalists – Robinson serves as the formal advisor to the UW-Madison chapter of the NABJ.

• McNair Scholars Program – Robinson works with students of the McNair Scholars Program as a research mentor.

• The Simpson Street Free Press – Robinson volunteers regularly with SSFP, which trains youth to research, report and write stories for a series of online publications.

• The Undergraduate Research Scholars Program — Most semesters Robinson accepts and trains a first- or second-year student with her research team