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Criminal justice students
prepare for competition
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"We were doing things in labs,
but again, it was just through text-
books and different controlled
areas, and so we get more flexi-
bility when we can come out here
and set things up on our own and
work more with our groups and
classmates," said Stormie Cooley,
criminal justice senior.
Hueske said he hopes to
eventually acquire more build-
ings and create a crime scene
village.
The new crime-scene city will
also help students prepare for
an annual crime scene compe-
tition at the University of Texas
at Arlington, he said.
"My students have won first
place and second place two years
running in that and so we intend
to do even better because we
are going for a clean sweep,"
Hueske said.
The next competition will
take place in May. Until then
students have a final project to
look forward to in December.
"At the conclusion of the
semester, I let the students create
the crime scenes," Hueske said.
The students will break into
groups, create a crime scene and
then work another crime scene
created by a different group.
"It is a lot better than sitting
in a classroom," said Crystal
Nelson, a sociology senior.
Photo by Melissa Boughton/Photographer
Criminal justice students Scott Brandt, a senior, Kevin Zieschang, a junior, and
Crystin Gray, a junior, work on identifying a vehicle's tire tracks.
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Beginning fall 2010, Texans will no longer have to move out of state for a four-year degree in aviation, as UNT will be
Texas'first public university to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in aviation logistics.
New business degree offers
career path in aviation field
By Josh Pherigo
StaffWriter
UNT students can start
looking to the sky for future
career opportunities next
fall.
The College of Business will
soon offer an aviation logis-
tics degree, the first of its kind
among public universities in
Texas, said Steve Swartz of
the marketing and logistics
faculty.
"The program will fill a
gap in the state's university
system," Swartz said. "Aviation
is a critical part of the modern
economy, and we want to
prepare our graduates to be
the industry leaders."
Students participating in
the Bachelor of Science degree
program will complete the
"core" business school require-
ments before choosing one of
two elective paths at the begin-
ning of their senior year, Swartz
said.
The elective classes will
focus on either aircraft oper-
ations or management and
analysis, Swartz said.
Though opportunities for
students to become pilots are
included in the program, flight
training will not be offered by
UNT, he said.
The majority of the program
is intended for students wishing
to pursue opportunities in
other aspects of the aviation
industry, Swartz said.
"Actual flying jobs only
make up about 15 percent of all
aviation careers," Swartz said.
"Not everyone is going to be a
pilot, and there's a ton of great
aviation jobs out there."
Swartz said the vision of
the program encompasses "all
types of students" including
a large number of transfer
students from area commu-
nity colleges.
"What makes our program
special is our inclusivity,"
Swartz said. "There are so many
great community-college-affil-
iated flight schools in the area,
and we don't want to take away
from those programs."
Swartz went on to say the
program will allow students to
apply the credit they've already
earned in aviation at commu-
nity colleges toward obtaining
their bachelor's degree.
Laura Rusnok, a senior busi-
ness student who already
holds a private pilot license,
said she plans to switch to the
aviation logistics degree to
pursue a career as a commer-
cial pilot.
"The aviation focus will
give a lot more value to my
degree in the industry I want
to join," said Rusnok, whose
groundwork in flight school
will transfer as credit hours
toward her degree.
The degree course work will
be designed to prepare gradu-
ates to take on professions in
all aspects of an industry that
has more than 495,000 occupa-
tions, according to the Bureau
of Labor and Statistics.
The Bureau's Web site lists
the average annual income for
all air transportation occupa-
tions at about $54,000 and all
management occupations at
about $97,000.
With major aviation compa-
nies in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area like Lockheed Martin,
Bell Helicopter, the Dallas/
Fort Worth International
Airport and American Airlines,
Swartz said UNT is a perfect
location for such a program.
Spanish media handbook
provides details for research
By Cali A. Thompson
Contributing Writer
Students and scholars
researching the Spanish-speaking
media have a new resource titled
"The Handbook of Spanish
Language Media "
Published Aug. 5, the book gives
detailed information in English
about media in 22 Spanish-
speaking countries, including
the U.S.
It also provides collective chap-
ters focusing on topics within
Spanish-language media.
"Language of the media is
similar, but the countries are not,"
said Ryan Salzman, a political
science graduate student and
teaching fellow.
Salzman and his wife Catherine
contributed a chapter to the book
focusing on the media in Central
America.
Alan Albarran of the radio, tele-
vision and film faculty edited the
book. He is also the director of the
university's Center for Spanish
Language Media.
The need for a comprehen-
sive resource came in 2006 from
a Center for Spanish Language
Media guest speaker, Maria Elena
Gutiérrez, former chairwoman
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the Universidad Panamericana in
Mexico City. Gutiérrez noted the
lack of data sources and research
on media in Mexico.
The center's program project
coordinator Christine Paswan
said that the handbook's content
is one-of-a-kind because it comes
from many different countries.
Many of the book's authors
are natives to the countries they
write about. Albarran wrote and
edited another reference book
titled, "The Handbook of Media
Management and Economics."
Some of the contributing
authors were previously involved
with the Center for Spanish
Language Media. Ittookabouttwo
years for the authors to compile
all the information. Salzman
described gathering the infor-
mation like "herding cats."
Because the information was
contributed from 22 different
countries, some data was
conflicting and much of it was
out-dated, leaving gaps.
From the countries it covered,
the media range from govern-
ment-funded in developing coun-
tries to more consumer-driven.
Albarran said in the press
release that he hopes the hand-
book will provide an agenda
for future study and provide a
baseline of research on Spanish-
language media from a global
perspective.
Salzman said he agreed that
the handbook should be a useful
aid to students.
"[The reader] can move 1,500
miles just by flipping a page,"
he said.
Albarran was unavailable for
comment at press time.
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