Students at University of Southern California will be able to rock the latest in wearable technology fashion. Professor Robert Hernandez is taking one step ahead and offering a new course called “Glass Journalism” next fall. Hernandez wants to inspire USC students to come up with new ways of storytelling by using facts and Google Glass. 

“Glass Journalism” is the first journalism university course to introduce Google Glass to students, although Syracuse University and Northeastern University have also developed classes featuring Google’s wearable tech. 

"Unlike the other Glass courses, this one will actually building the news app(s)," said Hernandez. "We're not just talking about ideas as hypotheticals. we are coding and building them, which is different."

Robert Hernandez is a veteran web journalist, renowned for incorporating technology into the classroom. 

Hernandez was working as director of development for The Seattle Times from 2002 to 2009, before he joined USC. He is also the co-founder of #wjchat, a Twitter forum where world web journalists share their experience. 

According to the syllabus, “Glass Journalism” will combine students’ skills in different fields and apply those skills on using Google Glass and other technologies to explore. Hernandez hopes students can “explore and help define the creation and consumption of journalistic content optimized for this emerging platform.”

This course will not only be open to journalism students, but to USC students majoring in any field. According to Hernandez, he wants students to practice and to change journalism.

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