WSJ Seminar Series

WSJ Seminar Series — “Using the Wall Street Journal in Global Professional Studies”

“WSJ is an invaluable tool that we use to further learning outcomes in the classroom – with its breadth of content, it can provide a comprehensive foundation across a lot of the communication skills that we teach. We want students to take whatever they learn in the classroom and apply that knowledge to enhance their careers and to achieve more upward mobility in whatever field they are pursuing.”

— NYU Prof. Dan Bullock

“As a framework, we all teach in two ways: we teach content (the disciplines we teach, such as History, Public Relations, Marketing, Literature, Finance), and we also teach skills (such as critical thinking, intercultural communication, digital literacy and oral/written communication skills.) When we have co-lead trainings, we often ask ourselves: how we create assignments that help students build both content knowledge and global communication skills? The WSJ is a great tool for teaching both.”

— NYU Prof. Raúl Sánchez

NYU Profs. Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock, who both teach at the Professional English Program & Corporate Education Program of the English Language Institute within NYU’s School of Professional Studies, recently created a webinar for the Wall Street Journal’s seminar series that creatively demonstrates using the WSJ as a resource for teaching international professionals and graduate students whose first language is not English.

For Sánchez and Bullock, the WSJ is a great multimedia tool for building both content knowledge and global communication skills, while enhancing the students’ career prospects. It incorporates multiple formats including podcasts, videos, traditional print, and even a Faculty Assessment Tool with comprehension quizzes. These formats can be used to teach a range of skills from the basic -- how to synthesize information -- to the more advanced -- developing professional presentations.

*Artwork featured by Rod Sánchez.